I guess I don't have good luck with mobile scanners, but I had just bought yesterday the PSR-500, I updated the firmware and did a quick program and it worked great for a while. Then I noticed that throughout the day I barely heard any transmissions, and I only heard the city police when I was in the center of town.
Even know when I'm at home, I hook up an external antenna and I can't even hear the weather broadcasts. The only time I can make the scanner pick up a signal is if I tune to a Ham frequency and transmit on my HT/Base, which is right next to the scanner.
I've tried reverting back to the older firmware revisions, as well as the factory revision, with no luck. I've erased all memory and loaded the same config that worked before, but no luck.
I know this is really vague, but do any of you have any insight as to what the problem might be? As I said before I just got this and it hasn't been dropped or anything at all, so I find it hard to believe that the antenna connection may be faulty, but it is possible.
Even know when I'm at home, I hook up an external antenna and I can't even hear the weather broadcasts. The only time I can make the scanner pick up a signal is if I tune to a Ham frequency and transmit on my HT/Base, which is right next to the scanner.
I've tried reverting back to the older firmware revisions, as well as the factory revision, with no luck. I've erased all memory and loaded the same config that worked before, but no luck.
I know this is really vague, but do any of you have any insight as to what the problem might be? As I said before I just got this and it hasn't been dropped or anything at all, so I find it hard to believe that the antenna connection may be faulty, but it is possible.