User manual UNIDEN E-SCANNER 2

[. . . ] E-Scanner Spectrum Analyzer allows you to visually see the active frequencies across the radio spectrum available for your scanner to monitor. This allows you to find and monitor new frequencies. For more information on E-Scanner Plus and E-Scanner Spectrum Analyzer programs please visit http://scanner. uniden. com. Basic Operation Table of Contents: - SCANNER SOFTWARE SETTINGS - AUTOMATIC CONFIGURATION - MANUAL CONFIGURATION - FREQUENCY SOURCE FILES - LOAD SOURCE FILE INTO E-SCANNER PROGRAM - PROGRAMMING FREQUENCIES INTO CHANNALS AND BANKS - SOURCE FILE FREQUENCY COUNTER - SORT SOURCE FILE INFORMATION - MOVE OR COPY BANKS - TRANSFER/PROGRAM FREQUENCIES INTO SCANNER - SAVE CHANNEL AND BANK SETTINGS - PRINTING OPTIONS - AUTOMATICALLY LAUNCH SOURCE FILES AND PERSONAL SETTINGS - SOURCE FILE FREQUENCY DATABASE - PERSONAL DATABASE SETTINGS - MISALIGNED TEXT SCANNER SOFTWARE SETTINGS After you've loaded E-Scanner software onto your computer, you now must configure the software to communicate with your scanner. AUTOMATIC CONFIGURATION The "Auto Configure" button will automatically detect which Uniden Bearcat scanner is attached to the computer, which communications port on your computer is attached to the scanner via the RS-232 cable, and what baud rate is being used on your scanner. To launch "Auto Configuration" follow the following simple steps: 1. [. . . ] Click on the "Load Files" menu option. Now scroll to the last menu option titled "Download Frequencies From Bearcat Radio Club" From there you will be able to find frequencies for your City, County and State. Scanner and Betty Bearcat CD-ROM Frequency Guides, you can save the frequencies as "D-Base" files. LOAD SOURCE FILE INTO E-SCANNER PROGRAM Once you have received your source frequencies, you are now ready to load them into the E-Scanner program. Click on "Files", located at the top of the program. Click on "Load File" in the drop down menu. 3. Move your mouse over to the "Source Files" and select the type of source file you received (Text "txt" or D-Base "dbf"). 4. Find the file you received or Uniden's Sample Source file and double click on it. The program will now load those frequencies into the top section of the program. The top section is reserved your Source Files and the bottom section represents the channels and banks of your Uniden scanner. You will place the frequencies located in the top section "Source File" and paste them into the channels and banks located in the bottom section of the program. Source Files Banks Channels PROGRAMMING FREQUENCIES INTO CHANNALS AND BANKS Now that you have loaded the "Source File" into the top section of the E-Scanner program, it is now time to select the frequencies you would like to monitor and place them where you would like them to be stored in your scanner's channels and banks. You can program the scanner's banks to reflect your monitoring preferences. For example, you may want to program each bank for a different city: Bank 1 is Dallas, Bank 2 is Fort Worth, etc. You could also program the banks based on the type of monitoring you want to do: Bank 1 could be programmed for Police, Bank 2 for Local Fire Departments, etc. This software allows you to easily program your scanner to match how you prefer to monitor communications. To load the frequencies into the bottom section, which represents the channels and banks of your scanner, follow these instructions: 1. Click on a Bank, located in the middle of the screen that represents the location of where you would like to place the frequencies. (Bank 1, Bank 2, Bank 3 etc. ) See picture above for a reference. 2. Scroll through the frequencies located on the top half of the E-Scanner program and click once to highlight the frequencies you would like to monitor. 3. Once you've selected all the frequencies you would like to monitor in that bank, click on the "Edit" menu option on the top menu bar. Select "Paste Highlighted Frequencies to Lower Bank" NOTE: If you've highlighted/selected a frequency by mistake or would like to de-select it, click on the frequency again and it will be de-selected. Select only the amount of channels that can be stored in each of your scanners banks, 30, 50 or 100 depending upon the unit. You can delete channels using your keyboard versus the pull down options. To delete frequencies highlight the frequency you want to delete and press the "Delete or Del" key located on your keyboard. [. . . ] If your scanner can support this feature, you will be able to see the text label on the scanner. SAVE CHANNEL AND BANK SETTINGS If you want to save the lower database then follow these instructions: 1. Select "Save Personal Database". The next time you load this file, all the settings will be preserved. PRINTING OPTIONS From the "Source" database you can either print all frequencies by clicking on the "Select all Records in Source File" from the "Edit" menu option or you can print only the highlighted records which you select. Once you've setup what you want to print click on the "Print Upper Source Database" from the "Files" option in the upper menu bar. [. . . ]