Radio Shack PRO-2041 Instrukcja Użytkownika

Page 1 TABLE OF CONTENTS SPECIAL THANKS 4 INTRODUCTION 5 FEATURES 7 SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS 10 MACINTOS

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS The required hardware for Scancat is an IBM/PC compatible computer, Windows 95/98/ME, with at least 32 meg o

AOR EEPROM UTILITES <L>oad (bandplan) to AR2700 EEPROM then the built in bandplan will overwrite ALL memory channels with what was in the

QUIKTERM COMMUNICATIONS PROGRAM QUIKTERM Communications Module Scancat has a built-in communications terminal program that will allow you to access

QUIKTERM COMMUNICATIONS PROGRAM TNC’s need a series of “*” or similar recognition letter when then are first accessed. The buffered mode might not pe

QUIKTERM COMMUNICATIONS PROGRAM Where “xxxx” = the M-7000’s baud rate. You then access QuikTerm by pressing either the menu option at the Main menu,

BRIEF TUTORIAL BRIEF TUTORIAL Sessions using the TOP200.FRQ file as an example. From the main menu select the button Scanning Module. Then at the Rad

BREIF TUTORIAL KEYWORD SEARCH Choose the keyword option form the Search Top Menu Bar: A prompt will pop up and ask you for a search criteria to look

BREIF TUTORIAL MANUALLY decide, if a duplicate is found, if you wish to continue or abort the logging. 4 - Manual Logging - Dupe description checks.

BREIF TUTORIAL back and forth between ranges AND disk file scanning, once there is a disk file loaded into the ‘viewer’. LINKED or MULTIPLE SCAN RANG

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COMMERCIAL APPLICATIONS DEMOGRAPHIC AND FREQUENCY COORDINATION HINTS While the functions available for normal scanning might be sufficient for most h

GETTING STARTED GETTING STARTED Installation from Program CD The first thing to do is install Scancat onto your hard drive. Scancat is not copy prote

COMMERCIAL APPLICATIONS resulting analysis can be sorted by frequency for a time study of just those frequencies. 3. Use our SE (Surveillance Enhance

RADIO SPECIFIC HINTS AND TIPS HINTS FOR YOUR SCANNING ENJOYMENT 1. We have attempted to put every command key in the HELP functions that is possibl

HELPFULL HINTS AND TIPS b. Scanning Mixed Frequencies - Some radios scan faster in the lower frequencies than they do the VHF and UHF spectrum (AOR-3

RADIO SPECIFIC HINTS AND TIPS Macintosh Support for Scancat Scancat is proud to be the first scanner Software Company to offer support

the Connectix web site and download 4.0.1 or newer (free). Scancat is written in Visual Basic, which Virtual PC 4 does not support. Downloading the v

program. If you add that to the ram used by OS9 (51MB) you need a minimum RAM on the MAC of 115MB…. This means that the practical minimum MAC RAM shou

- USB to RS232 Serial adapter (must be version used with PC not MAC). We recommend Belkin part number F5U103, (Not F5U103MAC) available at Cyberian O

f. Insure “search for best” is selected. Then click “next” g. Make sure CD is selected. h. Drive is in operation, click “next” i. Finally click “f

Scancat.exe as described just above in “1”, but instead of clicking to open the program, “right” click on Scancat.exe. A window will appear with “Scan

f. RTS/CTS: “Off” g. Squelch sample rate: “0” h. Previous frequency: “0” i. Comm port resources: “Full” j. You may duplicate the above setti

GETTING STARTED At the main menu, click on settings, and choose UTC TIME. Type an offset between 1 and 24 hours. This number MUST be a positive figu

TROUBLESHOOTING-Mac Connection cannot be made with the scanning radio: 1. Make sure that all cables are plugged in properly. RS 232 between Belkin

RADIO SPECIFIC HINTS AND TIPS RADIO SPECIFIC HELPFUL HINTS “QUIRKS” RADIO/COMPUTER RELATED PROBLEMS MEMORY MANAGEMENT You should have at least 3

