AOR AR800 Operating Manual

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13-3 Program search facilities & saving “active” frequencies to memory
Starting manual search
to initiate PROGRAM SEARCH press [SRCH].  The legend “SRCH” appears
on the top left of the LCD to confirm selection.
Changing the direction of manual search
The direction of search may be reversed by rotating the [DIAL] or using the
UP/DOWN keys.
Moving on from active frequencies
Should the receiver stop on an active frequency during program search, you
may force the search to continue...

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The legend “BANK” is displayed on the left of the third line with a memory
location to the right.  Either key in the desired memory location for storage via
the keypad or use the [DIAL] (the UP/DOWN keys change the cursor position
if you make a mistake).
Press [ENT] to accept the chosen memory location.
The cursor moves to the fourth line where a
maximum seven character comment may be added.
Use the [DIAL] and UP/DOWN keys to change the
text comment as desired then press [ENT]...

AR8000 operating manual
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SELECT PROGRAM SEARCH BANK FOR PROGRAMMING:  To access the
SEARCH PROGRAM menu press [FUNC] [6].  The legend “SRCH PROG” will
be displayed on the top line of the LCD.
The second line of the LCD will display the legend “BANK” followed by the
search bank identifier to the right.  The highlight cursor will be flashing over a
search bank identifying letter (the current search bank
parameters will be displayed on the third and fourth
lines of the LCD in a scrolling format, if there...

AR8000 operating manual
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Rotate the [DIAL] to indicate “25.00” on the third line of the LCD to select a 25
kHz step size.
If EXPERT status has been selected (as shown in section 6-3 of this manual)
the channel step may be input using the keypad.  Valid step sizes are multiples
of 50 Hz.
If specifying your own channel step remember that the receive frequency
must be divisible by the step size.  If it is not, the receive frequency will be
automatically recalculated by the AR8000 and the closest divisible...

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13-5 SEARCH - outline introduction to facilities available in default
NEWUSER status
During program search, the receiver tunes to every frequency between two
specified frequency limits looking for “active” interesting frequencies.  When an
“active” frequency is located (when a signal is found and the squelch is open)
the receiver will temporarily stop searching.
At default when shipped from the factory and while in “NEWUSER”
status, the receiver will remain on the active...

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the search bank identifier via the numeric keypad (“A”, “B”, “C” etc).  This is
the usual way in which program search banks would be used.
When in SEARCH MODE, the program search banks are referred to as
“SEARCH BANK A”, “SEARCH BANK B”, “SEARCH BANK f” etc rather than
using the full title “PROGRAM SEARCH BANK A”, “PROGRAM SEARCH
BANK B” etc.  This terminology has been employed to make the explanation
of and referral to PROGRAM SEARCH BANKS (SEARCH BANKS) less
long-winded.
It...

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13-8 Searching a program search bank which is not specified in BANK
LINK
It is still possible to SEARCH a single deselected bank by manually bypassing
the BANK LINK programming.  To SEARCH 
any deselected bank simply key
the desired identifying bank letter through the keypad.
If initially the bank selected is not linked and does not contain data, the sub
menu “SRCH SELECT” will appear.  Select the desired bank identifying letter
(which does contain data) using the keypad and...

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To access the additional options of “SET SEARCH-SCAN”
Once in EXPERT status five additional options are available.  To access the
“SET SEARCH” menu first place the receiver into SEARCH mode (“SRCH”
displayed in the top left of the LCD - press [SRCH] if necessary) then press
[FUNC] [SRCH].
Press the [DOWN] key three times (only one press is required if bank link is
OFF) to select the first of the four options.
Continue using the [DOWN] key until the required option is selected....

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HOLD - To resume search when HOLD has been set, press either the [UP]
or [DOWN] keys.  “FREE search” will be ignored if SEARCH DELAY TIME
has been set to “HOLD”.
To accept the changes to DELAY search, you must first use the UP/DOWN
key to change the cursor position to another line then press [ENT] to return
to SEARCH mode as the [ENT] key has a special function in DELAY
programming as mentioned above.
Alternatively you may move to the next option (AUDIO SEARCH) by pressing
the...

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To accept the changes to FREE search press [ENT] to return to SEARCH
mode.
Alternatively you may move to the next option (LEVEL SEARCH) by pressing
the [DOWN] key.
SEARCH - LEVEL search
LEVEL search causes the receiver to check the signal strength of “active”
frequencies and only stops when signal strength is above a predetermined level
which is programmable in 7 steps plus OFF.
The limits are 1 to 7 levels with zero being interpreted as LEVEL search OFF.
Note: It is possible...