20-427 Owner’s Manual Draft RadioShack 20-427 PRO-2054 300 Channel Mobile/Base Scanner Please read this user’s guide before installing, setting up and using your new product www.radioshack.com Thank you for purchasing your Pro-2054 300 channel Mobile/Base scanner from RadioShack. You can mount your scanner in a fixed position and use it as a base scanner or you can use it as a mobile scanner by mounting it in a vehicle.
0-427 Owner’s Manual Draft your scanner’s keypad WX (Weather)/(skywarn) – scans through the seven preprogrammed weather channels, or jumps to a Skywarn channel you programmed (300 CH). MAR (Marine) – lets you search the scanner’s preprogrammed marine band. F/P (Fire/Police) – lets you search the scanner’s preprogrammed fire/police band. AIR (Aircraft) – lets you search the scanner’s preprogrammed aircraft band. HAM (Amateur radio) – lets you search the scanner’s preprogrammed amateur radio band.
20-427 Owner’s Manual Draft squelch. PC/IF – connect an optional PC interface cable here to use the scanner with your computer. Headphone Symbol – attach headphones with 1/8” jack here. your scanner’s rear view ANT – connect the supplied antenna or an external antenna here. SCREW HOLE – use to mount the scanner in a car with some hardware (screw not supplied). RESET – press to reset your scanner. DC 13.8V – connect a power source here. EXT SP – connect an external speaker here.
20-427 Owner’s Manual Draft 3. Push out the top and bottom tabs to hold the sleeve firmly in place. 4. Slide the scanner into the sleeve until it locks in place. Notes: • To remove your scanner from the DIN sleeve, insert the two keys straight into the scanner’s front panel. Then, remove the scanner by pulling front panel. • When mounting in your dashboard, you will need to connect an external antenna and an external speaker.
20-427 Owner’s Manual Draft Note: When drilling holes, be sure to avoid obstructions behind the mounting surface. Consult a qualified installer if in doubt. using your scanner as a base station You can place your scanner on a desk, shelf, or table to use it as a base station. Since the speaker is on the bottom of the scanner, you may want to use the mounting bracket to elevate your scanner off the surface for better sound.
20-427 Owner’s Manual Draft through your vehicle’s ignition 1. Disconnect the cable from the negative (–) terminal of your vehicle’s battery. 2. Ground the black wire of the supplied DC power cord to your vehicle’s chassis. Note: Be sure the grounding screw makes complete contact with the metal frame of your vehicle. 3. Connect the red wire of the supplied DC power cord to a voltage source that turns on and off with the ignition switch, such as a spare accessory terminal in your vehicle’s fuse box. 4.
20-427 Owner’s Manual Draft engine while scanning. This is normal. connect the supplied antenna Push the antenna onto your scanner’s antenna connector and rotate until it locks into place. Your scanner’s sensitivity to various frequencies depends on its location and the antenna’s length.
20-427 Owner’s Manual Draft When you mount your scanner in your dashboard, you will need to connect an external speaker or headphones. add photograph listening safely To protect your hearing, follow these guidelines when you use headphones. • Adjust VOL (volume) to its lowest level before putting on headphones. With the headphones on, adjust VOL to a comfortable level. • Avoid increasing the volume once you set it.
20-427 Owner’s Manual Draft Manual Tuning – allows you to manually move through the entire range of available frequencies. (See “Specifications” for a list of the available frequency Ranges.) understanding channel storage banks A bank is a storage area for a group of channels. Channels are storage areas for frequencies. Whereas a channel can only contain one frequency, a bank can hold numerous channels.
20-427 Owner’s Manual Draft to decrease the scanner’s sensitivity to these signals. If you want to listen to a weak or distant station, turn SQ counterclockwise. • If SQ is adjusted so you always hear a hissing sound, the scanner will not scan properly. • If SQ is adjusted precisely at the threshold where the hissing sound stops, the radio will be most sensitive to very weak signals. The radio may also receive unwanted noise or signals that are too weak to understand.
20-427 Owner’s Manual Draft 3. Use the number keys and • /DELAY to enter the frequency (including the decimal point) you want to store. If you make a mistake, press CLEAR to delete a single digit or press and hold CLEAR about 2 seconds to delete all digits. 4. Press ENT to store the frequency into the channel. Notes: • If you made a mistake in Step 3, Error appears and the scanner beeps when you press ENT. Start again from Step 3.
20-427 Owner’s Manual Draft • You can use the scanner’s delay feature while searching the banks (see “Delay”). • The scanner does not search locked-out frequencies while searching ranges. See “Locking Out Channels or Frequencies”. The fire/police and ham one touch banks have separate groups of frequencies called sub-banks. This lets you search for and select only those frequencies that fall within a specific range within the fire/police and ham one-touch banks.
20-427 Owner’s Manual Draft when it detects an active signal. Zeromatic functions only in Police/Fire, Aircraft, Amateur band, and tune operation. In the aircraft band, press FUNC then press /¥ to start searching up from the lowest frequency or press ¥ / to start searching down from the highest frequency. Note: If you press PAUSE while searching, the scanner stops searching and PSE appears. Press PAUSE again, and the scanner resumes searching.