If you still have problems with Scancat “out of memory” please call our technical support line, and possibly we can help you get “up and running”. T

scanning process to match your radio / computer interface for best performance. The two small ‘buttons’ allow precise timing steps, while using the sl

RADIO’S keypad and press the button marked “ENT/BS”. Once this is done you will notice the “REMOTE” sign on the radio’s LCD dial come on. THIS IS THE

scanning panel shows, CHECK your INCREMENT. If you are loading the memories, THIS CAN ALSO ACCOUNT FOR THE MODE, DESCRIPTION AND ETC BEING RECEIVED AT

Try THIS for a TEST 1. Go to main menu of Scancat -GOLD ---->IF "remote" is flashing press the "local" ke

SCANPORT GETTING STARTED DC-440 TONE READER The DC-440 Tone reader uses the same CI-V interface as do the Icom and PRO2006 radio. TWO things MUST be

controllable models. REASON - The command set for TS-50’s computer control DOES NOT have commands to: 1. Change the Memory Channels, OR 2. Transfe

DUAL ICOM RADIO SCANNING The way both radios are scanned is that you must choose: the FIRST radio to be a HF (below 30 MHZ) radio, and the SECOND radi

GETTING STARTED SELECTING YOUR RADIO AND COMPORTS Before you are ready to use Scancat for the first time, you must first set up the radio and it’s

which we will not do (Programs that do this have experience EEPROM corruption as the result.) The second reason is the PCR1000 does not decode PL tone

computer, certain timing adjustments should be made. Because there are so many variables due to computer processor speeds, graphics type and etc, whe

456/535 board takes over. Since the memory channels are a part of the Radio Shack processor, they are not accessible until the original board is enabl

USE by some other program. A Palm Pilot or handheld computer is the most common culprit. The ActiveSync programs that are resident wait for the user t

every button he can (to ‘get it to work’). Since the program is ‘hung up’ somewhere else, it must ‘remember’ where it left every time a button is cli

PROBLEM : COMPUTER SCANS BUT RADIO DOES NOTHING SOLUTION: Check your “COMM” settings (Baud & etc). Also check the RADIO setting. Be sure it is th

DROP US A LINE on Email [email protected] - or call our Tech Support Line 318-687-2555. BUGS Most “BUGS” are really differences of opinion on what

many times cause windows to sense “new hardware installed” and reinstall drivers. Many times this will restore faulty installations of hardware and dr

OTHER SCANPORT UTILTIES SCANPORT SCANPORT is a Scancat IMPORT utility. It is used to convert database files, or perhaps the Internet files that so

OTHER SCANPORT UTILTIES 6.5770 ATC USB Air Traffic Control or WLO Marine

GETTING STARTED IF the radio displayed in the upper red box is not the radio you wish to use, first click on the “Select Radio” button. A new pop-up

OTHER SCANPORT UTILTIES SCANPORT, the owner can try as many different combinations of data as he wishes. The owner can create as many different .FRQ

OTHER SCANPORT UTILTIES BEGIN IMPORT Begins the import process with the first record or line in the source file. QUIT IMPORT Immediately halts impo

OTHER SCANPORT UTILTIES Once a text file is loaded into the viewer, the first page of data is used as a ‘test sampling’ for alignment and choosing fi

OTHER SCANPORT UTILTIES Similarly, the MODE column, even though it has other information displayed, when “not assigned” will be overwritten with the

OTHER SCANPORT UTILTIES OTHER Scancat -GOLD UTILITIES FOR SCANPORT COMMA DELIMITED TEXT FILES Comma delimited files are generally the result of EXPOR

OTHER SCANPORT UTILITIES Page 145 PRE-DEFINED CONVERSIONS AUTOMATED CONVERSION OF TRS CONSULTANT (now known as FINEWARE) SCHEDULES. Schedule’s dat

APPENDIX Page 146 General Radio Spectrum Allocation Map .518 Navtex World Wide Navigational .535 - 1.705 AM Broad

