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Features
Your new PRO-650 Desktop Scanner lets you scan
conventional transmissions, and is preprogrammed with
search banks for convenience. By pressing a one touch
search key, you can quickly search those frequencies
most commonly used by public service and other
agencies without tedious and complicated programming.
This scanner gives you direct access to over 26,000
exciting frequencies, including those used by ambulance
services, aircraft, and amateur radio services, marine,
civil air patrol, VHF and UHF business bands, government
frequencies and some police and fire departments.
Your scanner also has these special features:
One-Touch Service Search Banks
–
Lets you search
preset frequencies in separate marine, fire/police,
aircraft, ham, FM Radio and weather bands.
Display Backlight
–
Easy to read in low-light situations.
Lockout Function
–
Lets you skip specified channels or
frequencies when scanning or searching.
Ten Channel-Storage Banks –
You can store 20
channels in each bank (200 total channels), letting you
group channels so you can more easily identify calls.
SAME/FIPS Weather Alert –
Displays weather events for
the county or counties that you choose.
Memory Backup –
Keeps the frequencies stored in
memory for an extended time.
Scan Delay –
Delays scanning for about 2 seconds, so
that you can hear replies on the same channel.
Priority Channel –
Lets you set the scanner to check
one channel every 2 seconds so that you do not miss
transmissions on that channel.
Data Cloning –
Lets you transfer the programmed data
to another PRO-650 scanner.
External Antenna Connector –
Lets you connect an
external antenna (not supplied) with a BNC connector for
improved reception of distant/weaker signals.
Scanner Basics
After you familiarize yourself with your scanner’s features
you can then set up your scanner.
Frequencies
A frequency is the waveband of the transmitting signal
(expressed in kHz or MHz). Your Pro-650 receives a range
of analog frequencies; the best resource for your local
frequencies is www.radioreference.com.
Also, you can use your scanner’s search functions to find
active frequencies in your area.
Your PRO-650 scanner can receive these bands:
Frequency Range
Types of Transmissions
29–54 MHz
10-Meter Ham, VHF Lo, 6-Meter Ham
87.3–107.9 MHz
FM Broadcast
108–136.99166 MHz Aircraft
137–174 MHz
Military Land Mobile, 2-Meter Ham,
VHF Hi
380–512 MHz
UHF Aircraft, Federal Government,
70-cm Ham, UHF Standard, UHF “T”
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Note: See “Specifications” on page 29 for more
information about frequency steps.
Channels
Channels are storage areas for frequencies saved in your
scanner’s memory. Each saved frequency is assigned a
channel.
Banks
A bank is a storage area for a group of channels. Your
scanner provides 10 banks (1 to 10) that can each store
up to 20 channels, for a total of 200 channels. You can use
the banks to group and organize frequencies.
For example, you could program the frequencies used by
your local police department starting with Channel 1 (the
first channel in bank 1) and program the fire department
frequencies starting with Channel 21 (the first channel in
bank 2).
