Federal Way PD Audio Readability Issue

[dpm3]

I am located in Dash Point/NE Tacoma (a hundred or so yards from the Federal Way city limits). Listening to Federal Way PD dispatch on my SDS-100 I am plagued with consistent audio "static" type interference often (though not always) loud enough to obscure much - sometimes all - of the audio making it unreadable. I am listening to this on the King County/Valleycom simulcast site. I don't seem to notice this as a problem on other KCERS departments/talkgroups. VERY interesting is the fact that while some slight static is audible when listening on my TRX-1 or my RS PRO-197, it in no way makes the audio unreadable on those devices. I have monitored the transmissions on both devices side by side with the SDS-100 and the difference in audio quality on the Federal Way PD Dispatch talkgroup is astonishing! Might this be an issue with settings on the SDS-100? If so, any insight or advice on how to resolve it would be most helpful.


























































it in no way presents a problem in readability. Has anyone else noticed this issue? If so might there be a setting issue on the

 

[Whiskey3JMC]

Try experimenting with filter settings for the site. Any difference?

 

[nessnet]

I am chuckling......
Indian Hill.

I used to live on Larchmont in NE Tacoma, just down the hill from Indian Hill.

Indian Hill is RF BIG Daddy.
Everyone is on there, including (used to be anyway) high powered paging.
The RFI got into everything.
It was (seriously) a PITA.

I have no idea if they are still blasting off of there, but if you live anywhere close to that hill......

 

[devicelab]

This was 12 years ago but I had a friend that lived around Norpoint Way and it was really terrible reception down there for most radio. I remember it only because I had to wait for him for about 20 min one day outside his place and couldn't find much to listen to on the BCT15 scanner. All of my preprogrammed sites were not picking up and I didn't have the Tacoma system(s) programmed.