4.650 - 4.750 Aeronautical Mobile Transoceanic Flights 4.750 - 5.060 Shortwave Broadcast 60 Meters 5.000

10.100 - 11.175 Fixed Service 11.175 - 11.400 Aeronautical Mobile Transoceanic Flights 11.400 - 11.650 Fixed Service 1

19.680 - 19.800 Maritime Mobile Ship / Shore 19.800 - 21.000 Fixed Service 21.000 - 21.450 Amateur 15 Meters 21

GETTING STARTED DUAL ICOM SCANNING When choosing a radio with Scancat-Gold you can choose more than one radio to control IF YOU OWN AN ICOM. Since th

28.000 - 29.700 Amateur 10 Meters 28.000 - 28.300 E,A,G - CW and RTTY 28.100 - 28.300 N,T - CW and RTTY 28.300 - 29.70

42.020 - 42.940 State police departments 42.960 - 43.180 Special industrial, business 43.220 - 43.680 Mobile telephone, p

144.100 - 148.000 E,A,G,T - CW, voice, SSTV, FAX, RTTY 148.155 - 148.200 Military 148.290 - 150.750 United States Navy 150.815 - 150

159.225 - 159.465 Forestry, conservation 159.510 - 160.200 Trucks 160.215 - 161.565 Railroads 161.600 - 162.000 Marine

CW, voice, SSTV, FAX, RTTY 450.050 - 450.950 Broadcast remote 451.200 - 451.500 Utilities 451.175

850.000 - 851.000 Unallocated 851.000 - 861.000 Domestic public (base) 861.000 - 866.000 Trunked Systems, base 866.000 - 870.0

FINAL COMMENTS Scancat-Gold for Windows - Copyright  1989 – 2001 All Rights Reserved “Scancat”  is a Registered Trademark of Computer Aided Techno

Index 400 FREQUENCIES, 140 9600 BAUD, 124, 128 A QUICK START ON OPERATING THE SCANCAT PROGRAM-MAC, 119 ADAPTER, 6, 10, 18, 103 ADD A RECORD, 88 ALAR

Index INSTALL, 11 KEYSTROKE COMMANDS, 27 LEVEL CONVERTER, 10 LOGGING, 18, 35, 54, 56, 73, 74, 75, 107, 110, 112, 132 LOGGING, 54, 73, 106, 107 MAC G3

Index SPECTRUM ANALYSIS, 7, 53, 80 SPECTRUM ANALYSIS, 80 SPECTRUM ANALYSIS, 80 SPECTRUM ANALYSIS, 7, 81 SPOOLING, 103 SQUELCH DETECT, 6, 18, 129 STAN

GETTING STARTED COMPORT SETUPS Once your radio is chosen, then pick your comport settings by clicking on the appropriate boxes. Only one choice per

GETTING STARTED Comm 5&6 (Supports Windows System Assignments) Windows NT/Windows 2000 Scancat will not work consistently in Windows N

GETTING STARTED ‘status’ from the radio, or using a signal strength as a ‘threshold’, much the same way as a squelch knob can be adjusted to differen

GETTING STARTED Specialized settings 1. AR5000 Ant Select – Gives you the ability to choose from 4 different antennas for the AR5000. Normally Scanca

Page 2 SCAN BETWEEN TWO FREQUENCIES 49 BANDSCOPE CONTROLS 57 SCANNING TAB 61 SEARCH TAB 63 DATABA

GETTING STARTED QUIKTERM Comport The Function (or) purpose of this menu is somewhat misunderstood. THIS SELECTION BOX IS NOT FOR THE RADIO. If you

Main Menu Selections MAIN MENU All operations of Scancat branch off what we call our “Main Menu”. This is sometimes referred to as the “Splash Scree

Main Menu Selections All other files are considered as “NON NATIVE”. These Files end in *.DBF, * MDB etc. The Viewer will have a Gray background with

Main Menu Selections This is the standard scanning module for use with most receivers/scanners we support. You can scan between ranges of frequencies

