AxelsHumanDad
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While sitting side by side with my 996T, my 436HP will all too often miss short transmissions or clip the beginning of transmissions.
I have both scanners holding on my local PD = Langlade County, WI 154.875.
As an example the call series may be:
"Langlade 436"
"436"
"436 can you 10-21?"
"10-4"
The 996T picks up everything without issue, every time.
No matter what tweaks I've tried the 436HP will miss the short replies, without even showing a signal strength display. On longer replies the beginning of the transmission is often clipped off. I'm about 10 blocks from the safety building so signal strength isn't an issue, both meter displays show a full graph.
Other than setting the P25 level to manual with a little adjustment, everything else is default in the 996T.
For the 436HP I currently have the system digital threshold mode manual and tweaked at 11, the hold time at 1 second, delay at 3 seconds, digital wait time is 200ms, digital AGC is on.
Changing the digital wait time to 0, 200, 400 has no effect. I have System, Department, and Channel all holding. Priority is off since both scanners are holding. Modulation type is NFM and Audio Option is NAC 8EE.
Swapping both scanners between the attached antenna and my outside antenna makes no difference. I haven't really noticed if it happens to other counties, but I don't think it is noticeable. It isn't every single time, but it is definitely much more often than not.
It's annoying and frustrating. It's holding me back from buying a 536 for concerns I'd have the same issue. I found a few other threads describing similar issues, but those suggestions did not work for me. I've had the 436 for about a year but I can't seem to resolve this problem. I mainly use ProScan to load the scanner, but using Sentinal doesn't make any difference.
I turn to the group here for other suggestions I might try.
Thanks.
I have both scanners holding on my local PD = Langlade County, WI 154.875.
As an example the call series may be:
"Langlade 436"
"436"
"436 can you 10-21?"
"10-4"
The 996T picks up everything without issue, every time.
No matter what tweaks I've tried the 436HP will miss the short replies, without even showing a signal strength display. On longer replies the beginning of the transmission is often clipped off. I'm about 10 blocks from the safety building so signal strength isn't an issue, both meter displays show a full graph.
Other than setting the P25 level to manual with a little adjustment, everything else is default in the 996T.
For the 436HP I currently have the system digital threshold mode manual and tweaked at 11, the hold time at 1 second, delay at 3 seconds, digital wait time is 200ms, digital AGC is on.
Changing the digital wait time to 0, 200, 400 has no effect. I have System, Department, and Channel all holding. Priority is off since both scanners are holding. Modulation type is NFM and Audio Option is NAC 8EE.
Swapping both scanners between the attached antenna and my outside antenna makes no difference. I haven't really noticed if it happens to other counties, but I don't think it is noticeable. It isn't every single time, but it is definitely much more often than not.
It's annoying and frustrating. It's holding me back from buying a 536 for concerns I'd have the same issue. I found a few other threads describing similar issues, but those suggestions did not work for me. I've had the 436 for about a year but I can't seem to resolve this problem. I mainly use ProScan to load the scanner, but using Sentinal doesn't make any difference.
I turn to the group here for other suggestions I might try.
Thanks.