Radio Shack Race Scanner Scanner User Manual


 
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Notes:
You can use Hypersearch only in the 5 kHz step bands (29–54
MHz and 137–174 MHz.
Since the marine service bank is not in one of the 5 kHz step
bands, you cannot use Hypersearch in the marine service bank.
TURNING THE KEY TONE OFF/ON
Your scanner comes set so each time you press a key, you hear a
tone. To turn off the key tone, follow these steps.
1. Turn off the scanner.
2. While holding down
L-OUT/S/S,
turn on the scanner.
OFF
bEEP
appears for about 3 seconds.
To turn the key tone back on, repeat these steps so
on
bEEP
appears.
TURNING THE BATTERY SAVE FUNCTION
OFF/ON
To save battery power when a channel is manually selected or when
you are programming the scanner, the scanner has a battery save
function which automatically sets the scanner to a standby mode if no
button is pressed for 5 seconds when no signal is detected, and sets
the scanner back to full power mode when it detects a button press or
receives a signal. The battery save function is set to
on
at the factory,
but you can change it. appears when the function is active.
Note: If priority is turned on, the battery save function does not work
even if a channel is manually selected.
To turn the battery save function off or back on, turn off the scanner,
then hold down
PRIORITY/H/S
and turn on the scanner.
OFF
SAVE
or
on
SAVE
briefly appears.
RACE
MAN
PROG
BAND
SCAN
HOLD
DATA
12
3
1-10
11-20
21-30
H/S
S/S
4
56
31-40
41-50 51-60
PRIORITY
L-OUT
DEL
7
8
9
61-70 71-80 81-90
0
E
91-100
KEYLOCK CLEAR
WX
S
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