Main Menu Selections Percon Spectrum Export Files – Gives you the ability to export either a FRQ or SCN (Scancat format file) to the UDBF Dbase forma

Main Menu Selections picked. “Conversion” is automatically set for the function picked. (Radio Memory Management) Here we have two main choices. Mo

Main Menu Selections time. Many additional settings are supported that are not available in our ‘conventional’ database. QUICK HELP A short hel

Main Menu Selections SCANNING AND CONTROLLING THE RADIO The instructions in the following chapters are in what we consider a ‘logical order’. This is

SCANNING BASIC SCANNING The ‘radio graphic’ consists of two parts. The top “VFO Panel” and a lower “Control Panel”. In the Lower control panel area

SCANNING There are a number of other functions available while at the Radio Graphic, so we’ll go over each one in a sequence from LEFT top to RIGHT

Page 3 LIST OF ERROR CODES / EXPLANATIONS 136 SCANPORT 138 BEGINNING HINTS FOR BASIC IMPORTING 139

SCANNING b. Lockout – Immediately enables the lockout of an undesired and advances to the next frequency step. c. Pause – Stops scanning and remain

SCANNING Panel 2. “Single Range Scanning” This panel contains three “inputs”. Plus several other buttons and features a. Lower Range/ Upper Range /

SCANNING 1. Left Click on a button to change immediately to that frequency 2. Right click to program a new frequency. For convenience, the frequency

SCANNING There are selections available from the top “Menu Bar”. These selections are available to both the Basic and Advance Scanning functions. M

SCANNING c. You can also program the ‘dwell’ time that a range is scanned before proceeding to the next tagged range. If there is NO dwell time prog

SCANNING 2. Logging - Pops up a new selection box with several choices for logging active frequencies to databases. The logging features are availa

SCANNING 3. If you hold down the button, and ‘skate’ the cursor over the graph, the radio can be tuned as the mouse moves over the display screen. S

SCANNING c. Continuous - This is the time period when even if the frequency is active, scanning will resume at the next frequency. This is mainly f

SCANNING lockout list – handy for eliminating birdies that exist inside your radio or in the immediate environment. 4. Serial Port Settings – Same a

SCANNING Programmable ‘Quick Buttons’ – These are buttons that can be programmed for any four frequencies. Right click on the button to pop up t

Page 4 SPECIAL THANKS And Appreciation to: J.D. Alexander R. D. (Rick) Baker Bret Barker Temp Berd

SCANNING COMMENTS – Second line immediately below the Frequency display. Contains a 70-character comments field of a database. Panels at the top lef

SCANNING Advanced Scanning The advanced scanning module contains many of the same functions of the basic scanning but adds a lot more fine-tunin

SCANNING The control panel to the right is referred to as “Control Panel 1” and is the “primary cluster”. The left one is referred to as “Control Pa

SCANNING SELECT MODE - Pops up on the let side of the radiographic a selection panel for modes and AGC and Bandwidth. Clicking again, pops down the

SCANNING OFFSET-MINUS - Maritime frequencies on shortwave normally are a duplex pair, with the ship on one frequency and the shore on another. Thi

SCANNING RECORD - Turns the tape recorder option on/off. You must own the OS456/535 board to use this option. ALARM OFF/ON - Toggles an audio alarm

SCANNING /A (alarm) - This lets you set a record to have an alarm go off if it stops on that record. There are up to 5 (five) computer “beeps” for

SCANNING Wave Record Off/On – “SE” Edition only - Permits the user record to the hard drive each active transmission. Demographic Logging must be ac

SCANNING Above the knob are two buttons on either side of a frequency readout panel. (LEFT SIDE) DOWN- Each click of the mouse button changes freq

SCANNING SCAN BETWEEN TWO FREQUENCIES 1. Click on the Select Range button in the control panel cluster, 2. Then immediately click on RESUME. The r

INTRODUCTION INTRODUCTION Thanks for purchasing Scancat-Gold. We are sure that you will be more and more impressed with the versatility of our progra

