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I have a SDS2OO with a profile and favorite list created with sentinel. I would like to do a discovery mode on some aircraft frequencies (vhf). Will I still be able to access my favorite list after doing the discovery mode and if so how do I get back to scanning my favorite list. Thank you
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I have a SDS2OO with a profile and favorite list created with sentinel. I would like to do a discovery mode on some aircraft frequencies (vhf). Will I still be able to access my favorite list after doing the discovery mode and if so how do I get back to scanning my favorite list. Thank you
Bob c
Bob,
You would not be able to scan any of your Favorites lists while running a Discovery session.
For your aircraft session, you would use a Conventional Discovery session. You would set a range of frequencies where you want to check for activity. You can also have the scanner save the frequencies it finds into a Favorites list. When you are ready to end the Discovery session, you press the System key on the left side, just under the display. On the display itself, you'll see a note just above the key, labeled to Scan.

You can download the results of your session into Sentinel, where you can view a log of what it found, and also review recordings of what was heard. Once you download the results into Sentinel, you can go back to scanning & check the results at your leisure. (You can review the results on the scanner itself, but you could not also scan until you are finished reviewing the results. Plus, doing that in Sentinel is much more 'user friendly'.)

The "Easy to Read" manual for the SDS200 is incomplete as to how Discovery works. Instead, read the comments on the 436HP/536HP scanners' 'manual'. The procedure is exactly the same on the x36HP & SDS series scanners.
 

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Out of curiosity, why discovery on aircraft freqs?

I think most everything in air is already in RR/Sentinel. Or, do you know of some new freqs/changes?.
 

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Out of curiosity, why discovery on aircraft freqs?

I think most everything in air is already in RR/Sentinel. Or, do you know of some new freqs/changes?.
I can't speak for the OP but I've found trying to figure out what air frequencies to program extremely confusing. I live very close to a regional ATC center and used to be able to hear almost constant air traffic. After several years away from the hobby I come back with a new scanner ad can't figure out the air freqs at all. When I try to drag things in from the scanner's DB it includes way too much.
 

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Bob,
You would not be able to scan any of your Favorites lists while running a Discovery session.
For your aircraft session, you would use a Conventional Discovery session. You would set a range of frequencies where you want to check for activity. You can also have the scanner save the frequencies it finds into a Favorites list. When you are ready to end the Discovery session, you press the System key on the left side, just under the display. On the display itself, you'll see a note just above the key, labeled to Scan.

You can download the results of your session into Sentinel, where you can view a log of what it found, and also review recordings of what was heard. Once you download the results into Sentinel, you can go back to scanning & check the results at your leisure. (You can review the results on the scanner itself, but you could not also scan until you are finished reviewing the results. Plus, doing that in Sentinel is much more 'user friendly'.)

The "Easy to Read" manual for the SDS200 is incomplete as to how Discovery works. Instead, read the comments on the 436HP/536HP scanners' 'manual'. The procedure is exactly the same on the x36HP & SDS series scanners.
Thanks Steve, I had read the manual and I thought something was missing
 

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I just found a site I found extremely helpful in understanding what frequencies might be active around me. LiveATC.net has well organized frequency lists for major airports. Just put the airport code in the box in the upper left. The frequencies listed are not everything in use at the airport but seem to be the ones you'd be most likely to want to monitor for arrival and departure radio traffic.
 

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Thanks I'll check it out
Here's another one you might find useful.
 
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