Most modern HT radios come with a lot of features.\u00a0 Lets cover the group or\u00a0 block scan.\u00a0 Most HT radios have a lot of memory channels.\u00a0 You might consider entering the frequencies into your radio as geographical blocks if your radio offers this capability\u00a0 This feature allows the operator to scan a portion of the total memory channels.\u00a0 I was taking a short vacation from Placentia to San Luis Obispo\u00a0 the summer of 2017.\u00a0 I had put frequencies into my HT for Orange County, LA County, Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo.\u00a0 I love to scan the frequencies as I make this long drive.\u00a0 The scan works way better if you make your radio scan only the channel memories where you are located within.<\/p>\n

For example, I have a Kenwood TH-F6A that offers 400 memory channels.\u00a0 After I enter the frequencies into this radio, I can long press the MR<\/strong> button and all the stored channels will be scanned.\u00a0 This can be very inefficient.\u00a0 On this particular radio you also have the option to long press the MHz<\/strong> button which will scan the current 50 channels from where you started.\u00a0 Another option is this radio allows you to group link, meaning that two or more groups can be linked together for the scan process, but you need to go into the radio menu to activate this.<\/p>\n

You could input all the north Orange County city frequencies together.\u00a0 The south Orange County cities could be in a separate 50 channel range.\u00a0 Riverside could be in another.\u00a0 LA could be in one or more channel groups.<\/p>\n

Here is my argument that you might want to consider entering the radio frequencies into 50 memory location groups and make each group a close geographical area.<\/p>\n

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• Why have your radio scan all 400 channels?\u00a0 This slows down the scan process if you are only concerned with the area you are within.<\/li>\n
• It is quite possible to pick up a channel outside your active area.\u00a0 Catalina has a very large coverage area as other well placed repeaters.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

  The disadvantage of this method is when you might only have way fewer memory frequencies to enter than 50 in that geographical group or you go over the 50, forcing you to link two groups.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  Most modern HT radios come with a lot of features.\u00a0 Lets cover the group or\u00a0 block scan.\u00a0 Most HT radios have a lot of memory channels.\u00a0 You might consider entering the frequencies into your radio as geographical blocks if your radio offers this capability\u00a0 This feature allows the operator to scan a portion of the … <\/p>\n

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