JohnnySmith81
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Hey all. Newbie here who's been a long time reader on this forum, but now its time for my first post. I'm hoping someone can give me a bit of advice, or know whats going on here.
I recently got myself another Whistler TRX1 after misplacing my old one i got years ago, but i'm having an issue which i noticed a few days ago.
When the scanner is running on battery power, the Spectrum Sweeper acts as it's meant to, in that it almost instantly scans through very large portions of frequencies.
When i run the scanner plugged in via the supplied power cable (usually in my car), the sweep speed reduces dramatically to where its taking almost a second per full step. I.e, 140.000 - 141.000 for example.
I initially thought maybe it was detecting signals and slowing down within certain portions, but there is no signal strength showing at the times when it is going slow.
I have also tried multiple antennas but get the same results. As soon as i pull the power cable from the scanner, the speed jumps to be almost instant.
Does anyone know why this might be the case? This only happens when plugged in to a power source and thus means a lot of missed transmissions. I'm not to sure my old one did this, so i'm kind of hopeful it's a settings issue. It's annoying me now i have noticed.
Thanks in advance.
I recently got myself another Whistler TRX1 after misplacing my old one i got years ago, but i'm having an issue which i noticed a few days ago.
When the scanner is running on battery power, the Spectrum Sweeper acts as it's meant to, in that it almost instantly scans through very large portions of frequencies.
When i run the scanner plugged in via the supplied power cable (usually in my car), the sweep speed reduces dramatically to where its taking almost a second per full step. I.e, 140.000 - 141.000 for example.
I initially thought maybe it was detecting signals and slowing down within certain portions, but there is no signal strength showing at the times when it is going slow.
I have also tried multiple antennas but get the same results. As soon as i pull the power cable from the scanner, the speed jumps to be almost instant.
Does anyone know why this might be the case? This only happens when plugged in to a power source and thus means a lot of missed transmissions. I'm not to sure my old one did this, so i'm kind of hopeful it's a settings issue. It's annoying me now i have noticed.
Thanks in advance.
