Pro-197 Squelch Tail

[BlueDevil]

Even with the proper squelch settings entered into the channel I am still getting a horrible squelch tail at the end of every transmission. I feel like I am listening to and old school regency crystal scanner. I was hoping for better technology than this. Any ideas on what I might be doing wrong or is this just the way it is?

Thanks!!

 

[TRNcommLLC]

I have the GRE version of that scanner but never had that problem. Are you using a CTCSS or DCS? My squelch is kinda tight.

Have you edited anything with software?
I use the ARC500 and there is setting in "Expert" tab that can cause problems if your not careful.

John

 

[N8IAA]

Even with the proper squelch settings entered into the channel I am still getting a horrible squelch tail at the end of every transmission. I feel like I am listening to and old school regency crystal scanner. I was hoping for better technology than this. Any ideas on what I might be doing wrong or is this just the way it is?

Thanks!!

What is the frequency?
Larry

 

[kb3isq]

I got a long squelch tail on NFM,change to FM and it goes away (This is on 159.000 freqs.)

 

[BlueDevil]

I have been using some software but it was doing the same thing before I was using the software. I have my mode set to auto. Maybe if I changed it to FM it would take care of it?...

 

[BlueDevil]

Changing the mode to FM didn't help anything. The scanner seems to wait to close until the carrier drops instead of losing the Squelch Tone....

 

[AC2OY]

My 197 never did that...thank God

 

[W6KRU]

Even with the proper squelch settings entered into the channel I am still getting a horrible squelch tail at the end of every transmission. I feel like I am listening to and old school regency crystal scanner. I was hoping for better technology than this. Any ideas on what I might be doing wrong or is this just the way it is?

Thanks!!

There is an adjustment for that. I think I lowered RF SQ fade to 2 or 3 from the default level of 10 and had a nice short squelch tail on my PSR-500: http://marksscanners.com/106_197/106_197.shtml#RF SQ Fade

 

[TRNcommLLC]

Here is what I have in my 600 using the ARC500 software.

John

 

[BlueDevil]

Thanks DDan!!

I adjusted the HD5 setting from the default of 2000 to 200 and the scanner is working perfectly!

 

[AC2OY]

Wow nice glad you got it fixed. If I ever played it those menus I would get in trouble because I have no clue what most of those setting actually were.