20-427 Owner’s Manual Draft copying a frequency into an bank 10’s empty channel You can copy a frequency into a vacant channel in a bank 10 (default setting) when the scanner stops on the frequency during search or tune mode. 1. Press FUNC then ENT when you find a frequency you want to copy. b-10 appears about 2 second, then vacant channel number appears. Press number key to move bank. 2. Press ENT. The scanner stores in the first available vacant channel in the bank.
20-427 Owner’s Manual Draft 3ch 162.450 MHz 4ch 162.475 MHz 5ch 162.500 MHz 6ch 162.525 MHz 7ch 162.550 MHz MAR (marine) band Note: Two frequencies are assigned in one channel in some Marine frequencies. For example, 157.000 and 161.600 are assigned in Channel 20. Receive mode: FM Ch. Frequency (MHz) Ch. Frequency (MHz) 01 156.0500 05 156.2500 06 156.3000 07 156.3500 08 156.4000 09 156.4500 10 156.5000 11 156.5500 12 156.6000 13 156.6500 14 156.7000 15 156.
20-427 Owner’s Manual Draft 66 156.3250 67 156.3750 68 156.4250 69 156.4750 70 156.5250 71 156.5750 72 156.6250 73 156.6750 74 156.7250 77 156.8750 78 156.9250 79 156.9750 80 157.0250 81 157.0750 82 157.1250 83 157.1750 84 157.2250 85 157.2750 161.8250 86 157.3250 161.8750 87 161.9250 88 157.3750 161.9750 157.4250 F/P (police/fire) band Receive Mode: FM Group Frequency (MHz) Step (kHz) 1 33.420 – 33.980 20 37.020 – 37.420 20 39.020 – 39.980 20 42.
20-427 Owner’s Manual Draft 154.650 – 154.950 15 155.010 – 155.370 60 155.415 – 155.700 15 155.730 – 156.210 60 158.730 – 159.210 60 166.250 170.150 3 4 453.0375 – 453.9625 12.5 458.0375 – 458.9625 12.5 460.0125 – 460.6375 12.5 462.5500 – 462.7250 12.5 465.0125 – 465.6375 12.5 467.5625 – 467.7125 25 851.0125 – 860.9875 25 866.0125 – 868.9875 12.5 AIR (aircraft) band Receive mode: AM Frequency (MHz) Step (kHz) 108.000 – 136.99166 8.33 Note: All scanners tune by steps.
20-427 Owner’s Manual Draft Group Frequency (MHz) Step (kHz) 1 28.0000 – 29.7000 5 2 50.0000 – 54.0000 5 3 144.0000 – 148.0000 5 4 420.0000 – 450.0000 12.5 manually tuning a frequency You can manually set the scanner to move through all receivable frequencies, or select a specific frequency as a starting point. 1. Press TUNE. The currently-tuned frequency appears. And, PSE and –t– (if zeromatic is on) appears alternately. 2.
20-427 Owner’s Manual Draft Notes: . You must store frequencies into channels before the scanner can scan them. The scanner does not scan through empty channels. . To change the scanning direction, press /¥ or ¥ /. The scanner scans through all channels (except those you have locked out) in the active banks (see “Turning Channel-Storage Banks Off and On” and “Locking Out Channels or Frequencies”).
-427 Owner’s Manual Draft 3. Press MAN again. 4. Press PROG to enter the program mode. M changes to P. 5. Press FUNC. 6. Press CLEAR. The frequency number changes and 0.0000 appears. Listening to the marine bank To listen to the marine bank, press MAR. MAr appears for about 2 seconds, then the scanner starts searching from marine channel 16. To stop searching the channels, press PAUSE. SRCH disappears and MAN appears. To change the channel manually, press /¥ or ¥ /.
20-427 Owner’s Manual Draft To listen to the weather bank, press WX. WEAthEr appears for about 2 seconds, then the scanner starts searching the weather bank. To stop searching the channels, press PAUSE. SRCH disappears and MAN appears. To change the channel manually, press /¥ or ¥ /. To search through the weather bank again, press PAUSE. MAN disappears and SRCH appears. To change the searching direction, press /¥ or ¥ /.
20-427 Owner’s Manual Draft Skywarn Many areas of the country have amateur radio repeaters that have been designated as “Skywarn” repeaters. During times of severe weather, these repeaters are used to relay reports of severe weather directly to meteorologists at a local National Weather Service (NWS) forecast office.
20-427 Owner’s Manual Draft The Signal Stalker II feature is more sensitive than portable frequency counters and will detect transmissions at a greater distance. You can activate the Attenuator to reduce the sensitivity if desired. Once an active frequency is found, the transmission is played through your scanner’s speaker, and you can quickly store it in any of your scanner’s memory locations.
20-427 Owner’s Manual Draft transmission. Press FUNC L/OUT to review or clear locked out frequencies in the Signal Stalker II. You can lock out 150 frequencies while searching all bands and 50 frequencies while searching Police/Fire frequencies. Signal Stalker II functions by rapidly sweeping through the RF spectrum in 1 MHz segments. If RF signal energy is detected in a 1 MHz segment, Signal Stalker II will sweep through the 1MHz segment in finer steps until the source of the RF signal energy is found.
