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This product is warranted by

RadioShack

against manufacturing

defects in material and workmanship under normal use for one (1) year
from the date of purchase from

RadioShack

company -owned stores

and authorized

RadioShack

franchisees and dealers. For complete

warranty details and exclusions, check with your local

RadioShack

store.

RadioShack

Customer Relations

300 RadioShack Circle, Fort Worth, TX 76102
04/04

20-162
Printed in China
UBZZ01350ZZ(0)
06A06

Summary of Contents for PRO-162

Page 1: ...hile trunking or turn Signal Stalker Ⅰ on and off MAN Manual MENU manually enter a channel enter the menu mode SRCH Search TUNE start a chain search start a service search search a specified frequency range enter the fine tune mode TRUNK MODE enter the Talk Group ID program mode select the modulation for trunking system WX starts weather search activates Skywarn function PSE Pause TEXT stops and r...

Page 2: ... supplies 9V DC and delivers at least 300mA Its center tip must be set to positive and its plug must fit the scanner s DC 9V 300mA jack You can use an Adaptaplug B of optional AC adaptors Using an adapter that does not meet these specifications could damage the scanner or the adapter Ni MH when using rechargeable Ni MH AA batteries not included The scanner stops charging automatically after 14 hou...

Page 3: ...ause discomfort might still damage your hearing If you use an earphone or headphones with your scanner be very careful Do not listen to a continuous broadcast Even though some earphones headphones let you hear some outside sounds when listening at normal volume levels they still can present a traffic hazard attaching the belt clip Use a Phillips head screwdriver and the supplied screws to attach t...

Page 4: ...stead of doing a chain search see service bank search channel storage banks To make it easier to identify and select the channels you want to listen to all the channels are divided into 40 banks of 50 channels Use each channel storage bank to group frequencies such as those for the police department fire department ambulance services or aircraft For example the police department might use four fre...

Page 5: ... next active transmission Press DELAY to turn the delay function off or on See delay The scanner stores this setting in the channel 7 To program the next channel in sequence press or and repeat Steps 5 and 6 Programming channels text tag You can customize your scanner by storing text tags up to 16 characters for easy identification of channel 1 Press ENT PGM to put the scanner in programming mode ...

Page 6: ... n 7 Press to move cursor 8 Press 6 MNO 2 times to enter n 9 Press 3 DEF 2 times to enter e 10 Press 7 PQRS 3 times to enter r 11 Press ENT to end your text entry Number of times key is pressed Keys 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 1 2 ABC A B C 2 3 DEF D E F 3 4 GHI G H I 4 5 JKL J K L 5 6 MNO M N O 6 7 PQRS P Q R S 7 8 TUV T U V 8 9 WXYZ W X Y Z 9 0 Space _ Press A a to choose the input mode Capital letter S...

Page 7: ...eive interference where there are several stations with output frequencies close to each other When this occurs you might hear multiple communications on the same frequency The stations might even interfere with each other to the point where it is impossible to clearly receive any of the stations A scanner equipped with CTCSS and DCS like your scanner can code each received frequency with a specif...

Page 8: ...uency Delete Source Channel appears 7 To moving a frequency press ENT PGM Or to copying a frequency press CL searching for and temporarily storing active frequencies If you do not have a reference to frequencies in your area use a chain fine tune or service search except weather search to find a transmission Beyond the Basics Notes While doing a chain fine tune or service bank search press DELAY i...

Page 9: ...he smallest empty channel number and 000 0000 and the frequency you want to store are displayed 3 Press ENT PGM to enter the frequency After programming the scanner returns to the previous mode programming search ranges You can define the search range during a chain search in each search bank 1 Press ENT PGM to go to program mode 2 Press SRCH to go to programming search bank mode 3 Press or to sel...

Page 10: ... and police departments it can take several minutes to search all the service frequencies weather search You can also search for weather transmissions To start weather search 1 Press WX WX appears You can change the search direction by using or 2 If you want to stop the search press PSE PAUSE appears search skip memory You can skip up to 200 specified frequencies during a chain fine tune and servi...

Page 11: ... without scanning This is useful if you hear an emergency broadcast on a channel and do not want to miss any details even though there might be periods of silence or if you want to monitor a specific channel Press MAN to stop scanning enter the channel number and then press SCAN The selected channel appears Or during scanning if the radio stops at a desired channel press PSE During pausing scan mo...

