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Viking™ VP600 Portable Radio Operating Manual

The scan list is user selectable by the SCAN option switch. The scan list can also be 
temporarily changed if the Scan List Select option switch is programmed or by pressing/
holding the scan button. Refer to Section 5.10.1 for more information.To change the 
currently selected scan list (all channel types), proceed as follows:

1 With scanning disabled ( ) icon not displayed), press the Scan List option button or 

select the Scan Selct menu parameter.

2 The currently selected list is displayed as “List x”, where “x” is the currently selected 

list. To exit without changing the selected list, press the Scan List option button again 
or the 

(Clear) button.

3 To select another list, press the Up/Down buttons. When the desired list is displayed, 

press  

(Menu) to select it and 

 (Clear) to exit this mode.

If the Scan Edit option button or menu parameter is programmed, conventional, SmartNet/
SmartZone, and P25 Trunked priority (standard) scan lists can be user programmed. 
Changes are permanent (cycling power does not reselect a default condition). Proceed as 
follows:

1 Make sure that both priority and radio wide scanning are off (

 and 

 icons not 

displayed). Select a conventional or SmartNet/SmartZone/P25 Trunked channel 
corresponding to the scan list being programmed.

2 Select the scan edit mode using the Scan Edit option button or menu parameter. This 

mode is indicated by 

 in the display.

3 If applicable, select the list to be edited by pressing the Up/Down buttons. Select the 

desired list by pressing the 

 (Menu) button. The selected list is indicated as “List x”. 

If user programming is disabled on a list, (conventional only) “No Edit” is momentarily 
displayed and it cannot be edited.

4 Select the channel you want to add or delete by pressing the Left or Right buttons. After 

the last channel in the current zone is displayed, the first valid channel in the next zone 
is displayed and vice versa. Lists are limited to 256. If an attempt is made to add more 
than that, “List Full” is displayed and a channel must be deleted before another can be 
added.

5 If the selected channel is in the scan list (scanned), the 

 icon is displayed. To change 

the status of the displayed channel, press the Left or Right button. Then, press 

 

(Menu) to save the changes to the scan list

With conventional channels only, if the selected scan list is programmed with fixed 
priority channel(s), the next press of the Right button makes the current channel the 
priority channel indicated by 

. If dual priority channels are used, pressing the Right 

button again makes it the second priority channel indicated by 

. Then pressing the