RadioShack Pro 2017 Scanner Reciever Owners Manual

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Understanding Your Scanner
Service Banks
The scanner is preprogrammed with the 
frequencies allocated by fire/police, aircraft, 
ham radio, and marine services. In these 
service banks, you can search through the 
frequencies and store them in channels for 
fire/police, aircraft, ham radio, and marine 
banks. This is handy for quickly finding active 
frequencies instead of searching through an 
entire band.
Note:
 The frequencies in the scanners 
service bank are preset. You cannot change 
them.
Air...

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Understanding Your Scanner
Marine
Channel Frequency (MHz) Channel Frequency (MHz)
06 156.3000 64 156.2250
07 156.3500 65 156.2750
08 156.4000 66 156.3250
09 156.4500 67 156.3750
10 156.5000 68 156.4250
11 156.5500 69 156.4750
12 156.6000 70 156.5250
13 156.6500 71 156.5750
14 156.7000 72 156.6250
15 156.7500 73 156.6750
16 156.8000 74 156.7250
17 156.8500 77 156.8750
18 156.9000 78 156.9250
19 156.9500 79 156.9750
20 157.0000/161.6000 80 157.0250
21 157.0500 81 157.0750
22 157.1000 82 157.1250
23...

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Understanding Your Scanner
Fire/Police
GroupFrequency Range 
(MHz)Step 
(kHz)
1 33.420–33.980 20
37.020–37.420 20
39.020–39.980 20
42.020–42.940 20
44.620–45.860 40
45.880 —
45.900 —
45.940–46.060 40
46.080–46.500 20
2 153.770–154.130 60
154.145–154.445 15
154.650–154.950 15
155.010–155.370 60
155.415–155.700 15
155.730–156.210 60
158.730–159.210 60
166.250 —
170.150 —
3 453.0375–453.9625 12.5
458.0375–458.9625 12.5
460.0125–460.6375 12.5
465.0125–465.6375 12.5 

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Operation
ˆOperation
TURNING ON THE 
SCANNER/SETTING 
VOLUME AND SQUELCH
1. Turn SQUELCH fully counterclockwise 
until the indicator points to 
MIN.
2. Slide 
POWER to ON to turn on the 
scanner.
3. Turn 
VOLUME clockwise until you hear a 
hissing sound.
4. Turn 
SQUELCH clockwise, just until the 
hissing sound stops.
Notes:
• To listen to a weak or distant station, 
turn 
SQUELCH counterclockwise. If 
reception is poor, turn 
SQUELCH 
clockwise to cut out weak 
transmissions.
•If 
SQUELCH is adjusted...

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Operation
4. To program the next channel in 
sequence, press 
PGM and repeat Steps 
2 and 3.
FINDING AND STORING 
ACTIVE FREQUENCIES
Searching the Service Banks
Your scanner contains groups of preset 
frequencies called service banks. Each 
service bank is associated with a specific 
activity (see “Understanding Service Banks/
Banks” on Page 10). You can search for fire/
police, air, ham, and marine transmissions 
even if you do not know the specific 
frequencies that are used in your area. Then 
you...

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Operation
frequency flash for about 3 seconds. 
If you want to store the frequency 
anyway, press 
ENTER again. You can 
delete the frequency later.
4. To store the displayed frequency in the 
selected channel, press 
PGM, press the 
channel number you want to enter the 
channel and press 
PGM again, then 
press 
ENTER. The channel and 
frequency flash twice, and the scanner 
stores the displayed frequency. The 
scanner continues to search for 
frequencies.
5. To store the displayed frequency in the...

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Operation
• If you entered a frequency that is 
already stored in another channel,
 -
dUPL-
 and the lowest-numbered 
channel containing the duplicate 
frequency flash for about 3 seconds. 
If you want to store the frequency 
anyway, press 
ENTER again.
• To store the displayed frequency in 
the selected channel, press 
PGM, 
press the channel number you want 
to use and press 
PGM again, then 
press 
ENTER. The channel and 
frequency flash twice, and the 
scanner stores the frequency. Then 
the...

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Operation
frequency number, then it automatically 
begins scanning again when the 
transmission ends on that frequency.
Scanning Options
While scanning you can select from several
options to enhance your scanning enjoy-
ment.
• To reverse the scanning direction at any 
time, press 
8
88 8or 9
99 9.
• To set the scanner to remain on the 
current channel for 2 seconds after the 
transmission ends, see “Using the Delay 
Function” on Page 20.
• To set the scanner to remain on the 
current channel even...

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Operation
5. To clear another channel, use the 
number keys to enter that channel 
number, then press 
PGM again. Or, 
repeatedly press 
PGM until the desired 
channel number appears. Then repeat 
Step 4.
LISTENING TO THE MARINE 
BANK
1. To listen to the marine bank, repeatedly 
press 
BAND until MARINE appears.
2. To change the channel, press either 
8
88 8 
or 
9
99 9, or enter the two-digit channel.
3. To scan through the marine bank, rotate 
SQUELCH clockwise until the hiss just 
disappears, then...

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Special Features
ˆSpecial Features
USING THE DELAY 
FUNCTION
Many agencies use a two-way radio system 
that has a period of several seconds 
between a query and a reply. To avoid 
missing a reply, you can program a 2– 
second delay into any channel or frequency.
When your scanner stops on any channel or 
frequency with a programmed delay, 
DLY 
appears and the scanner continues to 
monitor that frequency for an additional 2 
seconds after the transmission stops before 
resuming scanning or searching....