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PRO-96 Digital
Trunking Scanner
Catalog # 20-526
OWNER’S MANUAL —
Please read before using this equipment.
Thank you for
purchasing the
RadioShack PRO-96
Digital Handheld
Scanner. This product
is the first of an
innovative and exciting
new generation of
RadioShack scanning
receivers capable of
receiving Phase 1
APCO-25 C4FM/IMBE
digital voice
modulation from the
newest and most
sophisticated
conventional and
trunked radio
networks.
Your Radio Shack
Digital Handheld
Scanner
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TABLE OF CONTENTS Features ................................................................................... 4 The FCC Wants You to Know ................................................. 10 Scanning Legally ............................................................... 11 Getting Familiar With Your Scanner ....................................... 12 About the Keypad .............................................................. 14 Understanding Your Scanner’s Memory Organization ...... 16 Chan
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Using the Display Backlight ................................................ 72 Using the Keylock .............................................................. 74 Changing the Display Contrast ......................................... 74 Working with V-Scanners ................................................... 81 Cloning the Programmed Data .......................................... 82 Trunking Special Features ..................................................... 83 Trunking Operation ......
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FEATURES Your Radio Shack Digital Handheld Scanner features Intelligent Adaptive Digital Tracking for optimal reception of digital signals from a variety of digital conventional and trunked radio system types. No special sound quality settings or adjustments are needed for the different digital systems that you monitor. APCO-25 digital voice modulation provides public safety radio users with clear digital voice signals and other features not available in traditional analog systems. Your scanner
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operation, and M/A-COM EDACS® trunking systems. The scanner lets you scan conventional transmissions, and is preprogrammed with service search banks for your convenience. By pressing a single button, you can quickly search those frequencies most commonly used by public safety and other agencies. Your RadioShack Digital Handheld Scanner features RadioShack’s exciting new 11-in-1 V-Scanner technology. V-Scanner stands for Virtual Scanner. V- Scanner allows you to build and store eleven separate co
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Phase1APCO-25 Digital Reception – automatic detection and reception of digital voice modulation from conventional, trunked and mixed-mode networks. Intelligent Adaptive Digital Tracking – ensures optimal reception of digital signals from a variety of digital conventional and trunked radio system types. Digital AGC – automatically compensates for audio level variances in digital transmissions. Simultaneous Multi-System Trunking Operation – quickly tracks up to ten Motorola, APCO- 25 or EDACS trun
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displays the tone or code in use. Takes advantage of subaudible squelch tail elimination turn off codes when they are present. 10 ID List Banks –let youstore 1500 IDs in 10 ID banks, each with 5 ID sub-banks. 30 IDs are available in each ID sub-bank. ID text tags let you easily identify the user of a particular talkgroup ID code. Weather Priority Alert–while scanning, automatically sounds an alarm tone to advise of hazardous weather conditions when it detects the alert signal on the local Nation
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hear only the frequency you select. Preprogrammed Frequency Ranges – lets you search for transmissions within preset frequency ranges or within ranges you set, to reduce search time and select interesting frequencies more quickly. Hyperscan™ and Hypersearch™ – the scanner scans at up to 60 channels per second and searches up to 75 frequencies per second, to help you quickly find transmissions. Scan Delay – delays scanning for about 2 seconds before moving to another channel in conventional mode,
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Lock Out Function — lets you set your scanner to skip over specified channels or frequencies when scanning or searching, and skip over IDs when tracking trunked systems. Key Lock — lets you lock the scanner's keys to prevent accidentally changing the scanner's programming. Battery Save Circuit — When monitoring a single frequency, allows the receiver to sleep in between receiver activity. Flexible Antenna with BNC Connector — provides excellent reception and is designed to help prevent antenna b
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806 – 823.9875 MHz 849 – 868.9875 MHz 894 – 960 MHz 1240 – 1300 MHz Use “A General Guide To Frequencies” on Page 96 to help you target frequency ranges in your service area so you can search for a wide variety of transmissions. THE FCC WANTS YOU TO KNOW This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a scanning receiver, pursuant to Part 15 of the FCC Rules. These limits are designed to provide reasonable protection against harmful interference in a residential in
