PSR-200U Owner’s Manual Draft PSR-200U 200-Channel VHF/Air/UHF Desktop Scanner Owner’s Manual GRE CONTENTS Features Preparation Power Sources Using AC Power Using Vehicle Battery Power Connecting the Supplied Antenna Connecting an Outdoor Antenna Connecting an Earphone/Headphones Listening Safely Connecting an Extension Speaker About Your Scanner About the Keypad A Look at the Display Understanding Banks Understanding Channel Storage Banks FM Radio Channels Service Search Operation Understanding 3 Mode
PSR-200U Owner’s Manual Draft Turning Channel-Storage Banks Off and On Monitoring a Stored Channel Clearing a Stored Channel FM Radio Operation Monitoring Stored FM Radio Channel Listening to the Marine Bank Listening to the Weather Band Listening to a Weather Channel SAME Standby Mode Skywarn Special Features Using CTCSS and DCS Delay Locking Out Channels or Frequencies Locking Out Channels Locking Out Marine Channels Locking Out Frequencies Reviewing Locked-Out Frequencies Removing Lockouts From All Freq
PSR-200U Owner’s Manual Draft convenience. You press a FM RADIO key, you can quickly listen to the local broadcast stations. This scanner gives you direct access to over 22,000 exciting frequencies, including those used by police and fire departments, ambulance services, aircraft, and amateur radio services, and you can change your selection at any time.
PSR-200U Owner’s Manual Draft Tone Squelch (CTCSS and DCS) — decodes and displays the CTCSS or DCS tone signal. Data Cloning — lets you transfer the programmed data to another PSR-200U scanner. Liquid-Crystal Display — makes it easy to view and change programming information. Supplied Telescoping Antenna — provides good reception of strong local signals.
PSR-200U Owner’s Manual Draft accordance with the instructions, may cause harmful interference to radio communications. However, there is no guarantee that interference will not occur in a particular installation. 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: • Reorient or relocate the receiving antenna.
PSR-200U Owner’s Manual Draft could subject you to legal penalties. In some areas, mobile use of this scanner is unlawful or requires a permit. Check the laws in your area. It is also illegal in many areas to interfere with the duties of public safety officials by traveling to the scene of an incident without authorization. We encourage responsible, safe and legal scanner use. PREPARATION POWER SOURCES USING AC POWER You can power the scanner using a supplied AC adaptor.
PSR-200U Owner’s Manual Draft centre tip must be set to positive and its plug must fit the scanner's DC 9V jack. Using an adaptor that does not meet these specifications could damage the scanner or the adaptor. Cautions: Always connect the DC adaptor to the scanner before you connect it to the power source. When you finish, disconnect the adaptor from the power source before you disconnect it from the scanner. To power the scanner using a DC adaptor, connect the plug into the scanner’s DC 9V jack.
PSR-200U Owner’s Manual Draft Follow the installation instructions supplied with the antenna, route the antenna cable to the scanner, then connect it to the antenna jack. Warning: Use extreme caution when you installing or removing an outdoor antenna. If the antenna starts to fall, let it go! It could contact overhead power lines. If the antenna touches a power line, contact with the antenna, mast, cable, or guy wires can cause electrocution and death. Call the power company to remove the antenna.
PSR-200U Owner’s Manual Draft can present a traffic hazard. CONNECTING AN EXTENSION SPEAKER In a noisy area, an extension speaker (not supplied) might provide more comfortable listening. Plug the speaker cable’s 1/8-inch (3.5 mm) mini-plug into your scanner’s (headphone symbol mark) jack. Note: You must use an amplified speaker with this scanner. Non-amplified speakers do not provide sufficient volume for comfortable listening.
PSR-200U Owner’s Manual Draft FM Radio channels) while SCAN (or FM RADIO mode). TUNE (Blue) Lets you tune the frequency along with ^ or v. WX (Blue)/Skywarn Lets you search the scanner’s preprogrammed 7 weather channels; directly accesses skywarn channel. FUNC Lets you use various functions by pressing this key in combination with other keys. ^/v Searches up or down for active frequencies or selects the direction when scanning channels.
