Realistic PRO-2024 - Turning Banks On and Off; Using the Priority Feature; Manually Selecting a Channel; General Scanning Guide

TURNING BANKS ON AND
OFF
To turn banks on and off, you must be
in the scan mode.
Press [SCAN], The bank numbers ap¬
pear on the display and your scanner
begins to scan.
To turn off a bank, press the number
key that corresponds to that bank.
The bank number disappears.
The scanner does not scan any of the
channels within that bank, but you
can still manually select any channel
in that bank.
Note: You can turn all but one bank
off.
To turn on a bank, press the number
key that corresponds to that bank.
The bank number appears on the dis¬
play.
The scanner scans all the channels
within that bank (except the ones that
you have locked out.)
USING THE PRIORITY
FEATURE
Channel 1 is designated as your
scanner’s priority channel. You can
turn on the priority feature so that you
do not miss transmissions on Channel
1 , even if you are monitoring another
channel.
Press [PRIORITY] so that PRI appears
on the display. Now your scanner
checks Channel 1 every 2 seconds,
and stays on the channel if there is
any activity.
MANUALLY SELECTING A
CHANNEL
You can continuously monitor a single
channel without scanning. This is use¬
ful if you hear an emergency broad¬
cast on a channel and do not want to
miss any of the details-even though
there might be periods of silence-or,
if you want to monitor a channel that
you have locked out.
To select a channel to monitor, press
[MANUAL], enter the channel number,
and then press [MANUAL] again. Or,
if your scanner is scanning and has
stopped at the desired channel, sim¬
ply press [MANUAL] one time. Press¬
ing [MANUAL] additional times
causes your scanner to step through
the channels one at a time.
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A GENERAL GUIDE TO SCANNING
BIRDIES
Birdies are the products of internally
generated signals that make some fre¬
quencies difficult or impossible to re¬
ceive. If you program one of these fre¬
quencies, you hear only noise on that
frequency.
If the noise is not severe, you might
be able to cut out the birdie by turning
the SQUELCH control clockwise. The
most common birdies to watch for are
listed below.
Birdie Frequencies
Low Band
(MHz)
High Band
(MHz)
38.4000
47.9200
51.2000
138.0000
140.8000
149.4000
149.7550
153.6000
162.2000
166.4000
Air Band
(MHz)
UHF Band
(MHz)
120.0000
120.2000
122.5500
123.1000
128.0000
128.3750
132.2000
510.6500
512.0000
RECEPTION NOTES
Reception of the frequencies covered
by your scanner is mainly “line of
sight.” That means you usually cannot
hear stations at your listening location
that extend beyond the horizon.
During the summer months, you
might be able to hear stations in the
30-50 MHz range located several hun¬
dred or even thousands of miles
away. This is caused by summer at¬
mospheric conditions. This type of re¬
ception is unpredictable but often very
interesting!
One very useful service is the National
Weather Service’s continuous weather
broadcasts. These broadcasts contain
weather forecasts and data for the
area around the station, plus bulletins
on any threatening weather condi¬
tions. These stations use three fre¬
quencies: 162.40, 162.475, or 162.55
MHz. In most areas of the country,
you can receive one of these frequen¬
cies.
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