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 department,
ambulance services, or aircraft (see “Guide to the Action Bands”
on Page 35). 
For example, the police department might use four frequencies,
one for each side of town. You could program the police fre-
quencies starting with Channel 1 (the first channel in bank 1)
and program the fire department frequencies starting with Chan-
nel 21 (the first channel in bank 2).
MONITOR MEMORIES
The scanner has 10 monitor memories that you can use to tem-
porarily store frequencies while you decide whether to save
them into channels. This is handy for quickly storing an active
frequency when you are searching through an entire band. You
can store a frequency into a monitor memory during a limit or di-
rect search. See “Finding and Storing Active Frequencies” on
Page 23.
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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 search
properly.
4. To turn off the scanner
when you finish, turn
VOLUME counterclock-
wise to 
OFF.
STORING KNOWN 
FREQUENCIES 
INTO CHANNELS
Good references for active
frequencies are the Ra-
dioShack 
Police Call Guide
including Fire and Emergen-
cy Services
, Official Aero-
nautical Frequency
Directory
, and Maritime Fre-
quency Directory
. We up-
date these directories every
year, so be sure to get a cur-
rent copy.
Follow these steps to store
frequencies into channels.
1. Press 
MANUAL then
enter the channel num-
ber (1–200) where you
want to store a fre-
quency.
2. Press 
PROG. PGM ap-
pears.
3. Use the number keys
and 
• to enter the fre-
quency (including the
decimal point) you want
to store.
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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 stored frequen-
cy, press 
MANUAL, enter the
channel number, then press
MANUAL again.
FINDING AND 
STORING ACTIVE 
FREQUENCIES
Using Limit Search
A limit search lets you
search for active frequencies
between upper and lower
limits that you set. 
L appears
during a limit search.
Follow these steps to enter
the search frequency range.
1. Press 
PROG then LIMIT.
Lo appears.
2. Use the number keys
and •
 to enter the lower
limit frequency of the
range you want to
search.
3. Press 
E then LIMIT.
 Hi
appears.
Note:
 If the frequency
you entered is not valid,
Error appears. Enter a
different frequency then
repeat Step 3.
4. Use the number keys
and •
 to enter the upper
limit frequency of the
range you want to
search.
5. Press 
E.
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							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
memory was 10, the
scanner returns to moni-
tor memory 1.)
Note:
 To replace a fre-
quency in a monitor
memory, store a new
frequency in that monitor
memory.
9. To hold the frequency,
press
 HOLD. H appears.
To resume the limit
search, press 
HOLD
again. Notes:
 
• You can press t
tt t
 or s
ss s
while 
H appears to step
through the frequencies
toward the upper or
lower limit.
• If you tune to a search
skip frequency, 
L/O
appears (see “Using
Search Skip Memory” on
Page 30).
Using Direct Search
During a direct search, the
scanner searches up or
down starting from the dis-
played frequency. 
d appears
during a direct search.
Follow these steps to use di-
rect search.
Note:
 You can use the scan-
ner’s delay feature while us-
ing direct search.
1. Press 
MANUAL then use
the number keys and •
to enter the starting fre-
quency of the range you
want to search.
Or, to select a frequency
stored in a channel,
press 
MANUAL, use the
number keys to enter
the channel number,
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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 1.)Notes:
• You can press t
 or s
while 
h appears to
step through the fre-
quencies upward or
downward.
• If you tune to a search
skip frequency, 
L/O
appears (see “Using
Search Skip Memory”
on Page 30).
USING MONITOR 
MEMORY
Listening to a Monitor 
Memory
To listen to the monitor
memories you stored during
a search, press 
MANUAL,
MON, then the number of the
memory you want to listen
to. Use the 
1–9 number keys
for memories 1–9, and 
0 for
memory 10. Or repeatedly
press 
MON to cycle through
the stored monitor memo-
ries.
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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 scanner
stores the frequency in
the selected channel,
and the channel num-
ber stops flashing.
SCANNING 
CHANNELS
Note:
 You cannot scan
channels until you have
stored frequencies in them.
To scan channels stored in
the channel-storage banks,
press 
SCAN. The scanner
scans through all channels
in the active banks.
To select one or more channel-
storage banks while scan-
ning, select each bank you
want to scan by pressing its
number key so the bank’s
number appears on the dis-
play.
To turn off channel-storage
banks, press the number key
for each of the bank(s) so
the bank’s number disap-
pears. The scanner does not
scan any of the stored chan-
nels within banks you have
turned off.
To set the scanner to remain
on the current channel even
after the transmission stops,
press 
MANUAL at any time
during the transmission.
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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 you simply want to mon-
itor that channel.
Follow these steps to manu-
ally select a channel.
1. Press 
MANUAL.
2. Enter the channel num-
ber (1–200).
3. Press 
MANUAL again.
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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
You can increase the effec-
tive scanning speed by lock-
ing out individual channels
that have a continuous
transmission, such as a
weather channel (see “Na-
tional Weather Frequen-
cies” on Page 34) or a birdiefrequency (see “Birdie Fre-
quencies” on Page 34).
To lock out a channel, man-
ually select the channel then
press 
L/OUT. L/O appears.
To remove the lockout from
a channel, manually select
the channel then press
L/OUT. L/O disappears.
To unlock all memory chan-
nels, follow these steps.
1. While scanning, turn on
the memory banks you
want to unlock.
2. Press 
MANUAL.
3. Hold down 
L/OUT for at
least 3 seconds. The
scanner beeps twice
and unlocks all memory
channels you previously
locked out (in the
selected banks).
Notes:
• Your scanner automati-
cally locks out empty
channels.
• You can still manually
select locked-out chan-
nels.
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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:
• If the scanner is scan-
ning and stops on an
active channel, quickly
press 
DELAY before it
resumes scanning.
• If the desired channel is
not selected, manually
select the channel, then
press 
DELAY.
• If the scanner is search-
ing, press 
DELAY. DLY
appears and the scan-
ner automatically adds a
2-second delay to every
transmission it stops onduring a limit or direct
search.
To turn off the 2-second de-
lay on a channel or frequen-
cy, press 
DELAY while the
scanner is monitoring that
channel or frequency. 
DLY
disappears.
TU R N I N G  
CHANNEL-
STORAGE BANKS 
ON AND OFF
You can turn each channel-
storage bank on and off.
When you turn off a bank,
the scanner does not scan
any of the 20 channels in
that bank.
While scanning, press the
number key corresponding
to the bank you want to turn
on or off. (Press 
0 to select
bank 10). 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 not
scan any of the channels
within that bank.
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• 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 direct search. 
L/O
(lockout) appears the next
time you display that fre-
quency.
To clear a single frequency
from search skip memory so
the scanner can stop on it
during a limit or direct
search, press 
HOLD to hold
the search. Then press t
 or
s 
to select the frequency(where 
L/O appears). Then
hold down 
S/S until L/O dis-
appears.
To clear all the skip fre-
quencies from search skip
memory at once, during a
search, hold down 
S/S until
the scanner beeps twice.
Notes:
• If you program more
than 20 skip frequen-
cies, each new fre-
quency replaces one
you stored earlier, start-
ing from the first stored
frequency.
• You can select a skipped
frequency by using t
 or
s
 when the scanner is
holding. 
L/O appears
when you select a
skipped frequency.
USING PRIORITY
You can scan through chan-
nels and still not miss impor-
tant calls on specific chan-
nels. You can program one
stored channel in each bank
as a priority channel (for up
to a total of 10 stored chan-
nels). As the scanner scans
the bank, if the priority fea-
ture is turned on, the scan-
ner checks the priority
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