TRX-2E Understanding the Display & Icons

Summary: How to read the TRX-2E screen: the menu, scan and object displays, the psDr indicators and the status icons.

Menu and Scan Displays

The scanner has a high-contrast, backlit LCD driven by menus. The Main Menu lists Scan, Scanlists, Set Location, Browse Library and Browse Objects (the guide doesn’t describe the library items; see TRX-2E Overview, Features & Package Contents). The Scan display shows a scrolling list of enabled scanlists, with attenuator and trunking control-channel status.

Object Displays

When the scanner is monitoring an enabled object, an individual object display appears with a row of icons across the top. How much it shows depends on Simple Display in Global Settings:

• Simple Display on: icons, scanlist, object type and psDr status, trunking system and object name.
• Simple Display off: extra data as well, chosen with the Show options (for example Show Radio ID, Show TGID, Show VC/CC, Show Site Name, CONV TGID, CONV Radio ID). The guide’s example shows a UK amateur DMR talkgroup (GB7CT, TGRP 840) with a Radio ID displayed.

To display and save found CTCSS, DCS or NAC codes, Simple Display must be unchecked. See TRX-2E V-Scanner Storage & Global Settings.

The psDr Indicators

Four characters on the right of an object display show priority, skip/lockout, delay and recording status:

• p priority off, P priority on
• s skip off, S skip on, L locked out
• d delay off, D delay on
• r recording off, R recording on

Display Icons

• S – squelch open (a second form is shown for DMR)
• G – attenuator in Global mode. A – attenuator active. GA – Global attenuator on and active
• AM, FM, NF – AM, FM and narrow FM modes
• DG – P25/DMR digital audio with AGC. Dg – P25 digital audio without AGC. D2 – P25 Phase II digital audio, with or without AGC
• Fn – function key active
• Scan icon – scanning; recording icon – the object is being recorded. F – recording is enabled but suspended because the SD card is almost full
• T – receiving trunking control-channel data
• E – encrypted digital traffic detected
• IF – IF (discriminator) output mode is active
• P/p, S/s, D/d, L/- – as above