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Changing scanning and search speeds, Skipping data signals – Radio Shack PRO-2048 User Manual

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To unlock a channel, manually select
the channel, then press

L/O/SEARCH

SKIP

so

LOCKOUT

disappears.

To unlock all channels, while the
scanner is scanning, select the
banks containing the locked chan-
nels you want to unlock, press

MAN-

UAL

, then hold down

L/O/SEARCH

SKIP

until the scanner beeps twice.

CHANGING SCANNING
AND SEARCH SPEEDS

The PRO-2048 has two scan and
three search speeds.

To change the

scanning speed, dur-

ing scanning, press

SPEED

to switch

between normal and HyperScan
speeds.

SCAN

flashes during Hyper-

Scan speed.

To change the

search speed, during

a limit, direct, or weather search,
press

SPEED

to switch between the

normal and high speed search
speeds. s or t flashes during high
speed search.

Type

Speed

Normal Scan

HyperScan

12 channels/

second

50 channels/

second

Normal Search

High Speed
Search

HyperSearch

50 steps/second

100 steps/

second

300 steps/

second (5 kHz

steps only)

To select the HyperSearch speed,
during a limit or direct search, press

PRI/HYPER SEARCH.

SEARCH

flash-

es during HyperSearch speed.

Note: You can use HyperSearch
speed only in 5 kHz-step bands.

SKIPPING DATA
SIGNALS

You can set the scanner to skip non-
modulated or data signals (such as
control signals for pagers or trunked
systems) when searching or scan-
ning.

Note: This feature does not work and

DATA

does not appear in the AM

mode. Also, the scanner might not
skip data signals that have varied
patterns of pauses and frequencies.

To skip data signals, press

DATA

.

DATA

appears.

To turn off data skip, press

DATA

so

DATA

disappears.

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