If you want to believe it or not this is why all scanners except the SDS series fail they were not designed with the hardware to receive simulcast and decode it. The receiver has no way to work with multiple signals on the same frequency and add to that some are even out of phase.
If you are trying to receive a SIMULCAST SYSTEM you can read all about the PAPERCLIP ANTENNAS, BEAM ANTENNAS, NO ANTENNA, COFFEE CAN ANTENNA, or you can buy a SDS SCANNER people here have been fighting SIMULCAST with regular scanners for 5 plus years.
Once I align the antenna for the best signal quality the transmission sounds clear, clearer than any previous scanner?
It will work until the weather changes trees grow somebody builds between you and the sites or a site looses some power antenna changes anything can and will change your settings then you will start over adjusting your setup.
And I noticed when I'm listening to the analog frequency that repeats the fire and EMS paging the analog frequency actually transmits one to two seconds before the scanner begins the same exact transmission?
You can have 2 or more Motorola Radios on a scene running P25 they will all not have the audio at the same time in other words a delay.
Analog is instant a digital radio has to CONVERT AUDIO to digital code before it transmits then the DIGITAL radio has to decode the digital signal then it has to play the audio over the speaker. I have 20 Uniden Digital Scanners sharing the same Antenna I can lock 2 or more on the same system and have a ECHO caused by delay.