beischel
Member
Hi Group,
I noticed that when the Cincinnati/Hamilton County (Ohio) System rebounded that I started having issue with the P25 audio breaking up at times. It used to be perfect before rebinding. The issue used to happen on my Uniden 996, but decided to give the 996 to my nephew and go with the GRE 500 and 600. The GRE's were much better. Then, rebanding occurred and the GRE's started acting like the Uniden.
When the audio was breaking up, I noticed the the signal strength bars would vary quite a bit at the top going from three to five bars, up and down almost wildly. Of course when they were a solid five, the audio would be just fine.
I tried the attenuator, without any success. Really puzzled me.
So then I decided to experiment. I changed the selection of the Control Channel from Roam to Stationary and that made a huge improvement. My thinking is that maybe it kept changing control channels or something which created the issue with the signal strength meter bouncing around. Now, with the scanner set to stationary for the Control Channel selection, that issue does not seem to happen as much now.
I live within a few miles....maybe even a mile....of two of the transmitter locations for this system. So that is not an issue in terms of being too far.
So anyway, wanted to relay the experimentation in case anyone else having an issue AND wanted to see if anyone else had that issue and what you may have changed to resolve it or improve the audio.
Thanks,
Duffy
I noticed that when the Cincinnati/Hamilton County (Ohio) System rebounded that I started having issue with the P25 audio breaking up at times. It used to be perfect before rebinding. The issue used to happen on my Uniden 996, but decided to give the 996 to my nephew and go with the GRE 500 and 600. The GRE's were much better. Then, rebanding occurred and the GRE's started acting like the Uniden.
When the audio was breaking up, I noticed the the signal strength bars would vary quite a bit at the top going from three to five bars, up and down almost wildly. Of course when they were a solid five, the audio would be just fine.
I tried the attenuator, without any success. Really puzzled me.
So then I decided to experiment. I changed the selection of the Control Channel from Roam to Stationary and that made a huge improvement. My thinking is that maybe it kept changing control channels or something which created the issue with the signal strength meter bouncing around. Now, with the scanner set to stationary for the Control Channel selection, that issue does not seem to happen as much now.
I live within a few miles....maybe even a mile....of two of the transmitter locations for this system. So that is not an issue in terms of being too far.
So anyway, wanted to relay the experimentation in case anyone else having an issue AND wanted to see if anyone else had that issue and what you may have changed to resolve it or improve the audio.
Thanks,
Duffy