troubleshooting

I seem to be having siren issues with my trunk mount VHF XTL5000 with a W9 head. The siren used to work fine until my radio suddenly wouldn't boot when starting my car. It would only flash the backlight for a split second, turn off, then flash again until the ignition was turned off. The radio...

Hello, i set up a local rdio scanner server thats connected to sdrtrunk so i can roll the tapes back if need be. ive been editing the talkgroups and organizing everything, and have made some serious progress. however i am having an issue that just popped up out of nowhere. all of a sudden, when...

So in wanted an analog scanner mainly for airband. I almost exclusively buy things thru amazon prime so I had to pick between a 120 dollar Whistler or a 200 dollar uniden. I'm a Uniden guy, with uniden radios, and 3 uniden scanners, so this is my first time with Whistler. I got the scanner...

Hello. I'm new to scanning and newer to SDRs, but I do actually have 75% of it figured out. I know how to use sdr++, pdw, sdrtrunk, satsagen, dsd+, and all that stuff. After I figured out sdrtrunk, I discovered it was comical Ly easy to create a broadcastify calls node and a feed. So I did both...

Alright, I feel kinda silly posting this I have an Astro XTL 5000 with the W4 control head. I am trying to adjust the squelch settings on the unit from the control head. Following the instructions provided on page 50 of this manual, I am pressing and holding the MON button until Squelch...

Hi all, Longtime reader, first time poster. I recently acquired a TK-890 w/ a KRK7DB, a KCH11 remote head, and it is configured for ignition sense. Despite the dual band set up, I was able to have it reprogrammed to run as a single band unit and I acquired it from another working environment...

I am hoping some one maybe able to help me with the following. We shipped a vehicle to Asia with 3nos XIR 8668i. We purchased there devices from a dealer in asia. The customer requested for advanced encryption feature to be activated. We managed to active the feature in two of the devices...

So I recently bought a cb radio, it's an old hy-gain 1 681 (the forty channel model), and a mag mount mic, I don't yet have an swr meter, so I don't know if it's tuned or not. I can hear just fine, but when I try to transmit, nobody hears me. I started troubleshooting the problem, and found...

Good day all, I wrote here a few years ago asking for help and it was provided by this amazing community. Over the past two years I have continued visiting and learning from those more knowledgeable than myself. I have been out of the Motorola game since 2018 but recently just got back and alot...

Hello, I have a Cobra 29LX with a four foot FireStik on my 2017 F-350 (Its aluminum) I grounded my antenna to my trucks bed. My SWR readings on all the channels are above three. I have tried multiple antennas, all FireStiks. In the pictures, does the cable look like a good quality coax? The...

Hey All, Ed (WRCQ448 on GMRS here) I have a really dumb question. I have a close friend (ham op) who is having a big issue with his vehicle pretty much being a faraday cage. It’s a Subaru Crosstrek Hybrid. When it switches to hybrid mode pretty much any radio signal that’s not AM/FM/HD cuts...

My radio is not picking up p25 nomore. I've done everything I could. I've formatted and restored everything in the radio back to default. nothing is working. the system I've been scanning for the last 3 years the Oklahoma wireless interoperability network P25 has been working great and just...

I've been a freelance photographer all around Tulsa county. My handheld scanner the pro 668 been working fine on the P25 system for 2 years now. all of a sudden the last couple days. my radios gone cold. I don't hear Tulsa police nomore. or any of the talkgroups on the Tulsa site. the primary...

I am new to scanning, and I started out with the PRO-652. I am having no issues with any other talkgroups in my area, or conventional frequencies. I live near Dayton, OH and am trying to receive the county wide talkgroup (https://www.radioreference.com/apps/db/?sid=406). I have all of the RR...

I'm having a problem with choosing which channels I can and cannot record. According to the terms of service with broadastify, I cannot broadcast my county's aviation unit, but I still want to listen to it. I tried multiple time to make it so the aviation channel was not recording out, but it...

Please help me with this. I have an Icom f510, which after a forum strand on here I managed to get transmitting. I have today had to reprogram it updating the frequencies. Now the radio will receive when on the correct channel, but pushing the PTT results in the radio returning to channel 1...

Hi. My new 396xt seems to revert to scanning EVERY band after scanning my programmed channels and I can't figure out how to go back to scanning (instead of searching bands) or to stop this. I'm not sure if this is a system or what. The text is '-1' and then it goes from around 30-40, 130, 450...

Hi, I recently put my BC996XT in a new car. I have it plugged in via the cigarette power adapter. If I turn the volume up past approximately the 2 o'clock position and the scanner receives a transmission, the scanner will crash and restart itself. It won't work correctly until I turn the volume...

Hi all, I've enjoyed perusing this site, gleaning what info I can understand. I like to think I'm pretty tech savvy, but I clearly don't understand antennas and RF as well as I'd like. I purchased a home, and in the attic I found a TV antenna. It looks to be a pretty normal all-band tv...

About a week ago I noticed my the ant tuner for my 706 mkIIg installed in my truck was making a clicking sound without any equipment powered up. I unplugged the 12VDC to the radio and the noise stopped. A day or two later, when I had some time, I tried to do some troubleshooting when I noticed...