Radio Shack 2000649 / PRO-649 Owner's Manual

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4 5FeaturesYour new PRO-649 Handheld Scanner lets you scanconventional transmissions, and is preprogrammed withsearch banks for convenience. By pressing a one touchsearch key, you can quickly search those frequenciesmost commonly used by public service and otheragencies without tedious and complicated programming.This scanner gives you direct access to over 25,000exciting frequencies, including those used by ambulanceservices, aircraft, and amateur radio services, marine,civil air patrol, VHF and UHF business bands, governmentfrequencies and some police and fire departments.Your scanner also has these special features:Signal Stalker II – a powerful new tool for you to rapidlydetect, monitor and store frequencies for nearby radiotransmissions.One-Touch Service Search Banks – Let you searchpreset frequencies in separate marine, fire/police,aircraft, ham and weather bands.Display Backlight – Easy to read in low-light situations.Lockout Function – Lets you skip specified channels orfrequencies when scanning or searching.Ten Channel-Storage Banks – You can store 20channels in each bank (200 total channels), letting yougroup channels so you can more easily identify calls.SAME/FIPS Weather Alert – Displays weather events forthe county or counties that you choose.Memory Backup – Keeps the frequencies stored inmemory for an extended time.Scan Delay – Delays scanning for about 2 seconds, sothat you can hear replies on the same channel.Priority Channel – Lets you set the scanner to checkone channel every 2 seconds so that you do not misstransmissions on that channel.Data Cloning – Lets you transfer the programmed datato another PRO-649 scanner.Scanner BasicsAfter you familiarize yourself with your scanner’s featuresyou can then set up your scanner.FrequenciesA frequency is the waveband of the transmitting signal(expressed in kHz or MHz). Your PRO-649 receives arange of analog frequencies; the best resource for yourlocal frequencies is www.radioreference.com.Also, you can use your scanner’s search functions to findactive frequencies in your area.Your PRO-649 scanner can receive these bands:Frequency Range Types of Transmissions29–54 MHz 10-Meter Ham, VHF Lo, 6-Meter Ham108–136.9875 MHz Aircraft137–174 MHz Military Land Mobile, 2-Meter Ham,VHF Hi380–512 MHz UHF Aircraft, Federal Government,70-cm Ham, UHF Standard, UHF “T”n Note: See “Specifications” on page 30 for moreinformation about frequency steps.ChannelsChannels are storage areas for frequencies saved in yourscanner’s memory. Each saved frequency is assigned achannel.BanksA bank is a storage area for a group of channels. Yourscanner provides 10 banks (1 to 10) that can each storeup to 20 channels, for a total of 200 channels. You can usethe banks to group and organize frequencies.For example, you could program the frequencies used byyour local police department starting with Channel 1 (thefirst channel in bank 1) and program the fire departmentfrequencies starting with Channel 21 (the first channel inbank 2).