SCANNING Many other related functions are associated with the RANGE between two frequencies and the number of increments used. IF YOU NOTICE THE UPP

SCANNING DWELL - This is the time period between any changes in scanning from one frequency to another. If set, as an example to .5 seconds, no matt

SCANNING Any mouse clicks on the knob automatically places scanning into PAUSE. If your mouse buttons do NOT react, as above, you need to go to your

SCANNING accessing the terminal program and resumes once you exit QUIKTERM. ALSO, some radios such as the NRD’s permit control ONLY while the port

SCANNING AUTOREAD This function is available ONLY for KENWOOD and NRD-535. It will be ‘grayed out” for most non-supported radios. It enables the ra

SCANNING TOP HITS Click on BASIC tab and on the right side of the lower area you will see a “List Box” of “Hits”. Whenever you are scanning. The fre

PCR-BANDSCOPE PCR 1000 BANDSCOPE The PCR1000 is unique in that has a built in bandscope. The bandscope is really a small range spectrum analysis fea

PCR-100/1000 BANDSCOPE switch to SSB for when you want to listen rather than the alternative that Icom’s software uses. BANDSCOPE CONTROLS The Slider

PCR-100/1000 BANDSCOPE RIGHT Mouse Click – No effect Mouse Movement – As the Mouse is moved over the spectrum display, the position the mouse is over

TRUNK TRACK SCANNING Computer Controlled Trunk Tracking In order to maintain compatibility with our other Scancat Databases, we have developed a &

INTRODUCTION LOWE Electronic’s HF-150 & HF-250 JRC’s NRD-525, NRD-535, NRD-545, JRC-245 Transceiver Most Kenwood including TS-440, TS-450, R-5000

TRUNK TRACK SCANNING It is possible to control most of the trunking functions from the computer. These trunking functions are accessible from Scanca

TRUNK TRACK SCANNING MIDDLE = "Control Panel" - contains most of the 'Command Buttons' for operating the program. Most of these

TRUNK TRACK SCANNING Depending on the radio there will be either 5 or 10 buttons visible. Pressing a button allows you to select which scan groups

TRUNK TRACK SCANNING “Hold”, preventing automatic updates by incoming data from the radio. The “updating” is placed on hold because when updating I

TRUNK TRACK SCANNING Panel One - Frequency hits and Programmer: 1. Hits list box – Contains all frequencies encountered while scanning in the Trunk

TRUNK TRACK SCANNING box. You can copy from a word processor or Excel. Just be sure that you have only one column of frequencies in the source file.

TRUNK TRACK SCANNING being received from the Radio will not be logged. Additionally the Hold button on the first tab will be enabled. This to prev

TRUNK TRACK SCANNING 4. Column “three: must contain: TG-NAME 5. Column “four” must contain: COLOR (Text description of color IE red, green, yellow

TRUNK TRACK SCANNING LOAD OLD FORMAT DATABASE - the old format database ended in "TRK", but contain different 'alignments' for t

TRUNK TRACK SCANNING into the proper editing field. You must press <ENTER> to accept the editing and complete the process. Every time the radi

FEATURES FEATURES Scancat allows you to: 1. Enter any one frequency and manually step up and down. 2. Enter any two frequencies and automatically sca

TRUNK TRACK SCANNING Misc. Features As you move your mouse over most control buttons, you will find 'hints' that show up at bottom of th

TRUNK TRACK SCANNING - Then - turn knob to the bank for your system - Press TRUNK one more time. - THEN using the Ch.Sel. knob, dial around until y

CONVENTIONAL SCANNING & LOGGING LOGGING OPTIONS: Conventional Scanning The logging functions are available while performing any conventional s

CONVENTIONAL SCANNING & LOGGING This means that each time the radio detects a signal, the radio frequency is checked against the existing lo

CONVENTIONAL SCANNING & LOGGING Electronics. The LOGGING file is always “DTMFDUMP.TXT”, and each logging will be appended to the existing file

CONVENTIONAL SCANNING & LOGGING 1. You must have a file selected. If there is no file in memory, and you click on RESUME, the VFO will show the

