I have an XL185P and scanning between TGs is smooth as butter… I know several people with XL200Ps and they all complain about a popping sound when scanning TGs… one stated the popping sound goes away when using a Bluetooth Speaker Mic
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XL200P popping noise while scanning
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My XL200P has a slight popping noise whenever the squelch opens (upon receiving any transmission). Not just while scanning. It does it in all modes (P25 or analog FM). It’s super annoying. It also does it with a wired RSM attached.
BigLebowski
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I know what he's talking about.. its an intermittent popping while not actually receiving anything and is quite annoying. Hopefully a firmware fix will be issued to correct it.
BigLebowski
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I know what you are talking about @nikronzo but I think this is a different issue. When just sitting on my desk, not receiving anything but with scan toggled on, my XL200 will occasionally have a pronounced clicking or popping from the speaker. Toggling scan off and back on usually makes it go away for a while.
To be more specific regarding my XL200P, when a transmission comes through there’s a pop/click type noise right before the voice comes through the speaker. My P7200s do it very, very bad, with the XL200 it’s more subtle but I can’t believe a radio this expensive does this. It seems like poor engineering.
The popping noise is the amplifier kicking on. It’s very faint on the XL200 compared to the APX7000.
While on the topic of firmware… I read on some sales pamphlet for an agency that GE Star may be returning to the XL series radios
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