Sorry Ofd8001, that was poor wording on my part. You guessed correctly, that was indeed the issue. I didn't try the WX but I will remember that in the future. James, I haven't had any portable radios near it, other than my car radio and a plugged in small stereo, where I've always had it when its at home. Long story, but I keep it plugged in at home to an FM transmitter so I can hear it all over the house. At work, I turn it upside down and listen out of the speaker. I did fuss with range and serv and zip, and range. I even changed Micro SD cards too, but that really didn't do anything. The cards are the same anyway, just one has more memory. I am not sure how it got fixed because I am not sure what was wrong with it to be honest, but once I got to work, I plugged it in and fired it up and figured I'd have to mess with it later, but voila, I started hearing the state patrol, local sheriff, city crews, EMS, etc. Now, either I am hearing less stuff or it just wasn't a busy day because when I stuck the card in my computer there wasn't as much traffic as usual, but at least I had something. Last night I had zilch. Weird stuff isn't it? Is it a bad thing if you take the card out a few times a day? I don't want to hurt it of course, but the listen back to everything feature really serves me well for reporting.