Home Patrol 2 issue with Northwest Ohio Regional Public Safety System.

[Greg43545]

It doesn't exist. A bit of bait and switch. However, if you watch HRO website, they will occasionally list "open-box" SDS200s for about $70 off. Likely returned because they are complicated radios, or did not meet a buyer's expectations. I purchased an open box 536 from them a few years ago - could barely tell it was "used."

A little bit of ' false advertisement ' ?

Rhetorical question - Why does RR allow them to get away with that?

 

[Greg43545]

Stinks. You cannot give an accurate "%" because each reception situation is unique. If you want to receive simulcast reliably with the 996P2, you will need to be very, very close to one tower of the simulcast site, and far away from the others.

I'm currently getting that problem already with my HP, so I'll avoid the 996P2 - Thanks.

 

[tvengr]

Try turning on the attenuator. If you reduce the number of towers you are receiving, it may improve control channel decoding. Turning off the digital AGC can reduce problems with garbled audio.

 

[SteveSimpkin]

A little bit of ' false advertisement ' ?

Rhetorical question - Why does RR allow them to get away with that?

If it's the same ad I'm looking at, it shows a picture of a SDS200 with the big caption "$649 Uniden Low Price". Under that it says "Shop Uniden SDS100 & SDS200 Scanner Deals..."
Technically the SDS100 is $649 but it is misleading because of the picture of the SDS200 which is $699. It should have said "Starting at $649" or something like that. Because it didn't and because of the pictured SDS200, I think it is fair to call it bait & switch.

 

[maus92]

Try turning on the attenuator. If you reduce the number of towers you are receiving, it may improve control channel decoding. Turning off the digital AGC can reduce problems with garbled audio.

The OP is trying to monitor a multicast site many miles away based on his earlier description, so not need to attenuate. He may be thinking about the future. Not sure of the logic.

 

[tvengr]

Didn't catch that the site is a long distance. The attenuator would apply only with adequate signal strength.

 

[Greg43545]

SDS-200 has been ordered and should arrive in 2 to 5 business days ( no later than 03-10-2020 ) Keeping fingers crossed -

God for the money, I sure hope it corrects my problem ...

 

[maus92]

Good luck.

 

[Greg43545]

Good luck.

Thank you ...