Using Auto Sort; Skipping Data Signals; Turning On Or Off The Key Tone; Changing The Modulation Mode - Radio Shack Pro-2045 Owner's Manual

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USING AUTO SORT

You can set the scanner to scan within
each bank from the channel with the
lowest frequency to the channel with
the highest frequency, instead of in
channel number order. This makes
the scanner scan faster.
Follow these steps to turn on auto
sort.
1. Turn off the scanner.
2. Press and hold
AUTO
on the scanner.
on Sort
for 3 seconds. During scanning,
AUTO appears.
To turn off auto sort, repeat these
steps. appears for 3 sec-
OFF Sort
onds.
SKIPPING DATA
SIGNALS
You can set the scanner to skip non-
modulated or data signals (such as
control signals for pagers or trunked
systems) when searching or scanning.
Note: This feature does not work in
the AM mode (see "Changing the
Modulation Mode" on Page 28). Also,
the scanner might not skip data sig-
nals that have varied patterns of paus-
es and frequencies.
To skip data signals, press
DATA appears. To turn off data skip,
press until
DATA DATA
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TURNING ON OR OFF
THE KEY TONE
Your scanner beeps each time you
press a key. Follow these steps to turn
off the key tone beep.
To turn on the beep, repeat these
steps.
, then turn
appears
CHANGING THE
MODULATION MODE
Your
modulated (AM) or narrow-band fre-
quency modulated (NFM) transmis-
sions and selects the mode most
commonly used in each frequency
range. However, you can manually
change the mode while the scanner is
searching for frequencies or scanning
channels. The selected mode flashes
if it is not the default.
To change the modulation mode,
press
tion mode (
display.
To return to the default modulation
mode, press
longer flashes.
until
DATA
disappears.
1. Turn off the scanner.
2. Press and hold
LOCKOUT
turn on the scanner.
appears.
on bEEP appears.
scanner receives
until the desired modula-
MODE
or ) flashes on the
AM FM
until the mode no
MODE
, then
OFF bEEP
amplitude