User manual UNIDEN HH978XL

[. . . ] Use your new scanner to monitor: · Police and Fire Departments (including rescue and paramedics) Trunked for: Motorola Type I Type II Type I, II (Hybrid) EDACS Wide band Narrow band Scat LTR Digital Communication for APCO Project 25 Conventional Trunked at 3600 Mixed Mode at 3600 · NOAA Weather Broadcasts · Business/Industrial Radio · Utilities · Marine and Amateur (ham radio) Bands · Air Band · And much more. . . The chart below identifies the scanner band numbers, the frequency range, the modulation mode and the default step size settings. Band No. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 Frequency Range (MHz) 25. 0000 - 26. 9600 26. 9650 - 27. 4050 27. 4100 - 27. 9950 28. 0000 - 29. 6900 29. 7000 - 49. 9900 50. 0000 - 53. 9900 54. 0000 - 71. 9500 72. 0000 - 75. 9950 76. 0000 - 87. 9500 88. 0000 - 107. 9000 108. 0000 - 136. 9750 137. 0000 - 143. 9950 144. 0000 - 147. 9950 148. 0000 - 161. 9950 Mode Step Band Frequency Range (kHz) No. (MHz) AM 5 15 162. 0000 - 173. 9875 AM AM FM FM FM 5 5 10 10 10 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 174. 0000 - 215. 9500 216. 0000 - 224. 9950 225. 0000 - 399. 9500 400. 0000 - 405. 9875 406. 0000 - 419. 9875 420. 0000 - 449. 9875 450. 0000 - 469. 9875 470. 0000 - 512. 0000 806. 0000 - 823. 9875 849. 0125 - 868. 9875 894. 0125 - 956. 0000 Mode Step (kHz) FM 12. 5 WFM 50 FM AM 5 50 NFM 12. 5 NFM 12. 5 NFM 12. 5 NFM 12. 5 NFM 12. 5 NFM 12. 5 NFM 12. 5 NFM 12. 5 WFM 50 FM 5 WFM 50 WFM 100 24 AM FM FM FM 25 5 5 5 25 26 27 1240. 0000 - 1300. 0000 NFM 12. 5 1 Front View 11 12 1 13 2 14 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 L/O CH/ FRQ HOLD/ MAN RSM SERVICE SEARCH TRUNK SCAN MENU/BACK 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 REVERSE SELECT . E 1. [. . . ] (decimal key) twice, and the display is cleared. · If you enter a frequency which is C 010 0000. 0000 out of the system's trunking ERROR range, a beep sounds and ERROR appears on the display. OUT OF BAND · If you enter a frequency which has been stored in another channel, you will hear a beep and the channel stored displays WARNING (Refer to "Duplicate Frequency Alert" on page 27). STEP 2 is complete. STEP 3: Programming ID Scan Lists Manually Scan Lists Each bank of your HH978XL can be a trunk tracking bank and it can be a conventional scanning bank. When you designate a bank as a trunking bank, your scanner sets up 10 Scan Lists, which are simply lists used to store your favorite Talk Group IDs. Each list can contain up to 10 IDs, so you can store a total of 100 IDs for each trunk tracking bank. (1000 if you use all the banks as trunking banks!) Scan Lists help you organize the trunking system users into categories. For example, you might use List#1 for police IDs, List#2 for fire department IDs, List#3 for emergency medical service IDs, etc. Once IDs are stored in lists, you can scan them like you scan conventional frequencies and you can lockout any one (up to 9) of the 10 scan lists by pressing the corresponding numeric key. When an ID is active, the scan list number will appear on the display. You can program your Scan Lists either manually or during Trunking Search mode. You can also enter the Bank number by using the keypad bank. Select 3:TALK GROUP and ID location number by rotating the VFO and pressing E. Select 2:ALPHA TAG by rotating the VFO and pressing E. Rotate the VFO to change letters, and press HOLD/MAN or RSM to move right or left. Both capital and lower case letters are available, as well as numbers and punctuation marks. After entering the desired text, press E. To clear a mistake while entering the letters, press HOLD/MAN, RSM or . (decimal key) repeatedly until the display is cleared. 53 Setting the Squelch For trunked reception, a good setting for the SQUELCH control is in the center of the range with the color marker pointing up. If it is set too high (CCW) in some cases it could prevent your scanner from locking to the Control Channel reliably. If it is set too low (CW) it will slightly delay finding the Control Channel. The best setting is the same as for conventional reception, and is not critical. Receiving Trunked Systems When you have properly programmed all the frequencies for a trunked system, you can receive the system in several different ways. [. . . ] Select a size code for a block, and then press SCAN. If you decide you are receiving most of the replies to the conversations with IDs assigned to the block you just programmed, then you've probably selected the right size code and can work on the next block of the map. 97 Finally, for most public safety systems there are some size codes which are more common. SIZE CODE 3 and SIZE CODE 4 are probably the most common, followed by SIZE CODE 10, SIZE CODE 11, and SIZE CODE 12. Fleet Map Size Codes Size 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 Fleets Subfleets IDs Blocks Used + 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 4 8 Reserves block for Type II IDs 128 16 8 1 64 32 32 16 8 4 2 1 1 1 4 8 8 16 4 8 4 4 4 8 16 16 16 16 16 64 128 512 32 32 64 128 256 256 256 1024 2048 4096 Size Code Restrictions If you select SIZE CODE 12, 13, or 14, there are some restrictions as to which blocks can be used for these codes. [. . . ]