PSR-200U Owner’s Manual Draft 7-Digit number L/O (lockout) Indicates receiving frequency, error messages, etc. Appears when you manually select a channel that was previously locked out during scanning or when you review a locked-out frequency. DCS Appears when your scanner decodes DCS code. CTCSS Appears when your scanner decodes CTCSS code. ^/v Indicates the search or scan direction. PRI Appears when the priority feature is turned on. MAN Appears when you manually select a channel.
PSR-200U Owner’s Manual Draft WEAthEr Appears about 2 seconds when you select weather band. Lo VHF Appears when you turn on the low VHF sub-bank while fire/police bank searching. Hi VHF Appears when you turn on the high VHF sub-bank while fire/police bank searching. UHF Appears when you turn on the UHF sub-bank while fire/police bank searching. 10 M Appears when you turn on the 10m sub-bank 1 while HAM bank searching. 6M Appears when you turn on the 6m sub-bank 2 while HAM bank searching.
PSR-200U Owner’s Manual Draft Note: The frequencies in the scanner’s service banks are preset. You cannot change them. Marine Channel Frequency (MHz) Channel Frequency (MHz) 01 156.0500 63 156.1750 05 156.2500 64 156.2250 06 156.3000 07 156.3500 65 156.2750 08 156.4000 66 156.3250 09 156.4500 67 156.3750 10 156.5000 68 156.4250 11 156.5500 69 156.4750 12 156.6000 70 156.5250 13 156.6500 71 156.5750 14 156.7000 72 156.6250 15 156.7500 73 156.6750 16 156.
PSR-200U Owner’s Manual Draft 162.0000 Note: Both frequencies (transmission and reception) are shown for marine channels used for duplex transmission. Fire/Police Group Frequency Range (MHz) Step (kHz) 1 33.420-33.980 20 37.020-37.420 20 39.020-39.980 20 42.020-42.940 20 44.620-45.860 40 45.880 - 45.900-46.060 40 46.080-46.500 20 153.770-154.130 60 154.145-154.445 15 154.650-154.950 15 155.010-155.370 60 155.415-155.700 15 155.730-156.210 60 158.730-159.210 60 166.
PSR-200U Owner’s Manual Draft Amateur Radio Group Frequency Range (MHz) Step (kHz) 1 29.000-29.700 5 2 50.000-54.000 5 3 144.000-148.000 5 4 420.000-450.000 12.5 OPERATION UNDERSTANDING 3 MODES Your PSR-200U has three kinds of modes, and changes the mode by pressing an orange key. • Scan/Manual mode • FM Radio mode • Service Search mode If you press SCAN (Orange) key, your PSR-200U scanner enters SCAN/MANUAL mode.
PSR-200U Owner’s Manual Draft 3. Turn VOLUME clockwise until you hear a hissing sound. 4. Turn SQUELCH clockwise, just until the hissing sound stops. Notes: • To listen to a weak or distant station, turn SQUELCH counterclockwise. If reception is poor, turn SQUELCH clockwise to cut out weak transmissions. • If SQUELCH is adjusted so you always hear a hissing sound, the scanner will not scan or search properly. 5. To turn off the scanner when you finish, slide POWER to OFF.
PSR-200U Owner’s Manual Draft and –dUPL– appears. If you want to store the frequency anyway, press ENT again. Press CLEAR/PSE to clear the frequency. • Press DELAY if you want the scanner to pause 2 seconds on this channel before it proceeds to the next channel after a transmission ends (see “Delay” on Page XX). The scanner also stores this setting in the channel. 5. To program the next channel in sequence, press PGM and repeat Steps 3 and 4.
PSR-200U Owner’s Manual Draft The scanner displays FD/PD or AIR or HAM. After about 2 seconds, the scanner starts search. Notes: • To reverse the search direction at any time, press ^ or v. • To pause the search while receiving a signal, press PSE. To resume searching, press PSE again. • If necessary, you can select search groups using the number keys. • Pressing SRCH to advance the search bands. 2. To search for another active frequency in the selected band, press ^ or v.
