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For your convenience, the 20 V-Scanner folder
storage locations (01-20) are preprogrammed
with the frequencies, talkgroups, and
configuration data for approximately 350 trunked
radio systems in the United States. The scanner’s
working memory and V-Scanner folder “00” are
not preprogrammed with any data.
Each V-Scanner folder can hold up to 1800
“scannable objects,” grouped in up to 20
Scan Lists. Each V-Scanner folder can contain
approximately 20 individual trunked radio
systems, or sites within networked systems,
leaving room to spare for your own custom
programming.
The preprogrammed data in your scanner contains
the top public safety trunked radio systems in the
United States, those that are most likely to carry
local radio traffic that is of interest to many users.
Non-public safety systems, airport systems, transit
systems, federal systems, military systems, and
large statewide trunked radio networks are not
included in the preprogrammed data.
The preprogrammed data contains the talkgroups
that are used for day-to-day public safety
dispatch, response, and operations activities.
Administrative talkgroups and talkgroups
unrelated to public safety are not included in the
preprogrammed data.
RadioShack acknowledges RadioReference.com,
LLC for providing this trunked radio system
configuration data. For more information
on conventional and trunked radio systems
worldwide, please visit: www.radioreference.com.
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Note: The accuracy of the preprogrammed
talkgroup and system configuration data is
subject to system configuration changes and
possible errors in the user-submitted data
reported to RadioReference.com. For accurate
and up-do-date information, be sure to visit
www.radioreference.com frequently.
Receiving More Traffic on a Trunked
Radio System
It is not possible to include every trunked radio
system and talkgroup in the United States in
the preprogrammed data. If the systems in your
area are not present, you may find it useful to
visit www.radioreference.com to find your local
system so that you can add it to the radio’s
programming. You can also program a “wildcard”
talkgroup that will allow you to hear all activity on
the trunked radio systems that you monitor.
The easiest way to add a wildcard talkgroup is to
duplicate a talkgroup that is already programmed
for the system, change the pertinent data for that
talkgroup (in this case, the ID and the Tag), then
save the duplicated (and changed) talkgroup as a
new object.
1. Press PGM (PROG), then use the STWX
keys to navigate to any talkgroup on the
system where you wish to add a talkgroup or
wildcard.
2. Press the EDIT softkey, then press the DUPE
softkey. A duplicate of the selected object is
created in memory.
3. Scroll to the
ID: field and press the Dflt
softkey, which will set the ID field to
“Wildcard.”
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