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GRE PSR-100 Owner's Manual

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  • Page 1 PSR-100 200 Channel VHF/Air/UHF Handheld Scanner Owner’s Manual...

  • Page 2: Table Of Contents

    CONTENTS Features ......................... 4 Preparation ........................6 Power Sources ......................6 Using Batteries ......................6 Charging Rechargeable Batteries ................. 8 Using AC Power ......................8 Using Vehicle Battery Power ..................9 Connecting the supplied Antenna ................. 9 Connecting an Outdoor Antenna .................. 9 Connecting an Earphone/Headphones ..............

  • Page 3: Features

    Care and Maintenance ....................30 Specifications ......................31 FEATURES Your new PSR-100 200 Channel VHF/Air/UHF Handheld Scanner lets you scan conventional transmissions, and is preprogrammed with search banks for con- venience. By pressing a one touch search key, you can quickly search those frequencies most commonly used by public service and other agencies with- out tedious and complicated programming.
  • Page 4 Priority Channel — lets you set the scanner to check one channel every 2 seconds so you do not miss transmissions. Data Cloning — lets you transfer the programmed data to another PSR-100 scanner. Key Lock — lets you lock the scanner’s keys to help prevent accidentally chang- ing the scanner’s programming.

  • Page 5: The Fcc Wants You To Know

    THE FCC WANTS YOU TO KNOW This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a scan- ning receiver, pursuant to Part 15 of the FCC Rules. These limits are designed to provide reasonable protection against harmful interference in a residential installation.

  • Page 6: Preparation

    This scanner has been designed to prevent reception of illegal transmissions. This is done to comply with the legal requirement that scanners be manufac- tured so as to not be easily modifiable to pick up those transmissions. Do not open your scanner’s case to make any modifications that could allow it to pick up transmissions that are illegal to monitor.
  • Page 7 Warning: Never install non-rechargeable batteries in the rechargeable yel- low battery holder. Non-rechargeable batteries can get hot or explode if you try to recharge them. Note: You must charge rechargeable batteries before you use them the first time. See “Charging Rechargeable Batteries” on Page 8. Cautions: •...

  • Page 8: Charging Rechargeable Batteries

    CHARGING RECHARGEABLE BATTERIES Your scanner has a built-in charging circuit that lets you charge nickel-metal hydride (Ni-MH) or nickel cadmium (Ni-CD) rechargeable batteries (not sup- plied) while they are in the scanner. To charge rechargeable batteries, you need to use a supplied AC adaptor. To charge batteries with a DC adaptor from a DC power source, you must use a 9VDC at least 400mA adaptor with 4.75mm outer/1.7mm inner plug.

  • Page 9: Using Vehicle Battery Power

    USING VEHICLE BATTERY POWER You can power the scanner from a vehicle’s 12V power source (such as ciga- rette-lighter socket) using a 9VDC at least 400-mA adaptor with 4.75mm outer/ 1.7mm inner plug. Its center tip must be set to positive and its plug must fit the scanner’s PWR DC 9V jack.

  • Page 10: Connecting An Earphone/Headphones

    CONNECTING AN EARPHONE/HEADPHONES For private listening, you can plug an 1/8 -inch (3.5-mm) mini-plug earphone or headphones (not supplied), into the jack on the top of the scanner. This automatically disconnects the internal speaker. Listening Safely To protect your hearing, follow these guidelines when you use an earphone or headphones.

  • Page 11: About Your Scanner

    ABOUT YOUR SCANNER Once you understand a few simple terms used in this manual and familiarize yourself with your scanner’s features, you can put the scanner to work for you. You simply determine the type of communications you want to receive, then set the scanner to scan them.

  • Page 12: A Look At The Display

    SCAN/MAN – Scans any preprogrammed channels or stops scanning and lets you directly enter a channel number. PRI/ALERT – Turns on and off the priority feature; turns the SAME standby mode on and off. Number Keys – Each key has single-digit (0 to 9) and a range of numbers. Use the range of numbers above the key (21–40 for example) to select the channel in a channel-storage bank.
  • Page 13 FD/PD – Indicates that the scanner is active for fire/police bank. AIR – Indicates that the scanner is active for aircraft bank. HAM – Indicates that the scanner is active for amateur radio bank. – Appears when you hear the skywarn channel. –...

