Whistler WS1065, Owner'S Manual

Page 1: ...DIGITAL TRUNKING OWNER S MANUAL WS1065 Desktop Mobile Radio Scanner...

Page 2: ...fely 10 AC Adapter 11 DC Power Cable 12 Understanding the Keypad 13 Turning on the Scanner 15 Understanding the Display Icons 16 Programming 17 Programming Cables 17 RadioReference com 18 Scanner Clon...

Page 3: ...Global Settings 51 Initializing to Factory Defaults 52 Configuration Shortcuts 53 Manual Programming Guide 54 Conventional Objects CONV 55 Trunking System TSYS Object 57 Talkgroup TGRP Object 59 Dupli...

Page 4: ...alkgroups Remove unwanted channels and talkgroups What is Object Oriented Scanning Programming scanning receivers can be challenging but object oriented programming simplifies the process by using com...

Page 5: ...an receive However there are some transmissions you should never intentionally listen to These include Telephone conversations cellular cordless or other means of private telephone signal transmission...

Page 6: ...ect Oriented User Interface Context Sensitive Help Scan List V Scanner Technology Save complete backup radio configurations up to 21 versions SKYWARN Storm Spotter Function SAME and All Hazards Weathe...

Page 7: ...ch as RG 58 or RG 8 low loss dielectric coaxial cable You may also need a BNC adapter To connect the included antenna Your scanner s frequency sensitivity depends on its location and the antenna lengt...

Page 8: ...be properly grounded to prevent static buildup and lightning damage Article 810 of the National Electrical Code ANSI NFPA 70 provides information about proper grounding of the antenna mast connection...

Page 9: ...anner within the mounting bracket Mount Installation Attach the bracket over the radio to suspend the scanner from above Attach the bracket underneath the scanner to mount it on top of a flat surface...

Page 10: ...not provide sufficient volume for comfortable listening Listening Safely To protect your hearing follow these guidelines when you use headphones Set the volume to zero before putting on headphones Wit...

Page 11: ...ons Using a DC adapter that does not meet these specifications could damage the scanner or the adapter To Connect the AC Adapter 1 Plug the supplied AC adapter into the DC 13 8V jack 2 Plug the AC ada...

Page 12: ...turns on and off with the ignition switch such as a spare accessory terminal in your vehicle s fuse box 5 Insert the power plug into the DC power jack on the rear of the radio 6 Reconnect the cable t...

Page 13: ...key first and then press the next key DIM Backlight FUNC DIM locks the keypad MAN Manual Mode monitors single objects SCAN Scan Mode FUNC SCAN launches Spectrum Sweeper TUNE Direct tuning of any vali...

Page 14: ...List WX Weather scan FUNC WX activates Skywarn PROG Program objects FUNC PROG accesses V Scanner L OUT Temporary Lockout FUNC L OUT permanent lockout ENT Enter PAUSE Pauses Scanning Four direction ke...

Page 15: ...scanner s antenna is connected before you turn it on 1 Turn the SQUELCH knob to about mid position 2 Turn the VOLUME knob to turn on the radio 3 Turn SQUELCH down counterclockwise until you hear noise...

Page 16: ...NC has been pressed This acts as a Shift key T The scanner is currently receiving trunking control channel data G The attenuator is set for Global mode A The attenuator is currently active S The radio...

Page 17: ...is included with the scanner The cable lets you use software provided by RadioReference com and their constantly updated database to program your new scanner quickly and easily RadioReference com als...

Page 18: ...18 RadioReference com RADIO REFERENCE...

Page 19: ...ale stereo plugs at each end The WS1065 is compatible with the following scanner models PRO 106 PRO 197 PRO 651 PRO 652 GRE PSR 500 PSR 600 Whistler WS1040 and WS1065 To clone a scanner 1 Connect the...

