If you're new to Whistler like I am with my new 1098, I am finding the SD card is insanely fussy. Out of the box it came with errors on power up that had me going to the back of the manual to learn I need to reseat the SD card in the slot. (okay, bouncing around with shipping I guess).
Then I'm wrapping my head around this EZScan software, OO programming, and inventing a new organization to what/how I scan. Constant weird connectivity issues between Win7 and Scanner, lots of little things that were starting to make me second guess this purchase. Scanner would suddenly not power up, with an error that says Waiting For Main Unit, (reseated the head, the card, 30sec powercycle yadda yadda).
I was appalled at the boot time also when I did get it powered up. Just setting up 2 scanlists with maybe 100 conventional freqs in it, it didn't start scanning until 30 seconds after boot. "Prepping my scanset" , "configuring stuff", "out to tea" etc. was all I saw on the screen before finally yawning and deciding to scan.
I finally took the SD card straight to my Mac, formatted Fat32, put it back, reconnected to PC, Prepared Card for Use, copied config again, and now everything works like a charm. It scans about 8-10 seconds after boot (still crappy to my Uniden experience but I understand). It talks like a champ to the PC, writes configs fast etc. So format and try again if you just keep hitting brick walls.
I'm a sysadmin of 17 years and scanning for 25 years, this 1098 already has me swearing more in its 10 minutes of actual on-time than a year of my microsoft servers at work. Don't get me started on RR database format and its organization (at least for California).
I am very critical of my radios. Once I wrestle this beast into submission I will be reviewing it here from the perspective of a hardcore mobile user in Northern California who monitors conventional only (only 1 analog trunked system in 220 square miles).
Then I'm wrapping my head around this EZScan software, OO programming, and inventing a new organization to what/how I scan. Constant weird connectivity issues between Win7 and Scanner, lots of little things that were starting to make me second guess this purchase. Scanner would suddenly not power up, with an error that says Waiting For Main Unit, (reseated the head, the card, 30sec powercycle yadda yadda).
I was appalled at the boot time also when I did get it powered up. Just setting up 2 scanlists with maybe 100 conventional freqs in it, it didn't start scanning until 30 seconds after boot. "Prepping my scanset" , "configuring stuff", "out to tea" etc. was all I saw on the screen before finally yawning and deciding to scan.
I finally took the SD card straight to my Mac, formatted Fat32, put it back, reconnected to PC, Prepared Card for Use, copied config again, and now everything works like a charm. It scans about 8-10 seconds after boot (still crappy to my Uniden experience but I understand). It talks like a champ to the PC, writes configs fast etc. So format and try again if you just keep hitting brick walls.
I'm a sysadmin of 17 years and scanning for 25 years, this 1098 already has me swearing more in its 10 minutes of actual on-time than a year of my microsoft servers at work. Don't get me started on RR database format and its organization (at least for California).
I am very critical of my radios. Once I wrestle this beast into submission I will be reviewing it here from the perspective of a hardcore mobile user in Northern California who monitors conventional only (only 1 analog trunked system in 220 square miles).