RadioShack Pro 96 Truking Scanner Owners Manual

11 Increase the separation between
the equipment and receiver.
Connect the equipment into an
outlet on a circuit different from
that to which the receiver is
connected.
This device complies with Part 15
of theFCC Rules. Operation is
subject to the following two
conditions:
This device may not cause
harmful interference.
This device must accept any
interference received, including
interference that may cause
undesired operation.
SCANNING LEGALLY
Your scanner covers frequencies
used by many different...

12According to the Electronic
Communications Privacy Act
(ECPA), you are subject to fines
and possible imprisonment for
intentionally listening to, using, or
divulging the contents of such a
transmission unless you have the
consent of a party to the
communication (unless such
activity is otherwise illegal).
This scanner has been designed
to prevent reception of illegal
transmissions. This is done to
comply with the legal requirement
that scanners be manufactured so
as to not be easily modifiable to
pick...

13 manual thoroughly so that you
may fully understand the
advanced features and
capabilities of your PRO-96
scanning receiver.
Once you understand a few simple
terms used in this manual and
familiarize yourself with your
scanners features, you can put
the scanner to work for you. You
simply determine which
frequencies and trunking systems
you want to receive, and then
program the scanner to scan
them.
A frequency is the receiving signal
location (expressed in MHz). To
find active frequencies, you can
use...

14stored there. Each time the
scanner finds an active frequency,
it stops and monitors the radio
traffic on that channel until the
transmission ends, then resumes
scanning. For detailed
programming instructions, see
“Programming Your Scanner” on
Page 30.
ABOUT THE KEYPAD
Here is a brief overview of your
scanners keys and their functions.
SCAN— scans through the
programmed channels.
FUNC— lets you use various
functions by pressing this key in
combination with other keys.
When using the
FUNCkey, press
the...

15 å/7— turns on/off the displays
backlight, or when used with
FUNC
locks/unlocks the keypad to
prevent accidental entries.
TUNE— allows you input a
frequency and tunes up or down
automatically or manually with the
SorTkeys.
ATT— turns attenuation on to
reduce the scanners sensitivity
and block extremely strong
signals, or turns it off to increase
sensitivity.
SorT— selects the scan or
search direction.
SRCH— lets you search the
seven search banks.
L/OUT— lets you lock out a
selected channel, skip a...

166/MNO— enters a 6, or inputs
characters M, N, or O.
7/PQRS— enters a 7, or inputs
characters P, Q, R, or S.
8/TUV— enters an 8, or inputs
characters T, U, or V.
9/WXYZ— enters a 9, or inputs
characters W, X, Y, or Z.
0— enters a zero, or inputs
characters . - # _ @ + * & / , $ % ! ^
()? ’.
./DELAY— enters a decimal point
(necessary when programming
frequencies), space, or programs
delay time for the selected
channel/search bank, or hyphen
(in trunking ID setting).
CLR— clears an incorrect entry....

17 Scanner feature to build and store
configurations for different areas
or different scanner applications.
Using the cloning feature it is
possible to exchange scanner
configurations with your friends
without losing your existing data.
V-Scanners also provide a way for
you to easily back up your
programmed data without
connecting your scanner to a
personal computer.
Each V-Scanner folder stores all
channel storage banks, channels,
trunking Ids, search settings, and
other parameters associated with
the...

18For example, a particular city
might use four frequencies for
police communications, and four
frequencies for fire
communications. You could
program the police frequencies
starting with 000 (the first channel
in bank 0) and program the fire
department frequencies starting
with 100 (the first channel in bank
1). This gives you the ability to
quickly select what you wish to
monitor by activating or
deactivating the appropriate
channel storage bank. When
looking at channel numbers, the
first digit...

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UNDERSTANDING YOUR 
S
CANNER’S CHANNEL 
R
ECEIVE MODES
You can program each channel
with any one of six receive modes
(AM, FM/Digital, CTCSS, DCS,
Motorola, and EDACS).
Each receive mode affects how
your scanner operates when
scanning and receiving
transmissions.
Ô
AM Mode (AM)
The AM mode sets the scanner to
receive transmissions using
amplitude modulation (AM),
primarily used for aircraft, military,
27 MHz citizen’s band, some
amateur radio, and some
government transmissions. (Refer
to...

20mode, it always stops on the
transmission.
CTCSS Mode (CT)
CTCSS mode sets the scanner to
receive transmissions using
frequency modulation (FM) with
Continuous Tone Coded Squelch
System (CTCSS) subaudible tone
codes. CTCSS allows multiple
users to share a single radio
frequency without hearing each
other’s transmissions. In your
PRO-96 scanner, the CTCSS
feature can be used to block the
reception of transmissions on
shared channel to only those that
use the CTCSS tone that you have
specified. CTCSS...