I suspect you've hit the nail on the head Sarah. Operator error springs to
mind.


"Sarah Czepiel" wrote in message
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On Sun, 27 Apr 2008 19:55:00 -0700 (PDT), wrote:

:Hi - I've gone through five scanners and was wondering if someone can
:recommend one before I run out of money. On all of these scanners, I
:try and set the squelch so that it skips unused frequencies. However,
:when a used frequency is found, the squelch chops out most of the
:audio. If I turn the squelch all the way down, I can hear all of the
:audio. I try and use the least amount of squelch possible, but it
:still chops the audio so you can't understand anything. Needles to
:say, I'm ticked off that devices could be designed so poorly.
:
:Thanks in advance.

Can you tell us what scanners you've used? I use the Pro 96, Pro97, and
PSR 500. Also have used several different Bearcat, Uniden, and Radio
Shack
models and haven't found the squelch too difficult to regulate.

I assume you've turned the squelch all the way up and then backed it
slowly
down until it just allows the radio to scan thru the frequencies? That's
how I fine tune mine. If I have an additional freq. or two that overloads
and stops on that setting I back off the squelch just slightly to get
those
freqs/channels to scan. So far I don't feel I'm missing anything and
everything seems to come in loud and clear.

Am I missing anything? Is this what you've done so far without success?