Page 20: ...with cloning To turn off CCDump 1 Press PROG 2 Press FUNC and then the GLOB softkey 3 Use the 4 direction keypad to locate the CCDump option and change the setting 4 Press the Save softkey Manual Pro...

Page 21: ...llowing list Letter Position Letter Key Char Press Char Press Char Press Char Press A 21 a 2 F 1 1 11 01 B 22 b 2 F 2 2 12 02 C 23 c 2 F 3 3 13 03 D 31 d 3 F 1 4 14 04 E 32 e 3 F 2 5 15 05 F 33 f 3 F...

Page 22: ...words which you can keep or edit To edit QuickText 1 Press PROG 2 Press the GLOB softkey 3 Scroll to one of the QTXT items 4 Press to edit the QTXT entry 5 Edit the text To keep the cursor at the end...

Page 23: ...efault every new object you create is mapped to Scan List 01 NOTE Objects are not moved into scan list s Instead objects are mapped to scan lists so that a single object can be assigned to multiple sc...

Page 24: ...assign objects to Scan Lists 1 Open the object and locate the Scan Lists parameter 2 Press SEL to toggle membership for that scan list An asterisk next to the scan list number indicates assignment 3...

Page 25: ...ual mode 2 Use the 4 direction keypad to browse the objects in the current scan List and select an object to monitor Only scan lists that contain objects appear when browsing Finding Stored Objects Th...

Page 26: ...to accept Qtxt selection 5 Use the 4 direction keypad to scroll through available objects 6 Press the OK softkey Press the Exit softkey to cancel the Find operation To find objects by object type 1 Pr...

Page 27: ...s Top row scan lists 1 10 bottom row scan lists 11 20 2 Numbers represent active scan lists periods represent inactive scan lists To toggle a list press the corresponding number on the keypad For 11 2...

Page 28: ...Scroll to the Scan Lists parameter and press SEL 4 Use the 4 direction keypad to toggle the scan list An asterisk indicates that the scan list is enabled 5 Use or to access the Enabled option 6 Use o...

Page 29: ...will change to PlD indicating priority is set In Manual or Program modes browse to the object and then press PRI Note plD will change to PlD indicating priority is set You can edit an object s Priori...

Page 30: ...tive When you press FAV later your scanner suspends all scanning except for the Favorites Scan List To clear the entire FAV Scan List 1 Press PROG 2 Press the GLOB softkey 3 Scroll to down to the Clea...

Page 31: ...n uppercase L indicates a permanent lockout Talkgroup Lockout Used with wildcard TGRP objects This locks out a specific talkgroup but the wildcard TGRP remains active Search Lockout Lock out up to 250...

Page 32: ...Press the FIND softkey 4 Press the L Out softkey 5 Press the NEXT softkey to find the next locked out object To edit the Search Lockout List 1 Press PROG 2 Press the GLOB softkey 3 Scroll down to SRC...

Page 33: ...o the TSYS item and press SEL to edit the system parameters 6 Scroll to Multi Site and use the four direction keypad to select Off The scanner will use the first usable control channel in the control...

Page 34: ...in any order and AutoMove automatically moves the frequencies to home repeater slots as transmissions are received To enable LTR Home Repeater Automove 1 Press PROG 2 Use the 4 direction keypad to nav...

Page 35: ...arch 1 Press TUNE The most recent TUNE frequency appears 2 Press PAUSE The scanner begins the search To start a limit search 1 Press the SRCH key repeatedly until the display indicates Srch Limit When...

Page 36: ...requencies Use the 4 direction keypad to change search direction Use the number keys to enable disable sub bands Press the MODE softkey to change the receive mode AM FM NFM Press the FrL O softkey loc...

Page 37: ...softkey Enter the beginning FrLo frequency then enter the ending FrHi frequency 6 Name your search in the Tag field 7 To search while scanning assign the object to a scan list 8 Press the Save softke...

Page 38: ...te Latch LED Off the Alert LED is on only during a transmission On the Alert LED remains lit after a transmission unless overridden Backlight On Off or Flash Alarm None Chirp Hi Lo Alert Ring 2 Chirp...

