PSR600 - squelch tails tick me off.

[scanmanmi]

I got my 600 last night, programmed in a DCS and now I've got squelch tails. Doesn't DCS, in theory, eliminate tails? My Yaesu sounds beautiful.

 

[oracavon]

Here's my experience with tones on radios that have annoying squelch tails. It all depends on the radio system.

If the tone drops off before the carrier does (example - Calif Highway Patrol in LA County), then the mute circuit will kick in (due to the tone drop-off) before the squelch tail can be heard. However, if the tone drops off at the same time as the carrier (example - Calif Highway Patrol in Orange County), then the radio squelch tail will be heard before the mute circuit kicks in.

In the old analog radios (like the crystal scanners), you could easily eliminate or adjust the squelch tail by simply removing or replacing a capacitor. Can't do that with modern computerized radios. Radio manufacturers should make the squelch tail user adjustable, just like the delay time and all the other user-adjustable parameters.

 

[ScannerSK]

There are three settings you might try changing in the Function Global settings:

1.) RF SQ FADE - The amount of time to wait before closing the squelch after lost signal (squelch tail).
2.) HD5 FADE - The amount of time to wait after losing a CTCSS/DCS/NAC signal (squelch tail).
3.) HD2 Holdoff - The amount of time to mute a signal after an end of signal turn off code command.

Shawn

 

[scanmanmi]

I searched the manual for FADE and TAIL and got nothing. Haw can I access these?

 

[Mike_G_D]

I searched the manual for FADE and TAIL and got nothing. Haw can I access these?

Manually, by pressing in sequence PGM then FUNC then GLOB ("F3" softkey). You get to the "Expert Settings" screen. You then scroll down to get the various settings of interest. In WIN500 it's under the "Extended Settings" tab.

-Mike

 

[flythunderbird]

I had a similar issue with my PRO-197. I made the following parameter changes, which seemed to cure the problem:

RF SQ FADE: 1 ("RF SQ Fade Timeout" in Win500)
HD5 FADE: 5000 ("Fade Timeout" in Win500)
HD2 QUALIFY: 10 ("End detect qualify" in Win500)
HD2 HOLDOFF: 10 ("Delay after end" in Win500)

It took some playing with these parameters to get the scanner behaving the way I wanted.

I also have SQ WAIT 1 set at 7 ("In-band SQ Timeout" in Win500) and SQ WAIT 2 set at 7 ("Out-of-band SQ Timeout" in Win500). Tweaking those settings also helped a bit.

 

[scanmanmi]

I will give those a try. Thanks.