PSR-200U Owner’s Manual Draft Copying a Frequency into a Vacant Channel in a Specified Bank 1. To store the displayed frequency in the desired bank’s lowest vacant channel, press FUNC then press ENT when you find a frequency. The bank number and StorE appears. 2. If you desired to store the other bank, press number key. 3. Press ENT to store the frequency. The channel and frequency flash twice. If you want to cancel the operation, press CLEAR/PSE instead of ENT.
PSR-200U Owner’s Manual Draft channel. See above Note on this page. SCANNING THE STORED CHANNELS To set the scanner to continuously scan through all channels with stored frequencies as follows: 1. Press SCAN (Orange). If error tone beeps, proceed to step 2. 2. Simply pressing SCAN/MAN until SCAN and ^ appear, then the scanner begins to rapidly scan until it finds an active frequency.
PSR-200U Owner’s Manual Draft Notes: • You cannot turn off all banks. There must be at least one active bank. • You can manually select any channel in a bank, even if the bank is turned off. • When you turn on a bank during scanning, the scanner moves to the selected bank and scans it. If no transmission is found, the scanner continues scanning to scan through all selected banks. MONITORING A STORED CHANNEL You can continuously monitor a specific channel without scanning.
PSR-200U Owner’s Manual Draft 3. Press PGM. PGM appears. 4. Press FUNC then CLEAR/PSE. The frequency number changes to 000.0000 to indicate the channel is cleared. 5. To clear another channel, use the number keys to enter that channel number (1–200), then press PGM again. Or, repeatedly press PGM until the desired channel number appears. Then repeat Step 4. FM RADIO OPERAION The operation method has neither SCAN/MANUAL mode nor the change also by FM Radio mode.
PSR-200U Owner’s Manual Draft Follow these steps to manually select a FM Radio channel. 1. Press FM RADIO (Orange) to enter FM Radio mode. 2. Pressing SCAN/MAN until MAN appears. 3. Enter the channel number (1–20). 4. Press SCAN/MAN again. Pressing ^ or v to advance/return the FM Radio channel. LISTENING TO THE MAEINE BANK To listen to the marine bank, pressing SRCH until MAR appears. MAr appears abour 2 seconds, then the scanner starts searching from marine channel 16.
PSR-200U Owner’s Manual Draft receiving weather alerts, please check to be sure you are receiving a clear signal on the flex antenna or switch to an external antenna that gives you clear reception of a local NOAA weather broadcast. The FCC (Federal Communications Commission) has allocated channels for use by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Regulatory agencies in other counties have also allocated channels for use by their weather reporting authorities.
PSR-200U Owner’s Manual Draft The National Weather Service precedes each weather alert with a digitally encoded SAME (Specific Area Message Encoding) signal, then a 1050 Hz tone. The SAME signal includes a FIPS (Federal Information Processing Standard) area code, and an event code that corresponds with the type of alert being sent. You can configure your scanner to operate in SAME Standby mode, where it monitors a selected weather radio station for SAME alerts for areas you specify.
PSR-200U Owner’s Manual Draft for alerts with FIPS codes that match the codes you entered in the FIPS entry table. To exit SAME standby, press PRI again. Note: In the SAME Standby mode, the scanner receives all alert/warning messages for receivable areas if you do not enter the FIPS code. Skywarn Many areas of the country have amateur radio repeaters that have been designated as “Skywarn” repeaters.
PSR-200U Owner’s Manual Draft CTCSS and DCS icon as follows: Icon CTCSS DCS Searching both codes flash flash Searching CTCSS code flash none Searching DCS code none flash Decode the CTCSS displays none Decode the DCS none displays Press CT/DC again, the scanner search the CTCSS code. CTCSS icon flashes while search the code. Press CT/DC 3 times, the scanner search the DCS code. DCS icon flashes while search the code. Press CT/DC 4 times, the scanner returns normal operation.
