And you are having the same problem with both scanners? I mainly listen to the Lupton tower since it always carries my local pd(local law south). Are you on roam or stat? Try roam, just so it stays on one CC. I'm thinking the delay is due to it scanning the CCs. Try sitting on one CC to see if that helps.
It's *about* the same with either scanner, though, with no really discernable rhyme or reason, one or the other will sometimes be more intelligeable than the other with maybe the very next transmission flipping to the other. Since, currently for various reasons, I am mainly experiencing this in a `base' situation I have the PSR series radios set to stat. *If* I do get to go mobile, and I am going to be traveling around more than just my immediate local area I do sometimes switch over to roam though even then it tends to sit set to stat a fair amount due to how I've got things programmed for various scanlists. (When I first got my PSRs I spent some time in the `second seat' `playing' with the radio and settings to try and figure out the best reception for various areas and destinations.)
As for `speed of scanning'... Whilst there are some times it might be nice to have a lot of sites programmed in ever since the earliest days of my scanning trunked systems I've tried to keep things `lean-n-mean'. It was bad enough before trunking dealing with scanning delays with all the agencies scattered all over the place frequency-wise to keep up. At times I found myself with multiple radios going whether on base or mobile / portable. (That's one part of why I tend to collect a lot of radios.) With the DTRS I *do* sometimes `sit', and in this case I actually have `sat', upon just one CC / site. (The PSR is kinda interesting in how `pause' and `manual' work and, even now, I have to remember just which I choose to use.)
However, after taking a lot more `care?' to `listen', I am starting to think that what I am dealing with just may be an artifact of digital `modulation' and `demodulation'. Unfortunately, since there is only digital `modulation' in use now, I don't think that I'll really be able to really confirm that is what I am dealing with. While we have always had occasional `mush mouths', `mike eaters', ETC. `on the air' digital `modulation' accentuates these `characteristics'. Oh, well...
I'm still waiting for the `experts' to `chime in' to `set us straight' or `save us from ourselves'. {CHORTLE!}
Thanks, dracer777, for taking the time and being helpful. I'll try and get back to you on that other thing we were discussing once things finally quiet down a bit around here.