I'm glad you enjoyed this. I agree, the new ones have too much technology in them.

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Glad I could help...thanks for watching!

Glad I could help! Enjoy the scanner and the memories of your Grandpa

I agree! The old RS scanners were the best.

Thanks! Glad this helped!

@@SevenFortyOne Thanks again. What's interesting to me is that I don't think Radio Shack ever explained the multiple bank programming or how to turn them on and off in the original manual. They explained the upper and lower setting for free-scan and how to save by hitting the "Monitor" key but never explained how to transfer to a memory channel. I think I had this problem originally when I bought it new and had to call Radio Shack customer support to figure it out. In any case, maybe that's how it was done back in the 80's. Companies sold the same model year after year or had only minor changes but never updated the user manual. I do appreciate your information otherwise it would have taken a lot LOT more work to figure it out (no exaggeration). You saved me hours and hours. BTW, my unit broke ~6 months after purchasing. They they actually repaired it rather than giving me a knew one. I had to bring it back to the store for warranty repair and it took them 5 weeks to repair before they got back to me. I then had to pick it up at the local Radio Shack. That was how warranty service worked in the 80's. Funny how times have changed. :-) Take care!

I don't think so...but you might want to search up a manual to be sure

Make sure the battery is good and that the connection to it isn't damaged

It depends on what you want to listen to and where you are. If you are in a city or populous suburban area then a cb antenna may actually work OK. Or even a cheap telescoping whip screwed into the top of the scanner will work in this situation. For best performance you'll want an external antenna that is made for scanners. Good luck!

where would a good place be to get scanner antennas online

scannermaster.com, amazon, and HRO (ham radio outlet) come to mind. But if you google "scanner antenna" you'll find lots of choices. You could even make your own if you are so inclined...

Hi I'm going to buy a cb antenna but do i need to buy any connector adapters for it.Do you know which kind I should get?This video really helped thanks!

The radio hobby is going to take a little time to get used to if you are new to it. One of the best resources for finding scanner frequencies is RadioReference.com. On that site you scan search frequencies by town or county. You should be able to get lists that show frequency and service (police, fire, ham, etc...) but it still may be a little cryptic for you since you aren't familiar with scanners. The RadioReference site may have an area that helps beginners understand what is going on but i'm not positive about that. However, there are some forums associated with RadioReference that may help if they don't have the aforementioned beginners section. When I started with this stuff back in the 90's there used to be books that you could get that helped explain all of the lingo and listed out frequencies for certain areas or states. I'm not sure if those are published any more but you could search amazon or ebay for old copies of these books. Your particular scanner probably can't receive any Am or Fm broadcast stations as these types of radios are designed for listening to things like police and fire that transmit for a minute or two and then are silent most of the time. Hopefully that will help you a little or at least get you started on the right path.

One more thing.... your scanner probably can't receive digital or trunked communications. What this means is that the signals they transmit are encrypted and will sound like noise or you'll hear nothing at all once you punch in the frequencies. Receiving digital and/or trunked signals will require a newer scanner capable of decoding. Many police and fire departments have gone over to these types of systems for security and reliability so what you are able to hear may be limited. You should be able to at least get some ham, business, railroad, and aircraft frequencies that you can listen to though.

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Replace the off/on/volume pot switch.

you can probably leave it off for now. This button is used for muting stations that key their transmitters but don't talk for some reason.

Stock connector is a car antenna socket but I have an adapter that allows me to use the pl-259 cb style connector

Mine is a pro-2021 which uses an old Motorola style antenna jack. The 2022 must be different. You can find Radio Shack owner's manuals on-line with a google search

Actually, I'm in North Eastern CT. By sheer coincidence we must have a similar grouping of useful repeater frequencies. Most of the ones you see here are either northern CT or Western MA repeaters.

Yes, depending on where you are

make sure the lock-out for the channel is off and the squelch isn't set too high

@@SevenFortyOne I did check that and same thing

Yes - you only need 154.370

@@SevenFortyOne thankyou

I've run mine from a shortwave antenna with decent results. A dedicated scanner antenna should work better though

It won't work as well as a scanner antenna but it should work

Ok can I use a99 for a shortwave radio got this old one laying around figure I use it

Same answer really...although the lower in frequency you go the worse 5he performance will be

I don't know

My scanner gifs a piep every 2 sec. Can someone help me. Thank you

Change the memory battery...it's under a cover on the back

Correct

I have a 2020. It's the exact same procedures, except that the 2020 is only 20 channels, scan speeds are slower, and it has an LED display instead of a liquid crystal display. Oh, and the keypad has white, blue, orange, and one red button.