I currently have a Midland MXT400 with 6db Gain antenna set up in my vehicle. I enjoy leaving the radio on scan just to see whos out there, especially when driving. However, its been extremely frustrating as my radio constantly gets hung up as channel 5 continuously breaks squelch. There is nobody on the other end, just loud static, almost as if I was using the monitor function. Ive checked and I don't think my squelch can be set channel specific, the value is the same across all channels. (Unless this was somehow done through the programming software which I used to program a local repeater, but I'm pretty sure this was happening before I did that.)
While the problem is intermittent depending on my location, I would say scan stops on this channel and blasts me with loud static 80% of the time. I've been on trips where I've driven 3+ hours away and still had it happen. I am located in NYC. I would rather not have to make channel scan skip any channels but I don't see any other option. I currenly cannot use channel scan without keeping a hand on the radio to skip over channel 5 every 7 seconds. Any ideas as to what might be happening here?
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Hi everyone, weird question here:
I currently have a Midland MXT400 with 6db Gain antenna set up in my vehicle. I enjoy leaving the radio on scan just to see whos out there, especially when driving. However, its been extremely frustrating as my radio constantly gets hung up as channel 5 continuously breaks squelch. There is nobody on the other end, just loud static, almost as if I was using the monitor function. Ive checked and I don't think my squelch can be set channel specific, the value is the same across all channels. (Unless this was somehow done through the programming software which I used to program a local repeater, but I'm pretty sure this was happening before I did that.)
While the problem is intermittent depending on my location, I would say scan stops on this channel and blasts me with loud static 80% of the time. I've been on trips where I've driven 3+ hours away and still had it happen. I am located in NYC. I would rather not have to make channel scan skip any channels but I don't see any other option. I currenly cannot use channel scan without keeping a hand on the radio to skip over channel 5 every 7 seconds. Any ideas as to what might be happening here?
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