RadioShack Pro 2045 Weather Alert Home Scanner Owners Manual

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• Continue the search — press s
or t.
• Hold the scanner on the fre-
quency — press 
LIMIT or turn
the rotary tuner either way one
click. 
-h- appears.
Notes:
• You can press 
s or t during the
hold to step through the fre-
quencies toward the upper or
lower limits.
• If you tune to a search skip fre-
quency, the scanner displays
L/O (see “Search Skip” on
Page 21).
• During the direct search, you
can change the modulation
mode (NFM or AM). See
“Changing the Modulation
Mode” on Page 28.
Press 
LIMIT...

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AUTOMATICALLY 
STORING FREQUENCIES
You can have your scanner automati-
cally store active frequencies into
empty channels within the banks you
specify.
1. Press 
PROGRAM then LIMIT. Lo
and the lower limit frequency
appears.
2. Enter the lower limit using the
number keys or use the rotary
tuner to enter the lower limit of the
frequency range you want to
search, then press 
E.
Note: 
If you enter an invalid fre-
quency in Step 2 or 4, the scanner
displays 
Error. Simply repeat
the step.
3. Press 
LIMIT....

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LISTENING TO MONITOR 
MEMORIES
Once you store frequencies into moni-
tor memories using a direct or limit
search or weather scan, you can listen
to a monitor memory by pressing
MANUAL, MONITOR, and then the
number for the monitor memory you
want to listen to.
Note: 
To listen to the monitor memo-
ries, the priority channel feature must
be turned off.
MOVING A FREQUENCY 
FROM A MONITOR 
MEMORY TO 
A CHANNEL
1. Press PROGRAM.
2. Enter the channel number where
you want to store the frequency,
then press...

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Locking Out Channels
You can increase the effective scan-
ning speed by locking out channels
that have a continuous transmission,
such as a weather channel.
Note: You can manually select the
channels you have locked out.
To lock out a channel, manually select
the channel, then press 
LOCKOUT so
L/O appears on the display.
To review the locked-out channels,
manually select the first channel you
want to review. Then repeatedly press
REVIEW to see the locked-out chan-
nels in sequence.
Note: If you press...

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SCANNING 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 seven frequencies avail-
able to NOAA.
To hear your local forecast and re-
gional weather information, simply
press 
WX. WX appears on the display.
Your scanner scans the weather band
and stops on an active broadcast. If a
broadcast is weak, press 
WX again to
continue to scan through...

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SPECIAL FEATURES
DELAY
Many agencies use a two-way radio
system that might have a period of 2
or more seconds between a query and
a reply. To keep from missing a reply
on a specific channel, you can pro-
gram a 2-second delay into any chan-
nel, or on frequencies during a
frequency search. The scanner con-
tinues to monitor the frequency for 2
seconds after the transmission stops
before resuming scanning.
To program a 2-second delay:
• If the scanner is scanning and
stops on an active channel,
quickly...

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The scanner automatically desig-
nates each bank’s first channel as that
bank’s priority channel. Follow these
steps to program a different channel
as the priority channel for a bank.
1. Press 
PROGRAM.
2. Use the number keys to enter the
channel number you want to pro-
gram as the priority channel, then
press 
PRIORITY. P appears on the
display to the right of the channel
number.
3. Repeat Steps 1-2 for each chan-
nel you want to program as a pri-
ority channel.
4. To confirm all priority channel...

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USING AUTO SORT
You can set the scanner to scan within
each bank from the channel with the
lowest frequency to the channel with
the highest frequency, instead of in
channel number order. This makes
the scanner scan faster.
Follow these steps to turn on auto
sort.
1. Turn off the scanner.
2. Press and hold 
AUTO, then turn
on the scanner. 
on Sort appears
for 3 seconds. During scanning,
AUTO appears.
To turn off auto sort, repeat these
steps. 
OFF Sort appears for 3 sec-
onds.
SKIPPING DATA 
SIGNALS...

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TRANSFERRING A 
FREQUENCY TO 
ANOTHER CHANNEL
Transferring to an Empty 
Channel
This feature lets you reassign a stored
frequency to another bank’s vacant
channel.
Note: 
You cannot transfer a frequency
into or out of a priority channel.
1. Press 
MANUAL to stop scanning.
2. Using the number keys or the
rotary tuner, select the channel
that has the frequency you want to
transfer.
3. Press 
TRANSFER. All bank indica-
tors flash on the display.
4. Use the number keys to select the
desired bank number....

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USING THE COUNT 
FEATURE
The scanner can count the number of
times it has detected a transmission
on each channel since you turned on
the scanner or cleared the count.
1. While the scanner is scanning,
press 
MANUAL.
2. Press 
COUNT. The scanner dis-
plays 
COUNT, the current channel
number, and the count number.
3. Repeatedly press 
MANUAL to dis-
play each channel and the num-
ber of times the scanner detected
a transmission on that channel.
Note:
 If 
CHAN is on the display,
you can use the rotary...