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Increase the separation between the equipment and receiver. Connect the equipment into an outlet on a circuit different from that to which the receiver is connected. This device complies with Part 15 of the FCC Rules. Operation is subject to the following two conditions: This device may not cause harmful interference. This device must accept any interference received, including interference that may cause undesired operation. SCANNING LEGALLY Your scanner covers frequencies used by many differen
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According to the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA), you are subject to fines and possible imprisonment for intentionally listening to, using, or divulging the contents of such a transmission unless you have the consent of a party to the communication (unless such activity is otherwise illegal). This scanner has been designed to prevent reception of illegal transmissions. This is done to comply with the legal requirement that scanners be manufactured so as to not be easily modifiable t
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manual thoroughly so that you may fully understand the advanced features and capabilities of your PRO-96 scanning receiver. Once you understand a few simple terms used in this manual and familiarize yourself with your scanner's features, you can put the scanner to work for you. You simply determine which frequencies and trunking systems you want to receive, and then program the scanner to scan them. A frequency is the receiving signal location (expressed in MHz). To find active frequencies, you
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stored there. Each time the scanner finds an active frequency, it stops and monitors the radio traffic on that channel until the transmission ends, then resumes scanning. For detailed programming instructions, see “Programming Your Scanner” on Page 30. ABOUT THE KEYPAD Here is a brief overview of your scanner's keys and their functions. SCAN — scans through the programmed channels. FUNC — lets you use various functions by pressing this key in combination with other keys. When using the FUNC key,
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å/ 7 — turns on/off the display's backlight, or when used with FUNC locks/unlocks the keypad to prevent accidental entries. TUNE — allows you input a frequency and tunes up or down automatically or manually with the or keys. ATT — turns attenuation on to reduce the scanner's sensitivity and block extremely strong signals, or turns it off to increase sensitivity. or — selects the scan or search direction. SRCH — lets you search the seven search banks. L/OUT — lets you lock out a selected chan
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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, X, Y, or Z. 0 — enters a zero, or inputs characters . - # _ @ + * & / , $ % ! ^ ()? ’. ./DELAY — enters a decimal point (necessary when programming frequencies), space, or programs delay time for the selected channel/search bank, or hyphen (in trunking ID setting). CLR — clears an incorrect
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Scanner feature to build and store configurations for different areas or different scanner applications. Using the cloning feature it is possible to exchange scanner configurations with your friends without losing your existing data. V-Scanners also provide a way for you to easily back up your programmed data without connecting your scanner to a personal computer. Each V-Scanner folder stores all channel storage banks, channels, trunking Ids, search settings, and other parameters associated with
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For example, a particular city might use four frequencies for police communications, and four frequencies for fire communications. You could program the police frequencies starting with 000 (the first channel in bank 0) and program the fire department frequencies starting with 100 (the first channel in bank 1). This gives you the ability to quickly select what you wish to monitor by activating or deactivating the appropriate channel storage bank. When looking at channel numbers, the first digit
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UNDERSTANDING YOUR Ó HINT Ó SCANNER’S CHANNEL For example, if you wanted to find active RECEIVE MODES frequencies between a You can program each channel range of 150.1000 and with any one of six receive modes 150.5000, you would put (AM, FM/Digital, CTCSS, DCS, both of those Motorola, and EDACS). frequencies in the limit search bank. Each receive mode affects how your scanner operates when scanning and receiving transmissions.Ô Ô NOTES Ô AM Mode (AM) Trunked modes The AM mode sets the scan
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mode, it always stops on the transmission. CTCSS Mode (CT) CTCSS mode sets the scanner to receive transmissions using frequency modulation (FM) with Continuous Tone Coded Squelch System (CTCSS) subaudible tone codes. CTCSS allows multiple users to share a single radio frequency without hearing each other’s transmissions. In your PRO-96 scanner, the CTCSS feature can be used to block the reception of transmissions on shared channel to only those that use the CTCSS tone that you have specified. CT
