Hi All.
I'm one of they many fighting a daily battle with simulcast and my counties P25 system. I've tried all brands of scanners and scanner settings. I've finally had it bashed into my head that the "fix" for simulcast problems is really location, location, location. I live literally dead center of two towers. One is three miles away in one direction and the other is 3 miles away in almost the exact opposite direction. The perfect storm of simulcast distortion. I'm currently using a yagi and have had it pointed towards each tower, slightly away from each tower and even perpendicular away from both towers.
Anyways, the question I have is... Without changing anything, some days I actually get great (well.. better than decent) reception while other days its just horrible. How much do atmospheric conditions play into this? What about terrain?
Thanks.
I'm one of they many fighting a daily battle with simulcast and my counties P25 system. I've tried all brands of scanners and scanner settings. I've finally had it bashed into my head that the "fix" for simulcast problems is really location, location, location. I live literally dead center of two towers. One is three miles away in one direction and the other is 3 miles away in almost the exact opposite direction. The perfect storm of simulcast distortion. I'm currently using a yagi and have had it pointed towards each tower, slightly away from each tower and even perpendicular away from both towers.
Anyways, the question I have is... Without changing anything, some days I actually get great (well.. better than decent) reception while other days its just horrible. How much do atmospheric conditions play into this? What about terrain?
Thanks.