giant22000
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I live in the Beaumont, TX area and monitor the Southeast Texas Regional Radio System that uses Motorola Type II SmartZone trunking and Analog and APCO-25 Common Air Interface for voice. I've previously used a PRO-106 on this system that had functioned great. However to my disappointment the BCD436HP really struggles on this systems digital voice. With full signal strength there is a lot of garble while the PRO-106 is crisp and clear at the same time.
While driving down the road I love listening to my scanner and the PRO-106 had done a great job at this. The BCD436HP is not listenable due to all the garble and static in the voice. The analog on this trunking system and conventional is much better on the BCD436HP but still occasionally slightly suffers from the symptoms listed above.
I've tried different antennas and starting over completely in sentinel to no success.
I've also tried the method listed in the sticky above in regards to changing the frequency listened to fm from nfm with no success.
Are there any other tricks I can try to improve the decoding of this system?
Might this be a defective unit or is this to be expected from Uniden?
I feel this is a fantastic scanner and would love to keep it in my collection but with the performance I'm seeing this far I can't see keeping this unit.
Thanks.
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While driving down the road I love listening to my scanner and the PRO-106 had done a great job at this. The BCD436HP is not listenable due to all the garble and static in the voice. The analog on this trunking system and conventional is much better on the BCD436HP but still occasionally slightly suffers from the symptoms listed above.
I've tried different antennas and starting over completely in sentinel to no success.
I've also tried the method listed in the sticky above in regards to changing the frequency listened to fm from nfm with no success.
Are there any other tricks I can try to improve the decoding of this system?
Might this be a defective unit or is this to be expected from Uniden?
I feel this is a fantastic scanner and would love to keep it in my collection but with the performance I'm seeing this far I can't see keeping this unit.
Thanks.
Sent from my Nexus 5 using Tapatalk 2