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motor noise on Midland 1001LWX

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sloop

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Finally decided to replace my old scanner with a cb in my truck. I have no motor noise on the scanner when it is on cb freq. but when I use the cb with the same electrical and ant mount, I get S9 level motor noise. Since everything used is the same but the radios...is the Midland so poorly filtered that it picks up interference that the scanner does not? Is there anything reasonable that can be done short of getting a new cb?
 

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Issue is more than likely the lower frequencies and AM modulation used by CB as compared to the higher frequencies and FM modulation used by most of the stuff you would listen to on the scanner.

Couple of questions to help narrow this down:

Where are you getting the power from?
What are you using for an antenna?
Where is the antenna mounted?
What year/model truck?
 

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Found the problem....the antenna was broken internally but the break did not show up on the antenna analyzer (go figure). Changed antennas and the problem went away. Anyway to answer the previous questions...power directly from battery, scanner was set to monitor cb am frequencies, truck is nissan frontier 2017, antenna is on front right fender/hood (did not want to put a hole in the roof of my truck).
 
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