Albrecht AE75H 50-Channel Portable Scanner Owners Manual

AE75H OWNER’S MANUAL
1OWNER’S MANUAL
AE75H
50-Channel Portable Scanner 

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2 FEATURES
Your new Albrecht AE75H 50-Channel Portable Scanner gives you direct access to over 22,000
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:
Ten...

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3 PREPARATION
POWER SOURCES
You can power your scanner from any of four sources:
· Internal batteries (not supplied) with the provided battery holder
· A rechargeable scanner battery pack (not supplied)
· 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...

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4 specifications could damage the scanner or the adapter.
· When you finish using the AC adapter, disconnect it from the AC outlet first. Then disconnect it from
the scanner.
Plug the adapter’s barrel plug into the scanner’s PWR jack. Then plug the adapter’s power module into
a standard AC outlet.
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...

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5 Follow the installation instructions supplied with the antenna, route the antenna cable to the scanner,
then connect it to the ANT jack.
Warning: Use extreme caution when installing or removing an outdoor base station antenna. If the
antenna starts to fall, let it go! It could contact overhead power lines, if the antenna touches a power
line, contact with the antenna, mast, cable or guy wires can cause electrocution and death! Call the
power company to remove the antenna. Do not...

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6 CLEAR – clears an incorrect entry.
PGM – lets you program frequencies into channels.
Number Keys – use these keys to enter the numbers for a channel or frequency.
DLY/. (delay/decimal point) – programs a 2-second delay for the selected channel, or enters a decimal
point (necessary when programming frequencies).
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...

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7 6410-430UHF
7430-44070-cm Amateur Radio
8440-450UHF
9450-470UHF
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 4, and 7).
Note: The frequencies in the scanner’s search bands are preset. You cannot change them.
Monitor Memory
The...

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8 Notes:
· If you entered an invalid frequency in Step 3, Error appears, the channel number flashes, and the
scanner beeps three times after you press E. Simply repeat Steps 3 and 4.
· 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...

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9 4. To continue the search, hold down up or down-key for about 1 second.
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...

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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...