Priority; Manually Selecting A Channel; Listening To The Weather Band; Birdies - Radio Shack Realistic PRO-2030 Manual

PRIORITY

You can scan through the programmed channels and still not miss an important or interesting call on a
specific channel. To program a stored cha nnel as the priority channel, press PGM, the desired channel
number and then PRI. You can only select one channel as the priority channel.
To turn on the priority feature, press PRI during scanning. PRIORITY appears on the display. The
scanner now checks the priority channel every two seconds, and stays on the channel if there is activity
there. P appears on the left side of the display whenever the scanner is set to the priority channel.
To turn off the priority feature, press PRI until PRIORITY disappears from the display.

MANUALLY SELECTING A CHANNEL

You can continuously monitor a specific channel without scanning. This is useful if you hear an
emergency broadcast on a channel and do not want to miss any details - even though there might be
periods of silence - or if you want to monitor only a locked-out channel.
To select a channel, press MAN. Enter the channel number, and press MAN again. Or, if the scanner
is scanning and stops at the desired channel, just press MAN one time. Pressing MAN additional times
makes the scanner step through the channels.

LISTENING TO THE WEATHER BAND

The FCC (Federal Communications Commission) has allocated some channels for use by the National
Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). We have preprogrammed your scanner with all of
the frequencies available to NOAA. To hear your local forecast and regional weather information,
simply press WX. Your scanner scans through the weather band.
Your scanner should stop within a few seconds, and you hear the local weather broadcast. If the
broadcast is weak, you can press WX again to scan through the rest of the weather band.

BIRDIES

Birdies are frequencies your scanner uses when it operates. These operating frequencies might
interfere with broadcasts on the same frequencies. If you program one of these frequencies, you hear
only noise on that frequency.
If the interference is not severe, you might be able to turn SQUELCH clockwise to cut out the birdie.
The most common birdies to watch for are listed below.
Birdie Frequencies:
31.05 MHz 124.20 MHz
41.40 MHz 134.55 MHz
51.75 MHz 144.90 MHz
113.85 MHz 155.25 MHz