Owner`s manual

Some of the Search Options include limit searches (checking each frequency between an upper and lower
limit), Service Searches or Signal Stalker. You can add any of these search types to a Scan List and run the
searches while scanning other channels or talkgroups. As far as the radio is concerned it is just another
Scannable Object, it really doesn’t care what type of Object it is.
Keyboard
The Keyboard of the radio is how you program the radio manually and control most of its actions. While
most users will eventually use a computer to do most of the programming (almost a requirement these days
of scanners with thousands of memories and complicated architectures) the ability to program your radio
from the keyboard is essential. You will not always have access to a computer with the programming
software and a programming cable so you need to know how to do it on the fly.
The PRO106 keyboard has 34 different buttons. The buttons are organized 4 groups:
The 5 Way Pad allows one to navigate the curser around the screen in 4 directions (up, down, left and
right) and the center Select key completes the action.
Three Soft Keys (F1, F2 and F3) are used to select menu items on the bottom line of the display, directly
above these keys. In some modes the arrow keys from the 5 Way Pad can be used to scroll thru selections
available on these Soft Keys.
Operation Keys along the right side of the keyboard provide specific or modified commands to the scanner.
These include standard scanner keys like Scan, Manual, Priority, etc. as well as some unique-to-
RadioShack/GRE keys like Tune, FAV and PSE.
The Numeric Keypad allows you to enter specific frequencies or talkgroups and other programming
commands to the radio.
The entire keyboard is well backlit and the same light illuminates the display. Press and hold the light key
and the dial light will stay on until you turn it off. While this would run down the batteries faster, when the
radio is connected to outside power this might be desirable.
Display
The PRO106’s display is roughly the same height as the Uniden BC396XT but slightly wider. On the
PRO106 the radio’s display is identical to that of the corresponding mobiles, the Uniden mobile scanner
displays are wider than their portables. The PRO106 display has 4 text lines plus the top line, which is
reserved for specific symbols like signal strength, battery level and other items.
The display uses a dot-matrix LCD display, each character is up to 7 dots high and 5 wide, and there are 16
characters per line.
During scanning operations the text lines display the pertinent information about the operation, such as the
frequency, talkgroup ID, Tone Code, Scan List, Mode and other information. What information is listed
where depends on the operational mode currently in place on the radio. The bottom line is often given over
to display the current selections available on the Soft Keys (F1 thru F3).
Along the top edge of the radio is a multi-colored LED light. Remarkably bright, this may be used to
indicate many things, like the use of a specific channel or group of channels, a search hit or almost anything
else. Set it to white and you can just about use it to replace a broken headlight. Used in conjunction with
audible alerts and you can pretty much have any type of activity set to a different alert and tell at a quick
glance what the radio is doing.
Frequency Ranges
The PRO106 receives all of the contemporary scanner bands, from 25 to 54, 108 thru 174, 216 thru 512,
764 thru 960 and 1240 thru 1300 MHz. The cellular frequencies are of course blocked. What the PRO106
does not pick up are some non-traditional bands, such as the FM Broadcast band and the occasionally