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PRO-95 Dual Trunk-Tracking
Handheld Scanner
20-525 OWNER’S MANUAL — Please read before using this equipment.
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Features ................. 2
The FCC Wants You
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Scanning
Legally ............... 7
Preparation ............ 9
Power Sources .. 9 SCAN TRUNK
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Features About Your FEATURES Scanner ............... 15 Your RadioShack Handheld About the Scanner is one of a new Keypad ................. 16 generation of scanners designed Quick Start ........... 19 Understanding to track Motorola Type I and II Banks ................... 19 (such as Smartnet and Privacy Channel Storage Plus ) and hybrid analog trunking Banks .............. 19 systems, and GE/Ericsson Search Banks .. 20 (EDACS ) type systems, which Understanding Your are extensively use
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Using the most commonly used by public Attenuator ....... 50 service and other agencies. Turning the Key Tone On and This scanner gives you direct Off ................... 51 access to over 59,000 frequencies Using the Display including those used by police and Backlight ......... 51 fire departments, ambulance Using the services, government agencies, Keylock ........... 52 air, and amateur radio services. Changing the Display Your scanner includes these Contrast .......... 53 features: Cloning t
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Features Reviewing Locked- Digital Weather Alert —displays Out Talk Group the weather event text with four IDs ................... 67 alert levels so you can see and Clearing Talk hear the reason for the alert. Group IDs ........ 67 Clearing All Talk Data Cloning — lets you transfer Group IDs in the programmed data to another One Bank ........ 67 PRO-95 scanner. You can also Changing the upload or download the Open/Closed programmed data to or from a PC Mode ............... 68 using an optional
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Priority Channel —letsyou set the scanner to check one channel every 2 seconds so you do not miss transmissions. Attenuate — lets you program your scanner to reduce the scanner's sensitivity to strong local signals, to reduce interference or noise caused by these signals. Text Input — lets you input a text label for each channel, talk group ID, bank, or other memory location so you can easily identify the transmission. Lock Out Function — lets you set your scanner to skip over specified channels
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The FCC Wants You to Know a vehicle using a DC adapter (not supplied). Supplied Trunking Guide — provides a quick reference to public safety trunking radio systems in the United States. Your scanner can receive these frequencies: 25–54MHz 108 – 136.9875 MHz 137–174MHz 216.0025 – 225 MHz 406–512MHz 806 – 823.9875 MHz 849 – 868.9875 MHz 894–960MHz 1240 – 1300 MHz Use “A General Guide to Frequencies” on Page 69 to help you target frequency ranges in your service area so you can search
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instructions, may cause harmful interference to radio communications. However, there is no guarantee that interference will not occur in a particular installation. If this equipment does cause harmful interference to radio or television reception, which can be determined by turning the equipment off and on, the user is encouraged to try to correct the interference by one or more of the following measures: Reorient or relocate the receiving antenna. Increase the separation between the equipme
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The FCC Wants You to Know companies, amateur radio services, military operations, pager services, and wireline (telephone and telegraph) service providers. It is legal to listen to almost every transmission your scanner can receive. However, there are some transmissions you should never intentionally listen to. These include: Telephone conversations (cellular, cordless, or other private means of telephone signal transmission) Pager transmissions Any scrambled or encrypted transmissions Acc
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In some areas, mobile use of this Ô NOTE Ô scanner is unlawful or requires a Connecting an AC permit. Check the laws in your or DC adapter to area. the scanner dis- connects internal batteries when you PREPARATION use the supplied non-rechargeable POWER SOURCES battery holder, but You can power your scanner from it does not discon- nect internal bat- any of three sources: teries when you internal non-rechargeable use the supplied rechargeable batteries or rechargeable battery holder. batter
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Preparation You must charge rechargeable WARNING o o batteries before you use them the Never install non- first time. See “Charging rechargeable Rechargeable Batteries” on batteries in the Page 11. rechargeable yellow o battery holder. Non- Follow these steps to install the rechargeable batteries: batteries can get hot or explode if you try 1. Press in on the battery to recharge them. compartment cover on the back of the scanner and slide CAUTION The battery holde r the cover down to r
