Thank You bfpdp for your post.All scanners that I have bought over my many years of scanning as a professional scanner user have included the owners manual.I would have never known about the owners manual being on line.The little piece of paper that comes with the scanner is printed so small that it is very easy to miss the link that Upman has posted.Maybe Upman will include a Gain antenna with the Uniden Home Patrol 2 scanner when it is released to the scanner users who use scanners 24/7/365. Upman, Are you listening?
This has been discussed here many times. Both GRE & Uniden are doing what alot of companies are doing these days which is to provide a starter guide in the box at the time of purchase with info on how to download a full version of the O/M online (more times than not in pdf format).
This is being done for couple reasons:
--It is the more "green" approach. This means that less paper is used for printing owners manuals. This saves paper and resources.
--It saves the company money. let's face it: after you first learn the radio you almost never need the manual again. It gets filed away somewhere.
This is money wasted on manuals that end up in a filing cabinet somewhere never to see the light of day again. I have a crap ton of manuals that I have not looked at in years in a filing cabinet.
In these conservative financial times printing a starter guide with a link to full manual online saves Uniden (and GRE) money that can be directed elsewhere.
If you wish to have print out a full version from online you are more than welcome to...however most folks when presented with this option would end up printing out specific parts of the full manual as a "cheat sheet" and not all of it.
It is a win-win for the company and the end user as the company saves money and the end user only has to print out what they need as opposed to the entire manual.
Marshall KE4ZNR