Help with 996xlt Scanning

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Soundman

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I have a problem with my scanner .It scans fine .But when it stops on a channel it takes the dispatcher voice and so on and then it go to a backround noise . But it stops scanning till I have to hit scan agin .Then it happen to evey channel that I try .Could someone help me out .
 

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Here's an idea...

I have a problem with my scanner .It scans fine .But when it stops on a channel it takes the dispatcher voice and so on and then it go to a backround noise . But it stops scanning till I have to hit scan agin .Then it happen to evey channel that I try .Could someone help me out .

Soundman,

One possibility is that the squelch is set too low. Turn up the squelch (the knob in the upper left hand corner) to a setting of 3 or 4 and see if that helps... :)

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Soundman,

One possibility is that the squelch is set too low. Turn up the squelch (the knob in the upper left hand corner) to a setting of 3 or 4 and see if that helps... :)

ScanCHS


Thanks for the the responce back .I did what you side .But it did not work :(.This is what happen it stop on highway patrol then it sound like thy have a open mic .Then eather you here medic our some other police talking our someone else talking .None of my other scanners are doing this .Thy are scanning fine . It is driving me crazy .
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I have that problem with one of my local highway patrol channels. It has a constant interference/background noise on that channel. It won't stop the radio from scanning, but once it stops on a voice transmission on that channel, the background noise is enough to keep the squelch open and stop it from resuming scanning after the voice transmission ends. My solution was to program the PL for that channel. My radio will then resume scanning even if there is another signal (such as noise or interference) on the channel as long as the programmed PL is no longer being transmitted.

Sometimes this problem can be solved with antenna selection and/or placement to minimize or eliminate the noise, but that's a hit-or-miss proposition (not to mention a lot of effort).

It sounds like your radio is sensitive enough to pick up other users on the same channel. This is exactly the situation that the use of PL was designed to deal with.
 

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PL what does that mean LOL .It was working fine awile back .So I am just wounding what I am doing wrong . Thanks man.Add to my ? it scan great for about 5 min and them it just goes back to the open mic sound .Then eather medic pop up bus people pop up or police or other other people pop up .
 
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PL is the Motorola name for CTCSS. See the wiki entry below for a detailed explanation.

Continuous Tone-Coded Squelch System - The RadioReference Wiki

It doesn't sound like you're doing anything wrong. Your radio and antenna system are picking up stuff on that channel that you didn't pick up previously. Could be due to skip, antenna type, antenna placement, antenna amplifier, or some similar thing. Some radios are more sensitive to these things than others.
 

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hum

Well I have two of the same kind of antenna for two scanner .But thy worked fine before .I just figer out freescan .So now I am using it . But it make no sence .Thy were working fine .Thy just can't have just stop working .There is something that is missing .It runs fine for about 5 min and then it go into that mode .This is really staring to piss me off . I am about ready to trow this out my window .Thanks oracavon and scanchs for all your help .
 

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Well I have two of the same kind of antenna for two scanner .But thy worked fine before .I just figer out freescan .So now I am using it . But it make no sence .Thy were working fine .Thy just can't have just stop working .There is something that is missing .It runs fine for about 5 min and then it go into that mode .This is really staring to piss me off . I am about ready to trow this out my window .Thanks oracavon and scanchs for all your help .
Did you type this on a phone?

Anyways, try setting a PL and see if that helps.
 

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I set the PL and it is still having the same problem it works great for about 10 min and it just starts having that problem agin .
 

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It was working great .For about 30 min and then boom .It start up agin .I am using freescan so am I missing something that I did not hit ?
 
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