TRX-2E Scanning, Monitoring, Skip, Lockout & Priority

Summary: How to monitor a single object, scan your scanlists, skip and lock out objects and use priority on the TRX-2E.

Monitoring and Scanning

• Monitoring – listening to a single object.
• Scanning – checking your saved objects and stopping when a transmission is detected.

To monitor: Main Menu, Browse Objects, press right, browse the scanlists and objects with the direction keys, and press Play/Pause/SEL to monitor the displayed one. Press up/down for another object or SEL to begin scanning.

To scan your active scanlists: press MENU, choose Scan and press right or SEL. Press SEL when the scanner stops on a transmission to pause, and again to resume.

To switch scanlists on or off while scanning use the number keys (see TRX-2E Keypad, Rotary Encoder & Controls).

Skip and Lockout

A skipped object is ignored during the current scan; a locked-out object is ignored in every scan until you unlock it.

• Skip: when the scanner stops on a transmission press SKIP. An S appears. To skip a specific object browse to it and press SKIP; to restore it press SKIP again. Restore Skipped in the Main Menu restores every skipped object.
• Lockout: browse objects, press MENU, choose Locked Out and press right. A tick means locked out and an L shows in the display.
• The SKIP key can be programmed to lock out instead of skipping (Global Settings).
• The skip/lockout list holds 250 entries.

Priority

Priority is for when you want normal scanning interrupted to hear a particular object.

1. Browse to the object and press MENU, then choose Priority and press right (tick = on).
2. Priority Mode must be enabled in Global Settings.

PRI toggles priority on the selected or active object and Fn + PRI switches Priority Mode on or off while scanning. Setting any object as priority can cause normal scanning to be interrupted.

Attenuator, Delay and AGC

• ATT cycles per-object, global and global-on attenuation. Try with and without it: it helps against overload from strong nearby transmitters and hurts weak signals.
• Delay makes the scanner wait two seconds after a transmission ends before scanning on.
• AGC reduces interference from strong local transmitters on conventional objects.

Organising Scanlists

You can organise scanlists geographically, or by trunked system. To rename one: Scanlists in the Main Menu, press right, choose it, use left/right to move the cursor, up/down to change the character and SKIP to delete one. See also TRX-2E Objects, Scanlists & Scan Sets.