ˆOperation
TURNING ON THE SCANNER/SETTING VOLUME AND SQUELCH
1.Turn SQUELCH fully counterclockwise until the indicator points to MIN.
2.Slide POWER to ON to turn on the scanner.
3.Turn VOLUME clockwise until you hear a hissing sound.
4.Turn SQUELCH clockwise, just until the hissing sound stops.
Notes:
•To listen to a weak or distant station, turn SQUELCH counterclockwise. If reception is poor, turn SQUELCH clockwise to cut out weak transmissions.
•If SQUELCH is adjusted so you always hear a hissing sound, the scanner does not scan or search properly.
5.To turn off the scanner when you finish, slide POWER to OFF.
STORING KNOWN
FREQUENCIES INTO
CHANNELS
Good references for active frequencies are the RadioShack Police Call, Aeronautical Frequency Directory, and Maritime Frequency Directory. We update these directories every year, so be sure to get a current copy.
Follow these steps to store frequencies into channels.
1.Press PGM, enter the channel number
2.Use the number keys and • to enter the frequency (including the decimal point) you want to store.
3.Press ENTER to store the frequency into the channel.
Notes:
•If you made a mistake in Step 2, Error appears and the scanner beeps when you press ENTER.
Simply start again from Step 2.
•Your scanner automatically rounds the entered frequency down to the closest valid frequency. For example, if you enter a frequency for 151.473, your scanner accepts it as 151.470.
•If you entered a frequency that is already stored in another channel, the scanner beeps three times and displays the lowest channel number where the frequency is already stored, and
•Press DELAY if you want the scanner to pause 2 seconds on this channel after a transmission ends before it proceeds to the next channel (see “Using the Delay Function” on Page 20). The scanner also stores this setting in the channel.
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