BCasto
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Durham City reception problem
Using a BCD996XT receiving Durham City. I live on the Cary Morrisville boarder near Chapel Hill Road and Weston Parkway.
Even when I have 4 to 5 bars of signal strength, voice traffic comes and goes and the scanner doesn't stay fixed on the control channel. There are indications a TG is active but there is no voice. P25 error rates are pretty variable and can get very large and the threshold setting fluctuates wildly. When off the CC it displays NFM. It is set up as P25 Standard Trunk. Control Channels are the only frequencies.
Supposedly the scanner "learns" and over time should find the best threshold level, but that doesn't seem to be happening.
Would love some ideas from the bright people here. Thanks a bunch.
Using a BCD996XT receiving Durham City. I live on the Cary Morrisville boarder near Chapel Hill Road and Weston Parkway.
Even when I have 4 to 5 bars of signal strength, voice traffic comes and goes and the scanner doesn't stay fixed on the control channel. There are indications a TG is active but there is no voice. P25 error rates are pretty variable and can get very large and the threshold setting fluctuates wildly. When off the CC it displays NFM. It is set up as P25 Standard Trunk. Control Channels are the only frequencies.
Supposedly the scanner "learns" and over time should find the best threshold level, but that doesn't seem to be happening.
Would love some ideas from the bright people here. Thanks a bunch.
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