Squelch tail on HP-1

[scosgt]

I have a very very strong local channel that has a horrible squelch tail on the HP-1. Another scanner such as a 796D does not exhibit this problem. The channel is CTCSS enabled. Changing the squelch setting does not seem to make a difference.

This is so severe that it makes it almost impossible to use on this channel. Anyone have any ideas?

BTW this is eventually a self-resolving problem, because this is a simulcast on uhf of an encrypted TRS, and very soon it will be turned off.

However, I still want to know if there is any cure to be had.

 

[SquierStrat]

every uniden made scanner i have ever owned has had this problem. glad to hear the HP-1 does it too. Try "holding" on one of those channels and see if you miss the first split second of every transmission too. some people suggest you try changing modulations (FM, NFM, WFM), but i have never been able to cure it. Ive just come to accept that all uniden scanners suffer from this

 

[scosgt]

every uniden made scanner i have ever owned has had this problem. glad to hear the HP-1 does it too. Try "holding" on one of those channels and see if you miss the first split second of every transmission too. some people suggest you try changing modulations (FM, NFM, WFM), but i have never been able to cure it. Ive just come to accept that all uniden scanners suffer from this

I hear you, but in this particular channel it is severe. It is like 1.5 seconds of loud static after every transmission. I would think it is due to the repeater, but my 796 sitting on the same channel does not do it.

 

[scosgt]

I turned on att for this channel and set the delay to 0 and that seems to have helped a lot. When sitting on the channel I don't need delay, and it is so strong that I can receive it without an antenna. So maybe this is something of a solution in the house.

 

[scosgt]

Upon further testing, it appears that the cure was turning on ATT for this channel. I am not a tech, so I don't know the details, but I am guessing that the closeness and power of that channel was overloading the scanner?