Now I do have another problem, I'm in Cincinnati, ohio so theirs a lot of freq. when it scans and the dispatcher pops in or anyone, the audio breakes up. I read simulcast freq. are notorious for this, is their anyway I caN FIX it?
Cincinnati is indeed a simulcast system. While your scanner will
receive a good strong signal (evidenced by several signal strength bars),
decoding the signal can be challenging. Simulcast issues manifest themselves either in garbled audio or no audio at all, even though you know there is a transmission going on.
Briefly repeating what's been mentioned numerous times elsewhere, you are receiving multiple towers and the scanner is having decode problems. Just like two people talking to you at one time, you may have difficulty understanding what is said.
Things that could be done to get some improvement:
1. Set site attenuator to ON.
2. Fine tune P25 Adjust Level and P25 Adjust Mode settings.
P25 Adjust settings are trial and error. No one combination of settings works the same everywhere and can be dependent upon where you are. You just have to fiddle with the numbers that gives you the best results you can get.
For my local system, I use 13 and 175. Another guy with a scanner gets better reception at 11 and 180.