I recently discovered that my BCD436HP has been dropping some transmissions. I really hadn't noticed it until I fired up DSD+ on a spare computer the other day to do some unrelated things, and noticed that I was hearing more PD traffic on it than I was on my scanner.
I think possibly my initial finding is due to the radio starting to scan again, and missing out on quick key'd events (such as a "10-4" 3 seconds after the last transmission on the PD channel)
What's interesting, is that during this time, I placed the channel on hold, and for the most part, it catches all the transmissions, until after 10-15 minutes - then it only receives maybe 2-10 transmissions. I can use the knob to channel up then back down, and it may or may not start receiving again. I can turn off the hold, let it scan, and it seems to start picking up more traffic again. It's like if it stays on hold for too long, it goes deaf?
I tried to capture it on video, but, being that it's a small town with sporadic traffic, it's hard to capture a vid of it.
The channel is a digital P25 channel of the local PD - no trunking involved.
I think possibly my initial finding is due to the radio starting to scan again, and missing out on quick key'd events (such as a "10-4" 3 seconds after the last transmission on the PD channel)
What's interesting, is that during this time, I placed the channel on hold, and for the most part, it catches all the transmissions, until after 10-15 minutes - then it only receives maybe 2-10 transmissions. I can use the knob to channel up then back down, and it may or may not start receiving again. I can turn off the hold, let it scan, and it seems to start picking up more traffic again. It's like if it stays on hold for too long, it goes deaf?
I tried to capture it on video, but, being that it's a small town with sporadic traffic, it's hard to capture a vid of it.
The channel is a digital P25 channel of the local PD - no trunking involved.