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Radio Shack owner manual PRO-2056 50-Channel Home/Mobile Scanner

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OWNER’S MANUAL

Cat. No. 20-147

OWNER’S MANUAL

PRO-2056 50-Channel

Home/Mobile Scanner

Please read before using this equipment.

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Radio Shack owner manual PRO-2056 50-Channel Home/Mobile Scanner

Contents

PRO-2056 50-Channel Home/Mobile Scanner FEATURES FCC NOTICE SCANNING LEGALLY CONTENTS Guide to Frequencies Connecting the Telescoping Antenna CONNECTING AN ANTENNAConnecting the Window- Mount Antenna PREPARATIONConnecting an External Antenna MOUNTING THE SCANNER IN YOUR VEHICLE Cautions Connecting Power from Your Vehicle’s BatteryMEMORY BACKUP USING THE SCANNER AS A BASE STATIONUsing the Supplied AC Adapter Listening Safely CONNECTING AN EXTERNAL SPEAKER OR HEADPHONESUNDERSTANDING YOUR SCANNER Service Search BanksBANKS PRIVATE Bank CHANNELS29-30 SEARCH BANDS30-50 50-54While searching through a search band, you might hear a frequency that you want to store with other fre- quencies of the same type, so you can scan them all together. You can store any frequency into a channel in the POLICE or FIRE/EMG service search banks or the PRIVATE bank. See “Storing Frequencies into Chan- nels” on Page A LOOK AT THE FRONT PANEL POLICE, FIRE/EMG, AIR, MRN A LOOK AT THE DISPLAYUSING SERVICE SEARCH TURNING ON THE SCANNER/SETTING VOLUME AND SQUELCHOPERATION MONITORING A FREQUENCY USING BAND SEARCHSTORING FREQUENCIES INTO CHANNELS CLEARING FREQUENCIES FROM CHANNELS USING MEMOLOCK SPECIAL FEATURESDELAY LOCKING OUT CHANNELS AND FREQUENCIESLISTENING TO WEATHER BROADCASTS GUIDE TO FREQUENCIES A GENERAL GUIDE TO SCANNINGUS Weather Frequencies Other Weather FrequenciesUnited States Broadcast Bands GUIDE TO THE ACTION BANDSTypical Band Usage UHF Band Primary UsageVHF Band ActivitiesBAND ALLOCATION SPECIFIED INTERVALSServices Frequency RangesVHF Low Band - in 5 kHz steps VERY HIGH FREQUENCY VHFU.S. Government Band 6-MeterAmateur Band2-MeterAmateur Band VHF High Band70-cmAmateur Band ULTRA HIGH FREQUENCY UHF U. S. Government BandLow Band FREQUENCY CONVERSION Problem TROUBLESHOOTINGPossible Causes RemediesCARE AND MAINTENANCE REPLACING THE FUSES Replacing the Fuse in the DC Power CordSPECIFICATIONS Current Drain Page Page We Service What We Sell Limited One-YearWarrantyRadioShack A Division of Tandy Corporation