Poor Reception

[gatekeep]

I have an ASTRO Saber II, while on most channels it works fine there is a handful (about 7 out of 120+) what have reception problems. The problems occur regardless of scan mode so I know thats not the issue. It just seems the radio is always receiving on the channels, like there is interference. They will receive legitimate traffic but when they do, the traffic is hard to hear and you can hear the DPL tone in the background (which is very loud and annoying).

Its an "R" split radio, R07.00.02 HOST and N07.03.02 DSP. This problem like I said only occurs on some channels, in the 460mhz and 453mhz region. Anyone have a similar problem where the channels always seemed to have interference, there were problems decoding the DPL and when the DPL did decode the underlying tone was in the audible region?

[motorola_otaku]

Does one of those channels happen to be 453.6000? If so, that one's a birdie generated by the radio; no way around it. Every UHF Astro Saber and XTS3000 I've ever used generated a birdie on that frequency, regardless of age, band split, or firmware revision. I have not noticed it on any other common 453/460 UHF frequencies though..

I seem to recall another guy with the same or similar problem saying he grounded the front keypad board better to the frame and that solved it?? I don't know how you'd go about it, but you could try that.

[gatekeep]

Actually, yea, heh, 453.6000 is one of the channels. The other 2 channels I have problems with are 453.9750 and 453.2250. There is one more, I just don't remeber the frequency off hand.

[Pj]

Is anything your radio rx'ing coming from a Kenwood radio? I seem to recall somewhere something about moto and kenwood & icom? radios doing withing funky with DPL.