Scanning At The Races; Storing A Car Number And Frequency - Radio Shack PRO-89 Owner's Manual

SCANNING AT THE RACES

Your scanner is specially designed to help you listen to com-
munications at auto races. Drivers and their pit crews and cor-
ner watchers, pace car drivers, security officers, emergency
personnel, track officials, and representatives of governing or-
ganizations such as NASCAR, SCCA, and NHRA all use radi-
os to communicate with each other during a race. You might
also hear transmissions from the news media and reporters,
local police departments, and paramedics and doctors at the
local hospital. You can even listen to transmissions by parking
lot employees at the track, so you can find the best possible
parking place when you arrive.
You can store a car number and frequency in each of the scan-
ner's channels, associate one or more frequencies stored in
channels with a car number, and recall any frequencies associ-
ated with that car number by simply entering the number. You
can store one car number and frequency, or one frequency by
itself, in each channel (for up to 200 car numbers and frequen-
cies).
For example, if you want to listen to communications between
the driver of car number 24 and that driver's pit crew, you find
all the frequencies used by the driver's team by using any of
the following options:
• the steps in "Searching the Service Banks" on Page 27
• the supplied frequency guide
• "Using Direct Search" on Page 30
• frequencies you already know
Then, you store a car number and the frequencies associated
with that car number in the scanner's channels and display the
car number as you scan those frequencies by using the infor-
mation in "Scanning by Car Number" on Page 40.
STORING A CAR NUMBER AND
FREQUENCY
You can store a car number and frequency in each of the scan-
ner's channels, and you can recall any frequencies associated
with the car number by entering the number. You can store
one car number in each channel (for up to 200 car numbers).
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