I have no problem receiving on low band with my PRO-197. I get lots of skip. Weak signal too. Picks up better than my old Uniden 785D. At times I get power line leakage that degrades reception, and in the past I had an eathernet router that made noise on all my radio stuff (nixed that sucker fast!), but none of this is the fault of the scanner...It's inteference! It will intefere with any scanner. I do use an FM broadcast filter, and that helps my VHF hi band to work 100% normal. Maybe that helps low band too...I dunno. But really, if anything causes RFI/EMI noise on the frequencies you want to hear, it has nothing to do with the scanner. It's just inteference. Find it and fix it. Lucky my computer is quiet, but I have had noisy computers before that degraded low band to UHF. As far as the power line noise, I could call the power company and tell them they have a leakage problem and have to fix it by FCC rules and regs. They came out once before by my old house because HF was 20 over S-9 with power line noise. But the scanner is not the problem...the noise is.
Phil