Page 12: ...last bank remains programming scan bank list You can create the scan list up to 20 lists that you want to scan bank And you can scan the scan list that you want to use it Press FUNC and then press MENU to go to menu Then press or and ENT PGM to select the scan list menu And set the following items Edit Text You can program the scan list text tag that you want Save scan list You can save the scan l...

Page 13: ...o Channel appears when you activate the priority feature To unlock any desired priority channels see locking out channels 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 KEYLOCK To turn on the keylock hold down KEYLOCK until appears To turn it off hold down KEYLOCK until disappears wi...

Page 14: ...als If you press a key except within 5 seconds the display remains lighted for more than 15 seconds To turn auto backlight display on or off 1 Press FUNC and then press MAN MENU 2 Repeatedly press or to select Back Light then press ENT PGM 3 Repeatedly press or to select Auto Light then press ENT PGM 3 Repeatedly press or to select ON or OFF then press ENT PGM 4 Press L O to exit the menu mode or ...

Page 15: ...CS code Select your setting and then press the scroll control To turn on or off CTCSS DCS feature press FUNC then CL CTCSS DCS On the scanner s displays CTCSS DCS ON or CTCSS DCS OFF appear for 1 second Note When CTCSS DCS is ON in Scan Mode or Manual Mode the scanner works according to setting of channel Or when CTCSS DCS is ON in Chain Search or Fine Tune or Signal Stalker the scanner searches C...

Page 16: ... ALERT for about 1 second The tones sound in the order Advisory level Watch level then Warning level and WX ALERT TEST flashes Each alert code appears as its tone sounds Press any key to end the test sequence programming a FIPS code To specify a county SAME uses a standard established by the US Census bureau called FIPS The format of a FIPS code is PSSCCC where P area subdivision 0 entire area SS ...

Page 17: ...our area into Bank39 49 If no frequency is programmed in the last channel Skywarn Freq is not stored appears and the scanner sounds an error tone The scanner has 10 channels for skywarn bank39ch 40 49 Press or to select the skywarn channel only then press MAN to exit skywarn about Skywarn Skywarn is an organized group of trained weather observers A Skywarn group exists in virtually every US County...

Page 18: ...following Signal Stalker I options appears Band Switch Lets you select the Signal Stalker I band Alert Beep Lets you select the Signal Stalker I alert settings Alert Light Lets you select the Signal Stalker I back light settings Pager Screen Lets you select the pager screen settings Only Mode Lets you select the Signal Stalker I mode settings Voice Interrupt Lets you select the Signal Stalker I vo...

Page 19: ...ode band meter for Signal Stalker This meter allows you to see which band Signal Stalker is searching for When a strong and consistent signal is detected this meter will rise up to Max And the scanner is tuned to the signal and shows up the band where the signal is detected However there is a case that the scanner might not be able to catch the signal even if this meter rises to MAX It is because ...

Page 20: ...cies are programmed in trunk mode If a system is inactive for 1 second and there are no conventional channels in the bank the scanner starts scanning the next selected trunk bank If you turned DELAY on the scanner starts scanning the next trunk bank after about 2 seconds setting squelch for the trunking mode For trunked reception a good squelch setting is in the center of the range with the white ...

Page 21: ...looks through the frequencies you see them on the display When the scanner finds the controlling data channel the scanner begins trunking programming trunked banks Follow these steps to select and program trunk bank mode 1 Press TRUNK in conventional programming mode to go to Program Trunk Bank Mode 2 Press or to select the desired trunked system Note List of trunked systems as follows You See Tru...

Page 22: ... listen awhile To locate talk group ID lists for your local police fire and other agencies refer to frequency guides available at your local RadioShack store or on internet sites such as www trunkscanner com You can also determine the type of agency you are listening to after a short while be it a police fire or emergency medical 2 way radio user Once you have identified the type of service note t...

Page 23: ...e ID is actually 23779 If you are scanning a Motorola Type I system and do not have a fleet map for that system you might have to turn off status bit ignore in order to determine the proper fleet map Important If you are scanning any system other than a Motorola Type I system be sure status bit ignore is set to YES or you will miss some transmissions Follow these steps to turn status bit ignore ye...

Page 24: ... encrypted as well and most are not voice signals Since all these are assigned IDs just like other users you may want to lock out reception of these ID signals The scanner allows that you lock out up to 50 IDs for each trunk scanning bank If you use all the banks as trunking banks you can lock out up to 2000 IDs at one time Note If you lock out an ID while searching it is also locked out of the sc...

