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What is a good range to set for this scanner ? I Live in Dothan Alabama Houston County I have watched the videos on range but for some reason I am only hearing my local county, can you help ?

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Range

It's a pretty subjective question...depends what you want to hear and where you are relative to other systems.

Read section of rewritten manual:here

Mine is usually on 1 mile or zero.

typically a handheld scanner with supplied antenna is not going to pick up signals a long way off. Usually within 20 to 30 miles at best on VHF and closer on 800 MHz. You can improve on that by getting a band specific antenna.

If you set the range to 30 miles, it will select all of your selected items within those zip codes. So if you set it 30 miles and you happen to be within 30 miles of a lot of zip codes, it will load items you will never hear. I would probably stick with less than 20.

Actually, I believe adjusting the range controls what signals you hear is based on the circle of signal around the transmitting site, not what zip code is used. So if a town is 100 miles away, with one transmitter that has a range of 50 miles, setting range to 50 miles will include that frequency.

Here : How it Works: Location, Location, Location

Range determine what LOADS. You may or may not receive it.

Reception depends on a LOT of things, most important is antenna and height.

Also make sure you have your service types selected for what you want to hear. You can have range perfect but if you don't have ALL the service type you want checked off you'll pick up little to nothing.

THATS IT

That was it did not have all my service types checked, thanks everyone for all the good info.