PRO-74 100-Channel VHF/UHF/Air/800 MHz Race Scanner
(200-0513A)                Special Features           Faxback Doc. # 60419

Turning Memory Banks On And Off

You can turn each memory bank on and off.  When you turn off a bank, the 
scanner does not scan any of the 10 channels in that bank.

While scanning, press the number key that corresponds to the bank you want 
to turn on or off.  When BANK appears, the scanner scans all the channels 
within the displayed banks that are not locked out (see "Locking Out 
Channels," below).

Notes: You can manually select any channel within a bank, even if that 
       bank is turned off.

       You cannot turn off all banks.  One bank must always be active.

Locking Out Channels

You can increase the scanning speed by locking out channels that have a 
continuous transmission, such as a weather channel. To lock out a channel, 
manually select the channel, then press L-OUT so L/O appears.  You can 
still manually select locked channels.

To remove the lockout from a channel, manually select the channel and 
Press L-OUT so L/O disappears from the display. Or, to unlock all channels 
or frequencies in the banks that are turned on, press MAN to stop scanning 
then hold down L-OUT until the scanner beeps twice.

Note: If you select a weather frequency by pressing WX and then lock out 
      that frequency, the scanner stores the frequency in its search skip 
      memory.  Follow the steps under "Search Skip Memory" in Faxback Doc.
      # 60418 to remove the lockout from the weather frequency. 

Priority

The priority feature lets you scan through channels and still not miss 
important or interesting calls on specific channels.  You can program one 
channel in each bank as a priority channel (for up to a total of 10 
priority channels).  If the priority feature is turned on, as the scanner 
scans a bank, the scanner checks that bank's priority channel every 2 
seconds for activity.

The scanner automatically designates each bank's first channel as its 
priority channel.  Follow these steps to select a different channel as the 
priority channel.

1.  Press PROG.

2.  Enter the channel number you want to select as the priority channel, 
    then press PRIORITY.  P appears to the right of the channel number. 

3.  Repeat Steps 1-2 for the channel in each bank you want to program as a 
    priority channel.

To confirm all priority channel numbers, press PROG, then repeatedly press 
PRIORITY to step through the priority channels.

To turn on the priority feature, press PRIORITY during scanning.  PRI 
appears.

To turn off the priority feature, press PRIORITY again.  PRI disappears.

Notes: The priority feature must be turned off to use the data skip 
       feature (see "Skipping Data Signals" below).

       You can lock out priority channels.  If you lock out all priority 
       channels, LOC Out and P appear when you turn on the priority 
       feature.

Using The Keylock

Once you set up and store channels into your scanner, you can protect it 
from accidental changes by turning on the keylock feature.  When locked, 
the only controls that operate are SCAN, MAN, KEYLOCK/(light symbol), 
VOLUME, and SQUELCH.

To turn on the keylock, hold down, KEYLOCK until K/L appears.  To turn it 
off, hold down KEYLOCK until K/L disappears.

Using The Display Backlight

You can turn on the display backlight for easy viewing at night.  Press
(light symbol) to turn it on for 15 seconds.  To turn it off before 15 
seconds elapse, press the button again.

Changing Search Speeds

The PRO-74 has two search speeds.

    Normal Search          Hypersearch

  100 steps/second       300 steps/second

To switch between normal and Hypersearch speeds during a service bank or 
direct search, press H/S.  HYPER appears during Hypersearch.

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.  
[S] 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.

Skipping Data Signals

You can set the scanner so it skips non-modulated or data signals (such as 
modem transmissions) during a search or scan.

Note: Since data signals are not generally found in the air band, this 
      feature does not work in the air band.
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To turn on the data skip feature, press DATA.  DATA appears.  To turn off 
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the feature, press DATA again.  DATA disappears.

(BR EB 7/7/00)

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