VE3RADIO
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So I ran the update today and out of the blue a new firmware update released on Dec 9 2014!
Does anyone know about this?
Does anyone know about this?
PSR-800: Firmware Update! CPU 1.9
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troymail
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Maybe it was to add a check to make sure the radio is really a PSR800 and not a WS1080.... Apparently someone tried to update a Whistler radio with GRE firmware.... I'm just guessing....
I'm leaning towards it corrects the EDACS issue another member discovered and reported. I believe Don S stated he could do an update for the PSR-800.
http://forums.radioreference.com/gre-scanners/302062-found-gre-psr800-whistler-1080-edacs-bug.html
http://forums.radioreference.com/gre-scanners/302062-found-gre-psr800-whistler-1080-edacs-bug.html
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IowaGuy1603
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yep post #26 of that thread 12/9/14 DonS announced the upgrade
Spitfire8520
I might be completely clueless! =)
I don't believe the PSR-800 will get too many more updates unless more bugs are found. Anything new will likely be for the WS1080 only.
As discovered and discussed in http://forums.radioreference.com/gre-scanners/302062-found-gre-psr800-whistler-1080-edacs-bug.html.
KE5TLF
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....and nothing done about the eardrum shattering TDMA audio. I guess that doesn't qualify as a bug....sigh...
Yes .. this is the reason for it and I believe a USB change as well as documented by Don S. I did some testing for Don re the discovered Edacs bug. We all owe Don a thanks for doing this for us.
zzdiesel
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Don, can you modify this for the Radio Shack Pro-18? They sure won't do it.
Spitfire8520
I might be completely clueless! =)
From his other posts in a different thread, it didn't sound he would do it without RadioShack's approval since they are the ones in charge of providing support for their scanners.
zzdiesel
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Thanks Spitfire. Story of my life!
Really unless you listen to an Edacs system there is nothing to update. And even then .. it is a very hard thing to even notice that anything is wrong. So .. I wouldn't worry much about it.
zzdiesel
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Ok. Thanks. I appreciate it/
dkf435
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This is one of those time where Radio Shack needs to keep all the loyalty they can, if they do not want to support the PRO 18 there is no reason to ever step in to a Radio Shack store for a scanner or their soon to be coming closing sale if they continue to alienate their customer base.
David Kb7uns
VE3RADIO
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I got one.. did not realize you cant even download the software.. you have to buy the software cd from RS if you lose the original.. common.. some computers don't even have CDROM anymore..
dkf435
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Have several some I got cheap of Overstock.com
David Kb7uns
David Kb7uns
Hmm, I updated the firmware to 1.9, and I seemed to have lost the ability to decode TDMA / Phase 2 audio. The scanner stops on the TG, but no audio. The 436 sitting next to it decodes the audio properly. Anyone else experience this?
I noticed a bug on a Phase 1 700 system, it was trying to deocde but a frequency of 796.xxxx kept popping up
I would reset your scanner to the defaults .. and retry. I had an issue with my RSSI .. that was even evident in the old firmware (but I didn't notice), but once I did a reset it fixed it. In the end .. there were no issues with the firmware at all.
The good news is the PSR-800 is fixed! For some reason, the DSP software had reverted to 1.1 at some point between updating to CPU 1.9 and resetting the radio back to factory settings. So after updating the DSP back to 1.3, it now works...
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