Midland Radio P-20 - Manual (Page 9)

Owner’s Manual for the P-20 (Itinerant Radio)
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ACTIVATING SCAN FUNCTIONS
The P20 has three scan modes. The most popular and most used is the “BUSY” channel scan.
This allows the radio to stop on a channel that someone is talking on.
When the radio stops on a “Busy” channel, the scan will stop and resume after about 5 seconds.
The second is the “OPEN” channel scan. This allows the radio to stop on the channel NOT used.
The third is “DUAL WATCH”. This allows you to monitor the active channel and one of the ten
available channels.
Busy Channel Scan:
1. Press and release the ”F” button (9), the ”SCAN” icon will begin flashing in the lower center
of the display.
2. Press and release the “/\” or “\/” button to activate scan. The unit will now begin scanning
the active channels.
Pressing the “PTT” (push to talk) button will cause the radio to stop scanning and return
to normal operate mode.
When you enter the “program mode” with the “F” button the radio will go back to operate
mode after about 8 seconds if no buttons are pressed.
Open Channel Scan:
1. Press and release the “F” button repeatedly (usually twice) until the “B.SCAN” icon flashes
in the lower center of the display.
2. Press and release the ”/\” or “\/” button to activate scan. The radio will begin to scan for the
OPEN channel.
Scanning will stop on the open channel for about 5 seconds then move to the other
channel.
3. Press the “PTT” button to stop scanning and talk on that channel.
4. To reactivate scan repeat steps above.
When you enter the “program mode” with the “F” button the radio will go back to operate
mode after about 8 seconds if no buttons are pressed.
Dual Watch
Dual watch is a function that allows you to scan the current active channel and one other channel.
1. Select the active channel.
2. Press the “F” button repeatedly (usually 5 times) until “DW” is flashing in the top of the
display.
3. Select the second channel to be scanned.
About 3 seconds after your selection of the second channel is complete the radio will
begin switching between the two channels.
When the radio hears activity on either channel, scanning will stop on that channel for
about 5 seconds and then resume scanning.
If communication is desired on the channel scanning stopped on, press the “PTT” button.
This will deactivate Dual Watch and allow you to communicate normally.
4. To reactivate Dual Watch repeat steps above.