I have the WS1065 and 2 WS1040's all working fine. I had an issue with the signal strength indicator on two of my scanners. Here is the way I fixed them. First I did a factory reset and before I would program anything I would use Win500 and READ the scanner and then save it as : WS1065Master.p500. Or WS1040Master.p500. Before programming anything I did a quick check to see if I was receiving & my signal strength indicator is working properly.
Using Win500 I recorded my RSSI Threshold levels and adjusted them as needed . Mine are currently set at WS1065 : 25/100/175/250/325 WS1040 : 190/230/260/290/320 . These values work for me .
Don't own the WS1065, but when I programmed my ws1040 using win500 and the p500 files from my GRE-500 there were differences in the the extended scanner settings. I had to use the settings that came with the Whistler, not the GRE settings The two radios are not identical inside. There are some minor circuit differences so the programming is not identical. Check the original image of the new in box scanner p.500 and compare the extended settings with the GRE models p.500. Program the whistler settings that have changed from the GRE into the Whistler. In short you can't just use the GRE settings on a Whistler.
Thank you guys very much for taking the time to help me realize what my problem was... Adjusting the RSSI Threshold did the trick and the Whistler Radios now work perfectly!!..... I had no Idea that these radios had any circuitry differences from the GRE units......,
I am now fascinated in learning that you have your handheld and base radios set differently.,.,.,. This is very interesting... Now I need to research some ideal RSSI settings for the 197 and especially for the the 106/500 because it appears that these whistlers are now outperforming my radio shack and GRE models which are all set to the same values (handheld vs base as I simply use the exact same p.500 file to load into all the different compatible radios ).,.,., Thanks again!!
