Listening to the fire scanner
Why is it so hard to understand what people are saying on scanners? I'm not talking about the codes. I mean the enunciation. They seem to understand each other just fine.
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This type of electronic communication utilizes very cheap circuits, low fidelity amplifiers and very basic microphones, as well as RF decoder/encoder circuits with a narrow frequency response. It’s all that’s needed and those the depend on it get used to that narrow midrange. It’s cheap, but reliable stuff.
