I still haven't found anything small enough to use mobile or at work for this issue, at least pre built. Yesterday, I was listening to the morning traffic as usual and the SDS200 sat there, apparently silent, then I heard a slight mumbling. I fired up my Pro 106, got it on the same freq, and there was a woman paramedic talking about a patient just pulled from a wrecked car. To even understand her on the SDS200, I had to go to "12" on the volume, and when the hospital replied, it was at blast level. Normally at work, I run the volume at 8 to avoid one of the engineers, who has hearing aids, complaining about the "scanner noises". He has great difficulty understanding anything on a scanner or HF radio. The above traffic was plain old analog. Digital does the same thing. It really annoys me. IF I could find a small automatic level controller, even if I needed to run an external amp/speaker, I would be fine with it. I just guess I need to find something and build it and try it out. Of all the radios I have that can receive the "problem" channels, the SDS200 is hands down the worst, worse than little "junk" radios that cost like $30-50 brand new. Most of them have little problem with it, the level is close enough that I can still make out what they are saying without riding the volume pot like I have to do on the SDS200.
