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Intermittent Advertisement Reception

I am getting intermittent pickup of advertising packet from a peripheral known to advertise every 2 second.  Basically I get ~20 sec gaps where nothing is received.

Below is my debug output from my central app where I output a dot  each time the BLE_GAP_EVT_ADV_REPORT event is fired.   I only output an exclamation sign when peer address matches a hardcoded address for the peripheral advertising every 2 second.

The dots are pretty constant based on other surrounding devices, and the regular 2 exclamation signs are the advertising packet and the scan response, as expected.

What is strange is the gap in time (~20s) where other devices are still recieved, but nothing is received from that particular device. That pattern repeats regularly.

I have verified with NRFconnect that the devices is in fact advertising even in these gaps.

I'm using SD 132 and SDK 15.3 on  PCA10040.  I checked that channel_mask is all zeroes, thinking it might be channel related...

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