Uniden BC9000XLT - Manual

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Table of Contents
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Included with the BC9000XLT. . . . . . . . 3
Feature Highlights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Getting Started. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Base Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
What is Scanning?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Searching. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Banks and Channels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Setting the Squelch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Using the Rotary Tuner . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Programming Channels . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Programming By Manual Entry . . . . . . . 12
Programming With the Rotary Tuner
Use these controls: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Programming with Search . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Programming With AUTO STORE . . . . 17
Deleting a Programmed Frequency. . . . 19
Transferring a Programmed Frequency. 19
Programming Channels with Alpha
Characters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
To Delete Alpha Characters . . . . . . . . . 22
The Scan Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Scanning All Programmed Channels and
Banks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Turning Banks ON or OFF. . . . . . . . . . . 25
Locking Out Channels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Using Priority Scan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
The Search Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Beginning a Search . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Scrolling Frequencies During a Search . 30
Using Turbo Search. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Using Search Delay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Locking Out Frequencies. . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Unlocking a Frequency . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Unlocking All Frequencies . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Birdies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Additional Scanner Features . . . . . . . 34
Scanning Weather Channels . . . . . . . . . 34
Using Data Skip . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Changing the Frequency Step . . . . . . . . 35
Setting the Signal Mode. . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Using Signal Attenuation . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Preventing Accidental Programming . . . 38
Using COUNT to Monitor Channel Activity
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Displaying Bank Memory Status . . . . . . 40
Using Auto Recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Viewing Scanner Status Information . . . 42
Display Light . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Using Hi-Cut . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
CTCSS Operation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Installing the CTCSS Board. . . . . . . . . . 45
Using CTCSS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
To Change the CTCSS Tone Frequency
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CTCSS Tone Frequencies. . . . . . . . . . . 49
Care and Maintenance. . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Troubleshooting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Optional Accessories and Replacement
Parts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53