Radio Shack PRO-79 owner manual Features

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FEATURES

Your new RadioShack PRO-79 200 Channel VHF/Air/UHF Handheld Scanner lets you scan conventional transmissions, and is preprogrammed with search banks for convenience. By pressing a single button, you can quickly search those frequen- cies most commonly used by public service and other agencies without tedious and complicated programming.

This scanner gives you direct access to over 25,000 exciting fre- quencies, including those used by police and fire departments, ambulance services, and amateur radio services, and you can change your selection at any time.

Your scanner also has these special features:

Four Service Banks — let you search preset frequencies in sep- arate ham radio, police/fire/emergency, aircraft, and marine banks, to make it easy to locate specific types of calls.

Display Backlight — makes the scanner easy to read in low- light situations.

Duplicate Channel Alert — warns you when the frequency you are storing already exists in memory.

Lockout Function — lets you set your scanner to skip over specified channels or frequencies when scanning or searching.

Memory Backup — keeps the channel frequencies stored in memory for about an hour in the event of a power loss.

Ten Channel-Storage Banks — you can store 20 channels in each bank (200 total channels), letting you group channels so you can more easily identify calls.

20 Monitor Memories — let you temporarily save up to 20 fre- quencies you locate during a search, so you can move selected frequencies to channel storage later.

Direct Search — lets you search for new and unlisted frequen- cies starting from a specified frequency.

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All Rights Reserved.

RadioShack and Adaptaplug are registered trademarks

used by Tandy Corporation.

HyperSearch and HyperScan are trademarks used by Tandy Corporation.

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Contents PRO-79 Channel VHF/Air/UHF Handheld Scanner Features Page FCC Notice Frequency Types of Transmissions Range MHzScanning Legally Contents Special Features Installing Batteries PreparationUsing AC Power Using Vehicle Battery PowerCharging Rechargeable Batteries Connecting AN Antenna Connecting the Supplied AntennaConnecting an Outdoor Antenna Connecting AN Earphone Headphones Listening SafelyConnecting AN Extension Speaker Traffic SafetyUnderstanding Your Scanner Look AT the KeypadNumber KeysLook AT the Display AIRDLY Understanding Banks Channel Storage BanksService Banks Fire/PoliceMarine AirAmateur Radio Channel Frequency MHz 156.9250 Monitor Memories RESETTING/INITIALIZING the Scanner OperationResetting the Scanner Initializing the ScannerStoring Known Frequencies Into Channels Searching the Service Banks Finding and Storing Active FrequenciesUsing Direct Search Page Moving a Frequency from a Monitor Memory to a Channel Using Monitor MemoryListening to a Monitor Memory Scanning the Stored Channels Turning CHANNEL-STORAGE Banks OFF and on Monitoring a Stored ChannelListening to the Weather Band Clearing a Stored ChannelListening to the Marine Bank WX Alert Locking OUT Channels or Frequencies Special FeaturesDelay Locking Out ChannelsRemoving Lockouts From All Frequencies Locking Out FrequenciesReviewing Locked-Out Frequencies Using Priority Removing Lockouts From All Frequencies in All Service BanksTurning the KEY Tone on and OFF Using the Display BacklightUsing the KEY Lock Avoiding Image Frequencies National Weather Frequencies General Guide to ScanningGuide to Frequencies Birdie FrequenciesPrimary Usage Guide to the Action BandsTypical Band Usage MHz Abbreviations Services Band AllocationGovernment Band 137-144 MHz Meter Amateur Band 50-54 MHzAircraft Band 108-136 MHz Meter Amateur Band 144-148 MHzVHF High Band 148-174 MHz Centimeter Amateur Band 420-450 MHzFrequency Conversion Low Band 450-470 MHzTroubleshooting Squelch is notCare and Maintenance Specifications Volts DC, 4 AA Batteries Page Fort Worth, Texas RadioShackDivision of Tandy Corporation
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