What is AirSCAN? * Now Freeware *
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• AirSCAN is a very convenient package used for finding and labeling active frequencies, counting hits in frequency ranges, saving and loading previous searches, managing your scanners banks, counting hits on your existing scanner banks A-J, and using the new "extended banks" A-Z.

• Frequencies found via Airscan can be labeled with a one character code while the search is going on- i.e. P- Police, M- Medical, A- Air. (30 character alpha labeling coming soon.) One purpose of this program is to scan and catalog active frequencies. It scans in the background or foreground for as long as you want to get an accurate hit count for the selected range. When a hit is encountered, the software checks up and down 3 steps, and seeks that frequency with the strongest signal using the hardwares signal strength meter.
• Once a frequency hit list is generated, you can move on to scanning only those active frequencies you have found, to refine your results by further labeling and locking out of useless frequencies. All without changing any channels that reside in your scanner. Results are saved in two formats- as a .TXT file for easy imports and as a .AIR file for use in AirSCAN.

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• AirSCAN is able to use "extended banks" stored on your computer. These banks are called A-Z and have a title that shows up on screen. Each "extended bank" holds 80 channels. This allows you to increase the number of frequencies you can access beyond the 300 channel capacity of the scanner- for a grand total of 2380 channels. The extended banks come preprogrammed with some common frequencies such as railroads, ambulances, aircraft, FRS radios and more. These can easily be erased and changed to your own frequencies.

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• AirSCAN can monitor your existing scanner banks for hits as well. Ever wonder how many of your frequencies you have entered into your scanner are really active enough to keep?

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• AirSCAN has a "Bank Manager" which allows you work on the channels that are stored in your scanners 300 memories. It allows you to swap banks, erase banks, save banks to the computer, and load banks to the scanner. Files are saved as .CHN files to keep your frequencies safe.

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AirSCAN runs in DOS and Win95/98. The application can run full screened, windowed, or minimized while you do other things. AirSCAN is a DOS based program, but don't let that put you off, it is quite powerful- plus it can be used on more operating systems than a Windows 32-bit program.
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• NOTE- AirSCAN REQUIRES the scanner be on COM1 or COM2 at this time. Also, it does not work for tracking trunked systems at this time- other than finding active frequencies. Trunking features may be added in future versions of AirSCAN. And your still in charge of CTCSS tones. See Softrol FREEWARE Distribution Site for help on automatically finding CTCSS tones.

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