User manual UNIDEN BCT10 OPERATING GUIDE

[. . . ] Introduction Welcome Congratulations on your purchase of the BCT-10 Highway Information System & Scanning Radio!State-of-the-art engineering and advanced electronics provide you with a preprogrammed information radio designed for easy operation and dependability. With the BCT-10 Scanning Radio, you can listen to hundreds of highway patrol and police frequencies, as well as a number of weather channels. Plus, new built-in technology sounds an alarm when a highway patrol unit using a mobile extender is detected! [. . . ] In standard mode, only signals above a level 5 strength will trigger an audible alert tone. In long range mode, all signal strengths from 1- 9 will trigger an alert tone. Press and Hold the M key for 2 seconds. ALARM HOLD HIGHWAY SYSTEM MUTE MODE STATE L/0 23 Operating Instructions 2. The LR and SR LED's toggle and you hear two short beeps once either standard or long range mode is selected. Setting the Highway Patrol Alarm Volume You can set the Alert Tone volume to either Low, Medium, or High. Press the A Key. ALARM HIGHWAY SYSTEM MUTE HOLD HP MUTE MODE HOLD STATE L/0 2. You hear a beep and the LED will display L (low), M (medium), or H (high). MUTE HOLD L M H MUTE HOLD MUTE HOLD 24 Operating Instructions Muting the Highway Patrol Alarm While in the highway patrol mode you can turn off the alarm tone during the time you are listening to a frequency or disable the alarm tone permanently. To disable the alarm tone while listening to a frequency: 1. While in the highway patrol mode and after you receive an alarm tone, press them key. HIGHWAY SYSTEM ALARM HOLD MUTE MODE STATE L/0 2. The MUTE LED flashes. MUTE HOLD HP Note: Only the alarm tone will be disabled. You will still receive highway patrol alarms but only the ALARM LED will come on. 3. To enable the Alert Tone again, press the m key again. Note: When the ALARM LED goes off, the mute mode will no longer be on. 25 Operating Instructions To disable the alarm tone permanently: 1. Press and Hold the m key for two seconds. ALARM HOLD HIGHWAY SYSTEM MUTE MODE STATE L/0 2. You hear a two beeps and the MUTE LED comes on. MUTE HOLD HP Note: When the MUTE LED is on and not flashing, you can receive highway patrol alarms, but the alarm tone does not sound. 26 Operating Instructions Monitoring Weather Frequencies 1. To monitor weather frequencies, press the M key repeatedly until WX is blinking on the LED display. HIGHWAY SYSTEM ALARM HOLD MUTE MODE STATE L/0 MUTE HOLD WX WX W2 MODE 2. While scanning, the BCT-10 will display WX. When the BCT-10 detects an active frequency, it displays the weather channel in the LED and stops scanning. Press the L key to make the BCT-10 scan for the next weather frequency. MUTE HOLD MUTE HOLD SYSTEM ALARM HOLD MUTE STATE L/0 27 Operating Instructions Deleting Frequencies Some frequencies that have been preprogrammed into your BCT-10 may not be of immediate interest to you, or a frequency may be experiencing interference. You can lock out that frequency from scanning. When the scanner stops on the undesired frequency, press L one time. SYSTEM ALARM HOLD MUTE MODE STATE L/0 2. To lock out additional frequencies, repeat Step 1. Note: You can delete a maximum of 50 frequencies. Although it is possible to delete the highway patrol alarm frequencies, this should never be done unless absolutely necessary for proper operation of your BCT-10. [. . . ] 24 Muting the Highway Patrol Alarm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Monitoring Weather Frequencies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 Deleting Frequencies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 Restoring Deleted Frequencies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [. . . ]