Page 25: ... IDs begin to display for each for 500 ms You won t hear conversations in this mode but this is an excellent way to determine which Talk Group IDs are the most active Note When you monitor IDs any IDs you have locked out also appear using talk group ID lists When you program trunked frequencies into a bank see programming trunked frequencies your scanner sets up ten scan lists for that one bank in...

Page 26: ...al format See selecting the EDACS Ed talk group ID format AFS allows you to enter full or partial EDACS Talk Group IDs To enter a full EDACS ID 1 Enter the Agency number 2 Press DELAY to enter the dash 3 Enter the fleet number and subfleet number 4 Press ENT PGM entering EDACS partial talk groups You can enter partial group numbers in an EDACS talk group By entering only the desired portion of a g...

Page 27: ...s Press SCAN to begin scanning the lists you have stored To remove a scan list from active scanning use the number keys to enter the scan list s number The scan list number turns off and the IDs in that list are not scanned Note One of the ten scan lists must always be active You cannot remove all of them To restore a scan list to active scanning use the number keys to enter the number of the list...

Page 28: ...e www trunkscanner com If you do not already know the size codes used you will have to guess Since you do not have to figure out all the blocks at one time this is not as hard as it might seem Select a size code for a block then press SCAN and listen to the conversations If you are receiving most of the replies then you have probably selected the right size code and can program the next block of t...

Page 29: ...en menu mode 2 Select the Trunk Option Select Bank Select Trunk Sys 3 Repeatedly press or to select MOT 800 or MOT 800 CUSTOM system and press ENT PGM 4 Repeatedly press or to select Edit Fleet Map and press ENT PGM 5 Repeatedly press or to select the custom map and press ENT PGM 6 Repeatedly press or to select the size code for first block and press ENT PGM Then the next available block appear Fo...

Page 30: ...n press ENT PGM 8 Repeatedly press or to select Spacing and press ENT PGM 9 Repeatedly press or to select desired spacing frequency and press ENT PGM For MOT 800 CUSTOM Motorola Type I Type II and Hybrid 800 MHz use 12 5 kHz or 25kHz steps For MOT VHF Motorola Type II VHF use 5 kHz steps between 5 kHz 100 kHz For MOT UHF Motorola Type II UHF use 12 5 kHz steps between 12 5 kHz 100 kHz 10 Repeatedl...

Page 31: ...unction is activated To turn off the keylock press KEYLOCK until disappears Why is flashing Recharge the rechargeable batteries or replace the alkaline batteries Why am I getting poor or no reception Batteries are weak or completely discharged Check the batteries or make sure the AC adapter or DC adapter is connected properly Make sure an antenna is connected to the scanner Why does Error appear P...

Page 32: ...ing it off and on to see if it begins working properly Reset the scanner only when you are sure it is not working properly 1 Turn off the scanner 2 While holding down 2 9 and PSE turn on the scanner Initializing Please wait for about 5 seconds as the scanner clears its memory Note Do not turn off the scanner again until Initializing Please wait disappear Otherwise the scanner might not clear its m...

Page 33: ...ose transmissions Do not open your scanner s case to make any modifications that could allow it to pick up transmissions that it is not legal to listen to Doing so could subject you to legal penalties We encourage responsible legal scanner use care Keep the scanner dry if it gets wet wipe it dry immediately Use and store the scanner only in normal temperature environments Handle the scanner carefu...

Page 34: ...ction at 162 40 MHz 80 dB at 453 25 MHz 44 dB Channels 2000 Operating Temperature Normal 4 to 140 F 20 to 60 C Signal Stalker I 14 to 140 F 10 to 60 C Scan Speed 97 Channels Second Search Speed Normal 90 Steps Second Hypersearch 260 Steps Second IF Frequencies 380 75 MHz 265 55MHz 10 85 MHz 450 kHz Antenna Impedance 50O Audio Output 270 mW maximum Built in Speaker 1 1 4 Inches 32 mm 8O Dynamic Typ...

Page 35: ... 1 year from the date of purchase from RadioShack company owned stores and authorized RadioShack franchisees and dealers For complete warranty details and exclusions check with your local RadioShack store RadioShack Customer Relations 300 RadioShack Circle Fort Worth TX 76102 04 04 20 162 Printed in China UBZZ01350ZZ 0 06A06 ...

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