Radio Shack 20-107 manual

1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
32
33

Go to page of

A good user manual

The rules should oblige the seller to give the purchaser an operating instrucion of Radio Shack 20-107, along with an item. The lack of an instruction or false information given to customer shall constitute grounds to apply for a complaint because of nonconformity of goods with the contract. In accordance with the law, a customer can receive an instruction in non-paper form; lately graphic and electronic forms of the manuals, as well as instructional videos have been majorly used. A necessary precondition for this is the unmistakable, legible character of an instruction.

What is an instruction?

The term originates from the Latin word „instructio”, which means organizing. Therefore, in an instruction of Radio Shack 20-107 one could find a process description. An instruction's purpose is to teach, to ease the start-up and an item's use or performance of certain activities. An instruction is a compilation of information about an item/a service, it is a clue.

Unfortunately, only a few customers devote their time to read an instruction of Radio Shack 20-107. A good user manual introduces us to a number of additional functionalities of the purchased item, and also helps us to avoid the formation of most of the defects.

What should a perfect user manual contain?

First and foremost, an user manual of Radio Shack 20-107 should contain:
- informations concerning technical data of Radio Shack 20-107
- name of the manufacturer and a year of construction of the Radio Shack 20-107 item
- rules of operation, control and maintenance of the Radio Shack 20-107 item
- safety signs and mark certificates which confirm compatibility with appropriate standards

Why don't we read the manuals?

Usually it results from the lack of time and certainty about functionalities of purchased items. Unfortunately, networking and start-up of Radio Shack 20-107 alone are not enough. An instruction contains a number of clues concerning respective functionalities, safety rules, maintenance methods (what means should be used), eventual defects of Radio Shack 20-107, and methods of problem resolution. Eventually, when one still can't find the answer to his problems, he will be directed to the Radio Shack service. Lately animated manuals and instructional videos are quite popular among customers. These kinds of user manuals are effective; they assure that a customer will familiarize himself with the whole material, and won't skip complicated, technical information of Radio Shack 20-107.

Why one should read the manuals?

It is mostly in the manuals where we will find the details concerning construction and possibility of the Radio Shack 20-107 item, and its use of respective accessory, as well as information concerning all the functions and facilities.

After a successful purchase of an item one should find a moment and get to know with every part of an instruction. Currently the manuals are carefully prearranged and translated, so they could be fully understood by its users. The manuals will serve as an informational aid.

Table of contents for the manual

  • Page 1

    20-107 / PR O-107 User’ s Guide Thank you for purchasing your iScan T runking Scanner from RadioShack . Please read this user’ s guide befor e installing, setting up, and using your new scanner . iSCAN T r unking Scanner[...]

  • Page 2

    2 3 Contents Introduction ......................................................................... 4 Package Contents .............................................................................. 4 Features .............................................................................................. 5 How iSCAN W orks ...........................[...]

  • Page 3

    4 Introduction 5 Introduction F eatures Easy-to-understand media player user interface – A simplified keypad and display with familiar Play , Pause, and Navigation controls make it easy to use your iSCAN. The complete USA RadioReference database on SD car d – The entire USA database fr om www .radiorefer ence.com is stored on a standard SD car[...]

  • Page 4

    6 Introduction 7 Introduction How iSCAN W orks iSCAN is designed with a simplified keypad and controls similar to those used by portable media players, including  ,  ,  ,  navigation keys, a MENU key , a SKIP key and a  /II/SEL key . iSCAN’ s uncluttered keypad gives you instant access to the functions that you need most while usi[...]

  • Page 5

    8 Introduction 9 Introduction Libr ar y Copyright Notice The data contained in iSCAN’ s Library is provided by special arrangement with RadioReference and is Copyright ©2009 RadioReference.com LLC who r etains sole ownership of the database. We ask that you r espect this copyright by adhering to the following guidelines: The Library data is inte[...]

  • Page 6

    10 Introduction 11 Introduction (Weather) • Access NOAA weather radio br oadcasts • Access SAME weather alert r eceiver mode • Select the SKYW ARN playlist for monitoring; temporarily disables all other playlists Power / Backlight • Pr ess and hold for about one second to turn iSCAN on and off • Pr ess briefly to toggle th[...]

  • Page 7

    12 Introduction 13 Introduction Understanding the Displa y The menu-driven user interface provides access to the settings that control what iSCAN monitors. The Main Menu display is show below . – Main Menu – Play Browse Objects  Playlists Search Browse Library The “Now Playing” display shows a scrolling list of enabled playlists while iS[...]

