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Radio Shack PRO-528 Owner's Manual

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Manual is about: 1,000-Channel Handheld Trunking Scanner

Summary of PRO-528

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    Owner’s manual pro-528 1000-channel handheld trucking scanner preliminary draft.

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    Contents features ..................................................................... Xx fcc notice ........................................................... Xx scanning legally .................................................. Xx preparation .......................................................

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    Testing digital weather alert tone .............. Xx testing nwr-same code detection .......... Xx programming fips code.... ......... ............... Xx skywarn ............. ................................................. Xx signal stalker....................................................... X...

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    Care and maintenance ........................................... Xx specifications ......................................................... Xx features your radioshack 1000-channel handheld trunking scanner is one of a new generation of scanners designed to track motorola ® type i, type ii, hybrid ...

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    Priority channels — lets you program one channel in each bank (10 in all) and then have the scanner check that channel every 2 seconds while it scans the bank, so you do not miss transmissions on those channels. Four service banks — frequencies are preset in separate police (fire/emergency), aircraf...

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    Weather alert indicator — your scanner also functions as a severe weather alert monitor. Your scanner can receive these bands: frequency step range (mhz) (khz) transmission 29–29.7 5 10-m amateur band 29.7–50 5 vhf lo band 50–54 5 6-m amateur band 108–136.9875 12.5 aircraft band 137–144 5 military l...

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    Scanning legally your scanner covers frequencies used by many different groups including police and fire departments, ambulance services, government agencies, private companies, amateur radio services, military operations, pager services, and wireline (telephone and telegraph) service providers. It ...

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    As a ballpoint pen to set alkaline jack ni-mh inside the compartment to alkaline . Warning: set alkaline jack ni-mh to ni-mh for use only with or nickel metal hydride (ni-mh) rechargeable batteries. Never attempt to recharge non-rechargeable batteries. Non-rechargeable batteries can get hot or explo...

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    Ni-cd battery’s useful life, it must be recycled or disposed of properly. Contact your local, county, or state hazardous waste management authorities for information on recycling or disposal programs in your area or call 1-800-822-8837. Some options that might be available are: municipal curbside co...

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    Store. Cautions: you must use a power source that supplies 9v dc and delivers at least 300 ma. Its center tip must be set to negative and its plug must fit the scanner’s dc 9v 300 ma jack. Using an adapter that does not meet these specifications could damage the scanner or the adapter. • always conn...

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    For private listening, you can plug an optional earphone or mono headphones into the jack on top of your scanner. This automatically disconnects the internal speaker. Listening safely to protect your hearing, follow these guidelines when you use an earphone or headphones. • do not listen at extremel...

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    A frequency, expressed in khz or mhz, is the tuning location of a station. To find active frequencies, you use the search function or refer to a frequency reference such as the included trunking frequency guide. Besides searching within a selected frequency range, you can also search your scanner’s ...

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    Searches and scans down through a selected frequency range; selects options during programming; changes the id location number while trunking. Searches and scans up through a selected frequency range; selects options during programming; changes the id location number while trunking. Number each key ...

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    — appears when signal stalker is active. Scan — appears when you scan channels. List — appears with numbers ( 1 – 5 ) during trunking. Numbers with a bar under them show which id scan list banks are turned on for scanning. Srch — appears during chain, direct, and id searches. Svc — appears during se...

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    Service banks the scanner is preprogrammed with all the frequencies allocated to the ham, marine, aircraft, and police (fire/emergency) services. This helps you quickly find active frequencies instead of doing a chain search (see “service bank search” on page xx). Channel storage banks to make it ea...

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    • if you entered an invalid frequency in step 4, error appears and the scanner beeps error tone. Enter a valid frequency. •if you entered the frequency which already exist on other channel in step 4, the scanner beeps error tone and displays that channel. Press ・/clr /delay to exit the programming m...

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    2. If you want to add or delete the bank to be searched, press 0 – 9 corresponding the bank. Note: at leastone bank needs to be entered. If you disabled all the banks, the error tone beeps. 3. Press to search down or to search up. 4. When the scanner stops on a transmission, quickly press either: ho...

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    • pgm to store the displayed frequency into the memory. To release the hold and continue searching, press hold/resume note: because there are many different frequencies allocated to fire and police departments, it can take several minutes to search all the service frequencies. Weather search you can...

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    Activated banks. (see “locking out channels” on page xx and “turning channel-storage banks on and off” on page xx). When the scanner finds a transmission, it stops on it. When the transmission ends, the scanner resumes scanning. Notes: • if you have not stored frequencies into any channels, the scan...

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    You can turn each channel-storage bank on and off. When you turn off a bank, the scanner does not scan any of the 100 channels in that bank. While scanning, press the number key that corresponds to the bank you want to turn on or off. Numbers appear at the top of the display, showing the currently s...

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    Using the keylock to protect the scanner from accidental program changes, turn on the keylock feature. When the scanner is locked, the only controls that operate are scan/manual , hold / resume and / keylock . To turn on the keylock, hold down / keylock until appears. To turn it off, hold down / key...

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    5. On the scanner that is the first unit needs to be set as first unit. 6. Press e/pgm. The first unit checks whether the cloneunit is connected to correctly. When a first unit receives the response from the clone unit, the data transfer starts. During data transfer, snd and rec flashes. 7. When the...

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    Turning the battery save function off/on when the scanner is set to receive (monitor) a manually selected channel, and it is not actively scanning, using the battery save feature conserves energy. To turn the battery save function off or back on: 1. Press menu. 2. Repeatedly press or to display bat ...

