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mobile/base scanner from RadioShack. You can mount
your scanner in a fi xed position and use it as a base
scanner or you can use it as a mobile scanner by
mounting it in a vehicle. This scanner lets you scan
conventional transmissions and is preprogrammed with
search banks for convenience. By pressing a one touch
search key, you can quickly search those frequencies most
commonly used by public service and other agencies
without tedious and complicated programming.

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features
keypad
Adjusts the backlight level (Light, Dark, or OFF).
ocks out selected channels and skips specifi ed
frequencies during a search.
Clears an incorrect entry.
volume. Short knob controls squelch.
Connect data cable for cloning or connecting to a PC.
“ jack to attach headphones here

Turns the priority function on
sensitivity or block strong
channels, or activates the Signal
Stops scanning and lets you
directly enter a channel number.
channels, or jumps to a Sky
channel you have programmed.
preprogrammed fi re/police band.
preprogrammed aircraft band.
preprogrammed amateur radio
preprogrammed marine band.

rogram delay time for a ch

display
Program
mode
indicator
Scan mode
indicator
Manual
mode
indicator
Scan/
search
direction
indicator
Search indicator
Receiving frequency
and status indicator
Lockout
on/off
Delay
on/off
Channel storage
bank/search sub-bank
indicator
Listening to fire/police band
Listening to aircraft band
Listening to marine band
Grobal attenuator on/off
ATT (attenuator) on/off
Priority on/off
Stalker
function
on/off
Listening to
WX (weather)
band
Channel/priority
channel indicator
Listening
to
Skywarn
channel
Listening to
amateur
radio band

You can mount your scanner in your vehicle,
manufacturer, dealer, or a qualifi ed installer.
Before installing, confi rm your scanner fi ts in
the desired mounting area and you have all the
necessary materials. Your scanner requires a
4. Slide the scanner into the sleeve until it locks
If you are unsure about how to install your
scanner in your vehicle, consult your automobile

the scanner by pulling front panel.
need to connect an external antenna and an
You can mount your scanner under the

Use the supplied mounting bracket as a
template to mark positions for the two
At the marked positions, drill holes slightly
Remove the paper backing from each washer
Attach the mounting bracket to your vehicle’s
Slide the scanner into the bracket, aligning the
When drilling holes, be sure to avoid
You can place your scanner on a desk, shelf, or
table to use it as a base station. Since the speaker
vehicle mounting instructions above to affi x
your scanner to a desk, shelf, table, or other fl at
obstructions behind the mounting surface.

You can power your scanner from a wall outlet,
through your vehicle’s ignition, or from your
vehicle’s cigarette lighter.
from a wall outlet
Connect the tip of the supplied AC adapter to
the DC 13.8V jack at the rear of your scanner.
Plug the AC adapter into your wall outlet.
You must use a Class 2 power
at least 600mA. Its center tip must be set to
positive and its plug must fi t the scanner’s
jack. Using an adapter that does not meet
these specifi cations could damage the scanner
To prevent electric shock, do not
use the AC adapter’s polarized plug with an
extension cord, receptacle, or other outlet
unless you can fully insert the blades to
source that supplies 13.8V DC and delivers

through your vehicle’s ignition
Disconnect the cable from the negative (-)
terminal of your vehicle’s battery.
Ground the black wire of the supplied DC
screw makes complete contact with the metal
Connect the red wire of the supplied DC
terminal of your vehicle’s battery.
You must use a power source that
mA. Its center tip must be set to positive and
its plug must fi t the scanner’s
specifi cations. Using a power cord that does
not meet these specifi cations could damage
the scanner or the adapter.
screw makes complete contact with the metal
terminal of your vehicle’s battery.
supplies 12V DC and delivers at least 600

from your vehicle’s cigarrette lighter
To power your scanner from a 12V power source
you need a 12V, 600 mA DC cigarette-lighter
Insert the adapter’s barrel plug into the
Plug the adapter’s other end into your
vehicle’s cigarette lighter or power socket.
while scanning. This is normal.
vehicle’s cigarette lighter or power socket.
might hear electrical noise from your engine

connect the supplied antenna
connect an external antenna
your scanner as a base station.