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Charging Rechargeable WARNING o o Batteries Always dispose of Your scanner has a built-in old batteries charging circuit that lets you promptly and charge nickel-metal hydride (Ni- properly. Do not bury MH) or nickel cadmium (Ni-CD) or burn them. rechargeable batteries (not supplied) while they are in the CAUTION scanner. To charge rechargeable If you do not plan to batteries, connect an appropriate use the scanner with AC or DC adapter to the PWR DC batteries for a month or longer, remov
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Preparation 1. Connect the Adaptaplug to CAUTION the adapter's cord with the tip You set to positive. must ! use a 2. Plug the adapter's barrel plug Class 2 power into the scanner's PWRDC9V source that jack. supplies 9V DC and delivers at 3. Plug the adapter's two-prong least 300 mA. Its plug into an AC outlet. center tip must be set to positive and Using Vehicle Battery its plug must fit Power the scanner's You can power the scanner from a PWRDC9V jack. vehicle’s 12V power source (such Usi
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Connecting an Optional Antenna The antenna connector on your scanner makes it easy to use the scanner with a variety of antennas, such as an external mobile antenna or outdoor base WARNING station antenna. Your local o o RadioShackstoresellsavarietyof Use extreme caution when installing or antennas. removing an outdoor Always use 50-ohm coaxial cable, antenna. If the antenna starts to fall, such as RG-58 or RG-8, to letitgo! It could connect an outdoor antenna. For contact overhead lengths o
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Preparation Set the volume to zero before IMPORTANT ! ! putting on the headphones. The EPA With the headphones on, certified ® RBRC adjust the volume to a Battery comfortable level. Recycling Seal on the nickel- Avoid increasing the volume cadmium (Ni-Cd) once you set it. Over time, battery indicates RadioShack is your sensitivity to a volume voluntarily level decreases, so volume participating in an industry program to levels that do not cause collect and recycle discomfort might damage t
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USING THE BELT CLIP You can use the belt clip attached to the back of the scanner for hands-free carrying when you are on the go. Slide the belt clip over your belt or waistband. TRANSFERRING DATA TO AND FROM ANOTHER SCANNER OR A PC You can transfer the programmed data to and from another PRO-95 scanner using a connecting cable 1 which has /8-inch phone plugs on both ends (not supplied). Connect the cable between each scanner's PC/IF jacks. See “Cloning the Programmed Data” on Page 53. You can
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About the Keypad You can also search the SEARCH banks, which are preprogrammed frequencies in the scanner's memory (see “Searching a Preprogrammed Frequency Range” on Page 32 for the frequency list). You can even change the frequency range on one of the SEARCH banks (SR5) to limit the search. When you find a frequency, you can store it into a programmable memory location called a channel, which is grouped with other channels in a channel-storage bank. You can then scan the channel-storage banks
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TRUNK — stores the trunking ID code or holds the trunking ID while scanning. PRI (Priority) — sets and turns the priority function on or off. TEXT — lets you input text. PAUSE — stops search. MODE — changes the receive mode (AM, FM, MOT, ED). / — turns on/off the display's backlight, or when used with FUNC locks/unlocks the keypad to prevent accidental entries. TUNE — lets you input a frequency and allows you to fine tune a frequency along with or . ATT (Attenuate) — turns attenuation on to re
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About the Keypad 1 — enters a 1, or inputs characters 0 through 9 in text mode. 2/ABC — enters a 2, or inputs characters A, B, or C. 3/DEF — enters a 3, or inputs characters D, E, or F. 4/GHI — enters a 4, or inputs characters G, H, or I. 5/JKL — enters a 5, or inputs characters J, K, or L. 6/MNO — enters a 6, or inputs characters M, N, or O. 7/PQRS — enters a 7, or inputs characters P, Q, R, or S. 8/TUV — enters an 8, or inputs characters T, U, or V. 9/WXYZ — enters a 9, or inputs characters W,
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QUICK START To help familiarize yourself with the scanner’s functions, keypad, and available frequencies, you can utilize one of these three features before you begin programming the scanner. Preprogrammed Search Banks — allow you to listen to frequencies and decide which frequencies you want to store when you are ready to program thescanner. See“Searchinga Preprogrammed Frequency Range” on Page 32. Manual Tuning — allows you to manually scan through the entire range of available frequencies wit
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Understanding Your Scanner's Modes To make it easier to identify and select the channels you want to listen to, your scanner divides the channels into 10 banks (0 to 9)of 100 (00 to 99) channels each, a total of 1,000 channels. You can use each channel-storage bank to group frequencies, such as those used by Motorola trunking, EDACS trunking, Marine, CB, Police, Fire, Aircraft and Ham (see “Typical Band Usage (in MHz)” on Page 71). For example, a police department might use four frequencies, one