  • Page 8

    14 Setup 15 Setup Setup Attaching the Antenna 1. Align the slots on the antenna’ s connector with the posts on iSCAN’ s connector and slide the antenna in place. 2. Rotate the antenna’ s BNC connector clockwise until it snaps in place. Connecting an Exter nal Antenna T o connect an external antenna, follow the installation instructions suppli[...]

  • Page 9

    16 Setup 17 Setup b Battery Notes: • Alowbatterywarningsoundsevery30seconds(defaultsetting) when the batteries are nearly depleted. • Disposeofbatteriespromptlyandpr operly .Donotburnorbury them. • U s e o n l y f r esh  b a tt e r i es  o f t h e  r e q[...]

  • Page 10

    18 Setup 19 Basic Oper ation Using the Main Power Cut-Off Switch The Main Power Cut-Off switch is only used to pr event battery drain when iSCAN is not used for long periods of time. Do not use the Main Power Cut-Off switch on a r outine basis. Always press and hold to turn off iSCAN befor e switching the Main Power Cut-Off switch to OFF and befor [...]

  • Page 11

    20 Basic Oper ation 21 Basic Oper ation Using iSCAN’ s Main Menu The heart of iSCAN’ s user interface is the Main Menu, where all the major functions are contr olled. The following options ar e available in the Main Menu: Play Beginplayback(scanning)ofimportedobj ect si n ena ble d p lay li sts . S ee “Pr og r amming iS C[...]

  • Page 12

    22 Basic Oper ation 23 Basic Oper ation 2 Select Objects from the Libr ar y 1. As you drill into each Library grouping, you will eventually seecheck boxes( ) next to the listings. These listings can be imported to a playlist. Subcategories in Category: Six Flags Over  2. Continue to drill into the listings to see all the objects a[...]

  • Page 13

    24 Basic Oper ation 25 Basic Oper ation • Ifyouselectanentiregr ouping,youmayhaveanexcessively largenumberofobjectsimportedtoaplaylist,sobesur eyou wanttomonitoreverythingthatagroupingcontains.iSCANonly monitors one transmission at a time, and tr[...]

  • Page 14

    26 Basic Oper ation 27 Basic Oper ation W orking with Pla ylists Before you can begin monitoring your imported objects, you must enable the playlists where your objects ar e stor ed. Y ou can also give your playlists descriptive names. Enabling Pla ylists 1. In the Main Menu, scroll to Playlists and press  to view the list of playlists. – Main[...]

  • Page 15

    28 Basic Oper ation 29 Basic Oper ation T o pause on an active object: 1. Press  /II/SEL while iSCAN is stopped on the object. 2. T o resume scanning, press  /II/SEL again. Skipping Objects Y ou can “skip” objects you no longer want to monitor while scanning or browsing objects. Y ou can also restore skipped objects. T o skip objects whil[...]

  • Page 16

    30 Basic Oper ation 31 Basic Oper ation –Object Edit– Menu Locked Out When checked, the selected object will not be scanned and the Locked Out status is not changed when the Main Menu’ s “Restore Skipped” utility is used. Locked Out objects ar e indicated by an “ L ” in the Channel Status Indicator , for example, “ pLD ” indicates[...]

  • Page 17

    32 Basic Oper ation 33 Searching –Settings– Menu Priority Mode When checked, Priority Mode is enabled. Objects that have Priority enabled in the Object Edit Menu will be checked more fr equently for activity . Priority Time Controls how fr equently conventional channel priority objects are checked. G Atten Mode Whenchecked,GlobalAttenu[...]

  • Page 18

    34 Searching 35 Searching –Stalker– Menu Main Menu Navigate back to iSCAN’ s Main Menu. Stalker Menu Navigate back to the Signal Stalker Menu. Store Channel Sto r es a f oun d f r eq uen cy as an ob jec t i n t he fir st pla yl ist . Cancel Changes Exit the Signal Stalker Menu without saving changes. Save Changes Save your changes and exit t[...]

  • Page 19

    36 Searching 37 Searching –Services– Menu Aircraft Sear ch civilian and military air frequencies: 108-118MHz Navigation 118-137MHz CivilianV oice 138-150MHz Mi l it a r y V oi c e ( e xc l u de s 2 m  Am a t eu r ) 225-400MHz MilitaryV oice Railroad Sear chtheAssociationof?[...]

  • Page 20

    38 Searching 39 W eather T o change Limit Sear ch par ameters: Press MENU while Limit Sear ch is active. The following Limit Sear ch options are available: –Limits– Menu Main Menu Navigate to iSCAN’ s Main Menu. Search Menu Navigate to the Search Menu. Store Channel Sto r es a f oun d fr eq uen cy as an ob jec t i n the fir st pl ayl ist . C[...]

