Conventional FM UHF/VHF

[tweiss3]

I have a SDS200 in my Transit, and a SDS100 in my work truck. The SDS200 is connected to a Larsen NMO150/450/758, while the SDS100 is just on its stock rubber ducky. I love both, and managed to get them where I want them for travel around the state and even travel to other states with location control and GPS.

Our local club is doing a county metroparks on the air, and I figure I'd toss 156.52 & 446.00 in their own favorite group so if I was out running errands, I could grab their calls and get more parks. I successfully added them and gave it a quick key; however, with S set to 2, it still trips static for 1-2 seconds many places around the city. It has been noticed on both scanners, though the 200 was annoying enough to turn off Saturday. What is the best way to mitigate this, as S=2 works wonders for the state P25 system. Do I need to turn the attenuator on for those two frequencies? Any other trick?

 

[tweiss3]

Boy was that a misstype, 146.52, not 156.

 

[Ubbe]

The WFM setting are for FM broadcast signals. You should be using FM and eventually NFM. The WFM are some 150KHz wide and will receive a lot of different 25KHz FM and 12,5Khz NFM signals at the same time and probably also some added interferencies.

/Ubbe

 

[tweiss3]

The WFM setting are for FM broadcast signals. You should be using FM and eventually NFM. The WFM are some 150KHz wide and will receive a lot of different 25KHz FM and 12,5Khz NFM signals at the same time and probably also some added interferencies.

/Ubbe

Ah........ there is the rub. I just checked with the other Amateur Radio entries in the Uniden database, all FM. I was thinking wide FM vs NFM in amateur radio/gmrs, not FM broadcast radio.

That should fix it when I can pull the card again and turn it back on.

Good old PICNIC error.