RadioBanter - View Single Post - Can you recommend a scanner where squelch works?

John Szalay · April 28th 08, 07:59 PM posted to rec.radio.scanner

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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.

Several questions,
have you tried to use these in one location or multiple ?
do you live near a radio or television transmitter ?
do you have a cable tv leak, bad connections ?
have you checked for an RF source ? microwave tower ? Cell tower ?
open case computer ?

any one of these can cause interference in the IF section of a scanner.

are you scearching for freqs, or have you programmed freqs that you are
looking at ?

How close are you to the transmitters you are trying to monitor ?

are the freqs you entered car to car or Repeaters freqs ?