On Fri, 24 Mar 2006 12:06:05 GMT, Dan wrote:

I've seen a few posts regarding choppy or garbled audio reception with
the PRO-96. A Google web search of "Pro-96 garbled audio" brings up a
few hits as well. Explanations I have seen:

1. Problems with scanner
2. Encrypted audio (but not being detected as such)
3. Poor signal
4. Faulty/Buggy transmission network (doesn't seem likely as I would
think the PD department would be all over this in a heartbeat...)

I was just wondering if they *actually* did find some issue with the
PRO-96 since it seems to have vanished from the website...

Digital audio will almost never be as clear as analog audio. I say
"almost" because a good technician, given the proper equipment and
enough time, can make a current Motorola digital transmitter sound
hi-fi. But if you drop a few bits of signal, ant there was a change
of audio during those bits, you'll hear garble. Garble is digital's
"noise burst" or "picket fence". Make sure you never drop a bit, and
use 100 KHz bandwidth, and all digital will sound better than analog.