--SCAN-- Vs --FM SCAN-- on VX-924

[LZJSR]

Can anyone tell me what the difference is between the Scan, follow me scan, and FM scan settings are on the VX-924 radios?

 

[BCSORadioTechs]

FM Scan

you bet:

SCAN: This mode will simply scan the channels that are set up in the scan list, on the current group that the radio is set to. In the scan options tab, you can choose what channel will be your TX channel - talk-back, whatever channel the radio was on when scan was started, home and maybe a few other choices. Your receive channel will either be whatever the radio stops on first or you can set up a priority channel in several different ways. Your scan list can be user modified (by a long press of the SCAN button programmed) or can be set to "Dealer" where the user can not change it.

FMSCAN- this is the mode I prefer. With FMSCAN, your radio will scan the list set up (user or dealer) but your scanned priority channel and transmit channel will be the channel that the channel selector is set to. You must be careful to not confuse SCAN and FMSCAN however. I set up my fleet radios so that the user can modify the scan list with the programmed SCAN button but program the toggle switch on the top to turn on FMSCAN. I tell my users to make sure they see FMSCAN in the display rather than scan. This way their selected channel follows the channel selector. I recall you may need to specify the transmit channel to be selected in the scan menu.

This can all get rather confusing. When I first started working with the Vertex line back in 2002, this took me a bit to figure out. If you like, I can email a 924 codeplug to you so you can see how I set up my radios.

Scott

 

[LZJSR]

Thank you for the reply..I will play with it and see if I completely understand. When assigning a button to be the FMSCAN setting, which selection to I make on the "KEY FUNCTION" selection? Scan? Follow Me Scan? Thanks again.

GJ

 

[BCSORadioTechs]

I think the FMSCAN can only be assigned to the toggle switch. SCAN can be assigned to any of the soft keys. The way I set up my radios, I need both the FMSCAN assignment on the toggle and SCAN on a soft button.

 

[tbrown01]

I like follow me scan, we have 3 repeaters in our county fire system and I have to bounce between 2 of them, I just set it on whatever one I'm closer too, I always use follow me scan over regular scan

 

[rpvitale]

Having both FMScan and Scan has always given me issues. When FMScan is used I programed it to make the selected channel the priority. Now I deselect FMScan and select Scan but the radio still keeps the previously selected priority channel. I have not found a way to clear the priority channel in that bank other then programming software..I can reselect another priority channel using FMScan but I'm never able to clear the last selected priority so regular Scan works without priority. I hope I made myself understood. Any suggestions?