RadioShack Pro 76 Vhf Uhf Hanfheld Scanner Reciever Owners Manual

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PRIAppears when the priority feature is turned on.
SCANAppears when the scanner scans channels.
SRCH Appears during limit, direct, and weather band
searches.
WX Indicates that the scanner is searching the
weather channels.
UNDERSTANDING BANKS
Channel Storage Banks
To make it easier to identify and select the channels you want to
listen to, channels are divided into 10 banks of 20 channels
each. Use each channel-storage bank to group frequencies,
such as those used by the police department, fire...

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OPERATION
TURNING ON THE 
SCANNER/
SETTING VOLUME 
AND SQUELCH
1. Turn SQUELCH fully
counterclockwise.
2. To turn on the scanner,
turn 
VOLUME clockwise
until you hear a hissing
sound.
3. Turn 
SQUELCH clock-
wise, just until the hiss-
ing sound stops.
Notes:
• To listen to a weak or
distant station, turn
SQUELCH counter-
clockwise. If recep-
tion is poor, turn
SQUELCH clockwise
to cut out weak trans-
missions.
• If 
SQUELCH is
adjusted so you
always hear a hissing
sound, the scanner
will not scan or...

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4. Press E to store the fre-
quency into the channel.
Notes:
• If you made a mistake
in Step 3, 
Error
appears and the
scanner beeps three
times when you press
E. Simply start again
from Step 3.
• Your scanner auto-
matically rounds the
entered frequency
down to the closest
valid frequency. For
example, if you enter
a frequency of
151.473, your scan-
ner accepts it as
151.475.
5. Repeat Steps 1–4 to
program more chan-
nels. Or to program the
next channel in
sequence, repeat Steps
2–4.
To listen to a...

246. Press t
 to search from
the upper to the lower
limit or s
 to search from
the lower to the upper
limit. The current monitor
memory number flashes.
7. When the scanner stops
on a transmission you
want to save, press 
MON
to store the frequency in
the current monitor
memory. The monitor
memory number stops
flashing.
8. Press either t
 or s
 to
continue the search. If
you saved a frequency
in a monitor memory, the
monitor memory num-
ber advances by one
and starts flashing
again. (If the last monitor...

25 then press 
MANUAL
again.
2. Press t
 or s
 to search
up or down from the
selected frequency.
3. When the scanner stops
on a transmission you
want to save, press 
MON
to store the frequency in
the current monitor
memory. The monitor
memory number stops
flashing.
4. Press either t
 or s
 to
continue the search. If
you saved a frequency
in a monitor memory, the
monitor memory num-
ber advances by one
and starts flashing
again. (If the last monitor
memory was 10, the
scanner returns to moni-
tor memory...

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Moving a Frequency 
from a Monitor 
Memory to a Channel
Follow these steps to move
a frequency stored in a mon-
itor memory to a permanent
channel.
1. Press 
MANUAL. MAN
appears.
2. Enter the number (
1–
200
) for the channel
where you want to store
the monitor frequency.
The channel number
appears.
3. Press 
PROG. The cur-
rently stored frequency
appears.
4. Press 
MON then the
number of the monitor
memory number that
has the frequency you
want to store. The chan-
nel number flashes.
5. Press 
E. The...

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To lock out channels so the
scanner does not stop for a
transmission on those chan-
nels, see “Locking Out
Channels” on Page 28.
Notes:
• You can manually select
any channel in a bank,
even if the bank is
turned off.
• You cannot turn off all
ten banks.MANUALLY 
SELECTING A 
CHANNEL
You can continuously moni-
tor a specific channel without
scanning. This is useful if
you hear an emergency
broadcast on a channel and
do not want to miss any de-
tails (even though there
might be periods of silence)
or if...

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SPECIAL FEATURES
USING THE 
KEYLOCK
Once you program your
scanner, you can protect it
from accidental program
changes by turning on the
keylock feature. When the
keypad is locked, the only
controls that operate are
SCAN, MANUAL, KEYLOCK,
VOLUME, and SQUELCH.
Note
: The keylock does not
prevent the scanner from
scanning channels.
To turn the keylock on or off,
turn on the scanner then
hold down 
KEYLOCK for
about 3 seconds. The scan-
ner beeps and 
KEYLOCK
appears or disappears.
LOCKING OUT 
CHANNELS...

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DELAY
Many agencies use a two-
way radio system that has a
period of several seconds
between a query and a re-
ply. To avoid missing a re-
ply, you can program a 2-
second delay into any chan-
nel or frequency. When your
scanner stops on a channel
or frequency with a pro-
grammed delay, 
DLY ap-
pears. The scanner con-
tinues to monitor that fre-
quency for 2 seconds after
the transmission stops. Then
the scanner resumes scan-
ning or searching.
You can program a 2-second
delay in any of these ways:
•...

30Notes:
• You can manually select
any channel in a bank,
even if the bank is
turned off.
• You cannot turn off all
banks. One bank is
always active.
USING SEARCH 
SKIP MEMORY
You can skip specified fre-
quencies during a limit or di-
rect search. This lets you
avoid unwanted frequencies
or ones you have already
stored in a channel. You can
program up to 20 frequen-
cies to be skipped into the
scanner’s memory.
To skip a frequency, press
S/S when the scanner stops
on the frequency during a
limit or...