  • Page 14: Understanding Banks

    -t- – Appears during a tune mode. MAr – Appears about 2 seconds when you press MAR key. FIrE – Appears about 1 second when you press FD/PD key. PoLICE – Appears about 1 second when you press FD/PD key. AIr –...

  • Page 15: One-Touch Search Banks

    One-Touch Service Search The scanner is preprogrammed with the frequencies allocated by marine, fire/ police, aircraft, ham radio, and weather services. This is handy for quickly find- ing active frequencies instead of searching through an entire band (see “Search- ing the One-Touch Service Search Bands” on Page 18). Note: The frequencies in the scanner’s one-touch service bands are preset.
  • Page 16 Amateur Radio Group Frequency Range (MHz) Step (kHz) 29.000-29.700 50.000-54.000 144.000-148.000 420.000-450.000 12.5 Marine Channel Frequency (MHz) Channel Frequency (MHz) 156.0500 156.1750 156.2500 156.2250 156.3000 160.8250 156.3500 156.2750 156.4000 156.3250 156.4500 156.3750 156.5000 156.4250 156.5500 156.4750 156.6000 156.5250 156.6500 156.5750 156.7000 156.6250 156.7500...

  • Page 17: Operation

    OPERATION TURNING ON THE SCANNER/SETTING VOLUME AND SQUELCH 1. Turn SQUELCH until the indicator points to MIN before you turn on the scan- ner. 2. To turn on the scanner, turn VOLUME clockwise. WELCOME message ap- pears. After about 3 seconds, you might hear a hissing sound. Then adjust VOLUME to a comfortable listening level.

  • Page 18: Finding And Storing Active Frequencies

    • Press DELAY if you want the scanner to pause 2 seconds on this channel before it proceeds to the next channel after a transmission ends (see “De- lay” on Page 25). The scanner also stores this setting in the channel. 4.

  • Page 19: Using Tune

    3. Press ENT to store the frequency. The channel and frequency flash twice. If you want to cancel the operation, press TUNE/CLEAR instead of ENT. Note: If you entered a frequency that is already stored in another channel, -dUPL- (duplicate) and the lowest numbered channel containing the duplicate frequency flash for about 3 seconds.

  • Page 20: Scanning The Stored Channels

    SCANNING THE STORED CHANNELS To set the scanner to continuously scan through all channels with stored fre- quencies, simply pressing SCAN until SCAN and appear, then the scanner begins to rapidly scan until it finds an active frequency. If the scanner finds an active frequency, it stops and displays that channel and frequency number, then it automatically begins scanning again when the trans- mission on that frequency ends.

  • Page 21: Monitoring A Stored Channel

    MONITORING A STORED CHANNEL You can continuously monitor a specific channel without scanning. This is use- ful if you hear an emergency transmission on a channel and do not want to miss any details — even though there might be periods of silence — or if you simply want to monitor that channel.

  • Page 22: Listening To The Weather Band

    LISTENING TO THE WEATHER BAND Your scanner incorporates weather alert as one of its features and is an ex- tremely sensitive high quality receiver on the weather frequencies. However, the included flex antenna is optimized for general purpose scanning. If you use this scanner as your only means for receiving weather alerts, please check to be sure you are receiving a clear signal on the flex antenna or switch to an external antenna that gives you clear reception of a local NOAA weather broad-...

  • Page 23: Skywarn

    4. Use the number keys to enter the desired FIPS code, and then press ENT to store the code. Repeat this process for all the FIPS codes that you wish to store. 5. Press L/OUT to lock out or enable specific FIPS entries. 6.

  • Page 24: Spectrum Sweeper

    Spectrum Sweeper Your scanner’s Spectrum Sweeper feature provides a powerful new tool for you to rapidly detect, monitor and store frequencies for nearby radio transmis- sions. The Spectrum Sweeper feature is similar in functionality to portable fre- quency counters that cost much more than your scanner, but provides many advantages over typical portable frequency counters.

