RadioShack Pro 63 Portable Event Scanner Reciever Owners Manual

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Notes:
• If the scanner picks up unwanted, partial, or very weak trans-
missions, turn 
SQUELCH MIN/MAX clockwise to decrease the
scanner’s sensitivity to these signals. If you want to listen to
a weak or distant station, turn 
SQUELCH MIN/MAX counter-
clockwise.
•If 
SQUELCH MIN/MAX is adjusted so you always hear a hiss-
ing sound, the scanner does not scan properly.
SEARCHING FOR AND STORING ACTIVE 
FREQUENCIES
You can store up to 100 frequencies into your scanner’s channels
using either of the...

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Limit Search
If you do not know a frequency to store, you can select a search
band containing a preprogrammed frequency range and search
that range for active frequencies. Then you can store frequencies
you find there into channels. 
SRCH appears on the display during
a search.
1. Press 
BAND/•.
2. Within about 2 seconds, enter the search band number. The
band’s number appears next to 
b on the left side of the dis-
play and the frequency range of the search band appears on
the right. Then the next...

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When the scanner stops on an active frequency, press ENTER to
store it in the flashing channel or press and hold   or   for about
a second to continue the search. 
Notes:
• To search the frequency band upward or downward step by
step (5, 12.5, or 25 kHz), quickly press and release   or  .
 or   disappears from the display. See “Specified Inter-
vals”on Page 42.
• To quickly move upward or downward through the range of
frequencies, press and hold down   or  . The scanner
tunes through the frequencies...

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Hint: If you are storing a frequency used by a specific broad-
caster (such as a racing team), you can remember where
you stored the frequency by storing it in the same channel
number as the team’s car number.
Note: If you enter an invalid channel number, the scanner
beeps three times and 
Error flashes on the display for about
4 seconds. Simply repeat this step.
3. Using the number keys, enter the frequency you want to
store into that channel. Use 
BAND/• to enter the decimal
point.
4. Press 
ENTER...

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• If you tried to store a frequency in a locked channel, the
scanner beeps once and 
L (next to the channel number) and
LOC flash on the display, then the frequency flashes. To
store the frequency, either unlock the channel (see “Using
Channel Lock” on Page 30) and repeat Steps 1-4, or repeat
Steps 2-4 to select another channel and store the frequency.
Repeat Steps 2-4 to store more frequencies into channels. Or, if
you want to program the next channel in sequence, press   or   ,
then repeat Steps...

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Notes:
• You can manually select any channel in a bank, even if the
bank is turned off.
• You cannot turn off all banks. There must be at least one
active bank.
• You cannot turn on a bank where all the channels in the bank
are skipped  (see “Skipping Channels” on Page 28).
Scanning a Channel-Storage Bank
You can scan a single channel-storage bank. Select the channel-
storage bank you want to scan, then press 
M.BANK. The scanner
starts scanning  channels in the selected bank that are not
skipped.
To...

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Follow these steps to manually select a channel.
1. Press 
MANUAL. MAN appears on the display.
2. Enter the channel number.
3. Press 
MANUAL.
4. To select another channel within the bank, repeatedly press
 to select higher channels or   to select lower channels.
Or, if your scanner is scanning and stops at the desired channel,
press 
MANUAL once before the scanner continues to scan.
LISTENING TO THE WEATHER BAND
The FCC (Federal Communications Commission) has allocated
11 channels for use by the...

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ADVANCED OPERATION 
DELAY
Many agencies use a two-way radio system that might have a
pause of several seconds between a query and a reply. Your
scanner’s delay feature lets it wait for 2 seconds after each trans-
mission on a channel or frequency while scanning or searching.
To program a 2-second delay, press 
DELAY while the channel or
frequency is selected. 
DLY appears. When your scanner stops on
the channel or frequency while scanning or searching, it waits for
2 seconds after each transmission on...

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To remove the skip from a channel, manually select the channel,
then press 
SKIP. SKIP disappears from the display.
Notes: 
• The scanner automatically skips empty channels.
• You cannot remove the skip from an empty channel. 
PRIORITY
You can scan through channels and still not miss an important or
interesting call on a specific channel. Channel 00 (the first channel
in Bank 0) is preset as the priority channel. 
When the priority feature is turned on, the scanner checks Chan-
nel 00 every 2 seconds,...

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USING CHANNEL LOCK
When you enter a frequency into a channel, the scanner automat-
ically locks the channel to prevent it from being overwritten by an-
other frequency. 
L appears to the left of the channel number.
To unlock a channel, press 
LOCK. L disappears from the display.
Follow these steps to unlock all channels.
1. Press 
MANUAL.
2. While pressing and holding down 
ENTER, press and hold
down 
LOCK until the scanner beeps three times.
To manually lock a channel, select the channel, then press...