I just received an old radio shack pro-26 scanner from a friend at work. my boss programmed all the frequencies into the scanner. my problem is that evey time sometime quits talking there 3 beeps lasting about 3 seconds, which means the traffic of the responding person is always missed. there is a delay button on the scanner and i made sure i deactivated it on all the channels but there still is a 3 second delay.

On Sat, 29 Jul 2006 00:38:57 +0000, sting2602
spake thusly:


I just received an old radio shack pro-26 scanner from a friend at work.
my boss programmed all the frequencies into the scanner. my problem is
that evey time sometime quits talking there 3 beeps lasting about 3
seconds, which means the traffic of the responding person is always
missed. there is a delay button on the scanner and i made sure i
deactivated it on all the channels but there still is a 3 second delay.

Sounds like you are hearing EDACS trunked traffic. With a trunk
tracking scanner you will not hear those beeps. I believe [somebody
confirm or deny this] that they are a code to tell the trunking system
to release the frequency. It is possible that while you are hearing
those beeps, the responding party is already replying but on another
frequency.

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sting2602 wrote:
I just received an old radio shack pro-26 scanner from a friend at work.
my boss programmed all the frequencies into the scanner. my problem is
that evey time sometime quits talking there 3 beeps lasting about 3
seconds, which means the traffic of the responding person is always
missed. there is a delay button on the scanner and i made sure i
deactivated it on all the channels but there still is a 3 second delay.




Well, I have a Pro-26, and it has never done anything like this. Also
reviewing the manual just now, I see nothing about "3 beeps" in any
mode. If this is happening on any freq regardless of band or agency, I
suspect the radio is defective. If it is only coming from 1 agency's
channels, then it is a product of their system.

--reed

It's just trying to receive EDACS trunking without a scanner that
tracks it. After they unkey the repeater stays up a few secs with the
beeps. With a EDACS scanner you shouldn't hear it if it's programmed
correct..



On Sat, 29 Jul 2006 03:56:03 GMT, Reed wrote:

sting2602 wrote:
I just received an old radio shack pro-26 scanner from a friend at work.
my boss programmed all the frequencies into the scanner. my problem is
that evey time sometime quits talking there 3 beeps lasting about 3
seconds, which means the traffic of the responding person is always
missed. there is a delay button on the scanner and i made sure i
deactivated it on all the channels but there still is a 3 second delay.




Well, I have a Pro-26, and it has never done anything like this. Also
reviewing the manual just now, I see nothing about "3 beeps" in any
mode. If this is happening on any freq regardless of band or agency, I
suspect the radio is defective. If it is only coming from 1 agency's
channels, then it is a product of their system.

--reed

Me wrote:
It's just trying to receive EDACS trunking without a scanner that
tracks it. After they unkey the repeater stays up a few secs with the
beeps. With a EDACS scanner you shouldn't hear it if it's programmed
correct..



On Sat, 29 Jul 2006 03:56:03 GMT, Reed wrote:


sting2602 wrote:

I just received an old radio shack pro-26 scanner from a friend at work.
my boss programmed all the frequencies into the scanner. my problem is
that evey time sometime quits talking there 3 beeps lasting about 3
seconds, which means the traffic of the responding person is always
missed. there is a delay button on the scanner and i made sure i
deactivated it on all the channels but there still is a 3 second delay.





Well, I have a Pro-26, and it has never done anything like this. Also
reviewing the manual just now, I see nothing about "3 beeps" in any
mode. If this is happening on any freq regardless of band or agency, I
suspect the radio is defective. If it is only coming from 1 agency's
channels, then it is a product of their system.

--reed


Agreed. The PRO-26 is not a tracker. So the OP is not hearing a response
likely because the conversation switched to another freq altogether.
..