CP200 Scanning Modes?

[ihopeyoulikedoghair]

If anyone has any experience with this and could help I'd really appreciate it. I was asked if I could set a CP200 to scan a couple of channels, and I looked in the CPS and then read the manual and I'm just not sure what's what. It has system scan and auto scan. System scan is activated by a button press (short press only, unfortunately) and it looks like auto scan is activated by using up one of your 16 channel positions and binding it to a scan list and enabling auto scan in the CPS. Assuming my understanding of auto scan is correct, my question is, how does system scan work? Is it just scanning all 16 channels (if populated)? Is there any way to bind it to a scan list? (Like maybe binding the channel to a scan list but not enabling auto scan?) The radios in question use all 16 channels so taking one for a scan function isn't an option.
Thanks in advance, and sorry if I missed something obvious! I looked around and couldn't really find anything that answered my question.

 

[KG4INW]

Both methods of scanning require a scan list be assigned before it'll actually scan. Multiple scan lists can be created but you can only assign and invoke one list per channel (assigned in CPS). Because of this, make sure that you assign a scan list to every channel, if you want the ability to scan from that channel (don't want to scan from a particular channel? Don't assign a list). It's been a while since I've set up a CP200 scan list but IIRC, make sure that "selected" is one of the scan list members or else you'll miss traffic on the channel you're parked on.

 

[ihopeyoulikedoghair]

That's GREAT information, thanks! I don't know why they couldn't just put that in the manual, they had no problem explaining talkback ad nauseam.

 

[KG4INW]

The user manual is really aimed at the end user, which in the commercial world is most likely not going to be doing any programming at all. Motorola used to have separate manuals for that but they’ve been replaced with the help files built into CPS, or like me, you get trained directly. I used to work for a Motorola dealer, am now in a self supporting radio shop, and have worked on many of these then and now.