Help please?

[andy007]

Hi All

New to this so please hang in there with me.

I've just purchaced a new psr295. (Maplins) Now am I being thick or what? I've gone through the instruction book several times but can find no mention of the problem I have.
When I turn it on I get the welcome screen etc but when I hit the scan button all I get is 'All channels locked out!'
This is what I expected from a scanner... I want to be able to select the band to scan..ie.. Air band etc.. and press the 'Scan' button to do a search. I would assume that it would scan that band and lock on to a 'used' frequency and hold it until I scan again, provided it found a signal in use. The instructions only mention the 'Scan' button once which seems a bit odd.
I know you can manually insert a known frequency and store it which is fine, but even that is proving a problem, but has anyone else had experience of this problem.
I dont consider myself as 'thick' but this has got me frustraited.
If anyone can help I would be Very grateful.

Thanks in anticipation Andy

ps .. plz excuse the grama as I've been on the go for the past 37 hrs with exams

 

[w8jjr]

Not familiar with that radio but sounds like
1 nothing is programmed into it
2 all channels are locked out

 

[fmon]

Ain't found an owners manual yet but the keyboard is fairly simple. It doesn't appear to have any trunking abilities so press PGM in a bank, then enter the frequency (likely up to 100/bank). Scan the banks with programmed frequencies. I'm sure pressing a keyboard number will toggle banks 0 through 9 on or off.

 

[rvictor]

I can't find a copy of the manual online, but what you want to do is generally referred to as a search rather than a scan. Scan usually is used to refer to frequencies that you've entered into the scanner and search generally refers to the scanner covering a particular range of frequencies to see if any action is heard on any of the frequencies in that range.

Check your manual using that term. There should be the ability to search by service, i.e, police, fire, air, marine, etc.

Dick

 

[detroit780]

Psr-295

PSR -295 Owners manual below

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Les

 

[fmon]

Thanks Detroit.

To OP, use page 12 - 19 and enter the Mode, frequencies, tags and squelch codes (if any exist).

 

[tonycash]

Page 20 of the users manual describes how to search the programmed bands of the scanner.

Good Luck
Tony, KD4K