20-427 Owner’s Manual Draft Note: Delay is automatically set as the default for each channel when you turn on the scanner. To turn delay on or off, press • /DELAY. When delay is on, DLY appears on the display. locking out channels or frequencies You can scan existing channels or search frequencies faster by locking out channels or frequencies that have a continuous transmission, such as a weather channel.
20-427 Owner’s Manual Draft • The scanner does not store locked out frequencies during a search. • You can lock out as many as 50 frequencies in each bank. If you try to lock out more, L–O Fr–FULL appears • If you lock out all frequencies in marine search bank, All ch L–OUt appears and the scanner does not search. reviewing locked-out frequencies To review the frequencies within a search bank that you locked out: 1. Press one touch search button to review the lockout frequencies. 2. Press FUNC then L/OUT.
20-427 Owner’s Manual Draft 3. Press FUNC then 6. L–O Fr–CL appears. Press ENT to clear all locked-out frequencies. L–r EMPty appears. Press CLEAR to cancel the operation. priority In addition to the 300 programmable memory channels, the scanner has one priority channel. With the priority feature, you can scan through programmed channels and still not miss an important or interesting transmission on a specific channel.
20-427 Owner’s Manual Draft 3. Enter the frequency you want to enter into the priority channel, then press ENT. To program a weather channel as the priority channel: 1. Press WX. 2. Select the weather channel you want to program as the priority channel. 3. Press FUNC then PRI. PCH flashes. 4. Press ENT to store the frequency and the display blinks two times. If you want to cancel the operation, press CLEAR. To turn on the priority feature, press PRI.
20-427 Owner’s Manual Draft There are two attenuator modes in your scanner. One is normal attenuator mode in which you set the attenuator in each channel or each band/group in the search and tune mode. The other is global mode in which you set the attenuator only once. This setting is applied all the time in every mode. Press ATT to turn on or off the attenuator while the channel number is indicated or while the scanner is searching through bands/groups. When the attenuator is on, ATT appears.
20-427 Owner’s Manual Draft Repeatedly press DIM to adjust the brightness of the display backlight to Dark, Light Off, or Light. cloning the programmed data You can transfer the programmed data to and from another PRO-2054 scanner using an optional connecting cable with 1/8-inch (3.5mm) phone plugs on both ends (not supplied, available at your local RadioShack store). 1. Turn on both scanners. 2. Connect the connecting cable to each scanner’s PC/IF jack. CLOnE and UP to SEnd appears. 3.
20-427 Owner’s Manual Draft First, turn off the scanner and your vehicle’s ignition. Make sure you replace the fuse only with another fuse of the same type and rating (2-amp, fast-acting glass fuse). service and repair If your scanner is not performing as it should, take it to your local RadioShack store for assistance. To locate your nearest RadioShack, use the store locator feature on RadioShack’s website (www.radioshack.com), or call 1-800-The Shack (800-843-7422) and follow the menu options.
20-427 Owner’s Manual Draft 406–512 MHz (in 6.25 kHz steps) 806–823.9875 MHz (in 6.25 kHz steps) 849–868.9875 MHz (in 6.25 kHz steps) 894– 960 MHz (in 6.25 kHz steps) Memory channels 300 Channel memory banks 10 Sensitivity (20 dB S/N): FM/AM(aircraft band): 28–54 MHz 0.3 µV 108 –136.99166 MHz (AM) 1 µV 137–174 MHz 0.5 µV 406–512 MHz 0.5 µV 806–960 MHz 0.7 µV Selectivity: ‒6 dB ±10 kHz ‒50 dB ±18 kHz Spurious Rejection (at 154.
20-427 Owner’s Manual Draft Antenna Impedance 50 Ohms Audio Output Power (10% THD) 1.5 W Built-in Speaker 3 Inches (77 mm) (8-ohm, Dynamic Type) Power Requirement 13.8 V Current Drain (Squelched) 110 mA Physical Dimensions (HWD) 2 1/4 x 7 1/4 x 5 5/16 Inches (55 x 185 x 135 mm) Weight (without cabinet and accessories) 27.7 oz. (790 g) Specifications are typical; individual units might vary. Specifications and depictions are subject to change and improvement without notice.
20-427 Owner’s Manual Draft 2. Press 0 while WELCOME appears. 3. Press 1. InItIAL appears on the display. 4. Press ENT. WAIt appears for about 2 seconds. Note: Do not turn off the scanner until the initialization is complete. When the initialization is complete, 1CH 000.0000 appears on the display. The FCC wants you to know This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a scanning receiver, pursuant to Part 15 of the FCC Rules.
20-427 Owner’s Manual Draft providers. It is legal to listen to almost every transmission your scanner can receive. However, there are some transmissions you should never intentionally listen to.
20-427 Owner’s Manual Draft time the scanner finds an active frequency, it stops and monitors the radio traffic on that channel until the transmission ends, then resumes scanning. Channel Storage Banks – a storage area for a group of channels. Channels are storage areas for frequencies. Whereas a channel can only contain one frequency, a bank can hold numerous channels.
