Roxbury Fire Audio is Low

[kenisned]

Roxbury Township's UHF channel is so hard to hear on my scanner.

I'm getting the same results on all my scanners, so it's not me. Is it their system, is it on purpose?

Anyone know?

Thanks

BC250D
SC200
BC785D
BCT996
BC780XLT

 

[comsec1]

tie lines possibly

if they use some kind of RTL's to connect their tranceiver to the dispatcher there could be a level problem, I know for a fact that another agency nearby that has borrowed space from us uses radio tie lines for their radio and it goes like this, verizon- another carrier- and back to verizon. there has been a round robin for the last few years trying to make it work longer a week with each concern not careing and pointing fingers at each other even when the verizon tech is at the site trying to get levels set the carrier in the middle says nothing is wrong even if you can get them to assist. do you know if they use this kind of set up or do they just have a local tranceiver at their HQ's.

 

[NJFIREPIX]

Its the system.. Some days it works better than others..

 

[RocketNJ]

Also the new channel may be 2.5 kHz narrowband, so 1/2 the deviation of a normal channel.

If your scanner has the ability, set it to nfm.

 

[res5cue]

its 12.5khz spacing and it has its ups and downs.. there are times when they are working an incident and i turn the portable up then something else comes across it and blows me out of the water.. same thing on their PD channels.

 

[RocketNJ]

I guess they should can Pinnacle as their service provider then.