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Basic Usage Information

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BASIC USAGE INFORMATION USING INTERNAL BATTERIES The SDS100 is powered by a Lithium Ion battery. When the scanner is turned on, the scanner does not charge the batteries. When the scanner is turned off, the scanner will charge the batteries. You can use external USB power to power the scanner while it is on. However, the USB power source must be rated at 1A or greater to prevent battery drain during operation. The included AC adapter is rated at 2A and can power or charge the SDS100. The scanner's charge indicator is red during charge and green when complete. Note: If the scanner gets too hot while charging, charging automatically stops. VIEW THE BATTERY LEVEL You can set a custom display area to show the battery voltage level. See "Customizing the Display." UNDERSTANDING THE MEMORY All information contained in the scanner is stored on a microSD card supplied with the scanner. This includes Favorites Lists, all the radio settings, and the RadioReference database. FAVORITES LISTS Because the memory is based on the RadioReference database, the SDS100 has a different organization unlike banks and channels in older scanners, but more like Dynamic Memory Architecture (DMA) used for the last few generations of scanners. Favorites Lists follow the RR database structure of Systems that contain Departments that hold Channels (conventional frequencies or IDs) and then Sites to hold trunking frequencies. If you are familiar with DMA scanners, think of departments as being like channel groups. Favorites Lists let you store channels you find when you are scanning from the full database (the easiest way). They can contain channels from trunking systems and conventional systems. You can also manually add systems, departments and channels into Favorites Lists from the database as well as program new systems, departments, sites, and channels with the Sentinel software. You can save up to 256 different Favorite Lists in the scanner (and software) and associate them with any or all of your profiles. You can monitor one or more Favorites Lists at a time and/or the database. You can also export your Favorites Lists to a file to share them. Deleting a profile does not delete the Favorites Lists associated with a profile. However, deleting a Favorites List does delete it from all profiles. SYSTEMS Systems hold Sites, Departments, and Channels. TRUNKING SITES Inside trunked systems are sites that hold the trunking frequencies for the trunking system as well as any band plan information needed. You need at least one site for each trunked system and some systems have more than one site. 9

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BASIC USAGE INFORMATION
USING INTERNAL BATTERIES
The SDS100 is powered by a Lithium Ion battery.
When the scanner is turned on, the scanner does not charge the batteries. When the scanner is
turned off, the scanner will charge the batteries.
You can use external USB power to power the scanner while it is on. However, the USB power
source must be rated at 1A or greater to prevent battery drain during operation.
The included AC adapter is rated at 2A and can power or charge the SDS100.
The scanner’s charge indicator is red during charge and green when complete.
Note:
If the scanner gets too hot while charging, charging automatically stops.
VIEW THE BATTERY LEVEL
You can set a custom display area to show the battery voltage level. See “Customizing the
Display.”
UNDERSTANDING THE MEMORY
All information contained in the scanner is stored on a microSD card supplied with the scanner.
This includes Favorites Lists, all the radio settings, and the RadioReference database.
FAVORITES LISTS
Because the memory is based on the RadioReference database, the SDS100 has a different
organization unlike banks and channels in older scanners, but more like Dynamic Memory
Architecture (DMA) used for the last few generations of scanners. Favorites Lists follow the
RR database structure of Systems that contain Departments that hold Channels (conventional
frequencies or IDs) and then Sites to hold trunking frequencies. If you are familiar with DMA
scanners, think of departments as being like channel groups.
Favorites Lists let you store channels you find when you are scanning from the full database (the
easiest way). They can contain channels from trunking systems and conventional systems. You
can also manually add systems, departments and channels into Favorites Lists from the database
as well as program new systems, departments, sites, and channels with the Sentinel software.
You can save up to 256 different Favorite Lists in the scanner (and software) and associate them
with any or all of your profiles. You can monitor one or more Favorites Lists at a time and/or the
database. You can also export your Favorites Lists to a file to share them. Deleting a profile does
not delete the Favorites Lists associated with a profile. However, deleting a Favorites List does
delete it from all profiles.
SYSTEMS
Systems hold Sites, Departments, and Channels.
TRUNKING SITES
Inside trunked systems are sites that hold the trunking frequencies for the trunking system as well
as any band plan information needed. You need at least one site for each trunked system and
some systems have more than one site.