Uniden UBC330CRS Owner's Manual

UBC330CRS

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Precautions

Before you use this scanner, please read and observe the following.

EARPHONE WARNING!

Use only a genuine Uniden earphone. An incorrect earphone may be hazardous
to your hearing. Turn down volume before connecting the earphone and then
adjust volume to suit.

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WARNING!

Uniden does not represent this unit to be waterproof. To reduce the risk of
fire or electrical shock, do not expose this unit to rain or moisture.

Trademarks used throughout this manual are the property of their respective
holders.

Important: If you use the supplied AC adapter to power the scanner but have
not installed batteries in the scanner, never turn the scanner off by disconnecting
the AC adapter or unplugging it from the AC outlet. This might corrupt the
scanner’s memory. Always use
disconnecting AC power.

POWER to turn the scanner off before

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Contents

Unpacking Your Scanner........................................... 5

Introduction...................................................... 6

Features........................................................ 7

Controls ........................................................9

Setting Up The Scanner........................................... 13

Connecting Power .............................................. 13

Connecting an Antenna ..........................................14

Using the Backlight.............................................. 15

Country mode (Australia/New Zealand). . . . . ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . .........15

Using the Alarm Clock............................................ 16

Setting the Current Time .........................................16

Setting the Alarm Clock ..........................................16

Using Snooze ..................................................17

Listening to AM/FM/TV Channels................................... 18

Directly Selecting a Channel ...................................... 18

Using AM/FM/TV Channel Memory .................................19

Using the Scanner Memories ...................................... 20

Programming Memories ..........................................20

Selecting a Memory ............................................. 21

Scanning Memory Banks ......................................... 22

Locking/Unlocking Memories...................................... 22

Using Priority Scan ..............................................22

Setting Channel Delay ...........................................23

Searching for Active Frequencies ..................................24

Using Limit Search .............................................. 24

Programming an Upper/Lower Limit ............................... 24

Searching the Selected Range ...................................24

Using Service Search ............................................ 24

Selecting a Service to Search ....................................24

Saving a Found Frequency into a Scan Memory ...................... 25

Search Lockouts ................................................ 25

Care and Maintenance............................................ 26

General Use.................................................... 26

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Location.......................................................26

Cleaning....................................................... 26

Repairs........................................................ 26

Birdies ........................................................ 26

Resetting the Scanner (Clearing all Memories) ........................26

Technical Specifications .......................................... 27

One-Year Limited Warranty........................................ 29

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Unpacking Your Scanner

Please unpack this box carefully and make sure you have:

Telescopic Antenna

UBC330CRS Scanner

UBC330CRS

Owner’s Manual

This Owner’s Manual

Other Printed Material

AM Loop Antenna AC Adapter

Note: If any of these items are missing or damaged, contact your place of
purchase.

Unpacking Your Scanner

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Introduction

Your UBC330CRS scanner is a multi-featured conventional channel scanner. You
can easily enter and store frequencies for police, marine, air, amateur, and other
radio services into 100 channels distributed over ten banks. Use your scanner to
monitor:

Police•

Marine band•

AM CB•

UHF CB•

Railroad•

Air band•

AM/FM Broadcast Stations•

TV Channels (Australia 0-2, 6-10 and NZ 1-9)•

Your scanner can monitor the following bands.

Band

Lower Limit

No.

1 0.53100 1.70100 AM 9 AM Broadcast

2 25.00000 27.99500 AM 5 AM Band

3 28.00000 50.74500 FM 5

4a

4b

5 70.00000 87.98750 FM 12.5 VHF Low Band

6 88.00000 107.90000 WFM 100 FM Broadcast

7 108.00000 136.98750 AM 12.5 Aircraft Band

8 137.00000 147.99500 FM 5 2 Meter Amateur Band

9 148.00000 174.00000 FM 12.5 VHF High Band

10a

10b

11 400.00000 512.00000 FM 6.25 Land Mobile Radio

(MHz)

51.7500

62.7500

69.7500

50.7500

60.7500

67.7500

180.75000

187.75000

194.75000

201.75000

214.75000

180.75000

187.75000

194.75000

201.75000

208.75000

215.75000

Upper Limit

(MHz)

Modulation

TV 7000

TV 7000

TV 7000

TV 7000

Step

Service

(kHz)

10-6 Meter Amateur
Band

TV Broadcast
AUS Mode Ch. 0 - 2

TV Broadcast
NZ Mode Ch. 1 - 3

TV Broadcast
AUS Mode Ch. 6 - 10

TV Broadcast
NZ Mode Ch. 4 - 9

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Features

Channel Memory Scanning - Scans frequencies you have stored in any of the

channels or banks at a rate of up to 60 channels per second.

Memory Availability - Store and then scan any of up to 100 channels distributed
over 10 banks.

Direct Channel Access - Press 0 - 9 and HOLD to directly access any stored
frequency.

Channel Lockout/Frequency Lockout - Skip over stored frequencies (channels)
using the Lockout feature to enable faster scanning. Lets you designate up to
50 frequencies to skip during a search (limit or service) to increase the scanning
speed.

Alarm Clock with Snooze - provides standard radio broadcasts that you can set
as your alarm sound.

AM/FM and TV Broadcast - lets you store up to 30 preset broadcast channels
(10 AM and 20 FM/TV) for quick access. TV Broadcast allows tuning to the audio
of CH 0-2 and 6-10 in Australian Mode and CH1-9 in New Zealand Mode.

Air Band - separate search setting for Air band, 118MHz to 136.9875MHz.

Priority Channel - Designate a specific frequency as a Priority Channel. Then

the radio scans and checks that channel every 2 seconds. Select and designate
up to 10 frequencies as Priority Channels (one per bank).

Duplicate Channel Alert - Lets you know that a selected frequency has already
been programmed into memory if you attempt to store it again.

Limit Frequency Searching - Lets you designate lower and upper frequency
range and search within that range for active frequencies.
You can then store frequencies in memory as channels for later recall.

Service Search - Lets you designate one of the five preprogrammed service
channels (Police, Marine, Railroad, AM-CB, UHF-CB) to search.

Scan and Search Speed

Scan Speed 60 channels per second maximum in SCAN MODE.•

Search Speed 60 steps per second maximum in SEARCH MODE.•

TURBO MODE For frequency steps 5kHz apart, searching occurs in •

Turbo Mode which is 180 steps per second.

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Clock Display - the scanner, in standby mode, displays the time.
The clock also features an alarm that can sound up to 20 minutes or be shut
off manually. A convenient snooze button lets you silence the alarm for an extra
5-minutes.

Delay - you can enable or disable the 2-second delay to resume scanning when
a transmission ends. Enabling this feature helps prevent missing a response from
one of the parties in the transmission.

LCD Backlight - you can enable or disable the LCD back lighted display.

Key Touch Tone - a tone sounds to confirm you have made a valid key input

while a different tone sounds to alert you to an invalid entry.

EEPROM Memory Backup - the scanner uses a non-volatile EEPROM for
memory backup.

Battery Alert - A battery icon alerts you to a no battery installed condition, and
a battery low voltage condition. An alert tone sounds when the battery needs to
be replaced. The backup provides backup for the clock when power is off and
will power scanning for a short time.

Auto Power Off - turns the scanner off when the battery power gets
too low.

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