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HANDHELD
DIGITAL
TRUNKING
SCANNER
Thank you for purchasing your Digital
Trunking Handheld Radio Scanner from
RadioShack. Please read this user's guide
before installing, setting up and using
your new scanner.
This user's guide is available in Spanish at www.radioshack.com.
Esta guía del usuario está disponible en español en www.radioshack.com.
2000668 / PRO-668
User's Guide

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  • Page 1 2000668 / PRO-668 User’s Guide HANDHELD DIGITAL TRUNKING SCANNER Thank you for purchasing your Digital Trunking Handheld Radio Scanner from RadioShack. Please read this user’s guide before installing, setting up and using your new scanner. This user’s guide is available in Spanish at www.radioshack.com.

  • Page 2: Table Of Contents

    Contents Introduction Introduction ..................3 • Police Many organizations, such as police Antenna ..................4 and fire departments, emergency • Fire Departments External Power ................4 response teams, and airports, use • Air Ports Batteries ..................4 radio communication extensively Setting Bandplan and Clock ............. 5 every day.

  • Page 3: Antenna

    Antenna Setting Bandplan and Clock Your iScan's durable antenna provides To turn on your iScan, press the Power button. excellent reception. Align its connector When you turn on your iScan for the first time, use the four- with the iScan antenna post tabs, press direction pad and SEL to set your bandplan, date, and time.

  • Page 4: Programming By Zip Code

    Programming by ZIP Code Programming by City/County All scannable items programmed into • Conventional To program your scanner by city or county: frequencies your iScan are considered objects. 1. Press MENU to access the main menu. • Trunked Your iScan automatically imports and talkgroups organizes objects into playlists. The 2. Select and press .

  • Page 5: Scanning

    Scanning Attenuation Your iScan checks all active objects sequentially for Attenuation can help prevent interference by reducing transmissions, stoping for transmissions. the strength of incoming signals. Attenuation can improve scanning in high-traffic areas, such as large urban areas. In To scan: rural areas, attenuation is used less frequently.

  • Page 6: Priority Scanning

    Priority Scanning Monitoring You may decide that a particular object should be checked Monitoring simply means keeping your iScan tuned to a more frequently during scans. Your iScan checks Priority single object, rather than scanning through a playlist. objects more frequently than non-priority objects. The most common form of monitoring is to simply press Note: To set priority, Priority Mode must be enabled.

  • Page 7: Searching

    Searching Limit Search Your iScan can locate active • Signal Stalker II Limit Searches focus your search to a defined range. frequencies in your area that you can • Service Searches save to include in future scans. To perform a Limit Search: • Limit Search 1. Press MENU to access the main menu. TIP: While searching, you may want to ignore a frequency.

  • Page 8: Weather Radio

    Weather Radio SAME Standby Specific Area Message Encoding (SAME) identifies specific The NOAA Weather Radio All Hazards (NWR) network geographical areas using 6-digit Federal Information broadcasts official warnings, watches, forecasts, and other Processing Standards (FIPS) codes, which are mostly information from the National Weather Service (NWS).* aligned along county lines.

  • Page 9: Backing Up Your Scanner

    Backing Up Your Scanner Advanced Features As a mobile scanner, your iScan is desiged to simplify When you are able to scan, you can use advanced features changing locations with minimal configuration. V-Scanner II to improve your scanning experience. stores up to 20 complete scanner configurations, including Setting Up a Password objects and playlists, so that you can restore your scanner programming any time, and you can save configurations for...

  • Page 10: Configuring Settings

    Configuring Settings Show TGID Displays talkgroup ID. Simple Display must be unchecked. To access configuration settings, select from Settings Show Site Displays trunking site name, if two or more the main menu and press . Name trunking system sites are programmed. Simple Display must be unchecked. Default Vals Restores default settings.

  • Page 11: Editing Objects Manually

    Editing Objects Manually Recording and Playback 1. From the main menu, select Browse Objects Your iScan contains a 2GB MicroSD card that can store over 50 hours of recording time. After you activate the recording 2. Use the four-direction pad to select an object. feature, you can record all transmissions for specific objects NOTE: Your iScan organizes imported objects beginning at and transmissions found during a search.

  • Page 12: Alert Led Settings

    Alert LED Settings Single-Color Solid (Red) Flash Pattern: [Blank] 1. From the main menu, LED Enable: √ select Browse Alert LED Color Count: 1 Objects Color 1: FF0000 2. Use the four-direction pad to select an object. Single-Color Flashing 3. Press MENU to enter the Flash Pattern: AAAAAAAA Object Edit menu: On Time: 50 Off Time: 50...

  • Page 13: Saving Found Ctcss Or Dcs Codes

    • REC – Audio recordings • HP/SP – IF output to headphone jack and speaker WARNING: Modifying these directories or their contents 5. Connect your equipment to the headphone jack. outside of the iScan software is not recommended and may cause the PRO-668 to malfunction.

  • Page 14: Pc Scanner Software

    PC Scanner Software Updating DSP Firmware 1. Turn off the iScan. Your scanner comes with an installed 2GB microSD 2. Connect the iScan to your computer using the card that contains the supplied USB cable. entire U.S.A/Canada 3. Select Update from the menu bar, and then Check for RadioReference database DSP Firmware Update.

  • Page 15: Updating The Software Database

    Maintenance Updating the Software Database RadioReference frequently updates their databases, which Modifying or tampering with the scanner’s internal you can use to upload your local database. components can cause a malfunction and might invalidate its warranty and void your FCC authorization to operate it. Note: Updating the RadioReference database requires an Internet connection.

  • Page 16: Specifications

    Specifications Frequency Coverage Receiving modes ................AM, FM, 25.000–26.960 MHz ......(in 10 kHz steps/AM) ..........FM-MOT (Motorola), LTR (EF Johnson), 26.965–27.405 MHz ......(in 10 kHz steps/AM) ..............CTCSS, DCS, NAC on P25, 27.410–29.505 MHz ......(in 5 kHz steps/AM) ........EDACS wide/narrow (GE/Ericsson/HARRIS), 29.510–29.700 MHz ......

  • Page 17: Library Copyright Notice

    Library Copyright Notice Limited Warranty The data contained in iScan’s library is provided by special arrangement with RadioShack warrants this product against defects in materials and RadioReference and is copyright ©2014 RadioReference.com, LLC who retains workmanship under normal use by the original purchaser for one (1) year sole ownership of the database.
  • Page 18 ©2014. RadioShack Corporation. All 2000668 rights reserved. RadioShack is a registered Printed in Korea trademark used by RadioShack Corporation. 05A14...

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