Friends,
Since the thread on this topic is closed I want to put a discovery into the database that pertains.
The original fact was that the Pro-96 works best if you put a conventional FM frequency on a channel in between two control channels on a multi-cc system.
I seem to see this result as well.
Since I have lots of frequencies programmed into my local FD/PD bank I put the County Sheriff frequencies in between the tower freqs.
I programmed these county freqs with their CTCSS tones.
Turns out that the tone function is a huge time delay in scanning!
It was so bad I thought my local trunked PD had disappeared! (posting in the Colorado regional group).
I still have a few channels with tones programmed where there is a dead carrier that will capture the radio in certain places but now with most of the tones and settings back to FM my radio behaves much, much better.
FYI.
NW0U
Since the thread on this topic is closed I want to put a discovery into the database that pertains.
The original fact was that the Pro-96 works best if you put a conventional FM frequency on a channel in between two control channels on a multi-cc system.
I seem to see this result as well.
Since I have lots of frequencies programmed into my local FD/PD bank I put the County Sheriff frequencies in between the tower freqs.
I programmed these county freqs with their CTCSS tones.
Turns out that the tone function is a huge time delay in scanning!
It was so bad I thought my local trunked PD had disappeared! (posting in the Colorado regional group).
I still have a few channels with tones programmed where there is a dead carrier that will capture the radio in certain places but now with most of the tones and settings back to FM my radio behaves much, much better.
FYI.
NW0U