Page 39: ...5 Configure settings for the object To restore the default setting press the Dflt softkey 6 Name your search in the Tag field 7 To search while scanning assign the object to a scan list 8 Press the S...

Page 40: ...Solid or Flash LED Color 0 Off 1 Red 2 Yellow 3 Green 4 Cyan 5 Blue 6 Magenta 7 White Latch LED Off the Alert LED is on only during a transmission On the Alert LED remains lit after a transmission un...

Page 41: ...tkey 3 Press the SRCH softkey 4 Press the SWPR softkey 5 Configure settings for the object To restore the default setting press the Dflt softkey 6 Name your search in the Tag field 7 To search while s...

Page 42: ...Latch LED Off the Alert LED is on only during a transmission On the Alert LED remains lit after a transmission unless overridden Backlight On Off or Flash Alarm None Chirp Hi Lo Alert Ring 2 Chirp Fa...

Page 43: ...ess WX The scanner quickly locates an active weather radio frequency 2 You can use the 4 direction keypad to search for other weather radio transmitters 3 To activate Weather Priority Mode locate the...

Page 44: ...To restore default setting press the Dflt softkey 6 Press the Save softkey to store the data 7 Press the Save softkey again to save all SAME changes and return to the Weather mode SAME Wildcards Your...

Page 45: ...dio frequency 2 When the scanner stops on a frequency press the stby softkey The softkey will change to STBY and the scanner will alert when a matching SAME message is received 3 To exit SAME Standby...

Page 46: ...s SEL again to exit help GLOB Menu Reference Contrast Sets LCD contrast Owner Sets Welcome Message text display Clone Send Press SEL to send data to clone Alert Mode Tone Light Both or Off Sound Mode...

Page 47: ...txt 1 0 Sets QuickText 1 10 Key Repeat Key repeats when held down On or Off LCD BlinkOff For alternating text displays sets the display time for the secondary display element 1 250 x 10 mS LCD BlinkOn...

Page 48: ...tive DSP decoding algorithm is applied to all search types TLO FUNC L O When No L OUT Temporary Lockout when Yes L OUT Permanent Lockout DupeChecksSQ Yes or No Checks both frequency and encoded squelc...

Page 49: ...oad a V scanner into main memory the current contents of main memory are overwritten and cannot be recovered there is no Undo To save the current contents of your scanner s main memory to a V Scanner...

Page 50: ...er and use it in main memory any changes you make while using the configuration will not automatically be transferred to the configuration data stored in the V Scanner storage folder You must save you...

Page 51: ...o initialize Global settings 1 Turn off the scanner then turn it on again 2 When the Welcome Ownerscreen appears press 0 The scanner displays 3 Press 2 The scanner displays 4 Press ENT The scanner dis...

Page 52: ...e to factory defaults 1 Turn off the scanner then turn it on again 2 When the Welcome Ownerscreen appears press 0 The scanner displays 3 Press 1 The scanner displays 4 Press ENT The scanner displays 5...

Page 53: ...cut to Light Mode ATT Shortcut to Attenuator Mode 0 0 Shortcut to Memory Information 0 1 Destructive clears working memory and resets all global parameters to fatory defaults Does not affect V Scanner...

Page 54: ...bjects into your scanner manually This Manual Programming Guide is primarily intended to supplement your programming experience TIP Remember that there is context sensitive help available for each men...

Page 55: ...sts Press SEL to assign the object to scan lists An asterisk indicates an assigned scan list Freq Enter frequency in MHz Tag The display name for the object Sq Mode Subaudible squelch mode or Project...

Page 56: ...Hi Lo DTMF Fav Assigns the object to the Favorites scan list Skywarn Assigns the object to the Skywarn Scan List Modulation Automatic AM FM or NFM Atten Attenuator applies 20 dB of attenuation to red...

