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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?
Our primary system is our p25 system, the tones come over our dispatch TG and all of that audio is patched into our old VHF channel for the few members that still have VHF pagers and we use a VHF pager for our IAR tone detect so we get alerts throught he IAR app instantly when there is a call
from what i understand all of the tones for the digital systems are just .wav files. we have been having issues with dispatch console going down and not being able to dispatch, so i created our 2 tone pair on an online tone generator 1 second of 2575hz and 4 seconds of 1985hz with a moto warble at the end, tested it by keying a portable radio up on our p25 dispatch TG and played the file and it sets our pagers off every time no issues
 
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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?

Aren’t you mixing two issues.... patched tones and stacked tones?
 

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I’m unsure of what he means by patched tones, so I can’t answer that, I tried to describe our setup best I could in my previous post. I do know that 1.3 beta fixed the stacked tone issue

I think he was asking if the firmware fixed an issue with tones patched from conventional to P25, but he was also asking about a stacked tone issue, and it was combined into a single question. The short answer is that it seems like either way his issue will be fixed.
 

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Can I still enroll? Or at this point should I just wait.

As I understand things, you cannot "enroll" for 1.3. You can enroll for 1.4 beta and if you have not done that yet, I would do it. Ultimately its your call whether to install 1.4 when it comes out (as a beta). But when 1.3 comes out, it will probably be a wide release so no need to register (and you cant register for 1.3 that I know of anyway).
 

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Version 1.4 free scan beta version has all the all the updates in Version 1.3, the Trunking freescan feature only exist in V 1.40 free scan beta version. If you do upgrade to the 1.4 through beta testing keep in mind that you can not go back to version 1.3 or 1.4 that you will have to wait for version 1.5 to update your pager if you don't want the freescan feature in your pager anymore.
 

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i just updated my profile adding a few things on the 1.3 beta and now i get "missing key" flashing up top constantly, it doesnt interfere or cause any problems but im not sure why its there, i have receive encrypted voice messages turned off under D6, i have the keyfail alert tone disabled, display on channel change disabled under D4. anyone else??
@Unication_Jordan
 

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I think he was asking if the firmware fixed an issue with tones patched from conventional to P25, but he was also asking about a stacked tone issue, and it was combined into a single question. The short answer is that it seems like either way his issue will be fixed.
Yes that is what I was refering to. Tones are patched from conventional to p25. I also have the problem with multiple 2 tones activating over p25. In conventional all 2 tones I have programmed will activate.
 

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i just updated my profile adding a few things on the 1.3 beta and now i get "missing key" flashing up top constantly, it doesnt interfere or cause any problems but im not sure why its there, i have receive encrypted voice messages turned off under D6, i have the keyfail alert tone disabled, display on channel change disabled under D4. anyone else??
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Fixed, for some reason the pager was set to TEK keyset b under function settings, I had to turn on recv. Encrypt, and change TEK back to key A and now it’s fine
 
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