Radio Shack PRO-29 Scanner User Manual


 
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SPECIAL FEATURES
USING THE KEYLOCK
Once you program your scanner, you can protect it from accidental pro-
gram changes by turning on the keylock feature. In this mode, the only
controls that operate are
SCAN
,
MANUAL
,
KEYLOCK/
,
VOLUME
, and
SQUELCH
.
Note:
The keylock does not prevent the scanner from scanning chan-
nels.
To turn on the keylock, press and hold
KEYLOCK/
until the scanner
beeps and
KEYLOCK
appears on the display. To turn it off, press and
hold
KEYLOCK/
until the scanner beeps and
KEYLOCK
disappears
from the display.
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
LOCK-
OUT/S/S
so
L/O
appears on the display.
To remove the lock-out from a channel, manually select the channel and
press
LOCKOUT/S/S
so
L/O
disappears from the display.
Note:
You can manually select locked-out channels.
To remove the lock-out from all channels in a memory bank, follow this
procedure.
1. While scanning, press the number key corresponding to the mem-
ory bank you want to unlock.
2. Press
MANUAL
to enter the manual mode.
3. Press and hold
LOCKOUT
for more than 3 seconds. The scanner
beeps twice, and all locked out memory channels in the selected
bank are unlocked.