RadioShack Pro 83 Compact Scanner Reciever Owners Manual

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Storing Frequencies Found During 
Chain Search into Channel Memory
You can store frequencies you find in chain search 
mode or chain search hold mode.
X Press FUNC + PGM in chain search mode or 
chain search hold mode. The lowest blank 
channel and bank appear.
Y Press E to store the frequency into the blank 
channel. To select another channel, press FUNC 
+   or   before you press E. To enter the 
frequency, press FUNC.   disappears. Then 
press E. You can also press 0-9 to select the bank.
If you try to save a frequency that is already stored, 
the scanner sounds an error tone and displays the 
channel that was duplicated. If you entered the 
frequency by mistake, press .
/CLR. To enter the 
frequency anyway, press E to accept.
The scanner sets itself to program mode after you 
store a frequency.
Program Band Select Mode
You can use this mode to define the search range 
used during a chain search in each search bank. To 
set the scanner to program band select mode, press 
FUNC + B.SLCT. SEARCH appears. Then select a 
search bank. 
F
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When you select the search bank, the lower limit 
and upper limit frequency assigned in the search 
bank alternate on the display.
To select another search bank, press FUNC + 
B.SLCT or FUNC   to increase the search bank 
number or FUNC +   to decrease it. Hold down 
FUNC +   or FUNC +   for about 1 second to 
quickly move through the search bank numbers. 
After choosing the search bank, follow these steps 
to set the lower limit and upper limit frequency.
X Enter the lower limit frequency by using the 0-9 
and .
/CLR keys.
Y Press E to select the lower limit frequency.
Z Enter the upper limit frequency by using the 0-9 
and .
/CLR keys.
[ Press E to select the upper limit frequency.
Direct Entry Search
You can use direct entry search to search up or 
down from the currently displayed frequency.
X If the scanner is scanning or searching, press 
HOLD.
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Y Enter the frequency you want to start from by 
using the number keys. (Press .
/CLR to enter a 
decimal point).
Z Press FUNC +   or  . The scanner searches, 
starting from the frequency you entered in 
Step 
Y. 
If you enter a frequency that is out of range, the 
scanner sounds an error tone and Error appears.
Press FUNC +   to change the search direction 
downward or FUNC +   to change the search 
direction upward. Frequencies appear during the 
search.
Notes:
• You can set the delay function on or off during 
the search or while the search stops.
• You can skip a frequency when the search stops. 
After the search skip frequency is set, the 
scanner starts direct search again.
Direct Entry Search Hold Mode
To stop searching during direct entry search, press 
HOLD. HOLD appears. In this mode, pressing FUNC 
+   changes the search direction downward and 
pressing FUNC +   changes the search direction 
upward.   or   appears depending on the search 
direction.
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Press FUNC +   to decrease the frequency by one 
step or FUNC +   to increase it by one step. Hold 
down   or   for about 1 second to quickly 
decrease or increase the frequency.
To resume direct search, press FUNC + SEARCH or 
HOLD. (  or   appears on the display, showing the 
search direction).
Storing Frequencies Found During 
Direct Entry Search into Channel 
Memory
Follow these steps to store frequencies received 
during direct entry search mode or direct entry 
search hold mode.
X Press FUNC + PGM in direct entry search mode 
or direct entry search hold mode. The frequency 
and lowest blank channel alternate on the display.
Y Press E to store the frequency into the blank 
channel. To select another channel, press FUNC 
+  or . Then press FUNC.  disappears. 
Then press E. You can also use the 0-9 keys to 
select the bank.
If you enter a frequency that has already been 
entered elsewhere, the scanner sounds an error 
tone and displays the channel that was duplicated. 
If you entered the frequency by mistake, press 
F
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.
/CLR. To enter the frequency anyway, press E to 
accept.
The scanner moves to program mode after you 
stored the frequency.
Search Skip Memory
You can skip up to 50 specified frequencies during a 
search. This lets you avoid unwanted frequencies or 
those already stored in a channel.
Notes: 
• You cannot skip frequencies during WX service 
search.
• Search skip frequencies are shared by service 
search, direct entry search, chain search, and 
signal stalker modes. If skip frequencies are set 
in certain mode, the frequencies are also 
skipped in other search modes and signal 
stalker mode.
