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R. G. Sparber KG7MQL February 22, 2015 Page 44 of 52

Scanning: "Priority Channel" Scanning (Dual Watch)

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While primarily monitoring one Channel, you can periodically check another

channel for activity.

VFO Priority

1. See page 26 for how to recall a memory channel.

2. Briefly press V/M and you should go to VFO mode

3. Briefly press FW and the briefly press V/M

The Dual Watch indicator will then become visible.

About every 4 seconds the radio jumps to the Dual Watch

channel to check for activity.

If you are in VFO mode with Dual Watch active and change to Memory mode,

you deactivate Dual Watch.

You can manually change the VFO but scanning does not work.

Memory Channel Priority

This is the first mention of the fact that Memory Channel 1 is special. Whatever

is in Memory Channel 1 will be used as the Priority Channel. The book says it

checks the Priority Channel every 5 seconds but I see more like 3 or 4 seconds.

I'm sure this varies depending on what else the radio is doing.

HOME Channel Priority

WX Channel Priority[42]

You are free to select any Memory Channel to be the Priority Channel rather than

being confined to Memory Channel 1.

An aside:

I kept forgetting to turn off the radio so just set it up to Auto Power Off

after 0.5 hours. That turned on this clock icon.

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