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Owner’s Manual Cat. No. 20-196
PRO-2067 500-Channel
Mobile Trunk-Tracking Scanner
Please read before using this equipment.
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20-196a.fm Page 2 Friday, June 2, 2000 3:48 PM INTRODUCTION Your new RadioShack 500-Channel The scanner also lets you scan con- Mobile Trunk-Tracking Scanner is one ventional transmissions, and is pre- of a new generation of scanners de- programmed with service-search signed to track Motorola Type I, banks for convenience. By pressing a Type II (such as Smartnet and Priva- single button, you can quickly search cy Plus ), GE/Ericsson EDACS, E.F. those frequencies most commonly Johnson LTR
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20-196a.fm Page 3 Friday, June 2, 2000 3:48 PM Simultaneous Trunking Operation Clone/Remote PC Function — lets — you can scan all 3 types of trunking you transfer programmed data directly systems, and both trunking and con- to another Cat. No. 20-196 or Cat. No. ventional frequencies, at the same 20-522 scanner. You can also upload time. or download the programmed data to or from a PC using an optional inter- Text Input — you can manually enter face kit. the name of the service you are listen
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20-196a.fm Page 4 Friday, June 2, 2000 3:48 PM HyperSearch and HyperScan — Your scanner can receive these let you set the scanner to search at up bands: to 50 steps per second and scan at up to 25 channels per second, to help Frequency Types of you quickly find interesting transmis- Range (MHz) Transmissions sions. 29–54 10-Meter Ham, VHF DIN-E Size Cabinet Lo, 6-Meter Ham 108–136.9875 Aircraft Supplied Frequency Guide — lists the frequencies for many of the public 137–174 Military Land M
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20-196a.fm Page 5 Friday, June 2, 2000 3:48 PM vices, military operations, pager ser- FCC NOTICE vices, and wireline (telephone and telegraph) service providers. It is legal Your scanner might cause radio or TV to listen to almost every transmission interference even when it is operating your scanner can receive. However, properly. To determine whether your there are some transmissions you scanner is causing the interference, should never intentionally listen to. turn off your scanner. If the
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20-196a.fm Page 6 Friday, June 2, 2000 3:48 PM CONTENTS Preparation ........................................................................................................... 8 Connecting an Antenna ................................................................................... 8 Mounting an Antenna ...................................................................................... 8 Mounting the Scanner In Your Vehicle ............................................................. 8 P
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20-196a.fm Page 7 Friday, June 2, 2000 3:48 PM Trunking Operation ............................................................................................ 36 Understanding Trunking ................................................................................ 36 Setting Squelch for the Trunking Mode ......................................................... 37 Programming Trunking Frequencies ............................................................. 37 Programming Fleet Maps ........
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20-196a.fm Page 8 Friday, June 2, 2000 3:48 PM PREPARATION outdoor antenna. For lengths over 50 CONNECTING AN feet, use RG-8 low-loss dielectric co- ANTENNA axial cable. If your antenna’s cable does not have a BNC connector, you You must install an antenna before will also need a BNC adapter (avail- you can operate the scanner. Your lo- able at your local RadioShack store). cal RadioShack store sells a variety of scanner antennas for both mobile and Follow the installation instructions base-
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20-196a.fm Page 9 Friday, June 2, 2000 3:48 PM Caution: Be sure to avoid obstruc- 6. Connect the antenna’s cable to tions behind the mounting surface. the ANT jack on the back of the scanner. Follow these steps to mount the scan- ner in your vehicle. 1. Choose a mounting location, then use the supplied mounting bracket as a template to mark the posi- tions for the mounting screw holes. 2. In the marked positions, drill holes Note: If the antenna cable’s connector slightly smaller than the sup
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20-196a.fm Page 10 Friday, June 2, 2000 3:48 PM • Always connect the adapter or DC 3. Insert the power cord’s barrel plug power cord to the scanner before into the DC 13.8V jack on the back you connect it to the power of the scanner. source. When you finish, discon- nect the adapter or DC power cord from the power source before you disconnect it from the scan- ner. • For added safety and to protect your scanner, disconnect the cable from your vehicle battery’s negative (–) terminal before you
