Locking Out Channels; Manually Selecting A Channel - Radio Shack PRO-66 Owner's Manual

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To turn off the 2-second delay on any active channel, press
while the channel number is displayed.

Locking Out Channels

You can increase the effective scanning speed by locking out individual
channels that have a continuous transmission, such as a weather chan-
nel. To lock out a channel, manually select the channel and press
so L appears on the display.
OUT/S/S
Notes:
• You can still manually select locked out channels.
• You can lock out all channels.
To remove the lock-out from a channel, manually select the channel and
press so L disappears from the display.
L-OUT/S/S
To remove the lock-out from all channels, press
and hold until the scanner beeps twice (about 3 seconds).
L-OUT/S/S
Note: You cannot remove the lock-out from empty channels.

MANUALLY SELECTING A CHANNEL

You can continuously monitor a single 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 si-
lence — or if you want to monitor a specific channel.
Follow these steps to manually select a channel.
1. Press .
MANUAL
2. Enter the channel number.
3. Press again.
MANUAL
Or, if your scanner is scanning and stops at the desired channel, press
one time. (Pressing
MANUAL
scanner to step through the channels.) To resume automatic scanning,
press . Your scanner then scans through all non-locked channels.
SCAN
disappears from the display.
D
MANUAL
additional times causes your
MANUAL
again
DELAY
L-
, then press
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