RadioShack Pro 2040 Home Scanner Owners Manual

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5. Press EN TER to store the fre-
quency into the selected chan-
nel.
Note: If you made a mistake in
Step 4, 
Error appears on the
display. Repeat Steps 4 and 5.
6. To program the next channel in
sequence, repeat Steps 3-5.
To program other channels not
in sequence, repeat Steps 2-5.
SEARCHING FOR AND 
TEMPORARILY 
STORING ACTIVE 
FREQUENCIES
You can search for frequencies using
a limit or direct search, then either
skip selected frequencies or tempo-
rarily store frequencies into monitor
memories....

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3. Press LIMIT. Hi and a frequency
appear on the display.
4. Using the number keys, enter
the highest frequency you want
to search within the desired fre-
quency range, then press
ENTER.
5. Press 
D to search upward from
the lower to the upper limit, or
press 
— to search downward
from the upper to the lower limit.
-L-, SEARCH, and s or t
appear, and the next available
monitor memory flashes on the
display.
6. When the scanner finds an
active frequency you want to
monitor, you can do one of the...

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2. Using the number keys, enter
the frequency (including the dec-
imal point) you want to start the
search from, or the channel
number containing the starting
frequency, then press 
MAN or
PGM to select the channel.
3. Press 
D to search up or — to
search down starting from the
specified frequency or channel.
-d-, SEARCH, and s or t
appear, and the next available
monitor memory flashes on the
display.
Note: If you enter an invalid fre-
quency,
 Error appears on the
display. To correct this, repeat...

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To skip a frequency, press L/O/
SEARCH SKIP
 when the scanner
stops on the frequency during a limit
or direct search.
To clear a single frequency from skip
memory so the scanner can stop on
it during a limit or direct search, press
LIMIT to hold the search, press D or
— to select the skipped frequency,
then press 
L/O/SEARCH SKIP until
LOCKOUT disappears from the dis-
play.
To clear all the skip frequencies at
once, while in the search mode,
press and hold 
L/O/SEARCH SKIP un-
til the scanner beeps...

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MOVING A FREQUENCY 
FROM A MONITOR 
MEMORY TO A 
CHANNEL
1. Press MANUAL to stop the
scanning.
2. Enter the channel number where
you want to store the monitor
frequency, then press 
PGM.
PROGRAM appears on the dis-
play.3. Press
 MON, then enter the moni-
tor memory number that has the
frequency you want to store into
the channel. 
MON and the
entered frequency appear, and
the channel number blinks on
the display.
4. Press 
ENTER. The scanner
stores the frequency into the
selected channel.
SCANNING...

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Turning Channel-Storage 
Banks On and Off
You can set your scanner to scan
more efficiently by turning selected
channel storage banks on and off.
When you turn off a bank, the scan-
ner does not scan any of the 10
channels in the bank.
While scanning, press the number
key corresponding to the bank you
want to turn on or off. If the memory
bank indicator is on, the bank is
turned on and the scanner scans all
channels within that bank that are not
locked out. If the indicator is off, the
scanner does...

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LISTENING TO THE 
WEATHER BAND
The FCC (Federal Communications
Commission) has allocated 11 chan-
nels for use by the National Oceanic
and Atmospheric Administration
(NOAA).
Your scanner is preprogrammed with
the following frequencies available to
NOAA.
162.400 MHz 162.500 MHz
162.425 MHz 162.525 MHz
162.450 MHz 162.550 MHz
162.475 MHz
To hear your local forecast and re-
gional weather information, simply
press 
WX. WX appears on the dis-
play.
Your scanner searches through the
weather band and stops...

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SPECIAL FEATURES 
DESIGNATING A 
PRIORITY CHANNEL
By designating a priority channel,
you can scan through the pro-
grammed channels and still not miss
an important or interesting call on a
specific channel.
Note: You can select only one chan-
nel as the priority channel.
To program a stored channel as the
priority channel, press 
PGM, the de-
sired stored channel number, then
PRI/HYPER SEARCH. P appears on
the display.
To turn on the priority feature, press
PRI/HYPER SEARCH during scan-
ning....

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LOCKING OUT 
CHANNELS
You can set your scanner to scan
more efficiently by locking out chan-
nels you do not want to monitor. This
is handy for locking out channels
where you stored a frequency with a
continuous transmission, such as a
weather channel. 
To lock out a channel, press 
MANU-
AL
, enter the desired channel num-
ber, press 
MAN or PGM to select the
channel, then press 
L/O/SEARCH
SKIP 
so LOCKOUT appears on the
display.
Notes:
• You can still manually select
locked out channels.
• You...

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To change the search speed, during
a limit or direct search, press 
SPEED
to switch between the normal and
high speed search speeds. s or t
flashes on the display during high
speed search.
To select the hyper search speed,
during a limit or direct search, press
PRI/HYPER SEARCH. SEARCH flash-
es on the display during hyper search
speed.
Note: You can use hyper search
speed only in 5 kHz-step bands. 
DETECTING DATA 
SIGNALS
You can set the scanner to detect
data signals (nonmodulated signals
such as...