Feed Sounds Like Crap...

[Nysff]

I pulled my BCD536HP and plugged in my BCT15x and now my audio sounds HORRIBLE.

Not sure what happened but I've pretty much tried to adjust what i could with no luck.

Any Suggestions?

Erie County Sheriff Dispatch

 

[jim202]

I pulled my BCD536HP and plugged in my BCT15x and now my audio sounds HORRIBLE.

Not sure what happened but I've pretty much tried to adjust what i could with no luck.

Any Suggestions?

Erie County Sheriff Dispatch

Many radios have a DC bias on the audio output lines. It may take adding a capacitor to block the DC on the audio your feeding to the computer. You can take a voltmeter and measure the line your using from the center pin to the shell on the cable your connecting into the computer. If you have a voltage, just add the capacitor in series with the center pin (hot wire). Use something on the order of a 1.0 to a 3.3 uf capacitor. the voltage rating should be at least the 12 volts or 15 volts the radio has for a power source. You will probably find the voltage is a positive one, so put the positive side of the cap towards the radio and the negative towards the computer.

 

[Nysff]

I'm using the "Record" Port on the scanner and have that plugged into the Blue input jack on the rear of the computer. Thats the way I have always had it and never had it sound like it does now.

 

[Spitfire8520]

Many radios have a DC bias on the audio output lines.

It doesn't sound (or look) like there is a DC bias in the audio. I personally think the audio sounds fairly clean and well tuned when compared to the many feeds that has it cranked way up and overmodulated. Then again, I don't know what the feed sounded like when the 536HP was providing the feed.

 

[mikewazowski]

Thread moved since this isn't a Broadcastify Admin issue.