BCD436HP/BCD536HP: Force resume scan after set time delay regardless of receive status?

[David628]

When scanning just the full database on the 536. Say you have record on to find all calls while your away within a 10 mile radius. Then when you return 9 hours later. You realize the radio got stuck on a channel with constant noise or open squelch for 7 hours thus refusing to move past that channel. Is there a setting on the 536 to force resume scan of the full data base only after a set amount of time has passed like 10 or 15 seconds regardless of receive status? Couldn’t find it in the 536 easy to read manual Or just didn’t see it. Thanks in advance!

 

[hiegtx]

When scanning just the full database on the 536. Say you have record on to find all calls while your away within a 10 mile radius. Then when you return 9 hours later. You realize the radio got stuck on a channel with constant noise or open squelch for 7 hours thus refusing to move past that channel. Is there a setting on the 536 to force resume scan of the full data base only after a set amount of time has passed like 10 or 15 seconds regardless of receive status? Couldn’t find it in the 536 easy to read manual Or just didn’t see it. Thanks in advance!

You can set a "negative delay", which makes the scanner resume scanning or searching after 5 or 10 seconds (look at the minus sign in the drop-down.

That setting is in your Profile. You can also use a negative delay on a channel programmed in a Favorites List. I've used that, at times, on DFRs automated dispatch channel. "Dispatch Debbie" occasionally gets ADD and repeats a dispatch transmission multiple times.

 

[nessnet]

Just remember, it resumes scanning in X seconds, no matter what....
If there is something interesting, it will resume scanning mid-transmission and you miss the rest.

 

[David628]

You can set a "negative delay", which makes the scanner resume scanning or searching after 5 or 10 seconds (look at the minus sign in the drop-down.
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That setting is in your Profile. You can also use a negative delay on a channel programmed in a Favorites List. I've used that, at times, on DFRs automated dispatch channel. "Dispatch Debbie" occasionally gets ADD and repeats a dispatch transmission multiple times.

Awesome thank you!!!

 

[David628]

Just remember, it resumes scanning in X seconds, no matter what....
If there is something interesting, it will resume scanning mid-transmission and you miss the rest.

Thanks for that tip! Much appreciated