BCD996P2 and ProScan

[KC2ZHY]

I have a problem: this is now my second BCD996P2 that I have attempted this with. I have it set up on ProScan, identical like my other scanners have been in the past. However, when I plug the line-in jack into the external speaker port of the BCD996P2: nothing. My computer gets absolutely no audio; it just drops off. If I unplug the jack, the internal speaker of the scanner works just fine. If I plug in an external speaker, it works just fine.

Anybody have any insight? There is no way that I'm configuring this incorrectly as the same exact setup with a BCT15X, BCD996XT, and a BCD536HP have all worked. I'm starting to think there is a manufacturing defect on an entire line.

Thanks!

 

[Voyager]

Do you have the RECORD option enabled on the Systems you want to send to the Line Out jack?

 

[rwier]

I have a problem: this is now my second BCD996P2 that I have attempted this with. I have it set up on ProScan, identical like my other scanners have been in the past. However, when I plug the line-in jack into the external speaker port of the BCD996P2: nothing. My computer gets absolutely no audio; it just drops off. If I unplug the jack, the internal speaker of the scanner works just fine. If I plug in an external speaker, it works just fine.

Anybody have any insight? There is no way that I'm configuring this incorrectly as the same exact setup with a BCT15X, BCD996XT, and a BCD536HP have all worked. I'm starting to think there is a manufacturing defect on an entire line.

Thanks!

I have never seen a BCD996P2, but just looking at your question's syntax, I am a little confused. If you are trying to listen to the scanner on external speakers via a pass through your computer, wouldn't the cable (?) go from a "Line Out" jack on the scanner to a "Line In" jack on the computer? Your question is ambiguous as to whether that is what your are doing.

 

[KC2ZHY]

Do you have the RECORD option enabled on the Systems you want to send to the Line Out jack?

Every system is set to record all channels.

I have never seen a BCD996P2, but just looking at your question's syntax, I am a little confused. If you are trying to listen to the scanner on external speakers via a pass through your computer, wouldn't the cable (?) go from a "Line Out" jack on the scanner to a "Line In" jack on the computer? Your question is ambiguous as to whether that is what your are doing.

As stated, the setup is identical to any other ProScan set up. The line is connect OUT from the scanner and IN to the computer. It is then retransmitted via ProScan over IP.

In ProScan's audio tab, I get readings consistently lower than -50 dB, which is all static. This is strange, because the output of that jack on the scanner is supposed to be constant; when I plug in an external speaker, it sounds fine. However, whenever I plug in the jack into the PC, output drops to zero.

It's this reason that I think there is a manufacturing flaw, especially because this is not the first 996P2 this has happened with.

 

[nr2d]

If the audio circuit is the same for the 996P2 as the 536HP then I think you have to isolate the ground on the computer input.

 

[KC2ZHY]

If the audio circuit is the same for the 996P2 as the 536HP then I think you have to isolate the ground on the computer input.

I can't say for sure, but I'd reckon that it's different since the 536HP worked just fine on the same setup.

That being said: how would I accomplish isolating the ground?

 

[KC2ZHY]

Update on the situation (and hopefully someone can give me some hints / insight):

I've definitely isolated the problem to the scanner. When it's using internal speaker, no problem. When an external speaker is plugged directly into the scanner, no problem. When the wire I use to pass into the computer is coupled with the external speaker, no problem. When it's wired into a computer's line-in or mic port, zero audio captured (on 3 different devices).

Thoughts? [And reminder: this is the second BCD996P2 this has happened with whereas my BCD536HP, BCD996XT, and BCT15X have had no issues whatsoever with the same PC setup.]