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    1. Press wx/ and start weather search. See “weather search” on page xx. 2. Press 6/alert . Alert appears. This mutes the audio until the scanner receives a same-coded signal. When the scanner receives a same-coded signal, alert flashes and an associated “l” code (which indicates the severity of the ...

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    If the scanner is set to alert only the area you have programmed, f1 appears. Press or to change the displayed fips code from f1 to f15 . If a fips code is not programmed, ------- appears. Use the keypad to enter the fips code. Press ・/clr /delay to cancel an inputted fips code. Press e/pgm to store...

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    Minutes before they can be relayed for broadcast by noaa and as much as 5 or 10 minutes sooner than you will hear them on local tv or radio! Those few minutes can be worth a lot when it comes to deciding if your family needs to take cover. Note: if you tune to a skywarn frequency when the skywarn ne...

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    S-s.Log : lets you select the signal stalker logging settings. When this option is on, scanner checks log channel along with user programmed channels. 3. Repeatedly press or to select the option you want, then press e/pgm . [s-s.Bnd] if you selected s-s.Bnd , one of the following band names appears:...

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    Setting the scanner to the trunking mode simultaneous trunking the scanner allows you to track up to 10 systems at a time. You can trunk scan or search and scan conventional frequencies at the same time. You can also program conventional frequencies in the same bank as trunking systems. After the sc...

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    Depending upon the trunk system selected. Notes: • if you enter an invalid frequency (outside the selected range), the scanner beeps, the channel number flashes and error appears. If this happens, press ・/clr /delay to clear the frequency, then repeat the entry. • for edacs and ltr systems, you must...

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    You can scan conventional frequencies programmed in the same bank by holding down about 1 second. If there is no conventional frequency, the scanner scans the next bank. Turning the status bit ignore (s-bit) on or off you can set how your scanner works with status bits (also called s-bits), letting ...

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    You can use this feature to translate decimal talk group lists to the much more powerful afs format. It is very easy to use. Be sure to become familiar with afs partial entry, and your scanning will become far more fl exible and efficient. Edacs talk group id range search when your scanner searches ...

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    Hold down l/o while searching until you hear two short beeps. The scanner beeps twice. Press srch to resume the search. Using trunk scanning scan delay sometimes a user might pause before replying to a transmission. You can set the scanner to hold on an id for 2 seconds to wait for a reply. That way...

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    Motorola talk groups to enter a type 2 talk group id: 1. Enter the id you want to store by using the keypad. 2. Press e/pgm . To enter a type 1 id: for a type i id, enter the block number, fl eet number and subfleet number to form the talk group id number. For more information, see user defined flee...

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    You can select either 128, 8, or 1 talk group. For example, you might program every talk group in a police department by pressing just four keys. Note: you cannot use partial talk groups in decimal mode. (see “selecting the edacs talk group id format” on page xx.) you can program a specific talk gro...

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    Note: if one or more of the ids you stored are incorrect, error flashes twice and the scanner beeps several times, then the scan list numbers appear at the top of the display. To correct the entry, delete at least one of the incorrect ids (see “deleting a stored talk group id list”). To remove a sca...

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    E1p1 e1p2 e1p3 block size block size block size code code code 0 s11 0 s4 0 s4 1 s11 1 s4 1 s4 2 s11 2 s4 2 s4 3 s11 3 s4 3 s4 4 s11 4 s4 4 s4 5 s11 5 s4 5 s4 6 s11 6 s4 6 s12 7 s11 7 s4 7 (s12) e1p4 e1p5 e1p6 size size size block code block code block code 0 s12 0 s4 0 s3 1 (s12) 1 s4 1 s10 2 s4 2 ...

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    1 s3 1 s3 1 s4 2 s11 2 s10 2 s4 3 s4 3 s4 3 s11 4 s4 4 s4 4 s11 5 s0 5 s4 5 s0 6 s0 6 s12 6 s12 7 s0 7 (s12) 7 (s12) e1p16 size block code 0 s3 1 s10 2 s10 3 s11 4 s0 5 s0 6 s12 7 (s12) selecting a preset fleet map 1. Set the scanner for conventional scanning and press trunk to select the trunking p...

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    5. Repeatedly press or to select the size code for the first block, then press e/pgm . The next available block appears. 6. Repeat step 5 until you have selected a size code for each desired block. 7. Press srch . The scanner exits the trunking programming mode, tunes the data channel, then searches...

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    11. Press ・/clr /delay . The scanner returns to previous screen. Repeat the step 5 to 10 if you want to program other configuration. Programming a hybrid system a hybrid system is simply a type i system with some of its blocks designated as type ii blocks. To program a hybrid system, follow the step...

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    Recharge the rechargeable batteries or replace the non-rechargeable batteries. The ac adapter or dc adapter is not connected. Be sure the adapter’s barrel plug is fully plugged into the 9v 300 ma jack. Batteries are not correctly installed. Make sure the batteries are installed properly. The scanner...

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    The transmission might be a private or telephone interconnect call. The scanner does not scan these types of transmissions. Scan for another transmission. Channel activity bars are flashing but no sound is heard. The id shown is not active. Wait for the id to become active, or scan another transmiss...

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    If rejection (at 162.4 mhz) ............................................ 80 db channels ........................................................................... 1000 operating temperature normal –4° to 140°f (–20° to 60°c) signal stalker 14° to 140°f (–10° to 60°c) scan speed .......................