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- May 1, 2011
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I was wondering if there is a way to adjust the sensitivity for the close call feature? Why do I ask that? Well I have been running my BCT15X mobile w/ a remote head for about a year. I run my scanner in normal scanning mode with either CC PRI or CC DND on. It puzzles me they way it works sometime. Examples: Cullman, AL Walmart, and Walmart distribution, I can be a mile away and my close call will alert me to traffic. Driving around Birmingham, AL it is constantly going off cause of all the signals in that city, note that they are 95% digital so I just lock them out. I drive close, within a mile or so of a tower and it will alert me if there is anything. BUT when I am setting in construction traffic and 4 to 5 cars away from a guy i see talking on a HT doing traffic control, nothing! I have changed the mode to just close call mode and watch the bars move up and down, still no alerts to tell what frequency there on. The local county transportation buses run DMR w/ LRRP, they are constantly transmitting, I have worked on those radios and they put out 50w of power. I can be parked by one or pass one on the road, no hits! So is there anyone that can explain this? Is it a transmit power issue on the other end? If so I know Walmart uses little HT radios programmed the MURS frequencys, they cant be transmitting much power, they don't have a repeater.