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
    1: On
    2: Off
  4:Delay
    1: On
    2: Off
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
  8:SR6 Limit SRCH
8:System Data
  1:Back Light
(Set backlight timer setting)
1. 3 Seconds
2. 5 Seconds
3. 10 Seconds
4. 20 Seconds
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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 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 the local hospital.
You can store a car number and 
frequency in each of the scanners 
channels, associate one or more 
frequencies stored in channels 
with a car number, and recall any 
frequencies associated with that 
car number by simply entering the 
number. You can store one car 
number and frequency, or one 
frequency by itself, in each 
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							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 scanners 
channels and display the car 
number as you listen to those 
frequencies by using the 
information in “Viewing 
Frequencies Associated With a 
Car Number” on Page 26.
ABOUT THE PRELOADED 
C
AR NUMBERS AND 
F
REQUENCIES
For your convenience, the five 
exciting car race frequencies are 
preloaded in your scanner. You 
can use one of the race 
frequencies by moving to Banks 8 
and 9.Ô
1. Press and hold 
FUNC for 
about 2 seconds.
2. Press 
1 to select Pre-Load CAR.
3. Select the category and press 
the corresponding number. 
Ô NOTES Ô 
Preloads are subject to 
change. Check with your
 local RadioShack store 
for the most current 
download instructions.
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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 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. 
P.Fr (Program Frequency), 
the car number, and 
frequency (or 
0.00000 MHz) 
appears.
3. Enter the frequency (including 
the decimal point) you want to 
associate with the car number 
by using the number keys and 
./
CLEAR.
To clear the display (if you 
make a mistake), press and 
hold ./
CLEAR before you 
press 
ENT.
4. Press 
ENT to store the 
frequency. The car number 
Ô NOTES Ô 
 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” on 
Page 25“
 If you add one or 
more leading zeros to
 a single digit car 
number, your 
scanner recognizes 
them as different car 
numbers. For 
example, you can 
enter 5 for one car 
number, 05 for 
another car number, 
and 005 for another 
car number.
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							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 number by using the 
number keys and ./
CLEAR.
4. Press 
ENT to store the 
frequency. The frequency is 
associated with the car 
number entered.
Adding a Car Number to 
the Channel
You can assign the car number 
after you program the frequency 
into the channel.Ô
1. Enter the normal car number 
operation mode.
2. Press 
FUNC, and then ^ to 
recall the frequency without 
car number. The scanner 
shows 
C.Fr (Call Frequency) 
Ô NOTES Ô 
When the scanner is not programmed with 
frequencies without the 
car number, the scanner
 sound an error tone.
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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 move to another car 
number frequency, press ^ or v.
Removing a Frequency 
From a Car Number
1. Recall a car number 
frequency using 
CAR, the 
number key and >.
2. Press 
SCAN. A.Fr appears.
3. Press 
0.
4. Press 
ENT.
A.Fr (All Frequency) 
Mode (In Car Number 
Operation)
You can recall all conventional 
channel frequencies in this mode 
Ô NOTES Ô 
 If the car number is 
three digits, you must
 not press CAR.
 When the specified 
car number is not 
programmed, the 
scanner shows 
0.00000 MHz.
 When the specified 
car number was set 
to lockout, Locked out 
appears, the scanner
 shows A.Fr (All 
Frequency mode), 
the car number and 
the frequency.
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							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 does not recall 
the locked out car number.
< — Enters the text input mode.
> — Moves through frequencies in 
the selected car number. If there is 
only one frequency associated 
with the car number an error tone 
will sound.
Call Frequency mode — From 
normal car number operation 
mode, press 
FUNC, and then press 
^. 
C.Fr Car# _ _ _ appears at the 
upper left corner. In this mode, the 
scanner moves to a frequency that 
is not programmed with a car 
number. To change the displayed 
frequency while in this mode, use 
the keypad to enter the new 
frequency, and then press 
ENT to 
save.
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							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 the new number, 
press 
ENT. To cancel, press CAR.
^ and v — Returns the scanner to 
normal car operation mode if a 
new number has been saved. 
Otherwise this results in an error 
tone.
< — Enters the text input mode if a 
new number has been saved. 
Otherwise this results in an error 
tone.
> — Moves the cursor to the next 
right character when you are in 
text mode. Otherwise this results 
in an error tone.
If you enter the all frequency mode 
by pressing 
SCAN in the normal 
car number mode, you will not be 
able to change the car number.
Program Frequency mode — 
From normal car number 
operation mode, press 
FUNC, and 
then press v. 
P.Fr Car# XX appears 
at the upper left corner. 
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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 frequency has been 
saved.
> — Moves the cursor to the next 
right character when you are in 
text mode. Otherwise this results 
in an error tone.
Programming a Quiet Code — 
From normal car number 
operation mode, press 
FUNC, and 
then press 
						

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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 hold ./
CLEAR for about 2 
seconds to clear the entire 
field and start over.
4. Press 
ENT to store the 
frequency into the channel.
If you made a mistake in 
entering the frequency, 
Invalid Freq. briefly appears 
and the scanner beeps when 
you press 
ENT. Enter the 
frequency again.
If you enter a frequency that 
has already been entered 
elsewhere in the same bank, 
the scanner sounds an error 
tone. 
Dupl.Freq. and the 
channel number that has 
been duplicated displays. If 
the dual entry is an error, 
Ô NOTES Ô 
 Your scanner 
automatically rounds
 the entered 
frequency to the 
nearest valid 
frequency. For 
example, if you enter
 a frequency of 
151.53, your scanner accepts it as 
151.5275. Reception of the frequency will 
not be adversely 
affected.
 You may replace any
 frequency by 
selecting the bank 
and channel, 
pressing ß  or Ü and 
entering the new 
frequency.
You can clear 
programmed 
frequency data. 
Press 0 then ENT
.
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