PSR-200U Owner’s Manual Draft number. If you program this code, press FUNC then press ENT. The code displays with –S, the code does not entered CTCSS/DCS memory. The code displays without –S, the code entered CTCSS/DCS memory. Note: This scanner can store only one code to one channel. DELAY Many agencies use a two-way radio system that has a period of several seconds between a query and a reply. To avoid missing a reply, you can program a 2-second delay into any channel, or search band/tune range.
PSR-200U Owner’s Manual Draft To manually lock out a channel, select the channel then press L/O/L/O RVW until L/O appears. To remove the lockout from a channel, manually select that channel again, then press L/O/L/O RVW until L/O disappears. To call the locked out channel, press FUNC then press L/O while manual or program mode. Pressing FUNC then L/O to call the next locked out channels. Notes: • Your scanner automatically locks out empty channels. • You can still manually select locked-out channels.
PSR-200U Owner’s Manual Draft desired search band, then repeatedly press ^ or v. L-r (Lockout Review) appears and the scanner displays all locked out frequencies as you press ^ or v, or, EMPty appears when the search band has no locked out frequencies. When you reach the highest locked-out frequency, the scanner beeps twice and returns to the lowest locked-out frequency. If you press CLEAR using lock out frequency review, the lockout of the frequency is cleared.
PSR-200U Owner’s Manual Draft 3. Press and hold ENT then PRI. P ChAnnEL is displayed momentarily. After P ChAnnEL appears, PCH flashes and 000.0000 or the previously-stored frequency appears. 4. Press ENT to store the priority channel and display blinks two times. Press CLEAR to cancel. To turn on the priority feature, press PRI during scanning or searching. PRI appears. The scanner checks the priority channel every 2 seconds and stays on the channel if there is activity.
PSR-200U Owner’s Manual Draft 3. Press ^ on the host scanner. 4. SEndInG appears at the host scanner. To exit clone mode after the data transfer is complete, remove the cable. No ConnEct appears if you try to connect to another model scanner. The PSR-200U does not clone with other scanner models. INITIALIZING THE SCANNER If the scanner’s display locks up or does not work properly after you connect a power source, you might need to initialize the scanner.
PSR-200U Owner’s Manual Draft To find the birdies in your individual scanner, begin by disconnecting the antenna and moving it away from the scanner. Make sure that no other nearby radio or TV sets are turned on near the scanner. Use the tune function and tune every frequency range from its lowest frequency to the highest. Occasionally, the tune will stop as if it had found a signal, often without any sound. That is a birdie. Make a list of all the birdies in your scanner for future reference.
PSR-200U Owner’s Manual Draft The scanner is on but does not scan. What’s wrong? • The squelch might not be adjusted correctly. Turn SQ clockwise. There might only be one channel or no channels stored in the scanner. Store frequencies into more than one channel. While scanning, the scanner locks on frequencies that have an unclear transmission. What’s wrong? • Some frequencies programmed into the scanner might be the same as “birdie” frequencies.
PSR-200U Owner’s Manual Draft 380–512 (in 12.5 kHz steps/FM) Channels of Operation Normal Channel 200 channels FM Radio Channel 20 channels Sensitivity (12 dB SINAD at 3kHz Dev.): 29–54 MHz .................................................................... 0.2 uV 137–174 MHz ................................................................ 0.3 uV 380–512 MHz ................................................................ 0.4 uV 87.3–107.9 MHz (12dB SINAD at 45kHz/N) ..................0.5 uV 108–136.
PSR-200U Owner’s Manual Draft Operating Temperature ........................................... 0° to 43°C Power Requirements ....................... 9 Volts DC Dimensions (HWD) .............................. 210 x 175 x 60 mm Weight (without antenna) .........................................approx. 690 g Supplied Accessories ......................... Antenna, AC adaptor Specifications are typical; individual units might vary. Specifications are subject to change and improvement without notice.
