Trx 1 and 2 first impressions

kb5udf · May 20, 2016

Met Wendy and peers at hamvention today. I had brief hands on with both the new handheld and mobile. I listened to them monitoring a local dmr system. They seemed to do so quite well. If I understand Wendy correctly the radios are in shipping transit to dealers.

Overall, the units seem to work as advertised. Be excited. I hope to upload pics when back at hotel.

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kb5udf · May 20, 2016

Pics from Whistler Booth@Hamvention

Staff and TRX 1 and 2. Hamvention 2016. If I understood Wendy correctly the rear of the handheld will have some type of color panel that is
changeable.

jack103 · May 20, 2016

Same old small display on the mobile!

JD21960 · May 20, 2016

Trx 1 and Trx 2 first Impressions

Nice pictures. Thanks for the effort. Nice to see who we're dealing with and talking to when we contact Whistler too. The screen is one of the reasons I chose the Whistler over the Uniden. To me it's much easier to read. Thanks to Whistler for giving us an upgrade to DMR for the WS1080/88 and WS1095/98 owners. New Scanners are always welcome. I still remember the days of 4 crystal slots and a pair of tweezers with the Radio Shack hand held.

Nasby · May 20, 2016

Great pics!! Thanks for posting them.

I like the interchangeable back colors.

Boatanchor · May 21, 2016

Nice to see the new models and Whistler Wendy. Great to put a face to the name/posts 😉

Eng74 · May 21, 2016

I haven't see it asked yet so, what will be the price on these new radios?

Boatanchor · May 21, 2016

Wendy, can you provide more info on the front end/filtering improvements on these new models?

All of my DMR monitoring is on VHF and all done with external base/mobile antennas.
Currently, my 'WS' models suffer from moderate to severe FM broadcast interference on this band.
Are the new models going to be any better?

Thanks.

QDP2012 · May 21, 2016

Eng74 said:
I haven't see it asked yet so, what will be the price on these new radios?

In Post #140 of the "The cat's out of the bag!" Thread, the price of the TRX is listed as $650 USD.

Hope this helps,

Eng74 · May 21, 2016

QDP2012 said:
In Post #140 of the "The cat's out of the bag!" Thread, the price of the TRX is listed as $650 USD.

Hope this helps,

Thanks, too many threads to keep up with.

WhistlerWendy · May 21, 2016

Boatanchor said:
Wendy, can you provide more info on the front end/filtering improvements on these new models?

All of my DMR monitoring is on VHF and all done with external base/mobile antennas.
Currently, my 'WS' models suffer from moderate to severe FM broadcast interference on this band.
Are the new models going to be any better?

Thanks.

The TRX-1 and 2 have improvements in the front end for improved FM radio suppression and extra firmware space for future improvements.

gcr33 · May 21, 2016

Well it certainly is not vaporware. The TRX1 and TRX2 were there to be played with.

They people there from Whistler including Wendy and friends were very nice to meet with and met with Mike Oxlong also.

NXDN will be available towards the end of the year on the 1 & 2
That is the only one that will do NXDN not the 1088.

Once again thanks to Wendy and crew for their pleasant conversation amid a crush of curious scanner folk.
No guarantee on the other GRE PSR800 or RS 668 models having the ability to upgrade.
Just the facts. Enjoy from Dayton.

prcguy · May 21, 2016

I also dropped by the Whistler booth and had the same topics answered. I'll be ordering one of the new scanners as soon as they are available. The highlight of my Dayton trip was posing for a picture with Wendy and I didn't realize Mike O was there.
prcguy

gcr33 said:
Well it certainly is not vaporware. The TRX1 and TRX2 were there to be played with.

They people there from Whistler including Wendy and friends were very nice to meet with and met with Mike Oxlong also.

NXDN will be available towards the end of the year on the 1 & 2
That is the only one that will do NXDN not the 1088.

Once again thanks to Wendy and crew for their pleasant conversation amid a crush of curious scanner folk.
No guarantee on the other GRE PSR800 or RS 668 models having the ability to upgrade.
Just the facts. Enjoy from Dayton.

KevinC · May 21, 2016

No more LSM complaining here. We get, it needs to be fixed, but saying it over and over here is just annoying to members trying to learn about these new radios.

Continue LSM discussion here...

http://forums.radioreference.com/ra...want-lsm-work-properly-my-scanner-thread.html

DaveIN · May 21, 2016

kb5udf said:
Staff and TRX 1 and 2. Hamvention 2016. If I understood Wendy correctly the rear of the handheld will have some type of color panel that is
changeable.

Great shots and smiling faces. Nice work.

Could have sworn I saw hello kitty in there somewhere..

DaveIN · May 21, 2016

kb5udf said:
Staff and TRX 1 and 2. Hamvention 2016. If I understood Wendy correctly the rear of the handheld will have some type of color panel that is
changeable.

I see P & R Communications was being monitored. A DMR Motorola Connect Plus (TRBO) system: http://www.radioreference.com/apps/db/?sid=7764

Did you (or anyone else) notice how it performed or what was displayed? It appears the TGID wildcard was working on it.

buddrousa · May 21, 2016

DonS will remote control of the new scanners with software be released like it was with the PSR600 scanners. That is a feature I like very much.

DaveIN · May 21, 2016

buddrousa said:
DonS will remote control of the new scanners with software be released like it was with the PSR600 scanners. That is a feature I like very much.

Are you talking about the Win500 Remote Monitoring Client, or an Android/iOS app?

buddrousa · May 21, 2016

A windows PC Server and Client like the win500 had.

DaveIN · May 21, 2016

Maybe we need to lean on Wendy, Don, and Mike to get the protocol released so third parties can develop android and iOS apps? That sounds promising at least. This means the TRX (Tyrannosaurus Rex) may have a few more feature sets than the previous Ws models..

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