PRO-2026  (200-0148)             Operation             Faxback Doc. # 7924

INITIALIZING/RESETTING THE SCANNER

The scanner might not operate the first time you install and turn it on. 
It also might stop operating if the batteries become too low or if the
scanner is dropped or subjected to a physical or electrical shock.  If
this happens, follow these steps:

CAUTION:  This procedure clears all the information you have programmed
          into the scanner.  Use this procedure only when you are sure
          your scanner is not working properly.

1.  Turn off the scanner.

2.  While you press and hold down 2 and 9, turn on the scanner.

SETTING THE VOLUME AND SQUELCH

Use SQUELCH to decrease the scanner's sensitivity to weak signals.  This
allows the scanner to receive only the strongest transmissions.

1.  Turn SQUELCH and VOLUME fully counterclockwise.

2.  Turn VOLUME clockwise until you hear a hissing sound.

3.  Slowly turn SQUELCH clockwise until the hissing stops.

If you want to listen to a weak or distant station, turn SQUELCH
counterclockwise.  You might hear hissing between transmissions.

STORING FREQUENCIES INTO CHANNELS

A good reference for active frequencies is Radio Shack's Police Call
Directing Including Fire and Emergency Services.  We update this directory
yearly, so be sure to get a current one.  Also, refer to "Reception
Notes," "Searching For Active Frequencies," and "Using the Band Search
Keys" in this manual.

1.  Turn VOLUME clockwise to turn on the scanner.

2.  Press MANUAL, enter the channel number you want to program, and press
    PROG.  PGM appears on the display and shows that your scanner is in
    the programming mode.

3.  Use the keypad to enter a frequency.

4.  Press ENTER to store the frequency.  If you made a mistake in Step 3,
    ERROR appears on the display and the scanner sounds three beeps.  To
    clear the display, press CLEAR.  Then, proceed again from Step 3.

    Your scanner automatically rounds the entered frequency to the nearest
    valid frequency.  For example, if you try to enter a frequency of
    151.473, your scanner accepts it as 151.475.

5.  If you want your scanner to pause after each transmission before
    scanning to the next channel, press ./DELAY until DLY appears on the
    display.  See "Using the Delay Feature."

6.  To program more channels, repeat Steps 2 through 5.  If you want to
    program the next channel in sequence, simply press PROG and repeat
    Steps 3 through 5.

SEARCHING FOR ACTIVE FREQUENCIES

Use the following procedure to search for a transmission.  This procedure
is helpful if you do not have a reference to frequencies in your area.
Also see "Guide to the Action Bands."

Follow these steps to search within a specific range of frequencies.

1.  Press PROG.

2.  Press LIMIT.

3.  Enter the lower limit of the frequency range you want to search. 
    Then, press ENTER.

4.  Press LIMIT.

5.  Enter the upper limit of frequency range.  Then, press ENTER.

6.  Press \/ to search from the upper limit down to the lower limit.  Or,
    press /\ to search from the lower limit up to the upper limit.

7.  When the scanner stops on a transmission, you can store that frequency
    in the monitor memory by pressing MONITOR.  This replaces the
    previously stored monitor frequency.

8.  To continue the search, press /\ or \/.

NOTE:  Press ./DELAY until DLY appears, to make the scanner pause 2
       seconds after a transmission before proceeding to the next
       frequency.  Otherwise, the scanner begins to scan again as soon as
       the transmission ends.  See "Using the Delay Feature."

USING THE SERVICE SEARCH KEYS

You can scan for police, fire, air, weather, or marine transmissions even
if you do not know the frequencies being used in your area.  The scanner
is programmed with all frequency ranges allocated to these services.  To
use this feature, press the desired BAND SEARCH key.  Then press /\ or \/
to begin scanning.

When the scanner stops on a transmission, you can store that frequency in
the monitor memory by press MONITOR.

To continue the scan, press /\ or \/.

NOTES:  The priority and lock-out features do not function in this mode.

        The delay feature is programmed band by band in this mode.

        The 800 and 900 MHz bands are allocated to trunked services.  This
        means that the police and fire departments share the frequencies
        with other services.  The scanner might stop on transmissions by
        other services in these bands.

