Monitoring An Active Id; Locking Out Ids - Radio Shack PRO-2050 Owner's Manual

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Note: To see the bank currently in
use for about 5 seconds, press
while in the trunk tracking
DATA
mode.
3. To return to conventional scan-
ning, press
TRUNK
Hint: While scanning, you will not
know exactly whom the IDs are as-
signed to until you listen awhile or until
you locate ID lists in frequency guides
or on internet sites
www.trunkscanner.com . Within a few
minutes, you can usually figure out if
what you are listening to is a police,
fire, or emergency medical 2-way ra-
dio user. Other IDs might take some
time, but determining whom each ID
represents is half the fun of trunk
tracking!

Monitoring an Active ID

When the scanner stops on a trans-
mission, you can hold the scanner on
that transmission.
1. Press .
HOLD HOLD
the scanner stays on the current
ID.
2. If you want to listen to a different
ID, use the number keys to enter
28
again.
such as
Note: You can also follow these steps
to hold on an ID while scanning a scan
list. See "Scan Lists" on Page 31.

Locking Out IDs

As with conventional scanning, it is
possible to lock out unwanted traffic.
This is particularly important in trunk-
ed systems because signals you can-
not listen to (such as water meters,
door alarms, traffic signals, and en-
crypted signals) are assigned IDs just
like other users. You can have up to
100 IDs locked out at one time.
appears and
Note: If you lock out an ID while
searching, it is also locked out of the
scan list(s). See "Scan Lists" on
Page 31.
the ID you want to hold.
appears
3. Press again.
HOLD
and the scanner monitors that ID.
4. When you want to stop the hold
and resume searching for a data
channel so you can continue trunk
tracking, press
SEARCH
LIST 1
HOLD flashes
.