Your local RadioShack store sells a variety of
If the antenna starts to fall, let it go! It
could contact overhead power lines. If the
antenna touches a power line, touching the
antenna, mast, cable, or guy wires can cause
electrocution and death. Call the power
company to remove the antenna. Do not
attempt to do so yourself.
connect an external speaker or
When you mount your scanner in your
installing or removing an outdoor antenna.

To protect your hearing, follow these guidelines
(volume) to its lowest level before
they still can present a traffi c hazard.

To help familiarize yourself with the scanner’s
functions, keypad, and available frequencies, you
searches nearby strong signals
frequencies and decide which frequencies you
want to store when you are ready to program the
allows you to manually move
through the entire range of available frequencies.
A bank is a storage area for a group of channels.
To make it easier to identify and select the
turned on (see “Turning Channel-Storage

appears. After about 3 seconds, you
fully counterclockwise, then turn
does not scan and you have already stored
frequencies in channels, turn
very weak transmissions, turn
to decrease the scanner’s sensitivity to these
is adjusted so you always hear a hissing
is adjusted precisely at the threshold
where the hissing sound stops, the radio will
frequencies stored in channels. If the scanner

You can manually set the scanner to move
through all receivable frequencies, or select a
Use the number keys to enter the frequency
where you want the scanner to start.
tune operation. To change the tune direction,
to tune up or down. When the
frequency 145.31000 MHz, pressing
will enter TUNE mode and automatically set
the TUNE frequency for 145.31000 MHz.

scanning the channels
To begin scanning channels or to start scanning
does not scan through empty channels.
The scanner scans through all channels (except
those you have locked out) in the active banks
You must store frequencies into channels
before the scanner can scan them. The scanner

storing known frequencies into channels
appears on the display, use
the arrow keys to select your desired bank and
you want to store a frequency, then press
and the channel number appear at

Use the number keys and •/
frequency (including the decimal point) you
f you make a mistake, press
to store the frequency into the
If you made a mistake in Step 3, Error appears
frequency to the nearest valid frequency. For
your scanner accepts it as 151.550.
tune to the next step. Some scanner designs
the display. This scanner will show the actual
tuned frequency in the display. Because steps
to turn the delay function off or

The next channel in sequence is ready for
searching the one touch banks
Your scanner contains groups of preset
frequencies called One Touch Banks. Each one
touch bank is associated with a specifi c activity
fi re/police, air, ham, and weather transmissions
that are used in your area.
frequencies while searching ranges. See
The fi re/police and ham one touch banks have
This lets you search for and select only those
frequencies that fall within a specifi c range within
the fi re/police and ham one-touch banks.
banks. The ham one-touch bank contains 10 m,
6 m, 2 m, and 70 cm sub-banks.
To listen to the marine bank, see “Listening to the
“Listening to the Weather Band”.
the fi re/police and ham one-touch banks.
that are used in your area.
You can use the scanner’s delay feature while
searching the banks (see “Using Delay”).

To search for another active frequency in the
fi re/police or ham band, press a number key
to select the sub-band you want. To select a
frequency, repeat Step 1.
You can set Zeromatic on or off by pressing
the Zeromatic setting. Whenever this feature is
turned on, — — appears at the both sides of the
when the scanner stays tune mode) and
the scanner stops at the correct frequency. When
you turn this feature off, — — disappears and the
Zeromatic functions only in Police/Fire, Aircraft,
Amateur band, and tune operation.
to start searching down from the highest

copying a frequency into a
You can copy a frequency into a specifi ed channel
when the scanner stops on that frequency during
After about 2 second, the channel to be
to store the frequency. The display indicates
times. The scanner automatically returns to
want to copy the duplicate frequency anyway,
If you try to copy a frequency that is already
stored, the scanner sounds the notice tone 3

copying a frequency into a vacant channel
You can copy a frequency into a vacant channel
the frequency during search or tune mode.
when you fi nd a frequency
To copy the frequency into bank 10, press
fi rst available vacant channel in the bank.
to store the frequency in the selected
copying a frequency into the
You can copy a frequency into the priority channel
frequency during Search, Scan, Manual, Tune, or
when the frequency appears.

