Radio Shack 20-164 manual Zeromatic, To search banks SR0-SR2

To search banks SR0-SR2:

1.Press SRCH repeatedly to select SR0, SR1, or SR2.

2.To search the entire band, press FUNC then SRCH. “MAN” (Manual select) or “SRCH” (searches through the band) appears. The scanner starts searching while “SRCH” appears on the display. When the scanner finds an active frequency, it stops searching.

Press FUNC then SRCH again to return to the previous mode.

3.To select a channel while “MAN” appears on the display, press a channel number or use  or .

4.Adjust the Squelch.

5. If the scanner stops on an unwanted frequency, you can press L/OUT to lock out the frequency. For more information, see Locking Out Frequencies....

6.To pause while searching, press PSE. The scanner stops searching and *** PAUSED

***appears. To resume, press PSE again.

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While searching, the scanner stops if a transmission triggers the squelch setting. A narrow-band FM transmission can have a deviation of +/- 5 Khz, and the actual total bandwidth, including the tails of the sidebands, can be even greater. However, search intervals smaller than that can stop your scanner short of the correct (center) frequency.

The Zeromatic function allows the scanner to find the correct center frequency for search banks SR3, SR4, SR5, SR6 and SR7. When active, Zeromatic automatically tunes to the

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