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12V 20-196a.fm Page 11 Friday, June 2, 2000 3:48 PM 3. Plug the adapter into a standard Using Standard AC Power AC outlet. To power the scanner from an AC out- let, you need an AC adapter (not sup- plied) with a 5.5 mm outer diameter/ 2.1 mm inner diameter tip. Cautions: You must use a Class 2 power source that sup- ! plies 12V DC and deliv- ers at least 500 mA. Its center tip must be set to positive and its CONNECTING AN plug must fit the scanner's DC 13.8V jack. Using an adapter that EXTEN
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20-196a.fm Page 12 Friday, June 2, 2000 3:48 PM • Once you set VOLUME, do not CONNECTING AN increase it. Over time, your ears EARPHONE/ adapt to the volume level, so a HEADPHONES volume level that does not cause discomfort might still damage your For private listening, you can connect hearing. 1 an earphone or headphones with a /8- inch (3.5-mm) plug to the EXT SP jack CONNECTING THE CLONE on the back of the scanner. (Your local CABLE RadioShack store carries a wide se- lection of earphones
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20-196a.fm Page 13 Friday, June 2, 2000 3:48 PM UNDERSTANDING YOUR SCANNER Once you understand a few simple terms used in this manual and familiarize your- self with your scanner’s features, you can put the scanner to work for you. You sim- ply determine the type of communications you want to receive, then set the scanner to scan them. A frequency is the tuning location of a station (expressed in kHz or MHz). To find active frequencies, you can use the search function. You can also search th
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20-196a.fm Page 14 Friday, June 2, 2000 3:48 PM STEP — changes the frequency step or displays the step frequency during a search. MODE — changes the receive mode. PRI (priority) — sets and turns the priority function on or off. TEXT — lets you input text. TUNE — tunes a frequency along with s or t . SEARCH — lets you search the ten search banks. MAN — stops scanning and lets you directly enter a channel number. FUNC — lets you access various functions by pressing this key along with other key
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20-196a.fm Page 15 Friday, June 2, 2000 3:48 PM — enters a decimal point (necessary when programming frequencies), space, or • hyphen (in Motorola type I code setting). ENTER —enters frequencies, text, and so on. TRUNK — stores the trunking ID code or holds the trunking ID while scanning. L/OUT (lockout) — lets you lock out a selected channel, skip a specified frequency during search, or lock out a selected ID code. CLEAR — clears an incorrect entry. PROG (program) — programs frequencies int
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20-196a.fm Page 16 Friday, June 2, 2000 3:48 PM A LOOK AT THE DISPLAY no signal) Receiving a Signal ( • Priority Freq. (T)runked Attenuate ( no attenuation) • Delay ( no delay) • Scanning Up) Locked ( Ou Out t Channel ( Scanning Down) 00–(49) Bank 0–(9) Current Manual Mode Mode is FM Current Frequency Current Bank Channel Stored Text Manual Mode (AM or FM) Channel 00–(49) (+) Open Bank 1 (–) Closed (M)anual Mode Motorola (P)rogram (S)can (I)D Program Detecting a Trunking or Tone Signal
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20-196a.fm Page 17 Friday, June 2, 2000 3:48 PM Bank Off • Selected for Scanning + in Open Mode Selected for Scanning – in Closed Mode Scan Mode 6 and 7 are turned off Search Mode Searching Frequency for Range Delay Scanning Up in Bank 3 Search Mode AM Received Frequency Stepping Search Mode Search Bank 5 Motorola Search Mode Search Mode 17
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20-196a.fm Page 18 Friday, June 2, 2000 3:48 PM UNDERSTANDING UNDERSTANDING BANKS CTCSS/DCS Continuous Tone Coded Squelch Sys- Channel Storage Banks tem (CTCSS) and Digital Coded Squelch (DCS) are two methods used To make it easier to identify and select to prevent interference by other radio the channels you want to listen to, communications. Your scanner can channels are divided into 10 banks receive transmissions that use these (0–9) of 50 channels (00 to 49) each. codes. Use each channel
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20-196a.fm Page 19 Friday, June 2, 2000 3:48 PM When you set a channel storage bank UNDERSTANDING YOUR to open mode, + (open) appears un- SCANNER’S MODES der the bank’s number while scanning. When you set a channel storage bank Open and Closed Modes to closed mode, – (closed) appear un- der the channel storage bank's num- You can set your scanner to change ber while scanning. Or, OPEN or the way it receives signals. These set- CLOSED appears while the scanner is tings, called open mode and c
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20-196a.fm Page 20 Friday, June 2, 2000 3:48 PM When the scanner receives a trans- When the scanner receives a trans- mission on a channel set to the LTR mission on a channel set to the Motor- mode, it first decodes the LTR data in- ola mode, it first decodes the talk cluded with the transmission. In the group ID data included with the trans- open mode, the scanner stops on the mission. In the open mode, the scan- transmission and displays the talk ner stops on the transmission and group ID o