fl ashes and the frequency (or
to store the frequency into the
WX (weather) band
MAR (marine) band
and 161.600 are assigned in Channel 20.
some Marine frequencies. For example, 157.000

AIR (aircraft) band
US or worldwide standards. If you enter a
non-valid step frequency, any scanner will
tune to the next step. Some scanner designs
do this without showing the correct step in
the display. This scanner will show the actual
All scanners tune by steps. Your RadioShack
scanner uses steps consistent with the latest

tuned frequency in the display. Because steps
are so close together, the audio quality will not
be affected by the offset.
To turn off banks while scanning, press the bank’s
within the banks you turned off.
To turn on banks while scanning, press the
You can manually select any channel in a bank,
even if the bank is turned off.
You cannot turn off all banks. There must be at

You can monitor a single channel with your
with the frequency you want to delete.
to enter the program mode.
To listen to the marine bank, press
To stop searching the channels, press
To change the channel manually, press
To search through the marine bank again, press
You can select a marine channel directly. When
the scanner stops searching the marine bank, use
the number keys to enter the two-digit channel

The FCC (Federal Communications Commission)
weather information on one or more of these
To listen to the weather bank, press
To stop searching the channels, press
To change the channel manually, press
To search through the weather bank again, press
weather alert
Your scanner’s WX alert warns you of serious
weather conditions by sounding an alarm if a
To set the scanner so it sounds an alarm when
while you are listening to the WX

the alert for fi ve minutes when it receives the
weather alert signal. After fi ve minutes the alert
to turn off the alarm. To
scanner cancels the weather alert operation
and moves to the Skywarn operation.
skywarn
weather directly to meteorologists at a local
This function lets you quickly move to the

If no frequency is programmed in the Skywarn
signal stalker II
Your scanner’s Signal Stalker II feature provides
transmissions. The Signal Stalker II feature is
The Signal Stalker II allows you to sweep the
you wish to sweep and exclude ranges that you
frequency ranges with constant strong frequency
transmitters. Many portable frequency counters
will remain locked to a nearby constant signal,
will not function properly until you have left the
vicinity of the transmitter.
The Signal Stalker II feature is more sensitive
than portable frequency counters and will detect
transmissions at a greater distance. You can
your desired Skywarn frequency into the

transmission is played through your scanner’s
your scanner’s memory locations.
Your scanner’s Signal Stalker II functions when
to watch for activity on all band frequencies or
You can also turn on/off frequency sub-bands
fl ashes and the frequency range
frequencies within a 1 MHz segment, the scanner
will skip that segment in subsequent sweeps. See
“Using Signal Stalker II with Lockout” below.
operate the stalker function.
Priority mode is not available while using the
If the scanner has more than 5 locked out
frequencies in each frequency segment, ALL
Fr-IGno appears and the scanner does not

The scanner’s lock out feature can be used to
to review or clear locked out
frequencies in the Signal Stalker II. You can lock
through the RF spectrum in 1 MHz segments. If
transmitters. The Signal Stalker II can detect these
transmitters easily, even at great distances due to
their high transmitter output power. You can press
when the Signal Stalker II stops on these
the undesired transmissions, the Signal Stalker II
will not stop on them again, however, the overall

while in the Signal Stalker II mode. If a
will be skipped entirely while Signal Stalker II is
to review or clear locked
To clear a locked out frequency, select that
To avoid missing a reply, you can program a 2-
Then, when the scanner stops on the channel,
feature is also available while searching.
To turn delay on or off, press •/
You can scan existing channels or search
frequencies faster by locking out channels or
frequencies that have a continuous transmission,
Delay is automatically set as the default for
each channel when you turn on the scanner.

To lock out a channel while scanning, press
when the scanner stops on the channel. To lock
To remove the lockout from a channel, manually
To review all locked out channels, press
to view each locked out channel.
To lock out a frequency during a search, press
when the scanner stops on that frequency.
The scanner locks out the frequency, then
You can lock out as many as 50 frequencies
in each bank. If you try to lock out more,
If you lock out all frequencies in the marine
You cannot lock out weather frequencies in the
You can still manually select locked out
while searching frequencies.

