Freescan Virtual Scanner

• Freescan Scanner pulldown.JPG

  Figure 1

• Freescan Vcontrol setup.JPG

  Figure 2

• Freescan Ipod scanner.JPG

  Figure 3

• Windows scanner control.JPG

  Figure 4

• Freescan LCARS scanner.JPG

  Figure 5

• Logging.JPG

  Figure 6

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To use Freescan's various scanner interfaces;

1. Select 'Control Scanner' from the scanner pulldown or hit shift-F1 (Figure 1)
2. The Virtual Control setup panel appears (figure 2). Check to see if the COM settings are correct; if not, click on 'Com Port Setup' and make the necessary adjustments. Please see the Making the connection article for more information.
3. Select which interface you would like to use, and decide on whether you wish to log all your hits. Figures 3, 4 and 5 show examples of the various interfaces
4. If you check the logging option, in addition to the interface, you will see a panel like figure 6. You can export your logs to a .csv (comma seperated values) file for importing into Excel, ect.
5. Note: If you decide to change interfaces, you must close it, get out of the virtual control screen and go back to step 1. Failure to do this may cause a communications failure, and the scanner will not connect.

On the IPod(c) interface, the double right arrow and bar causes the scanner to scan upwards through the systems. The double left arrow and bar causes the scanner to scan downwards. 'Menu' acts the same way as if you hit the menu key on the physical scanner. The pause arrow is your hold button, the play arrow is the scan button. When you hit scan while you are already scanning, it will switch in between ID Search and ID Scan.

FreeScan also has a function called TG Expander. This works in the following manner; FreeScan stores all the talkgroup information in memory, even if there are more talkgroups than the scanner actually holds. If you run the scanner in ID SEARCH mode, FreeScan will examine memory to find the alpha tag for the appropriate talkgroup. This is similar in function to what ID Tracker and the old Trunk Manager for Windows (written by Ben Saladino) used for talkgroup lookups.

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