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I have a BCD996XT and I'm new to the scanning world. I have it mounted in my truck, and I just don't seem to get very good reception. Any suggestions or tips for getting the best reception? Thanks.
What kind of antenna are you using
Kevin Absher - HTC Inspire 4G
The LEAST you could do for now unless you already did that, is to go into Radio Shack and get their Mobile Scanner Antenna ($39.99) and mount it to the very center of the roof of your car. Run the line to the BNC in the back of your radio...
Now, dumb question, what do you have programmed on your radio? Can you post your FreeSCAN file here so we can take a look?
So far, I've manually programmed all of the VA STARRS P25 program, and all of the FM police, rescue, and fire frequencies for nearly 12 counties surrounding me and most of the cities in my area. I can pick everything up, but it's always broken, always loses signal, and is always a short transmission. It's like one second the signal bars are full, and then the next second it's lost completely.
Hmmm, please check that your PRIority scanning is OFF and Close Call is OFF and try again. Those two could cause your radio to go off frequency every so often for long enough to lose lock on another frequency.
There are ways to prevent this other than OFF but for now, let's just check ;-)
If you're like me, you have some seriously powerful transmitters for Safety frequencies and those should be loud and clear, even with a hangar sticking out the back of the BNC connector ...
Do you have another radio to compare against? If you do:
--Park both of them on a known strong busy signal
--Compare the output from both...
I would say the little window antenna is your problem. As for a mobile antenna..... I'm not sure if radio shack would have any in stock but you could probably one. I got mine from eBay.
Kevin Absher - HTC Inspire 4G
I tried searching ebay for "maxrad triband" and "maxrad maxscan" with no results also "larsen triband" with 2 results, but I'm not sure what I'm looking at :|
Any advice?