Scanner install help?

Mikey · Post by **Mikey** » Thu Mar 18, 2004 1:50 pm

I have a friend that installed a Uniden scanner in a Crown Vic and now when he keys up the 110 watt mobile it locks up the scanner and bleeds across it. The Antenna's for the Radio and scanner are MaxRad MHB5800 Series and they are installed at oppasite sides of the trunk lid; The radio power is ran straight to the Battery of the car, and the scanner power is being fed from the power wire on the Interceptor package down at the bottom of the kick panel. Anybody have any ideas on how i could stop getting bleedover on the scanner. The Radio is a Maratrac 110w VHF . Thanks in advance

Mikey

b7spectra · Post by **b7spectra** » Thu Mar 18, 2004 1:55 pm

You answered your own question - 110 Watts! The only way you are going to maybe get no lockup is to make sure that your coax is no where near the other radio and put the other antenna as far away as possible from the more powerful one. Either that or you are going to have to grin and bear it.

kurt meltzer · Post by **kurt meltzer** » Thu Mar 18, 2004 2:35 pm

b7spectra hit it right on the head. Most scanners are not selective enough to remain squelched while in such an intense RF field, even with plenty of frequency separation. You don't mention what type of Uniden scanner it is, or if it's capable of PL decode. If it is capable of PL, and if the scanner is only bothered when its on certain frequencies (as opposed to all freqs), then you could try programming those certain scanner frequencies to only unsquelch with correct PL. This might help, assuming the PL codes you program into the scanner are not the same as the PL being sent by the nearby transmitting radio.

c17loadsmasher · Post by **c17loadsmasher** » Thu Mar 18, 2004 5:44 pm

My scanner can't even handle a walkie transmitting within my TrailBlazer.... the antenna is mounted on top of the deck of the Vector lightbar even.

Mikey · Post by **Mikey** » Thu Mar 18, 2004 8:44 pm

I agreewith you guys totally, but the only thing that baffles me is that this equiptment was just taken out of an older patrol car and put in a newer crown vic. This Very same Equiptment didn't have this problem in the older car, just the new one. The Coax's are on seperate sides of the car going under each door rail panel. This is starting to be a real head scratcher.

Mikey