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Search, dial and you shall find
To quickly find interesting stuff in hours of recordnings I use there functions: VFO, DIAL and SEARCH. These are my ideas on different settings.

VFO for most wanted stations
I have setup VFO as a way to remember which frequency I should check for catching stations in countries not verified.
Set it in WORKSET > VFO_FREQS

DIAL for Spanish MW stations
To keep track and log MW broadcasters in Spain, with its different chains, I use DIALS. In this case, I have four lists: one for COPE, one for SER, one for R5 and one for RNE.
If you also mark an audio loop for, say 0525z, then you can breeze through all Radio Nacional stations when the first local news break starts. For COPE and SER you want to check local ID's around 0520z.
You can have ten different frequency lists in DIAL.
Set these in SETTINGS > DIALS

From the Jaguar guide, here are some other ideas on how to use DIALS:
Instead of plain frequency lists, also frequency ranges (FREQ1-FREQ2) and ITU codes (covering all MW frequencies for that country) can be used. In addition, these all can be combined together, separated by comma:
DIAL   Hot=1190,1560,1580
DIAL   Algeria=ALG
DIAL   South Africa=AFS,AGL,BOT,MWI,MOZ,1170
DIAL   X-BAND=1610-1710


SEARCH for a specific area when needed
B
y typing an ITU code and pressing enter, the system creates a VFO list to be scrolled.
Choose "I", and you get stations in Italy.
"E", and you get Spanish stations, the whole lot.
So SEARCH often gives you too much info. If you want less, use DIAL (see above).

Other functions
Then there are lots of other ways on quick searches in Jaguar. I haven't, so far, understood how I best might use those. But here are some guiding from Jaguar master Ilpo:
* The ITU based frequency lists are too large if you are hunting Latin America - LOCATOR is much more useful in that case. And if you want to make a list of frequencies restricted to stations within a desired area, you can use LOCATOR for creating that VFO list to be scrolled.
* S for SEARCH supports only ITU based VFO lists and NA SHORTCATS within one NA frequency. Earlier we have had the frequency list support also for SER, COPE, etc. but they were dropped away some versions ago. I think it is better to use DIALs for them: quite likely you are hunting new stations so a full network frequency list is annoying - the more experienced DXer you are, the less frequencies you want to be included in that frequency list.
* In addition to the ITU codes, you can also use "S for SEARCH" for network programs, formats, etc if you are tuned to a MW10 frequency. I just tested V9 with old files from last January just for fun: on AM 1420 I heard "Wooly Bully" and typed "OLD" for SEARCH and got the list of the few oldies stations on 1420 and soon after that "KITI"-jingle confirmed that it was the last one on that list - just as I presumed. Then jumping to AM 1300: two stations, the weaker having the news format: typing "NEWS" for the search gave five alternatives and soon the station identified itself as KACI. So in fact there's no need to keep TURTLE open at all (browsing Turtle up/down every time takes a lot of time) - unless you start studying something really tricky. "S for SEARCH" and the offset flags can give you excellent hints what to expect when the time of the ID appears in your headphones.


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