Racing Electronics SC150 - Manual (Page 23)

Searching
The SportCat has 12 Preprogrammed Search Bands. You
can search any of these Bands to find desired frequencies
if you do not have a Frequency Directory handy, or if new
stations have been added since the Directory was
published.
1. Press
N
to enter the SEARCH Mode. (SRCH
appears on the bottom of the display.)
2. Press
N
repeatedly to cycle through the 12 Bands
until you reach the one you want. (The cycle goes in
only one direction.)
3. Wait for about 2 seconds and the SportCat will begin
searching that Band. Or, press
u
to search forward,
or
d
to search backward.
4. During a Search, press
P
to activate TURBO
SEARCH. This increases the Search Speed to 300
steps per second in those bands that have 5 kHz
steps. (See the table on page for the Band Chart.)
When you activate TURBO SEARCH, the SRCH
indicator flashes. Press
P
again to deactivate
TURBO SEARCH.
5. Press
H
at any time to stop the search on a
frequency. Press
H
again to resume searching.
6. When Search is stopped, you can press
u
or
d
to
move up or down 1 frequency step. (See the table
on page for the step size for each Band.)
Using DATA Skip.
A scanner will normally stop on any transmission it
receives. This means the SportCat will stop on Data
signals and unmodulated transmissions. You can skip
these frequencies during Search.
Press
A
to activate the DATA Skip feature. The
indicator appears on the display. To deactivate DATA Skip, press A
. The indicator disappears from the display.
The scanner may pause momentarily at an unwanted
signal, but will resume searching in 2 or 3 seconds.
Note: DATA Skip does not function on the AIR Band.
The indicator will not appear on the display even
if this feature is activated.
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