        Because there are many different frequency ranges allocated to
        fire and police departments, it takes several minutes to search
        all frequencies when you scan for these services.

MOVING A FREQUENCY FROM MONITOR MEMORY TO A CHANNEL

To listen to the frequency stored in the monitor memory, press MANUAL, and
press MONITOR.  To copy the frequency from monitor memory to a channel,
follow these steps.

1.  Press MANUAL, the channel number you want to store the monitor
    frequency in, and PROG.

2.  Press MONITOR.

3.  Press ENTER.  The scanner stores the frequency in the selected
    channel.

4.  If you want to return to a frequency search after this procedure,
    press LIMIT, followed by either /\ or \/.

SCANNING THE CHANNELS

To begin scanning the channels, press SCAN.  Your scanner scans through
all the channels (except the ones you have locked out) that are contained
in the banks you have turned on.  Be sure to read the following sections
to get the full benefit from the special features of your scanner.

USING THE DELAY FEATURE

Many agencies use a two-way radio system that might have a period of two
or more seconds between a query and a reply.  To keep from missing a
reply, program a delay in the channels you identify as operating this
way.

To program a delay, select the channel and press ./DELAY so that DLY
appears on the display.  Now, when your scanner scans through channels, it
pauses for 2 seconds after the completion of each transmission on that
channel before it resumes scanning.

Some radio systems that operate at 800 MHz and above use a special
"trunked" system.  In this system, the transmitter selects an available
frequency each time the operator keys the radio.  Therefore, it is
possible for the query to be on one frequency and the reply on another. 
To increase the possibility of hearing the full reply, do not set DELAY. 
The scanner begins to scan immediately when the first transmission ends.

For immediate scan resume, select the channel and be sure the DLY is not
on the display.  If DLY appears on the display, press ./DELAY to turn off
scan delay for that channel.

LOCKING OUT CHANNELS

You can make your scanner scan more efficiently be locking out channels. 
Manually select the channel and press L/OUT so that L/O appears on the
display.  This is handy for locking out channels that have a continuous
transmission, such as a weather channel, or channels you have not yet
stored frequencies into.  You can still listen to a locked-out channel by
manually selecting it.

To remove the lock-out from a channel, manually select the channel and
press L/OUT so that L/O disappears from the display.

NOTE:  You can lock out all but one channel in each bank.

To release all the locked-out channels press the L/OUT key for about 3
seconds until the scanner beeps.

TURNING THE BANKS ON AND OFF

You can set the scanner to skip over complete banks of channels.

To turn banks on and off, first press SCAN.

To turn on a bank, press the number key that corresponds to that bank
until the bank indicator (a small bar) appears under the bank number.

The scanner can scan all the channels within that bank (except the ones
that you have locked out).

To turn off a bank, press the number key that corresponds to that bank
until the bank indicator disappears from under the bank number.

The scanner can not scan any of the channels within that bank.  You can
manually select any channel in that bank.

NOTE:  You can turn off all but one bank.

USING THE PRIORITY FEATURE

The scanner automatically checks for a transmission every 2 seconds on the
channel you designate as the priority channel, even if you are listening
to another channel or scanning.  To program a priority channel, press
PROG,, the desired channel number, and then PRIORITY.

The priority indicator P appears on the display to show that you set the
scanner to the priority channel.

You can only program one channel as the priority channel.  When you
program a new channel as the priority channel, you clear the previous
channel you chose.

NOTE:  Channel 1 is automatically designated as the priority channel the
       first time you turn on the scanner.

MANUALLY SELECTING A CHANNEL

You can continuously listen to a single channel without scanning.  This is
useful if you hear an emergency broadcast on a channel and do not want
to miss any of the details -- even though there might be periods of
silence -- or if you want to monitor a channel that you have locked out.

To select a channel to listen to, press MANUAL, enter the channel number,
and then press MANUAL again.  Or, if your scanner is scanning and has 
stopped at the desired channel, press MANUAL one time.  Pressing MANUAL
additional times causes your scanner to step through the channels one at a
time.

(ALL-11/08/94)