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"It doesn't work!"

There are a few reasons why this may be true. First of all, your scanner MUST be on COM1 or COM2. This is a DOS limitation and may be overcome in future versions of AirSCAN.

Another thing- The Airscan program (ASDEMO.EXE or ASxxxx.EXE for registered users) MUST be in a folder entitled "Airscan" and that folder must contain the EXE file, plus your data, port and text files, but also, this folder MUST contain another folder called "Ebanks". This is where your extended banks reside. The "Airscan" folder can be anywhere on your hard drive, but the contents of the "Airscan" folder must remain in place. As long as you simply unzip the downloaded file to C:\, the airscan folder will appear on your desktop, you should be fine.

If it starts and just 'hangs', then your scanner is not ready or your are trying to scan frequencies your scanner is not designed to scan. Be sure to hit "Manual" and then "RMT" on the scanner until it beeps twice. Also, make sure the port is set to the proper number- 1 or 2.

First you need a cable. There are a lot of places to get a hold of one. See the Strong Signals website for some help on that. You plug one end into an available COM port and the other end to the back of the scanner. The plug can go in both ways on the scanner- there is no up and down. Once you do this, hit the "MANUAL" button on the scanner, and then hold the "RMT" button until you hear two beeps. Run Airscan, select the proper port number, and you are all set to go.

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Maybe. This will take some time and the part of that depends on the demand for Airscan. The DOS version does what it does well, and if the demand is high, I will place a priority on the Windows version. One thing this will allow is com ports other than 1 and 2. The DOS windowed version is quite stable and can be run windowed and even minimized if you want to work on other things on your computer. Try running it full screen, however, if you are going through and labeling frequencies etc. The video is faster full screen than windowed and works much smoother.

The Airscan program (ASDEMO.EXE or ASxxxx.EXE for registered users) MUST be in a folder entitled "Airscan" and that folder must contain the EXE file, plus your data, port and txt files, but also, this folder MUST contain another folder called "Ebanks". This is where your extended banks reside. The "Airscan" folder can be anywhere on your hard drive, but the contents of the "Airscan" folder must remain in place. As long as you simply unzip the downloaded file to c:\, the folder should appear on your desktop, and you should be fine.

Airscan is a work in progress. Version 2.00 is the first release version, and is far from finished.

There are a number of file types that Airscan uses. *.chn files are your saved scanner frequencies. *.ebn files are your extended bank files. "Port.dat" is that file that contains your COM port information. *.dat and *.txt files (with your own name applied) are saved frequency searches. The *.dat file is for Airscan and the *.txt file is for you to import into other software, print, email, etc.

Your scanner has memory banks A-J, and Airscan extends these banks to K-Z. For example, you might want Aircraft frequencies in bank K, and FRS radios bank L. Each extended bank holds 60 channels. This adds 960 more channels to save in banks. Of course, Airscan needs to be running and in control of you scanner for this to work. The extended banks come preloaded with common frequencies such as ambulance, fire, FRS radio, DOT, Aircraft, etc.. but these can easily be changed to your own titles and frequencies.

At this time, you need to run a run Word or Notepad, etc, and replace the zeros with the frequencies you want that bank to scan. The file is in DOS text format. Just make sure that there are always 8 characters. i.e. 145.45 will look like 01454500 and 460.4875 will look like 04604875. The top line of the file is the label for that bank, i.e. "Aircraft", or "2 meter Ham" or whatever- This will show up on the bottom of the screen when you are scanning that extended bank. (Read "EBANKS.TXT" in the Airscan folder.)

Yes. You can scan in any combination of K-Z banks. Future versions of AirSCAN will allow you to scan in any combinations of banks A-Z (with A-J already programmed into your scanner.)

The software was written and tested on the Uniden BC895XLT and should work on the BC245XLT. The software might work on some other radios such as some Radio Shack Models. But it has not been tested on such yet.

When a frequency is found, Airscan measures the signal strength + and - a few steps, and only locks onto the frequency with the highest strength. This is a filter of sorts, to get better search results. While scanning the frequency found list, the signal strength is shown as well, so you can manually lock out those frequencies with a lower signal strength.

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