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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(Jim, single dad to Lesleigh [Autistic] 04/20/94)

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