To skip a frequency, press FUNC + L/O when the 
scanner stops on the frequency during a search or a 
search hold. The scanner stores the frequency in 
memory and automatically resumes the search if it 
is not in hold.
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Follow these steps to clear a single frequency from 
skip memory so the scanner stops on it during a 
search.
X Press HOLD to stop the search.
Y Press FUNC +   or FUNC +   to select the 
frequency. L/O appears.
Z Press FUNC + L/O. L/O disappears.
To clear all the skip frequencies at once while 
searching or search hold, press FUNC then press 
and hold L/O until the scanner beeps.
Notes:
• If you selected all frequencies to be skipped 
within the search range, the scanner beeps 3 
times and does not search.
• If you select more than 50 frequencies to skip, 
each new frequency replaces a frequency 
previously stored, beginning with the first stored 
frequency.
• Press FUNC +   or FUNC +   to select a 
skipped frequency while HOLD appears. 
L/O appears when you select a skipped 
frequency.
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Delay
Sometimes a user might pause before replying to a 
transmission. To avoid missing a reply on a specific 
channel, you can program a 2-second delay into any 
channel or frequency. The scanner continues to 
monitor the channel frequency for an additional 2 
seconds after the transmission stops before 
resuming scanning or searching. The scanner 
automatically sets a delay when you store 
frequencies into channels or when you search 
frequencies. When the delay feature is on, DLY 
appears. If it is off, follow one of these steps to 
program a delay depending on how the scanner is 
operating.
• If the scanner is scanning and stops on an active 
channel where you want to store a delay, quickly 
press FUNC + DLY before it continues 
scanning again. DLY appears.
• If the desired channel is not selected, manually 
select the channel, then press FUNC + DLY. 
DLY appears.
• If the scanner is searching, press FUNC + DLY 
while the scanner is searching. DLY appears and 
the scanner automatically adds a 2-second delay 
to every frequency it stops on in that band.
To turn off the 2-second delay, press FUNC + DLY 
while the scanner is monitoring a channel, scanning, 
or searching. DLY disappears.
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Turning 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 that 
corresponds to the bank you want to turn on or off. 
Numbers appear at the top of the display, showing 
the currently selected banks.
The scanner scans all the channels within the 
displayed banks that are not locked out (see Lock-
ing Out Channels). The bank number flashes when 
the scanner scans a channel that belongs to the 
bank.
Notes:
• You can manually select any channel within a 
bank, even if that bank is turned off.
• You cannot turn off all banks. One bank must 
always be active.
Locking Out Channels
You can increase the scanning speed by locking out 
channels that have a continuous transmission, such 
as a weather channel. To lock out a channel, 
manually select the channel, then press FUNC + 
L/O. L/O appears.
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Notes:
• The scanner does not skip locked-out channels 
when you use Signal Stalker. You must lock out 
frequencies instead. See “Locking Out 
Frequencies.”
• You can still manually select locked-out 
channels.
To remove the lockout from a channel, manually 
select the channel, then press FUNC + L/O. 
L/O disappears.
To unlock all channels in the banks that are turned 
on, press HOLD to stop scanning, then press FUNC 
and press and hold L/O until the scanner beeps 
twice.
Locking Out Frequencies
While searching and using Signal Stalker, you can 
reduce the number of “hits” from frequencies you 
do not want to find by locking out frequencies that 
have a continuous transmission, such as a radio 
pager. 
Press FUNC + L/O to lock out a frequency. 
L/O appears.
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Priority
The priority feature lets you scan through the 
channels and still not miss important or interesting 
calls on specific channels. You can program one 
stored channel in each bank as a priority channel 
(10 for the banks).
If the priority feature is turned on, as the scanner 
scans the bank, it checks that banks priority channel 
for activity every 2 seconds.
The scanner automatically designates each banks 
first channel as its priority channel. 
Follow these steps to select a different channel in a 
bank as the priority channel.
X Manually select the channel you want to select as 
the priority channel.
Y Press FUNC + PGM, then press FUNC + 
PRIORITY. P appears to the left of the selected 
channel number.
Z Repeat Steps X and Y for the channel in each 
bank you want to program as a priority channel.
To turn on the priority feature, press FUNC + 
PRIORITY during scanning. PRI appears. Then the 
scanner checks the designated priority channel 
every 2 seconds in each bank.
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