Hello

.... Maybe just the obvious: the repeater staying keyed-on for a
lapse of time because a phone patch has been done. We have it on
the local Hydro freq.: Their repeater output stays on for
something like 3 or 4 minutes after the last exchange
if it is mobile-to-landline-phone. It is like if the phone
patch system doesn't recognise that the line has been dropped and
it then hangs the repeater on for its "time-out" period.

Hope this help!

- Sylvain.

What problem might is leakage from a cable TV system. When I
used to live in
the city the cable company had a crappy cables with a lot of
leakage, they
use to trash out the 2 meter Ham and some Landmobile
frequencies. Now that I
have moved to the country the local power company spews out
garbage with
their RF on the power line (i.e. carrier current systems) for
their
equipment monitoring system.

Another possiblity is a microprocessor control device within
the house that
is spewing out garbage. The signal strength you are talking
about seems to
maybe indicate it is either in or very close to where the
scanner is.




"David Casey" wrote in message
...
I've been playing with my Pro-96 lately and I've noticed
that the Rio
Rancho
PD frequency (155.805) has a lot of what seems like someone
staying keyed
up. I turn the squelch all the way up and I still get a
signal, but it's
not stopping anyone else from keying up and saying what they
need to. Is
there some type of device they might be using to keep people
from scanning
them? With the scanner on scan, it keeps stopping on that
frequency.



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