Realistic PRO-50 - Special Features; Delay; Manually Selecting a Channel; Locking Out Channels

SPECIAL FEATURES
DELAY
Many agencies use a two-way radio system that might have
a pause of several seconds between a query and a reply. To
program a delay to keep from missing a reply on a specific
channel, select the channel and press */DLY so D appears
on the display. The scanner pauses for two seconds on a
channel programmed with a delay.
MANUALLY SELECTING A CHANNEL
You can continuously monitor a specific channel without
scanning. This is useful if you hear a broadcast on a chan¬
nel and do not want to miss any details — even though
there might be periods of silence — or if you want to monitor
a specific channel.
To manually select a channel, press MANUAL. Enter the
channel number and press MANUAL again. Or, if the scan¬
ner is scanning and stops at the desired channel, press
MANUAL one time. Pressing MANUAL additional times
causes your scanner to step through the channels.
LOCKING OUT CHANNELS
You can increase the scanning speed by locking out chan¬
nels that you have not yet programmed. Manually select the
empty channel and press L-OUT/ENT so L appears on the
display. This is also handy for locking out channels that have
a continuous transmission, such as a weather channel. You
can still manually select locked-out channels.
To remove the lock-out from a channel, manually select the
channel and press L-OUT/ENT so L disappears from the dis-
play.