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When close to a transmitter site, I will hear strange things such as TV broadcasts or pagers. Why?

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When close to a transmitter site, I will hear strange things such as TV broadcasts or pagers. Why?

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This is due to high-powered local signals mixing and ending up on frequencies where you wouldn’t expect to find them. It’s fairly common on most scanners that this will happen near to high-powered transmission sites. Using attenuation and subaudible tones (with Tone Squelch) as described above will help eliminate the problem.