Page 57: ...oftkey TSYS Menu Type Defines the system type MOT 800 900 Motorola 800 or 900 MHz analog or digital 3600 baud control channel MOT VHF UHF P25 MANUAL Use default 800 MHz table data P25 AUTO Project 25...

Page 58: ...upertrack Alternative DSP decoding algorithm Multi Site Used with networked Motorola and P25 trunked radio systems OFF Uses the first usable control channel in the control channel list STAT Uses every...

Page 59: ...ssign the object to at least one scan list 6 Press the Save softkey By default the talkgroup ID is set to Wildcard You may wish to save your TGRP object as a Wildcard with no further changes Wildcard...

Page 60: ...ode Solid or Flash LED Color 0 Off 1 Red 2 Yellow 3 Green 4 Cyan 5 Blue 6 Magenta 7 White Latch LED Off the Alert LED is active only while the object is receiving a transmission On the Alert LED will...

Page 61: ...an object 3 Press the EDIT softkey 4 Press the DUPE softkey This creates an exact copy of the selected object 5 Change the tag name and any other object parameters before saving your new object 6 Pre...

Page 62: ...ed with that TSYS will require a new TSYS to function Memory Usage Your scanner can report used memory available memory and memory allocation To display the memory usage report Turn on the scanner Whi...

Page 63: ...urn on Hit Counts 5 Press the SAVE softkey To view the hit counts for an object 1 Navigate to the object 2 Press PROG 3 Press the EDIT softkey 4 Press the CURR softkey 5 Scroll to Hit Count 6 To reset...

Page 64: ...I II III Analog and Digital GE Ericsson MA COM EDACS Narrowband and Wideband EF Johnson LTR Receiver System Triple conversion PLL super heterodyne 1st IF 380 8 MHz The 1st LO uses high side of receiv...

Page 65: ...z Band 23 cm Amateur Band Preprogrammed Service Searches Public Safety 0 30 8 47 6 MHz VHF Low Band 1 151 173 MHz VHF High Band 2 453 468 MHz UHF Band 3 764 797 MHz 700 MHz Band 4 851 869 MHz 800 MHz...

Page 66: ...er LED backlight 4 lines of 16 characters each plus 13 display icons Zeromatic Automatically zeroes receiver on correct frequency during searches Audio Output 1 8 W Internal Speaker 77 mm 8 ohms dynam...

Page 67: ...Hz steps FM 156 2500 156 2550 MHz in 5 kHz steps FM 156 275 157 450 MHz in 25 kHz steps FM 157 470 160 8225 MHz in 7 5 kHz steps FM 160 8250 MHz FM 160 830 161 5725 MHz in 7 5 kHz steps FM 161 600 161...

Page 68: ...s have that are created inside the scanner s receiver and can cause interference If the interference is not severe adjusting the squelch might omit the birdie but if you program one of these frequenci...

Page 69: ...install any new driver on Windows 8 Windows 7 Vista XP you need to log on as an administrator Insert the USB interface cable into the USB port your computer Depending on the PC s Operating System the...

Page 70: ...Select the Hardware tab then select Device Manager 3 Scroll to Ports then click the sign to expand the Ports list 4 Look in your PC s Device Manager for Ports COM LPT to confirm the cables COM port nu...

Page 71: ...stallation 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 i...

Page 72: ...or its failure to work or any other incidental or consequential damages including personal injury DO NOT RETURN ITEM TO STORE WHERE PURCHASED FOR WARRANTY INFORMATION CONTACT WHISTLER CUSTOMER SERVIC...

Page 73: ...on clearly printed Your name and physical street address for shipping no PO Boxes a daytime telephone number and an email address if applicable A detailed description of the problem e g device will no...

Page 74: ...ount of 120 00 Payment may also be made by MasterCard VISA or American Express Personal checks are not accepted In the event repairs cannot be covered by the minimum service fee you will be contacted...

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