Radio Shack Race Scanner Special Features, Turning Memory Banks on and OFF, Locking OUT Channels

SPECIAL FEATURES

TURNING MEMORY BANKS ON AND OFF

You can turn each memory bank on and off. When you turn off a bank, the scanner does not scan any of the 10 channels in that bank.

While scanning, press the number key that corresponds to the bank you want to turn on or off. When BANK appears, the scanner scans all the channels within the displayed banks that are not locked out (see “Locking Out Channels”).

Notes:

•You can manually select any channel within a bank, even if that bank is turned off.

•You cannot turn off all banks. One bank must always be active.

LOCKING OUT CHANNELS

You can increase the scanning speed by locking out channels that have a continuous transmission, such as a weather channel. To lock out a channel, manually select the channel, then press L-OUTso L/O appears. You can still manually select locked out channels.

To remove the lockout from a channel, manually select the channel and press L-OUTso L/O disappears from the display. Or, to unlock all channels or frequencies in the banks that are turned on, press MAN to stop scanning, then hold down L-OUTuntil the scanner beeps twice.

Note: If you select a weather frequency by pressing WX and then lock out that frequency, the scanner stores the frequency in its search skip memory. Follow the steps under “Search Skip Memory” on Page 27 to remove the lockout from the weather frequency.

PRIORITY

The priority feature lets you scan through channels and still not miss important or interesting calls on specific channels. You can program one channel in each bank as a priority channel (for up to a total of 10 priority channels). If the priority feature is turned on, as the scanner scans a bank, the scanner checks that bank’s priority channel every 2 seconds for activity.

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