Maxtrac scanning ?

[stevelton]

I am not a Moto person at all, but a friend had a Maxtrac low band tuned for 6m that we made a trade on, because I just HAD to get a 6m radio back, and money is tight, and I had something he wanted.
He lives down the road, and has all the stuff to program/adjust everything.
We put a few random simplex and repeater frequencies to get me started while I research some known working on the air 6m repeaters, and we will re program it then.

While I am playing with it, when I press the scan button, there is a line on the display next to the scan word, and one next to the priority word. It will make a beep if I press and hold down the scan button, and the channel number will start flashing.

How do I know when the radio is scanning?
I have read that the radio can be set up with user programmable scan lists, but I just have a few channels I want to scan.

Can anyone tell me what the different things on the display mean, and how the scan and select buttons work?

I did a limited search on the net, but cant find a how to guide on maxtracs and their scanning ability.

Steven

 

[jland138]

The repeater-builder site has a PDF of the MaxTrac user guide at: http://www.repeater-builder.com/maxtrac/files/maxtrac100-300um.pdf - user-programmable scan is described on page 16. Lots of other information about the MaxTrac on this site as well.

If you've got an ancient DOS-based computer to program it, the MaxTrac can make a great monitor assuming you only want to listen to a few channels. The scan rate is very slow compared to a modern Uniden or GRE scanner. But the audio is great and depending on the band split of the radio, MaxTracs are becoming very cheap with everyone dumping them for more modern equipment.

 

[stevelton]

I am pleased so far. Internal speaker is comparable to my Icom F5021. Thanks for the info about the repeater builder web site, I forgot to look there!
Steven

 

[kb0nly]

Read that manual he linked to, that will describe the user programmable scan better than i can put it to words, plus it includes pictures... lol

Good radio all around... FYI if you notice my username here you will see i'm a RBTIP contributor for the Maxtrac series.... ;-)

 

[stevelton]

That manual was perfect!
Got my user scan list all set up, and is working great. Thanks again for pointing out the location of the user manual
Steven

 

[MotoMagic]

Set-up scan simply on a MaxTrac

See this website to learn how and understand what to do . . .

Maxtrac/Radius User Scan Setup