RadioShack Pro 89 Vhf Uhf Handheld Race Scanner Reciever Owners Manual

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nel number you want to use to store the frequency, then
press 
PGM again. The channel number flashes.
If a channel number you entered is already programmed
with a frequency, the channel number and the pro-
grammed frequency appear for about 2 seconds. Then the
channel number flashes and the new frequency appears. 
Press 
ENT to program the new frequency, or press CL/
MON
 to cancel. If you press ENT, the channel and fre-
quency flash twice and the scanner stores the displayed
frequency. The scanner...

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Note:
 See Step 5 under “Searching the Service Banks” on
Page 27 for more information about storing a frequency in a
monitor memory.
To select other monitor memories, enter the desired monitor
memory’s number (1–20), then press 
MON/CL again or repeat-
edly press 
MON/CL.
Moving a Frequency from a Monitor Memory to a 
Channel
1. Press MAN, enter the channel number where you want to
store the frequency, then press 
PGM.
2. Press 
MON/CL.  , a monitor memory number, and CH
flash, and the frequency in...

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Notes:
• To reverse the scanning direction, press s
 or t
.
• To set the scanner to remain on the current channel for 2
seconds after the transmission ends, see “Delay” on
Page 42.
• To set the scanner to remain on the current channel, even
after the transmission stops, press 
MAN at any time during
the transmission so 
MAN appears and SCAN disappears
(see “Monitoring a Stored Channel” on Page 34).
• To lock out channels so the scanner does not stop for a
transmission on those channels, see “Locking...

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MONITORING A STORED CHANNEL
You can continuously monitor a specific channel without scan-
ning. This is useful if you hear an emergency transmission on a
channel and do not want to miss any details — even though
there might be periods of silence — or if you simply want to
monitor that channel.
Follow these steps to manually select a channel.
1. Press 
MAN.
2. Enter the channel number (1–200).
3. Press 
MAN again.
CLEARING A STORED CHANNEL
If you no longer want a frequency stored in a channel (and you...

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CLEARING ALL LOCKED-OUT 
CHANNELS
1. Press PGM. PGM appears.
2. While holding down 
MON/CL, press L/O RVW/L/O. L-o
Ch0000 
appears.
3. Press 
ENT. The scanner clears all locked-out channels. Or,
if you do not want to clear the channels, press 
MON/CL.
LISTENING TO THE MARINE BANK
To listen to the marine bank, repeatedly press BAND until MRN
appears.
To change the channel manually, press s
 or t
.
To scan through the marine bank, hold down s
 or t
 for about
2 seconds. 
MAN disappears and SCAN and s...

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WX Alert
Your scanner’s WX alert warns you of serious weather condi-
tions by sounding an alarm if a National Weather Service
broadcaster in your area broadcasts a weather alert tone.
To set the scanner so it sounds an alarm when a weather alert
tone is broadcast, press 
PRI/ALERT while you are listening to
the WX channel. 
ALErt appears. If the scanner detects the
weather alert, it sounds an alarm. Press any key to turn off the
alarm. To cancel the weather alert operation, press 
PRI/ALERT
again.
3...

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SCANNING AT THE RACES
Your scanner is specially designed to help you listen to com-
munications at auto races. Drivers and their pit crews and cor-
ner watchers, pace car drivers, security officers, emergency
personnel, track officials, and representatives of governing or-
ganizations such as NASCAR, SCCA, and NHRA all use radi-
os to communicate with each other during a race. You might
also hear transmissions from the news media and reporters,
local police departments, and paramedics and doctors at...

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Note:
 After you store a car number and a frequency, you can
store additional frequencies then associate those frequencies
with the same car number. See “Adding Frequencies to a Car
Number.”
Follow these steps to store a car number and frequency.
1. Press 
CAR. CAR# and CAr No. appear and _ _ _
flashes.
2. Enter the car number. If the number is one or two digits,
enter the number then press 
CAR. If the number is three
digits, enter the number only. The car number and 
_ _ _
. _ _ _
 appear.
Notes:
•...

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4. Enter the frequency (including the decimal point) you want
to associate with the displayed car number by using the
number keys and 
DELAY
/•.
5. Press 
ENT to store the frequency. The frequency is associ-
ated with the car number you entered.
ADDING A CAR NUMBER TO THE 
CHANNEL
You can assign the car number after you program the frequen-
cy into the channel.
1. If a car number appears on the display, press 
CAR twice. A
channel number appears.
2. Select the channel you want to use to store the car...

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3. Repeatedly press s
 or t
 to view each of the car numbers
you entered. As you press s
 or t
, you see all associated
frequencies and 
_ _ _._ _ _.
DELETING A FREQUENCY FROM A CAR 
NUMBER
1. Recall the car number.
2. Repeatedly press s
 or t
 until the frequency you want to
delete appears.
3. Press 
PGM.
4. Press 
0 then ENT.
SCANNING BY CAR NUMBER
Once you store car numbers into channels, you can set the
scanner so it displays the car numbers you assigned to the
channels as it scans them.
To scan...