  • Page 25: Special Features

    SPECIAL FEATURES DELAY Many agencies use a two-way radio system that has a period of several sec- onds between a query and a reply. To avoid missing a reply, you can program a 2-second delay into any channel or frequency. When your scanner stops on a channel or frequency with a programmed delay, DLY appears and the scan- ner continues to monitor that channel or frequency for 2 seconds after the transmission stops before resuming scanning, searching, tuning, or spectrum...

  • Page 26: Locking Out Marine And Wx Channels

    Locking Out Marine Channels To lock out a Marine channel during searching, press L/O when the scanner stops on the channel. To manually lock out a Marine channel, select the channel then press L/O. To remove the lockout from a Marine channel, press PSE and to select channel manually, then press L/O until L/O disappears.

  • Page 27: Using Priority

    USING PRIORITY The priority feature lets you scan through channels and still not miss important or interesting calls on a frequency you select. You can program one frequency into the priority channel. As the scanner scans, if the priority feature is turned on, the scanner checks the priority channel for activity every 2 seconds.

  • Page 28: Turning The Key Tone On And Off

    CLOnE and Error may alternately appear when the scanner receives data from a scanner other than a PSR-100/200. If this happens when the scanner re- ceives data from another PSR-100/200, turn off the scanner and then turn it on again.

  • Page 29: Initializing The Scanner

    INITIALIZING THE SCANNER If the scanner’s display locks up or does not work properly after you connect a power source, you might need to initialize the scanner. Important: This procedure clears all information you stored in the scanner’s memory. Initialize the scanner only when you are sure the scanner is not work- ing properly.

  • Page 30: Faqs

    • To convert MHz to kHz, multiply the number of megahertz by 1,000: 30.62 (MHz) x 1000 = 30,620 kHz • To convert from kHz to MHz, divide the number of kilohertz by 1,000: 127,800 (kHz) / 1000 = 127.8 MHz •...

  • Page 31: In Case Of Fault

    While scanning, the scanner locks on frequencies that have an unclear transmission. What’s wrong? • Some frequencies programmed into the scanner might be the same as “birdie” frequencies. Avoid programming “Birdie Frequencies” or only listen to them manually. CARE Keep the scanner dry; if it gets wet, wipe it dry immediately. Use and store the scanner only in normal temperature environments.
  • Page 32 Sensitivity (S+N)/N 20 dB: 29–54 MHz ....................0.5 μV 108–136.9875 MHz ................. 1.0 μV 137–174 MHz ..................0.5 μV 380–512 MHz ..................0.7 μV Spurious Rejection (FM @154 MHz) ............50 dB Selectivity: ±8 kHz ....................–6 dB ±17 kHz ....................–50 dB Search Speed ..............
  • Page 33 NOTE...

  • Page 34: Limited Warranty

    Limited Warranty General GRE America, Inc. warranty all parts of each new product to be of sound de- sign, good material and workmanship, and will repair or exchange any parts proven to be defective under normal use at no charge for a period of 12 months from the date of sale to the end user.
  • Page 35 WHICH THE WARRANTY HAS EXPIRED MAY BE SERVICED AT A FIXED RATE + PARTS FOR FACTORY REPAIRS. RETURN SHIPPING FOR UNITS UNDER WARRANTY WILL BE PAID BY GRE AMERICA. SHIPPING FOR UNITS OUT OF WARRANTY WILL BE PAID BY THE SENDER IN BOTH DIRECTIONS. AN RMA# OUTSIDE THE BOX NEXT TO THE SHIPPING ADDRESS MUST BE ACCOM- PANIED WITH ALL UNITS BEING RETURN BACK TO GRE AMERICA.
  • Page 36 RadioReference.com Your Complete Reference Source www.radioreference.com RADIOREFERENCE.COM IS THE WORLD’S LARGEST RADIO COMMUNICATIONS WEBSITE, WITH A COMPLETE FREQUENCY AND TRUNKED RADIO SYSTEM DATABASE. COME SEE WHAT FREE SERVICES WE HAVE TO OFFER TO THE COMMUNITY: The RadioReference Database Includes a complete frequency database, trunked radio system information, FCC license assignments, 10 Code lists, agency maps, les, downloads, and detailed information for most public safety, military, and local government communications systems.

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