Need better audio
 

We are using a Radio Shack pro 89 to listen to police and fire.
Would like to upgrade to a scanner with better audio quality.
Portability not important as scanner is used in home most of the
time. Any suggestions will be appreciated. Thanks
--
Bob Sprenger

wrote:
We are using a Radio Shack pro 89 to listen to police and fire.
Would like to upgrade to a scanner with better audio quality.
Portability not important as scanner is used in home most of the
time. Any suggestions will be appreciated. Thanks

Radio Shack use to sell a 4" unamplified speaker for about $14.00. I
don't think they have this one any more. I have several and they did
really great for both base and handhelds, much improvement in audio quality.

Radio Shack does still sell a 4" amplified speaker. You might want to
check on that as it was the same thing but just with an audio amp.

Radio Shack also still sells a 2 1/2" speaker. I have 3 of those and
really don't like them at all. In fact my handhelds speaker produced
better audio.

George
http://www.MilAirComms.com

I would also suggest an external speaker. Perhaps plug it into your stereo !

jw
wb9uai

On Tue, 19 Aug 2003 20:05:11 +0000 (UTC), in rec.radio.scanner - :

We are using a Radio Shack pro 89 to listen to police and fire.
Would like to upgrade to a scanner with better audio quality.
Portability not important as scanner is used in home most of the
time. Any suggestions will be appreciated. Thanks



You could plug it into your home stereo, it will sound amazing and the cable
is only a few $$ at RS.

" wrote:

We are using a Radio Shack pro 89 to listen to police
and fire. Would like to upgrade to a scanner with
better audio quality. Portability not important as
scanner is used in home most of the time. Any
suggestions will be appreciated. Thanks


I agree with George, just add a better external speaker. Like he said, you
can find several to choose from at Radio Shack. The non-amplified ones work
just fine, or look at the amplified ones.

If you want to get really fancy, try one of those amplified speakers for
walkman-style portable radios with a stereo-to-mono adapter (the speaker is
stereo, the scanner is mono). I've had great success with some of the
cheaper ones - the output of the cheap ones best match the voice frequencies
and two speakers are certainly easy to hear.


Dwight Stewart (W5NET)

http://www.qsl.net/w5net/

I recently bought a new surround sound system and recycled the 3 "cube"
(they are small something like 3 or 4 inches)speakers that where the rear
channels, they are for the scanners now.
Anthony
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...
We are using a Radio Shack pro 89 to listen to police and fire.
Would like to upgrade to a scanner with better audio quality.
Portability not important as scanner is used in home most of the
time. Any suggestions will be appreciated. Thanks
--
Bob Sprenger

In Dwight Stewart writes:

"Dwight Stewart" wrote:

(snip)


To the person posting the original question, after reading the messages
posted by others, I guess what we're all trying to say is that you can only
expect so much from a handheld scanner. None of them have earth shattering
sound. Therefore, switching scanners is not likely going to solve your
problem. As most of us have found, the only solution is to add an external
speaker to get better sound when you're using the scanner at a fixed
location. If you need better sound while toting the scanner around, a good
set of earphones is perhaps the best solution.


Dwight Stewart (W5NET)

http://www.qsl.net/w5net/
Thanks to all. I tried running audio thru stereo, that works pretty
well, but stereo is in family room and we listen in kitchen. So
next step will probably be a small amp and a speaker in kitchen.
Was hoping for a new hardware solution though as it would solve my
problem of what to get my wife for her birthday. :-)
Thanks again.

(ex w6ffe circa 1964)
--
Bob Sprenger

I am running my scanner audio thru my computer and it works fine..
except.. I noticed I have a faint hum on the audio. I can click the
audio off and on and the hum goes away. I do use the RS stereo to mono
adaptor.. which did help and allows the audio into both right and left
but.. it did not take the hum out..

A friend suggetsed a .1 cap across the legs of the audio.. anyone have
ohter suggestions or do you think this will work?
Thanks





On Wed, 03 Sep 2003 06:07:07 GMT, Mike M.
wrotd:

On Sat, 23 Aug 2003 03:27:24 +0000 (UTC),
wrotF:

In Dwight Stewart writes:

"Dwight Stewart" wrote:

(snip)
Thanks to all. I tried running audio thru stereo, that works pretty
well, but stereo is in family room and we listen in kitchen. So
next step will probably be a small amp and a speaker in kitchen.
Was hoping for a new hardware solution though as it would solve my
problem of what to get my wife for her birthday. :-)
Thanks again.

(ex w6ffe circa 1964)
Get a mono to stereo headphone adapter and a set of amplified computer
speakers. That should work reasonably well.

I use the Radio Shack amplified speaker with my handheld in the car.
They are really quite good.If you have a 12vdc power supply it will
work fine in the house too.

"Dan" wrote:

A friend suggetsed a .1 cap across the
legs of the audio.. anyone have other
suggestions or do you think this will
work?


It will probably work, and it's probably the best option for a handheld
scanner. Grounding a base scanner will often do the same thing, but
grounding isn't easy to do with a handheld.


Dwight Stewart (W5NET)

http://www.qsl.net/w5net/