I'm new to the hobby and have started listening to the local repeaters to pick up the lingo.  I have an older Radio Shack Pro-43 scanner that seems to work pretty well for listening.  I also have a Motorola CP-200 that has been programmed for a few of the local repeaters and while sometimes I can hear a full conversation on the scanner, the CP-200 audio will go on and off, but the receive LED stays on...almost like it's muting output or the signal is below the squelch level or something.







 

Dollars to donuts you have your receive squelch tone turned on.

You are probably correct.  When I set up the channels, I set the squelch type to TPL and set the freq for both receive and transmit.  Should I set the receive to CSQ instead?

I am not sure the nomenclature on that radio but you want tx tone, no rx tone or tone squelch.

Changed to CSQ from TPL on Receive and now it's doing what I expected...just like the scanner.  Thanks!

Might want to check the Moto is set for wide band (25 kHz) and not narrow band (12.5 kHz).