1.3 must be some super secret with nobody replying about where it came from.
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1.3 Firmware
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tvengr
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It sure isn't on the Unication USA download page. Stealth firmware!
Those guys are Beta testers. That's what most the Unication threads have been about recently. 1.3 & 1.4. Still testing
I'm testing the freescan beta which is 1.4.something. I never knew there was a regular (NON freescan) beta for 1.3.
There is a newer 1.4 freescan beta coming soon.
There is a non free-scan beta for 1.3 based on other posts a few weeks ago. Apparently it will have the hold on talk group and some other features. When it is released is anyone's guess, but my understanding is that when it does get released it will not be a beta but instead a regular wide release - hence some of the testing in the wild. The 1.4 beta will be a second beta when it is released. To be honest I am really happy with the radio as it exists today and I have come to the conclusion that the day I stop waiting for the release is the day it will likely be released.
mdsxfire
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I am also testing the non free scan 1.3 beta, my biggest requirement for my dept was the stacked tone issue, where only the first two tone pair would activate the pager, none of the work around worked for us, this f/w is being tried in a few of the officers pagers and is working great so far
What is the stacked tone issue out of curiosity? Does it mean the pager needs to hear tone-set 1 followed by tone-set 2 before activating (i.e., two pairs of two tone frequencies)?
This is speculation, but Unication said if you go to 1.4 you cannot go back. 1.4 is a radically different architecture it seems. I think it will probably span several betas before it hits the market in a mission critical environment. 1.3, however, apparently addresses the stacked tone issue (which I don't fully understand what that issue is), and apparently also has 'hold on talkgroup' which is a huge feature people want. I guess they'll try and roll that out as part of 1.3 also. I am not sure if the 'hold on talkgroup' was originally going to be part of 1.3 but based on everyone asking for it, maybe that got included later in the game and that is why there is a delay releasing 1.3. This is why I don't mind the delay waiting for 1.3 as this alone is a huge add. Again just speculation on my part.
Cheeseburgers
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Yep, unlike some manufacturers... I'll gladly wait for it to roll out and work.
We are also testing the 1.3 for stacked tones issues and we are very pleased with how it is working on the Lancaster County PA P25 Trunking system.
I really like the hold feature, but would like them to put a timeout feature on in case someone forgets to switch back.
mdsxfire
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Don’t use it
mdsxfire
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Stacked tones are when multiple 2 tone pairs are sent from dispatch one after the other, and (the setups are almost endless) your pager is supposed to alert for more than one, with the current f/w the pager will only alert to the first two tone it receives that it is supposed to alert for after that it just plays the tones as a scanner would. Our dispatch is set up so that one push of our general tones the same 2 pair goes out twice back to back but will only alert once, the 1.3 beta seems to have fixed that so far
mdsxfire
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When u block a TG does it stay blocked for a certain amount of time(and if so is that time adjustable) or does it stay blocked until u change the knob position
Webodisk
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Blocked till you make any changes, knob position ,zone change, unless you change that in the pps
Are your stacked tones patched with the p25 system? My tones are patched and arent truely p25 2 tones. I had to convert back to fw 1.1 for my pager to have tones over p25 and it only activated one 2 tone. Does the new fw fix the problem with patched tones?
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