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Setting the scanner to the trunk tracking mode, Setting squelch for the trunk tracking mode, Programming trunked frequencies – Radio Shack PRO-2050 User Manual

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SETTING THE SCANNER

TO THE TRUNK
TRACKING MODE

Press

TRUNK

to switch between the

scanner’s conventional and trunk
tracking modes.

SETTING SQUELCH FOR
THE TRUNK TRACKING
MODE

Your scanner’s squelch setting is au-
tomatically adjusted in the trunking
mode, which means you do not need
to manually adjust squelch while
tracking trunked transmissions. How-
ever, the squelch setting can affect
how fast your scanner acquires the
data channel, and, in some instances,
can prevent your scanner from acquir-
ing the data channel at all.

We recommend you set

SQUELCH

to

this position before selecting a trunked
bank.

Note: You can change this setting, if
necessary, to provide better perfor-
mance in your area.

PROGRAMMING
TRUNKED
FREQUENCIES

Before you program your scanner to
track a trunked system, consider the
following:

• Valid trunked system frequencies

range from 851.0000–868.9875 in
12.5 kHz steps.

• You can use any of your scanner’s

banks as either a trunk tracking
bank or conventional scanning
bank, but you cannot mix the two.

• The scanner only scans one

trunked system at a time. Al-
though you can store frequencies
for more than one trunked system
in one of your scanner’s banks,
the scanner only scans the fre-
quencies associated with the first
data channel it finds.

Before scanning a trunked system’s
transmissions, you must store the
trunked system’s frequencies in one of
the banks in your scanner by following
these steps.

1. Hold down

TRUNK

until the scanner

beeps twice.

BANK

,

TRUNK

, and

the bank numbers flash.

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