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trunkerman63
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I've had this scanner for over a month now. I have had tons of help in setting it up from a fellow who really knows this business. But I am finding that to receive digital voice, it is going to take about a 3 to 5 bar signal strength to pull it off. I live in an apartment complex and can NOT have an outside antenna which this radio desperately needs to function right. I do have a good Diamond antenna on it.
The fellow who worked so hard to help me get the system going has several entries with different codes entered to try to get hard to get neighboring counties. The one county I can hear, most of the time, it gets 2-3 bars and all I can get is silence with a soft "pop-pop-pop" sound. Every great once in a while, some digital voice will break through, but it is only garbled, and a word or two, totally unintelligible.
A local friend suggested I enter the two hard to get counties just plain vanilla with no squelch or CTCSS settings. I did that, and for the first time ever, did hear Nolan County (I'm in Taylor County, Texas), but very very weak, barely one bar and unconverted digital "hash".
I just don't think the 600 "has it" to dig in it's heels and pull out the digital voice on weaker signals. I am very disappointed in the radio in that regard, but am happy with it as for getting good digital voice on the strong local-only signals.
I've spent more time re-doing the software and re-entering new files into it than actual listening. Still, I can not receive digital signals from anything weaker than about 3-4 bars. I wish now I would have bought a good Uniden like my local friend has. His automatically switches to digital voice when received.
The fellow who worked so hard to help me get the system going has several entries with different codes entered to try to get hard to get neighboring counties. The one county I can hear, most of the time, it gets 2-3 bars and all I can get is silence with a soft "pop-pop-pop" sound. Every great once in a while, some digital voice will break through, but it is only garbled, and a word or two, totally unintelligible.
A local friend suggested I enter the two hard to get counties just plain vanilla with no squelch or CTCSS settings. I did that, and for the first time ever, did hear Nolan County (I'm in Taylor County, Texas), but very very weak, barely one bar and unconverted digital "hash".
I just don't think the 600 "has it" to dig in it's heels and pull out the digital voice on weaker signals. I am very disappointed in the radio in that regard, but am happy with it as for getting good digital voice on the strong local-only signals.
I've spent more time re-doing the software and re-entering new files into it than actual listening. Still, I can not receive digital signals from anything weaker than about 3-4 bars. I wish now I would have bought a good Uniden like my local friend has. His automatically switches to digital voice when received.
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