I finally settled on a happy medium for me when monitoring multiple airband comms that are typically short in regards to my scanners that have a fixed delay timeout.
YMMV.
If I can't hear both sides of the comms, like not being able to hear the tower, I don't use any delay as the typical two-second timeout is not long enough to wait for any read-back anyway and I might as well have the scanner move on to new things, or catch the read-back on the quick trip back through the memories anyway. I don't use delay on most sector approach/departure if I can't hear the tower.
For air-air, CTAF or other slower-operation freqs, I normally DO use the delay.
This combination seems to work well for me. Obviously it won't fit everyone's style of operating, but I tend to catch more, or at least more of a new communication that way.
YMMV.
If I can't hear both sides of the comms, like not being able to hear the tower, I don't use any delay as the typical two-second timeout is not long enough to wait for any read-back anyway and I might as well have the scanner move on to new things, or catch the read-back on the quick trip back through the memories anyway. I don't use delay on most sector approach/departure if I can't hear the tower.
For air-air, CTAF or other slower-operation freqs, I normally DO use the delay.
This combination seems to work well for me. Obviously it won't fit everyone's style of operating, but I tend to catch more, or at least more of a new communication that way.
