Radio Shack PRO-2045 owner manual

Cat. No. 20-418

OWNER’S MANUAL

PRO-2045

200-Channel Weather Alert Home Scanner

Please read before using this equipment.

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Contents

Main FEATURES Page FCC NOTICE SCANNING LEGALLY CONTENTS Page PREPARATION CONNECTING POWER Using Standard AC Power Using Vehicle Battery Power CONNECTING AN ANTENNA Telescoping Antenna Optional Outdoor Antenna RESETTING THE SCANNER USING THE FEET TESTING ALERT OPERATION Testing Alert Reception fringe Testing the Weather Alert ALERT CONNECTING AN EARPHONE Listening Safely Traffic Safety CONNECTING AN AMPLIFIED EXTENSION SPEAKER INSTALLING AN OPTIONAL CTCSS TONE BOARD Page UNDERSTANDING YOUR SCANNER A LOOK AT THE KEYBOARD Page A LOOK AT THE DISPLAY L/O DLY WX ALERT UNDERSTANDING CHANNEL-STORAGE BANKS Channel-Storage Banks MONITOR MEMORIES OPERATION TURNING ON THE SCANNER/SETTING VOLUME AND SQUELCH USING THE ROTARY CONTROL FREQ CHAN SEARCHING FOR AND TEMPORARILY STORING ACTIVE FREQUENCIES Limit Search Error L/O -H- Direct Search L/O Search Skip L/O AUTOMATICALLY STORING FREQUENCIES LISTENING TO MONITOR MEMORIES MOVING A FREQUENCY FROM A MONITOR MEMORY TO A CHANNEL SCANNING CHANNELS Turning Channel-Storage Banks On and Off Locking Out Channels MANUALLY SELECTING A CHANNEL SCANNING THE WEATHER BAND WX Weather Alert Using the Weather Alert Standby Mode on ALErt SPECIAL FEATURES DELAY DLY PRIORITY CHANGING SEARCH SPEEDS USING THE PROGRAMMABLE ATTENUATOR ATT USING AUTO SORT AUTO OFF Sort SKIPPING DATA SIGNALS DATA TRANSFERRING A FREQUENCY TO ANOTHER CHANNEL Transferring to an Empty Channel CHAN Transferring to a Chann el that has a Stored Frequency Exchanging Frequencies Between Two Program m ed Channels USING THE COUNT FEATURE COUNT USING CTCSS CTCSS Tone Frequencies Assigning a CTCSS Tone Frequency to a Channel Changing or Deleting a CTCSS Tone Frequency for a Channel CTCSS 00.0 A GENERAL GUIDE TO SCANNING GUIDE TO FREQUENCIES National Weather Service Frequencies Ham Radio Frequen c ies Birdie Frequencies GUIDE TO THE ACTION BANDS Typical Band Usage Primary Usage SPECIFIED INTERVALS BAND ALLOCATION Page Page FREQUENCY CONVERSION TROUBLESHOOTING CARE AND MAINTENANCE SPECIFICATIONS Page RadioShack A Division of Tandy Corporation Fort Worth, Texas 76102 5A6 Printed in the Philippines RadioShack Limited Warranty We Service What We Sell