Radio Shack PRO-2051 - Manual (Page 29)

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Beyond the Basics
Your scanner automatically increases its search speed
up to 300 steps per second for bands having 5 kHz steps
(Hypersearch).
While searching, you can change the search direction by
pressing
e or d .
While private scanning in the trunking banks, press SRCH
to set the scanner to ID search mode.
search hold
1. Press HOLD/RESUME at any time to stop the search. To
move up or down 1 frequency step, press e or d .
2. Press HOLD/RESUME to resume searching.
data skip
A scanner will normally stop on any transmission it receives.
This means the scanner will occasionally stop on data signals
and unmodulated transmissions.
You can automatically skip many of these types of transmissions
during search.
1. To activate the data skip feature, press DATA in scan or
search mode. DATA appears on the display.
2. To deactivate the Data Skip feature, press DATA again.
DATA disappears.
When data skip is active, your scanner may pause
momentarily on an unwanted signal, but will resume
searching in two or three seconds. The data skip feature is
active, as well as scan mode and service search mode. Data
skip does not function while scanning service bands (for AIR,
CB, or Weather band), or while in priority scan and trunking
modes.
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