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cell’s sector face, the antenna field of which the user is in at that point
in the scan. The Retriever Pilot Scanner can be configured either to
lock onto that single sector regardless of its strength or to switch to
the best sector by performing idle handoffs.
List mode
In List search mode, the scanner performs one of the following scan
operations, depending upon what has been pre-loaded into the
Retriever Pilot Scanner:
_
Over-the-Air (OTA) Neighbor List only
A, N1, N2, N3... N15, N16, A, N17, N18, N19...
_
User-defined Pilot Scan List only
A, L1, L2, L3... L15, L16, A, L17, L18, L19...
SCAN_CONFIG
Parameters
For example, if the current serving system Active pilot is PN=356
and the OTA Neighbor List of the current serving sector being
demodulated is (N1=16, N2=400, N3=164, N4=8), the search pattern
will be:
356, 8, 16, 164, 400, 8, 16, 164, 400, 8, 16, 164, 400, 8,
16, 164, 400, 356, 8, 16, 164, 400...
Note The Neighbor list is searched in ascending PN order, with the Retriever Pilot
Scanner returning to the Active pilot once every 16 searches. However, this
pattern may change as the scanner occasionally tries to verify candidates for
idle handoff.
If the user has loaded a pilot list into the Pilot Scanner using the
scan_nlist command, the Pilot Scanner searches this list in ascending
PN order instead of (or in addition to) the OTA Neighbor List. For
details on scan_nlist
INCR
The incr parameter controls how the Pilot Scanner steps through PN
space in All-PNs mode. For example, with the setting incr=4,
Retriever searches PN=0,4,8,12,16... in blocks of win_siz chips.
By default, Retriever uses the Over-the-Air pilot_inc value contained
in the IS-95A or J-STD-008 Extended Neighbor List Message. This
value is recommended because the network plan uses it to
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