RadioShack Pro 95 Handheld Scanner Owners Manual
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Operation 31 Assigning a Text Tag to a Bank 1. Select a channel within the desired bank by pressing MANUALand entering the bank number ( 000for bank 0 or 200for bank 2, for example). Press MANUALagain. 2. Press PGM. 3. Press FUNCthen7.The cursor appears at the third line of the display. Enter the text using the keypad. (See “Text Input Chart”). 4. Press ENTERto store. Text Input Chart Ô PressCharacter 1 0123456789 2A B C 2thenFUNCa b c 3D E F 3thenFUNCd e f 4G H I 4thenFUNCg h i 5J K L 5thenFUNCj k l 6M N O 6thenFUNCm n o 7P Q R S 7thenFUNCp q r s 8T U V 8thenFUNCt u v 9W X Y Z 9thenFUNCw x y z Ô NOTE Ô To access the numbers, after you pressTEXT (when you assign the text tag to a channel) or you pressFUNCand7 (when you assign the text tag to a bank), press1. Then press the desired number you want to enter. To enter a lowercase character or a character from the second set for key 0, pressFUNC after pressing the first numeral key.
Operation 32 FINDING AND STORING A CTIVE FREQUENCIES You can search for transmissions in the scanner’s preprogrammed search bank. The search bank is divided into six search bands. You can change the search range of Bank SR5 manually by setting the lower and higher ends of the search range. Ô Searching a Preprogrammed Frequency Range The scanner contains these preprogrammed search ranges, stored in the search bank (SR0 – SR5). Bank Band SR0 .......................................... Marine SR1 ................................................ CB SR2 ................................... Police/Fire SR3 .......................................... Aircraft SR4 ............................................. Ham SR5 ... Limit search (User changeable) Follow these steps to select preprogrammed search bands and search them for active frequencies: 1. Repeatedly press SEARCHto select your desired search 0. - # _ @ + * &/ , 0thenFUNC$ % ! ^ ( ) ? -> `
Operation 33 bank ( SR0,SR1,SR2,SR3,SR4, or SR5). 2. In the marine and CB bands, you can directly select a channel or search through the band. When Mappears at the left most position of the second line, you can directly select a channel (refer to “Band Charts” on Page 34). Press the desired channel number while Mappears to select it. You can also change the channels by pressing or. 3. Press FUNCthenSEARCH whileMappears.Mchanges to Sand now you can search through the band. Press FUNCthenSEARCHagain to return to the previous mode. 4. Rotate SQUELCHclockwise and leave it set to a point just after the hissing sound stops. After 2 seconds (if the delay feature is on), the received frequency appears and the scanner starts searching. 5. When the scanner finds an active frequency, it stops searching.
Operation 34 Band ChartsSearch bank: SR0 Marine band Receive mode: FM ChannelFrequency (MHz)ChannelFrequency (MHz) 01 156.050 05 156.250 06156.300007156.3500 08 156.4000 09 156.4500 10156.500011156.5500 12 156.6000 13 156.6500 14156.700015156.7500 16 156.8000 17 156.8500 18156.900019156.9500 20 157.0000 161.600021 157.0500 22157.100023157.1500 24 157.2000 161.800025 157.2500 161.8500 26157.3000 161.900027157.3500 161.9500 28 157.4000 162.000063 156.1750 64156.2250 160.82565156.2750 66 156.3250 67 156.3750 68156.425069156.4750 70 156.5250 71 156.5750 72156.625073156.6750 74 156.7250 77 156.8750 78156.925079156.9750 80 157.0250 81 157.0750 82157.125083157.1750 84 157.2250 161.825085 157.2750 161.8750 86157.3250 161.925087157.3750 161.9750 88 157.4250
Operation 35 Two frequencies are assigned in one channel in some Marine frequencies. For example, 157.000 and 161.600 are assigned in Channel 20. Search bank: SR1 CB band Receive mode: AM ChannelFrequency (MHz)ChannelFrequency (MHz) 01 26.9650 02 26.9750 0326.98500427.0050 05 27.0150 06 27.0250 0727.03500827.0550 09 27.0650 10 27.0750 1127.08501227.1050 13 27.1150 14 27.1250 1527.13501627.1550 17 27.1650 18 27.1750 1927.18502027.2050 21 27.2150 22 27.2250 2327.25502427.2350 25 27.2450 26 27.2650 2727.27502827.2850 29 27.2950 30 27.3050 3127.31503227.3250 33 27.3350 34 27.3450 3527.35503627.3650 37 27.3750 38 27.3850 3927.39504027.4050
Operation 36Search bank: SR2 Police/Fire band Receive Mode: FM GroupFrequency (MHz)Step (kHz) 0 33.420–33.980 20 37.020–37.420 20 39.020–39.980 20 42.020–42.940 20 44.620–45.860 40 45.880 45.900 45.940–46.060 40 46.080–46.500 20 1153.770–154.13060 154.145–154.44515 154.650–154.95015 155.010–155.37060 155.415–155.70015 155.730–156.21060 158.730–159.21060 166.250 170.150 2 453.0375– 453.962512.5 458.0375– 458.962512.5 460.0125– 460.637512.5 465.0125– 465.637512.5 3856.2125– 860.987525 866.0125– 868.987512.5
