Icom IC-R5

Location : northolt Spotter Watch Member : no

hi all
recently purchased sed scanner and love it to bits only ever had one query which is last week i was at a search and rescue demostration in dorset and was monotoring marine channel 0 (156.000) and with my old uniden ubc72xlt i could clearley hear portland coastguard which is about 10 miles away, with the icom it was incredibly distorted and barely understandable any ideas ??

i tried fm,am and wfm mode and was using 12.5 steps

regards
james

Location : lincs Spotter Watch Member : no

Hi james,
The Coastguard channel uses fm,so enter that when listening in,it could be that the signal was very strong and the icom is more sensitive,which would distort the signal.
i use a Watson WSMA-881 high gainer aerial on mine,so you could try changing it,but if your picking up aircraft ok,it could have been just a bad signal on that occasion.
Hope this helps,
Chris Clap