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I'm still new to scanning and learning alot along the way. I was wondering of something, I added a signal booster (standard thing, you get it from wal-mart, maybe $30) and it has an amplification of 24dB, really helped me pick up the rail yard that's about 7 miles north of me, and helped pick up the airport that's 12 miles west of me, but the repeater tower for my county's public safety is a motorola type II trunking system, and it seems while I had the amplifier hooked up it went almost completely silent. There's 100 talk groups programmed in, 20 are pretty busy, but nearly nothing. I disconnected it about an hour later and it's back to the normal chatter. My reception on the control channel is a solid 99%, so finally, here's the question.
Is it possible that amplifying an already STRONG signal caused my reception to actually black out? I have a pro-163 and the trunking system is 100w just 2 miles away. Just bouncin questions around..
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Is it possible that amplifying an already STRONG signal caused my reception to actually black out? I have a pro-163 and the trunking system is 100w just 2 miles away. Just bouncin questions around..
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