To review the frequencies within a search bank
again to cancel reviewing
To review the MAR bank, press
clearing a locked out frequency
To clear a locked out frequency in the F/P, AIR, or
To clear a locked out frequency in the MAR bank,
clearing all locked out frequencies in the

to clear all locked out frequencies.
With the priority feature, you can scan through
priority channel only when the scanner detects
To program a frequency in the priority channel:
want to program as the priority channel. Then
to store the frequency and the
If you program a weather channel as the
priority channel, the scanner stays in the

to store the frequency and the
To turn on the priority feature, press
tone in Priority WX mode,
priority WX activates and you receive a weather
To turn off the priority feature, press
Priority WX is only for receiving a weather alert.

To reduce interference or noise caused by strong
There are two attenuator modes in your scanner.
the attenuator for each channel or each band/
to turn on or off the attenuator while the
set the attenuator while the scanner is scanning
to set the attenuator to its
to turn the attenuator on or off.
again to turn off the global
turning the key tone on and off
If you turn on the attenuator, the scanner might
not receive weak signals.

clockwise to turn the scanner on.
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
appears at the host scanner.
The scanner sends the data. To exit the clone
may alternately appear when the

the scanner carefully; do not drop it. Keep the
service and repair
To locate your nearest RadioShack, use the
These operating frequencies might interfere with
transmissions on the same frequencies. If you

To fi nd the birdies in your scanner, begin by
from the scanner. Make sure that no other nearby
found a signal, often without any sound. This is a
which will retain items stored in memory. If that
Turn off your scanner, and then turn it on
Insert a pointed object into the reset hole on
the back of the scanner. Then, gently press

appears for about 2 seconds.
Do not turn off the scanner until the
is complete, 1CH 000.0000 appears on the
initialization is complete. When the initialization

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Weight (without cabinet and accessories)
Specifi cations are typical; individual
units might vary. Specifi cations and depictions
are subject to change and improvement without

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
reasonable protection against harmful interference in a residential installation. This
equipment generates, uses and can radiate radio frequency energy and, if not installed
and used in accordance with the instructions, may cause harmful interference to radio
tion. If this equipment does cause harmful interference to radio or television reception,
which can be determined by turning the equipment off and on, the user is encouraged to
try to correct the interference by one or more of the following measures:
scanning legally
r scanner covers frequencies used by many different groups including police and fi re
departments, ambulance services, government agencies, private companies, amateur
radio services, military operations, pager services, and wireline (telephone and tele-
graph) service providers. It is legal to listen to almost every transmission your scanner
can receive. However, there are some transmissions you should never intentionally listen
According to the Electronic Communications Privacy Act
and possible imprisonment for
intentionally listening to, using, or divulging the contents
of such a transmission unless you have the consent of a party to the communication
This scanner has been designed to prevent reception of illegal transmissions. This is
done to comply with the legal requirement that scanners be manufactured so as to not
be easily modifi able to pick up those transmissions. Do not open your scanner’s case
to make any modifi cations that could allow it to pick up transmissions that are illegal to
monitor. Doing so could subject you to legal penalties.
safety offi cials by traveling to the scene of an incident without authorization.
We encourage responsible, safe and legal scanner use.

glossary
the receiving signal location
you can use frequency guides available from your
programmable memory locations for
the frequencies you want to monitor. Each time
the scanner fi nds an active frequency, it stops and
transmission ends, then resumes scanning.
for frequencies. Whereas a channel can only
frequencies and decide which frequencies you
want to store when you are ready to program the

frequently asked questions
The scanner is not working at all. What’s wrong?
The AC or DC adapter or DC cable might not
The scanner does not receive any stations or
The scanner might need to reset or initialize.
The scanner is on but does not scan. What’s
The squelch might not be adjusted correctly.
clockwise. There might only be one
While scanning, the scanner locks on frequencies
that have an unclear transmission. What’s
Some frequencies programmed into the
frequencies. Avoid programming “Birdie

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and workmanship under normal use for one (1) year from the date of purchase
from RadioShack company-owned stores and authorized RadioShack franchisees
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