CorwinScansNM
Member
Hello,
I am just wondering if anybody else who monitors or tries to pick up ABQ Dispatch Cibola NFS is having issues/troubles receiving them clearly on their known Federal frequencies? My digital BCD536HP Scanner has been landing on their frequencies that I have programmed for the last 2 to 3 days & allot too. However, I am not hearing or picking up their communications well at all but instead, a ton of static noise or distortions & very little voices that are even clear enough to really hear what is going on fire wise. It is really starting to get to my nerves & aggravate me that I can't hear or pick up Cibola NFS with all of my good receiving equipment like I could 5 to 10 years ago when it was easy & clear with no problems unlike now. I am experiencing the same problem with monitoring NM State Fire 154.31000 Mhz & NM State Forestry 159.18000 Mhz.
Is anybody else here in NM who tries to or does in fact monitor the Cibola National Forest Service experiencing this totally annoying & ridiculous reception problem when trying to monitor them on their Federal frequencies like I am? I try to monitor them for mine & my homes safety due to the extreme high fire danger & drought near me & around NM. I have a outdoor scanner receiving antenna which is currently a Larsen Tri-Band NMO150/450/800 antenna on a ground plane kit with a (N) Connector but soon to be switched out to a Harvest D130N Discone Antenna with some hopes of signal improvement luck if any? I also then use the highest quality coax cable which is a 50 foot LMR-400 Coax cable that is run from my outdoor antenna inside my home to a PCT-MA2-M TV Amplifier & then finally, to my digital scanner. Not sure what I am doing wrong here or of it is just gotten to that point & time of being extremely difficult to nearly impossible to monitor any Federal frequencies specifically talking about Cibola NFS on scanners of any kind or type?
I am just wondering if anybody else who monitors or tries to pick up ABQ Dispatch Cibola NFS is having issues/troubles receiving them clearly on their known Federal frequencies? My digital BCD536HP Scanner has been landing on their frequencies that I have programmed for the last 2 to 3 days & allot too. However, I am not hearing or picking up their communications well at all but instead, a ton of static noise or distortions & very little voices that are even clear enough to really hear what is going on fire wise. It is really starting to get to my nerves & aggravate me that I can't hear or pick up Cibola NFS with all of my good receiving equipment like I could 5 to 10 years ago when it was easy & clear with no problems unlike now. I am experiencing the same problem with monitoring NM State Fire 154.31000 Mhz & NM State Forestry 159.18000 Mhz.
Is anybody else here in NM who tries to or does in fact monitor the Cibola National Forest Service experiencing this totally annoying & ridiculous reception problem when trying to monitor them on their Federal frequencies like I am? I try to monitor them for mine & my homes safety due to the extreme high fire danger & drought near me & around NM. I have a outdoor scanner receiving antenna which is currently a Larsen Tri-Band NMO150/450/800 antenna on a ground plane kit with a (N) Connector but soon to be switched out to a Harvest D130N Discone Antenna with some hopes of signal improvement luck if any? I also then use the highest quality coax cable which is a 50 foot LMR-400 Coax cable that is run from my outdoor antenna inside my home to a PCT-MA2-M TV Amplifier & then finally, to my digital scanner. Not sure what I am doing wrong here or of it is just gotten to that point & time of being extremely difficult to nearly impossible to monitor any Federal frequencies specifically talking about Cibola NFS on scanners of any kind or type?