RadioShack Pro 96 Truking Scanner Owners Manual

OWNER’S MANUAL —
Please read before using this equipment.
PRO-96 Digital
Trunking Scanner
Catalog # 20-526
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Thank you for
purchasing the
RadioShack PRO-96
Digital Handheld
Scanner. This product
is the first of an
innovative and exciting
new generation of
RadioShack scanning
receivers capable of...

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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Features ................................................................................... 4
The FCC Wants You to Know ................................................. 10
Scanning Legally ............................................................... 11
Getting Familiar With Your Scanner ....................................... 12
About the Keypad .............................................................. 14
Understanding Your Scanner’s Memory Organization ...... 16
Channel...

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Using the Display Backlight ................................................ 72
Using the Keylock .............................................................. 74
Changing the Display Contrast ......................................... 74
Working with V-Scanners ................................................... 81
Cloning the Programmed Data .......................................... 82
Trunking Special Features ..................................................... 83
Trunking Operation...

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FEATURES
Your Radio Shack Digital
Handheld Scanner features
Intelligent Adaptive Digital
Tracking for optimal reception of
digital signals from a variety of
digital conventional and trunked
radio system types. No special
sound quality settings or
adjustments are needed for the
different digital systems that you
monitor.
APCO-25 digital voice modulation
provides public safety radio users
with clear digital voice signals and
other features not available in
traditional analog systems. Your
scanner uses...

5 operation, and M/A-COM
EDACS® trunking systems.
The scanner lets you scan
conventional transmissions, and is
preprogrammed with service
search banks for your
convenience. By pressing a single
button, you can quickly search
those frequencies most commonly
used by public safety and other
agencies.
Your RadioShack Digital
Handheld Scanner features
RadioShack’s exciting new 11-in-1
V-Scanner technology. V-Scanner
stands for Virtual Scanner. V-
Scanner allows you to build and
store eleven separate...

6Phase1APCO-25Digital
Reception– automatic detection
and reception of digital voice
modulation from conventional,
trunked and mixed-mode
networks.
Intelligent Adaptive Digital
Tracking– ensures optimal
reception of digital signals from a
variety of digital conventional and
trunked radio system types.
Digital AGC– automatically
compensates for audio level
variances in digital transmissions.
Simultaneous Multi-System
Trunking Operation– quickly
tracks up to ten Motorola, APCO-
25 or EDACS trunking systems...

7 displays the tone or code in use.
Takes advantage of subaudible
squelch tail elimination turn off
codes when they are present.
10 ID List Banks–letyoustore
1500 IDs in 10 ID banks, each with
5 ID sub-banks. 30 IDs are
available in each ID sub-bank. ID
text tags let you easily identify the
user of a particular talkgroup ID
code.
Weather Priority Alert–while
scanning, automatically sounds an
alarm tone to advise of hazardous
weather conditions when it detects
the alert signal on the local
National...

8hear only the frequency you
select.
Preprogrammed Frequency
Ranges– lets you search for
transmissions within preset
frequency ranges or within ranges
you set, to reduce search time and
select interesting frequencies
more quickly.
Hyperscan™ and
Hypersearch™– the scanner
scans at up to 60 channels per
second and searches up to 75
frequencies per second, to help
you quickly find transmissions.
Scan Delay– delays scanning for
about 2 seconds before moving to
another channel in conventional
mode, so you can...

9 Lock Out Function— lets you set
your scanner to skip over specified
channels or frequencies when
scanning or searching, and skip
over IDs when tracking trunked
systems.
Key Lock— lets you lock the
scanners keys to prevent
accidentally changing the
scanners programming.
Battery Save Circuit— When
monitoring a single frequency,
allows the receiver to sleep in
between receiver activity.
Flexible Antenna with BNC
Connector— provides excellent
reception and is designed to help
prevent antenna breakage....

10 806 – 823.9875 MHz
 849 – 868.9875 MHz
 894 – 960 MHz
 1240 – 1300 MHz
Use “A General Guide To
Frequencies” on Page 96 to help
you target frequency ranges in
your service area so you can
search for a wide variety of
transmissions.
THE FCC WANTS 
YOU TO KNOW
This equipment has been tested
and found to comply with the limits
for a scanning receiver, pursuant
to Part 15 of theFCC Rules.
These limits are designed to
provide reasonable protection
against harmful interference in a
residential...