Re: Can you recommend a scanner where squelch works?

wdoe999@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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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 ?