  • Page 21

    40 W eather 41 W eather n Note: Weather Priority does not work in all scanning modes. See the following table for Weather Priority operation. Normal Priority is ON andWX Priority is ON Normal Priority is ON andWX Priority is Off Normal Priority is OFF andWX Priority is ON Scan (Play) Mode Checks both Normal Priority chann[...]

  • Page 22

    42 W eather 43 Data Activ ating SAME Standb y Mode After you have programmed FIPS codes for one or mor e SAME locations, you can activate SAME Standby Mode: 1. Press , then pr ess  o r  to select the str ongest NOAA channel for your area. 2. Press SKIP to select Standby Mode. The speaker silences and SKIP = Normal appears at the bottom of the[...]

  • Page 23

    44 Data 45 Data Removing and Inser ting the SD Card w W arning: T opreventdatacorruptionontheSDcar d,before removingthebatteries: • T urniSCANoffbypressingholding . • Unplugfromexternalpower The SD card will be damaged if r emoved while the iSCAN is in operation and powered by[...]

  • Page 24

    46 Data 47 Data Installing the iSCAN PC Application iSCAN comes with a powerful, easy-to-use PC Application used for: • UpdatingtheLibrarytothemostcurrentversion • FormattingandmaintainingtheSDcard • MakingchangestoiSCAN’ sprogrammingandconguration • UpdatingiSCAN?[...]

  • Page 25

    48 Data 49 Data Custom Setup If you selected the custom install, this screen will appear allowing you to choose the components to be installed. Once the components have been selected, click “Next” to continue. Destination Folder Select the destination folder for the application and the USB cable drivers. The database Library files will be inst[...]

  • Page 26

    50 Additional Info 51 Additional Info Additional Infor mation Flash P atterns Each object uses a 32-step Flash Pattern that you can define so you can identify an active object at a glance from acr oss the r oom. Flash patternsaredenedintheEditObjectsMenu(see “Editing Objects” on page 29 .). Each step in the 32-[...]

  • Page 27

    52 Additional Info 53 Additional Info T roubleshooting Problem Cause Solution The scanner does not turn on No power . Ensur e that iSCAN is equipped with fresh batteries. If powering iSCAN from external power , make sure that the external power plug is fully inserted into iSCAN’ s PC/IF jack. Low battery warning beeps and message on LCD display L[...]

  • Page 28

    54 Additional Info 55 Additional Info Specifications Frequency Range Step Mode (Default) 25.0000 − 26.9600 MHz 10 kHz AM 26.9650−27.4050MHz 10 kHz AM 27.4100−29.5050MHz 5 kHz AM 29.5100−29.7000MHz 5 kHz FM 29.7100−49.8300MHz 10 kHz FM 49.8350−54.0000MHz 5 kHz FM 108.000−136.991[...]

  • Page 29

    56 Additional Info 57 Additional Info Audio max. power RF input ................................... 100μVat154.1MHz  (DEV :3kHzat1kHz)  8OhmsResistorLoadatspeakerterminal  (BTL):280mW atts Intermediate frequency 1st ..................................................................................[...]

  • Page 30

    58 Additional Info 59 Additional Info FCC Notice This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a scanning receiver , pursuant to Part 15 of the FCC Rules. These limits are designed to pr ovide r easonable protection against harmful interference in a r esidential installation. This equipment generates, uses and can radiate r[...]

  • Page 31

    60 Additional Info 61 Additional Info Object Location where a fr equency and its associated infor - mation are stor ed. Priority Function not to miss important calls while scanning channels. SAME Specific Area Message Encoding system. NOAA broadcasts alerts corr esponding to specified areas. S-meter Indicates relative signal str ength of a receiv[...]

  • Page 32

    62 Additional Info 63 Additional Info AP ARTICULARPURPOSE,SHALLEXPIREONTHEEXPIRA TIONOF THE ST A TED WARRANTY PERIOD. EXCEPTASDESCRIBEDABOVE, RADIOSHACK SHALLHA VE NO LIABILITY OR RESPONSIBILITY TO THE PURCHASER OF THE PRODUCT OR ANY OTHER PERSON OR ENTITY WITH RESPECT TOANYLIABILITY ,LOSS[...]

  • Page 33

    Printed in China 11A09 20-107 ©2009. RadioShack Corporation. All rights reserved. RadioShack and RadioShack.com are trademarks used by RadioShack Corporation. Protect the envir onment by r ecycling your used electronics.Goto E-CyclingCentral.com to find an electronic r ecycling center near you. Motorola, Smartnet, Smartzone, Omnilink, an[...]