Operation 37 Search bank: SR3 Aircraft Receive mode: AM Search bank: SR4 Ham band Receive mode: FM Search bank: SR5 Programmable limit search Receive mode: FM (Default setting) Searching Active Frequencies in Your Desired Frequency Range You can program the desired frequency range for a search. 1. Repeatedly press SEARCHto select SR5. 2. Press PGMthenSEARCH.PSR (Program Search) appears in the top line and the cursor Frequency (MHz)Step (kHz) 108.000–136.9875 12.5 GroupFrequency (MHz)Step (kHz) 0 28.0000–29.7000 5 150.0000–54.00005 2 144.0000– 148.00005 3222.0000– 225.00005 4 420.0000– 450.000012.5 51240.0000– 1300.00006.25
Operation 38blinks Lon the second line for the lower-end limit frequency. 3. Use the number keys and ./DELAYto enter the desired lower-end limit frequency (including the decimal point). 4. Press ENTERto set the frequency. The cursor moves to H. If the entered frequency is incorrect, Invalid Freqbriefly appears. 5. Enter your desired higher-end frequency and press ENTER. 6. Rotate SQUELCHclockwise and leave it set to a point just after the hissing sound stops. 7. Press SEARCHto start searching. When the scanner finds an active frequency, it stops searching. Ô You can set Zeromatic on or off by pressing FUNCthen0.PressFUNC then0again to reverse the Zeromatic setting. Whenever this feature is turned on, Zeromatic ON briefly appears thenzappears at the first digit of the second line and the scanner stops at the correct frequency. When you turn this feature off, zdisappears and the scanner stops when it detects an active signal. Zeromatic functions only in search banks 2, 3, 4 and 5. There are several group banks in SR2 Police/Fire and SR4 ham bands. You can turn off or on the groups by pressing the group numbers. For example to turn off 0,press0. Ô NOTE Ô You can copy and save a frequency into a specified bank, channel, or priority channel when the scanner finds an active frequency. See “Using Frequency Copy” on Page 41 to save the frequency. The frequency copy works only in search banks 2, 3, 4 and 5. While the scanner is searching, you can use the seek search by press- ingFUNCthen7. Seek ONappears on the bottom line. The scanner stops at an active frequency for five seconds and restarts searching automatically. The scanner repeats this operation.
Operation 39 In the Air and Limit search bands, press FUNCthen pressto start searchingupfromthelowest frequency or press to start searching down from the highest frequency. Manually Tuning a Frequency You can manually set the scanner to move through all receivable frequencies, or select a specific frequency as a starting point. 1. Press TUNE.TUNEand the current frequency appears. The scanner automatically begins tuning up or down. 2. Use the number keys to enter the frequency where you want the scanner to start. 3. Press ENTER. 4. Press orto move up or down. When the scanner finds an active frequency, it stops on the frequency. Ô LISTENING TO THE W EATHER BAND The FCC (Federal Communications Commission) has allocated channels for use by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Regulatory agencies in other countries have also allocated channels for use by their weather reporting authorities. NOAA and your local weather reporting authority broadcast your local forecast and regional Ô NOTE Ô If you pressPA U S E while tuning, the scanner stops tuning and ** PAUSED ** appears. Press PAUSEagain, and the scanner resumes tuning.
Operation 40weather information on one or more of these channels. Listening to a Weather Channel To hear your local forecast and regional weather information, press WX.Yourscannerscans through the weather band then stops within a few seconds on the strongest weather broadcast. Displaying Weather Messages The weather service precedes each weather alert with a digitally- encoded SAME (Specific Area Message Encoding) signal, then a 1050 Hz tone. You can set the scanner to decode and display the SAME message when an alert is broadcast. Then if you are monitoring a weather channel with a digitally-encoded SAME signal when an alert is broadcast, the scanner will show the type of alert being broadcast such as Warning, Watch,Statement,orTest Message. The scanner will also sound alternating alert tones and display Weather ALERTwhen the scanner receives a 1050 Hz tone. Ô To set the scanner to decode and display SAME messages, press FUNCthenWXwhile you listen to the weather channel. DIG WX STBY andCancel: F+WXappear. To set the scanner out of the SAME standby mode, press FUNC thenWX.DIG WX STBYdisappears. Ô NOTE Ô The scanner does not display the actual area affected by SAME messages. It uses only the message portion of the SAME signal ( Warning,Watch,Statement,or Test Message). Your scanner can also receive weather alert tones (see “Priority” on Page 47). The scanner sounds an alert or beep when it receives the SAME code. If you do not stop the alert, it sounds the alert (or beep) for five minutes. Then the alert stops and the scanner beeps every ten seconds. If the scanner receives a new message after five minutes, it sounds the alert or beep. To stop the sound and ready the scanner to receive a new alert signal before thefiveminute time out, press any key except .