my uniden 3500XLT has gone wonky

Location : Ipswich, Suffolk Spotter Watch Member : No

i went up mildenhall today as per usual, turned my scanner on and i couldnt hear transmissions properly, it keeps cutting out badly and is no where near understandable which makes it pretty much useless!
ive only had it since early june and used it no more than 10 times, i spoke to theorigionalmonty at the hall and he said it could well be the speaker thats gone, just looking to see if anyone else has had this problem with it and/or any other thoughts on what it could be. cheers!

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b0nd08 wrote:: i went up mildenhall today as per usual, turned my scanner on and i couldnt hear transmissions properly, it keeps cutting out badly and is no where near understandable which makes it pretty much useless!
ive only had it since early june and used it no more than 10 times, i spoke to theorigionalmonty at the hall and he said it could well be the speaker thats gone, just looking to see if anyone else has had this problem with it and/or any other thoughts on what it could be. cheers!

A good way to test if it's your speaker is to plug some headphones into it. Is your problem continuous breaking in the transmission? - Try changing your close call setting to DND (However, that shouldn't make transmissions unreadable).

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cheers for that Smile

i shall pick up some headphones tomorrow and give it a go Smile

yeah its constantly breaking but the only time ive touched the settings etc is to put freq's in like renaming them etc. last time i used it, it worked perfect but for some reason it doesnt now. damn thing! Tired

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b0nd08 wrote:: yeah its constantly breaking but the only time ive touched the settings etc is to put freq's in like renaming them etc. last time i used it, it worked perfect but for some reason it doesnt now. damn thing!

Like I say, it shouldn't make the transmissions unreadable, but it’s worth a go, try changing the Close Call setting to Do Not Disturb (DND) or off entirely. Then tune into a local radio station or something to test it.

Mike

Subject: Re: my uniden 3500XLT has gone wonky 2009-08-17, 01:52

For fear of stating the obvious, for which I apologise, has the squelch setting altered to too high?

Location : York, UK Spotter Watch Member : No

I apologise for another obvious one - but could it be a power problem - are the batteries OK ?
PeteD, York

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my speaker went the same and you wont get any help from uniden they dont want to know i have to use headphones now

sorry john

Location : Ipswich, Suffolk Spotter Watch Member : No

thanks for all the replies, it is the speaker.

took it back to maplin and they were being funny about it saying nothing was wrong! managed to get them to take it back though. just hope its back or a new one is sent by next week ready for CBY!