Albrecht AE55H Portable Scanner Owners Manual

AE55H OWNER’S MANUAL
1OWNER’S MANUAL
AE55H
50-Channel Portable Scanner 

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2 FEATURES
Your new Albrecht AE55H 50-Channel Portable Scanner gives you direct access to over 27,000
exciting frequencies, including police and fire departments, ambulance services, and amateur radio
services. You can select up to 50 channels to scan, and you can change your selection at any time.
The secret to your scanner’s ability to scan so many frequencies is its custom-designed microprocessor
– a tiny, built-in computer.
Your scanner has these special features:
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3 · . Standard AC power (using an optional AC adapter)
· . Vehicle battery power (using an optional DC cigarette-lighter adapter)
You can power your scanner from six AA batteries. For the longest operation and best performance, we
recommend alkaline batteries. You can also power the scanner using a rechargeable scanner battery
pack or rechargeable nickel-cadmium batteries, and recharge it as you use the scanner.
Caution: Do not mix old and new batteries, different types of batteries...

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4 Using Vehicle Battery Power
To power the scanner from your vehicle’s cigarette-lighter socket, you need a DC adapter.
Cautions:
· You must use a DC adapter that supplies 9 volts and delivers at least 200 milliamps. Its center tip
must be set to negative, and its plug must correctly fit the scanner’s PWR/CHG jack. The
recommended adapter meets these specifications. Using an adapter that does not meet these
specifications could damage the scanner or the adapter.
· To protect your...

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5 USING THE BELT CLIP
You can use the belt clip for hands-free carrying when you are on the go. Simply slide the belt clip over
your belt or waistband.
CONNECTING AN EARPHONE/HEADPHONES
For private listening, you can plug an earphone or mono headphones with a 3.5 mm plug into the
PHONE jack on top of your scanner. This disconnects the internal speaker.
Caution: To protect your hearing, follow these guidelines when you use an earphone or headphones:
· Do not listen at extremely high...

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6 L-OUT/E (lockout/enter) – locks out channels so they will not be scanned, or enters frequencies into
channels.
A LOOK AT THE DISPLAY
The display has indicators that show the scanner’s current operation.
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MAN – appears when you manually select a channel.
SCAN – appears when you scan channels.
MON – appears when you listen to the monitor memory.
BATT – appears when battery power is low.
L/O – appears when you manually select a channel you locked out.
SRCH – appears...

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7 You can search these bands to quickly find active frequencies you might want to store into the
scanner’s channels. For example, if you wanted to search for transmissions between amateur radio
operators, you could search only the search bands where you are most likely to hear the transmissions
(Bands 5, and 8).
Note: The frequencies in the scanner’s search bands are preset. You cannot change them.
Monitor Memory
The scanner also has a monitor memory that you can use to temporarily...

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8 · Your scanner automatically rounds the entered frequency down to the nearest valid frequency. For
example, if you enter a frequency of 151.4730, your scanner accepts it as 151.4700.
· . If you entered a frequency that is already stored in another channel, dUPL (duplicate) and the
lowest-numbered channel containing the duplicate frequency flash for about 3 seconds. To store the
frequency anyway, press E again.
5. Repeat Steps 2-4 to store more frequencies into channels.
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9 MOVING A FREQUENCY FROM THE MONITOR MEMORY TO A CHANNEL
1. Press MANUAL, enter the channel number where you want to store the frequency, then press PGM.
PGM, the frequency number or 000.0000, and the selected channel number appear.
2. Press MON. MON and the frequency appear and the channel number flashes.
3. Press E. MON disappears, the channel number stops flashing, and the scanner stores the frequency
in the selected channel.
MONITORING A STORED CHANNEL
You can continuously...

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10 SPECIAL FEATURES
DELAY
Many agencies use a two-way radio system that might have a pause of several seconds between a
query and a reply. To avoid missing a reply, you can program a 2-seocnd delay into any of your
scanner’s channels. Then, when the scanner stops on the channel, DELAY appears and the scanner
continues to monitor the channel for 2 seconds after the transmission stops before it resumes scanning.
You can program a 2-second delay in any of these ways:
. If the scanner is...