If this has been asked before, I apologize.
THis problem is confined only to the Ohio MARCS... and began happening only a short time ago.
SOmetimes---there appears to be no ryme or reason to it that I can detect--- the scanner will begin to receive a talk group on OH MARCS, and voice is coming thru with high quality. Then, towards the end of the transmission, it is like someone throws a magic toggle switch somewhere, and I hear what I interpret to be the sound of an analog trunking control channel. This will tail on for a while, then I hear the response to the original traffic, usually OK. SOmetimes however, the response is a combo between high quality voice and the control channel sound. I may have read in previous posts around here that folks refer to this as the "motor boat" sound, which it kinda, indeed, sounds like.
At times (90+% of the time), this same talk group is flawless. But, every now and then, I get the control channel sound.
What is happening here? Anyone have a theory?
THis problem is confined only to the Ohio MARCS... and began happening only a short time ago.
SOmetimes---there appears to be no ryme or reason to it that I can detect--- the scanner will begin to receive a talk group on OH MARCS, and voice is coming thru with high quality. Then, towards the end of the transmission, it is like someone throws a magic toggle switch somewhere, and I hear what I interpret to be the sound of an analog trunking control channel. This will tail on for a while, then I hear the response to the original traffic, usually OK. SOmetimes however, the response is a combo between high quality voice and the control channel sound. I may have read in previous posts around here that folks refer to this as the "motor boat" sound, which it kinda, indeed, sounds like.
At times (90+% of the time), this same talk group is flawless. But, every now and then, I get the control channel sound.
What is happening here? Anyone have a theory?