Finding And Storing Active Frequencies - Radio Shack PRO-2018 Owner's Manual

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FINDING AND STORING ACTIVE FREQUENCIES

Searching the One Touch Banks
Your scanner contains groups of preset frequencies called One Touch banks. Each one touch bank
is associated with a specific activity (see "One Touch Banks" on Page 10). You can search for
marine, fire/police, air, ham, and weather transmissions even if you do not know the specific
frequencies that are used in your area. Then you can store the frequencies you found into the
scanner's channels (except weather and marine banks).
Notes:
• You can use the scanner's delay feature while searching the banks, see "Delay" on Page 20.
• To listen to the marine bank, see "Listening to the Marine Bank" on Page 17.
• To listen to the weather bank, see "Listening to the Weather Band" on Page 18.
1. Press or or . FIrE POLICE or AIr or HAM appears. After about 2 seconds, the
FD/PD AIR HAM
scanner starts search.
Notes:
• To reverse the search direction at any time, hold down ^ or v for about 1 second.
• To search up or down the band in small increments, repeatedly press ^ or v . (See "One Touch
Search Banks" on Page 10 for frequency steps).
• To pause the search while receiving a signal, press ^ or v. To resume searching, hold down ^ or v.
• To quickly move up or down through the frequencies, hold down ^ or v. The scanner tunes through
the frequencies until you release ^ or v.
• If necessary, you can select search groups using the number keys.
2. When the scanner finds an active frequency, it stops searching and displays the frequency's
number. To store the displayed frequency in the lowest available banks channel, press (see
ENT
"Special Function" on Page 19"). The channel and frequency flash twice, and the scanner displays
channel number and frequency. Press again to store the frequency, or press to
ENT TUNE/CLEAR
cancel the operation.
Notes:
• If there is no empty channel at available bank, b X -FULL (X: bank number) appears after you
press . To store more frequencies, you must clear some channels. See "Clearing a Stored
ENT
Channel" on Page 17. To continue searching after b X -FULL appears, hold down ^ or v.
• If you entered a frequency that is already stored in another channel, -dUPL- (duplicate) and the
lowest-numbered channel containing the duplicate frequency flash for about 3 seconds. If you want
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