Home Patrol 1 volume

[MaritimeMatt]

I ve had my new home patrol 1 about a week now. Cool little unit but I'm not thrilled about the maximum volume. I use this at home inside and for me, i really need the volume at max, the unit fairly close and little to no back ground noise to really make out what they are saying. I know their are amplified external speakers for the vehicle, but how about in the house? Thx.

 

[UPMan]

Powered computer speakers generally work well.

 

[NYRHKY94]

As UPMan suggests, powered computer speakers work quite well for scanners. Especially when using handheld models that only have a headphone jack.

 

[Ubbe]

That seems a bit odd. I have mine set at volume 5 at 50cm distance and it's pretty loud and sit on top of a UBC780 at almost half volume that sounds about equal in strenght. My BCD536 are set at volume 8 and the TRX-2 at 6 and all sound about equal and all scanners are stacked on top of each other.

/Ubbe

 

[W8RMH]

Program every channel with a +3 volume level.

 

[llwade]

I programmed NOAA weather into the HP1, hooked up a pair of computer speakers, plugged the speaker plug into the HP1, and the USB plug into the computer. results was a beautiful amplified transmission

got super excited until I tried other freq already in the HP1 all I got was a loud terrible Hum
where did I go wrong?

 

[llwade]

found hum gone when station talked

 

[SteveSimpkin]

You may need to add an audio isolation transformer between the scanner and amplified speakers.
https://www.amazon.com/Mpow-Ground-Isolator-Stereo-System/dp/B019393MV2

 

[Ubbe]

Is that USB for powering the speakers? Then you could also try a seperate USB mains power source.
Maybe you already have cell phone charger that could be used.

/Ubbe

 

[llwade]

UBBE thank you for suggestion to power the speakers with an iPhone USB Charger and NOT the computer sound system. Worked great, I could not be happier with the results .

 

[MaritimeMatt]

As UPMan suggests, powered computer speakers work quite well for scanners. Especially when using handheld models that only have a headphone jack.

I hooked it up to a RS set of powered computer spekers/sub and it made a big difference, however sometimes it seems you can't fully understand the officers transmission. Headquarters sounds clear and understandable. Thanks for the tip.