RadioShack Pro 99 Compact Race Scanner Owners Manual

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2. Off
6:PGM Limit SRCH
(Program limit search)
1:Change Freq.
2.Program Text
3:Tone SQ
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  4:Delay
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7:Recall Lockout  1:Conventional CH
  2:SR0 Car Band
  3:SR1 Marine
  4:SR2 FRS/GMS/MU
  5:SR3Police/Fire
  6:SR4 Aircraft
  7:SR5 Ham
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2:Key Tone
(Select key tone on or off)
    
1:Key Tone On
    2:Key Tone Off
  3:LCD Contrast
  4:On Air Program
    1:Start On Air
    2:Change Freq.
  5:Initialization
CAR NUMBER 
OPERATION
Your scanner is specially designed 
to help you listen to 
communications at auto races. 
Drivers, their pit crews and 
spotters, pace car drivers, security 
officers, emergency personnel, 
track officials, and representatives 
of governing organizations such 
as NASCAR, SCCA, and NHRA 
all use radios to...

23 channel (for up to 500 car 
numbers and frequencies).
For example, if you want to listen 
to communications between the 
driver of car number 24 and that 
drivers pit crew, you find all the 
frequencies used by the drivers 
team by using any of the following 
options:
 the steps in “Searching a 
Preprogrammed Frequency 
Range” on Page 40
 “Manually Tuning a 
Frequency” on Page 46
 frequencies you already know
Then, you store a car number and 
the frequencies associated with 
that car number in the...

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Load From Pre-Program CAR 
Press 1 key ->YES. Other key->
NO
 appears.
4. Press 
1 to program the race 
frequency or other than 1 to 
cancel the programming.
STORING A CAR NUMBER 
AND FREQUENCY
You can store a car number and 
frequency in each of the scanners 
channels, and you can recall any 
frequencies associated with the 
car number by entering the 
number. You can store one car 
number in each channel (for up to 
500 car numbers).Ô
1. Repeatedly press 
CAR until 
Input Car#? appears.
2. Enter the...

25 and frequency are stored in 
an available channel.
To program another 
frequency in the same car 
number, press ^ or 
v to recall 
0.00000 MHz then repeat 
Step 3.
When you finish 
programming, press 
CAR 
twice.
Adding Frequencies To a 
Car Number
1. Select the car number that 
you want to add the frequency 
by using 
CAR and the number 
keys.
2. Press FUNC then 
v. P.Fr and 
0.00000 MHz appears.
3. Enter the frequency (including 
the decimal point) you want to 
associate with the displayed 
car...

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Car# - - - at the top line. Then 
press ^ or 
v to select the 
frequency that you want to 
add a car number.Ô
3. Press 
FUNC the press >.
4. Enter the car number by using 
the number keys. If you enter 
1 or 2 digit, press 
ENT.
Viewing Frequencies 
Associated With a Car 
Number
1. Repeatedly press CAR until 
Input Car#? appears.
2. Enter the car number. Then 
press 
CAR. One of the car 
numbers frequencies 
appears.Ô
3. Repeatedly press >. This 
operation skips locked out 
frequencies.
If you want to...

27 though the channel number does 
not appear.
Press 
SCAN during car number 
operation. The scanner shows 
A.Fr. Press SCAN to advance to the 
next channel. To move to a 
channel (ex. 110), press 110 then 
SCAN. The scanner displays the 
contents of channel 110.
To recall an empty channel, press 
FUNC then 0.
4-Way Rocker Key 
Operation 
Normal Car Number Operation 
mode — Press 
CAR. (no display at 
the upper left corner):
^ or v — Moves through car 
numbers. If a car number is locked 
out, the scanner...

28^ and v — Moves through 
frequencies without the car 
number. If a car number is locked 
out, the scanner does not recall 
the locked out car number.
< — Enters the text input mode.
> — Moves the cursor to the next 
right character when you are in 
text mode. Otherwise this results 
in an error tone.
All Frequency mode — From 
normal car number operation 
mode, press 
FUNC, and then press 
>. A.Fr Car# XX appears at the 
upper left corner. In this mode the 
car number can be changed if 
needed. To save...

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0.00000 MHz appears if the car 
number has only one frequency. If 
the car number has more than one 
frequency, one of the frequencies 
appears.
^ and v — Moves through 
selected car number frequencies. 
You can program a frequency 
when 
0.00000 MHz is displayed. If 
the car number frequency is 
locked out, the scanner will still 
recall the locked out frequency 
and 
L will be displayed at the 
upper right corner.
< — Enters the text input mode 
when a frequency is displayed, or 
after a new...

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STORING 
FREQUENCIES 
INTO CHANNELS
1. To begin programming your 
scanner, press 
FUNC, and 
then 
CAR to change the 
channel display mode. 
MAN, a 
bank and channel number 
appears on the display. You 
can select the desired 
channel storage bank and 
channel using the number 
keys and 
SCAN. For example, 
Bank 3, Channel 23 is 
entered as 323 and 
SCAN.
2. Use the number keys and 
./
CLEAR to enter the 
frequency (including the 
decimal point) you want to 
store.
3. If you make a mistake, press 
and...