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Turning the key tone off/on, Turning the battery save function off/on, Beep – Radio Shack Race Scanner User Manual

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Notes:

• You can use Hypersearch only in the 5 kHz step bands (29–54

MHz and 137–174 MHz.

• Since the marine service bank is not in one of the 5 kHz step

bands, you cannot use Hypersearch in the marine service bank.

TURNING THE KEY TONE OFF/ON

Your scanner comes set so each time you press a key, you hear a
tone. To turn off the key tone, follow these steps.

1. Turn off the scanner.

2. While holding down

L-OUT/S/S,

turn on the scanner.

OFF

bEEP

appears for about 3 seconds.

To turn the key tone back on, repeat these steps so

on

bEEP

appears.

TURNING THE BATTERY SAVE FUNCTION
OFF/ON

To save battery power when a channel is manually selected or when
you are programming the scanner, the scanner has a battery save
function which automatically sets the scanner to a standby mode if no
button is pressed for 5 seconds when no signal is detected, and sets
the scanner back to full power mode when it detects a button press or
receives a signal. The battery save function is set to

on

at the factory,

but you can change it.

appears when the function is active.

Note: If priority is turned on, the battery save function does not work
even if a channel is manually selected.

To turn the battery save function off or back on, turn off the scanner,
then hold down

PRIORITY/H/S

and turn on the scanner.

OFF

SAVE

or

on

SAVE

briefly appears.

R A C E

M A N

PR OG

B AN D

SC A N

HOLD

D A T A

1

2

3

1- 10

11-20

21-30

H/S

S / S

4

5

6

31-40

41-50

51-60

PRIORITY

L -O U T

D E L

7

8

9

6 1 - 7 0

7 1 - 8 0

8 1 - 9 0

0

E

91-100

K E Y L O C K C L E A R

W X

S

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