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Phoenix Police ASTRO25 - Help!

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Is anyone else here familiar with this system? I have a 396 and 996 that are both experiencing the same thing. During the middle of sentences, the transmission breaks up, and somtimes that is it for that transmission. Somtimes it is just garbled. The status screen shows that it is decoding at the default threshold of 10, after watching it for a while. So I guess that does not need adjustment. Other APCO25 systems Glendale PD, Maricopa County, work fine. Both the 396 with it's duck antenna, and the 996 with a rooftop antenna, do the same thing. I could possibly understand it on the portable with the duck antenna, and 1-2 bars of signal, but the 996 with rooftop antenna is pegged at 5 bars on every frequency, every time. Signal strength is not an issue. Ideas?

(Darn, I sure do miss the old VHF system where a good scanner and outdoor antenna were all you needed.)
 
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one thing to try is using attenuation as the signal may be overloading the front end. Strange as it sounds, signals can be too strong.
 
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