CONVENTIONAL SCANNING & LOGGING SEARCH FEATURES Search by Keywords 1. Pops up a prompt and by typing in ANY PART OF A WORD present in the DESC

CONVENTIONAL SCANNING & LOGGING the computer waits before going to next record. Don’t confuse this with “hang”. “/T xx” (programmable threshol

CONVENTIONAL SCANNING & LOGGING The ALARM SETTINGS Macro function SELECTS which alarm you Want. IF you choose a number from 1-5 then ONLY t

CONVENTIONAL DATABASE SPECTRUM ANALYSIS This function is only available if your radio supports signal detection or if you are also using an ICOM/YAE

FEATURES entire “Basic” scanning module into the program to enable you to get up and running even that much easier. Our Advanced scanning module is s

CONVENTIONAL DATABASE increment you choose for the scanning increment determines the division markers for the frequency part of the graph. Each mar

CONVENTIONAL DATABASE SURVEL SWEEP BUTTONS – (ONLY AVAILABLE IN PLATINUM EDITION). These enable a CONTINUOUS sweep of spectrum. The frequency is au

CONVENTIONAL DATABASE DISK FILE BROWSER/VIEWER It is wise to create many small files as opposed to one B-I-I-G-G file, dividing your files into c

CONVENTIONAL DATABASE First let us explain the basic functions and abilities of the Scancat File Browser / Viewer. 1. Scancat supports not only the

CONVENTIONAL DATABASE DRAGGING COLUMNS To DRAG a column, place your mouse cursor on the colored ‘heading’ at the top of a column, hold down your le

CONVENTIONAL DATABASE SPLITS Splits let you view a column or columns in a separate ‘view window’. You can designate columns at the left of the

CONVENTIONAL DATABASE Lets now examine the different file formats briefly a. IN-MEMORY files (*.FRQ extension) are read from the disk into memory

CONVENTIONAL DATABASE d. ACCESS (*.MDB extension). Proprietary format used by Microsoft’s Access, which comes with Microsoft Office. Many third part

CONVENTIONAL DATABASE EDIT - DOUBLE CLICK on any cell and the color will change to light blue background, indicating you can edit that cell. EDIT A

CONVENTIONAL DATABASE MODE, BANDWIDTH, AGC, INCREMENT, ATTENUATION, SELECT ON/OFF FIRST - place the cursor on a cell and highlight it, SECOND – DOU

FEATURES In addition, Scancat has a built-in, integrated communications program enabling you to access a TNC (terminal node controller) or a digital

CONVENTIONAL DATABASE With this version of Scancat we have added a completely new “Memory Management” database module specifically for the Trunk Tra

TRUNKING RADIO DATABASE 3. Trunking Scanners a. Trunking Database - This database is organized into ‘Tabs”. Similar to other sections of our progr

TRUNKING RADIO DATABASE and that setting would be necessary to tell the program to set that frequency as a trunking frequency. f. Column 3 contains

TRUNKING RADIO DATABASE n. Column 4 contains the BANK Description or “alpha tags”, and depending on your radio these will be sent to that bank when

TRUNKING RADIO DATABASE - After you choose a file, at the top, a “source database” will appear with a grid containing the entire Bearcat database.

TRUNKING RADIO DATABASE f. TG ID’S - Copy from Excel – Same procedure as above. You can copy from an Excel Spreadsheet. The columns must be in orde

TRUNKING RADIO DATABASE computer. As computer speeds increase, sometimes the “design time” delay is not enough to capture the complete data from the

AOR EEPROM UTILITES EEPROM UTILITIES for AR8000 AR8000 FULL-FREQUENCY COVERAGE The AR8000, using an optional computer interface plugged into the Sc

AOR EEPROM UTILITES (8) Then return to the main menu, and select EEPROM and then choose AR8000. (9) Read the initial instructions on the screen and

AOR EEPROM UTILITES Please read these instructions carefully before attempting upload the new bandplan to your AR2700. Selecting options on Scancat