ARC 536/436 Beta

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Been testing the beta version!! Build 7 out tonight...best so far!! Getting close!! Woo Hoo!!
 

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It was the location control it was on. If u turn it off it scans stuff..

That got me too early on, especially because there's 2 areas in the scanner menus where you change settings for Location stuff. One is on the main menu called "Set Your Location" and the other and more important is under EACH and EVERY Favorite List you have and is called "Use Location Control". That's the one that needs to be turned off.

Hope this helps somebody else.... :cool:
 

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Well I have been using beta version 0.80 ver 10, then later today, ver 11 for a few hours. Been playing mainly with virtual control/logging function. Records most hits fine, but I notice on the Los Angeles ICIS and ICIS25 systems, with mostly P25 audio, the logging is missing quite a few hits. Sometimes I will see a zero or 1 come up, or nothing, but does not log the station. Seems to be no problem on analog trunking sites or with conventional analog and P25. Also notice the voice frequency coming up on trunking sites, but have no idea if this is correct, because the 536HP itself doesn't show this.
Will be using it next few days and see what happens. Will be interested in experience of others.
By the way, I hate the front USB port for this. The front USB port is OK (IMHO) for programming your radio, updating firmware, etc. But to have to have this cord sitting in front of the scanner the whole time for many of the programs some of us like to use, including Butel software, it is really awful.
With my 996XTs, used the serial port on back with null modem, and never had a problem with loose connections, USB cord right next to E(yes) key or vol control, etc. Really poor design if you ask me.
Is there some way to use the rear serial port or rear USB for virtual control?

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Gommert,
As specific examples of what virtual control screen and logging section is missing is
on the Los Angeles ICIS P25 system: Department: Pasadena.
Channel names like :
Simulcast - CHP Altadena Brown Channel and
Pasadena Police Media Dispatch Broadcast
just show up as "City of" and nothing more.
In other cases: Channel names like
Verdugo Fire Red-1 Dispatch
Verdugo Fire Red 3
show up fine.
Hope this helps you.
Steve AA6IO
 

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Yes you have to use the front port for control.. I also don't like it. And with the cable plugged in it's really difficult to adjust the vol and squelch manually.

On the ISIS issue can you PM me, I want to take a closer look at that issue and need some specific debug info.

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Front panel connection

Yes you have to use the front port for control.. I also don't like it. And with the cable plugged in it's really difficult to adjust the vol and squelch manually.


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Can't ypu control the vol and squelch via virtual control? Then you wouldn't have to bother with the front panel, just like on the 996XT?
 

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I still can't see my BCD536HP on my computer even with the Uniden drivers installed. The only way to get the computer to recognize the scanner is to plug the scanner in via the USB connection and tell the scanner to use the serial connector.

Is there anyway to keep the scanner in the serial mode?


I was having similar issues and I just uninstalled the driver, rebooted and then plug in the radio and let Windows automatically find the driver and it started working great right away.
 

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Using a 536 and the UID is not showing up in the UID column. I have programmed a number of UIDs and they don't show up, either. They do show up in the Data column, which is good. Rather than duplicate it between the DATA and UID columns, it would be great if my assigned UID alpha tag showed up in one of those columns.

I use these for small town police that are dispatched under contract by a neighboring sheriff. The towns are grouped by call signs -- 540-559, 560-579, etc. The alpha tags I assign show up in the multi-line display, which the virtual scan does not display. At least I haven't been able to make it display.
 

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I tried the quick key overview. It shows all the Favorites Lists I have, but for SYS and DEP Quick keys it shows dashes. Is this what I should be seeing? How should I get to see the SYS and DEP quick keys?

ofd8001-albums-quick-key-overview.html
 

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Did anyone try the qkey overview option yet?

Gommert
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Yes I did. It read my quick keys for favorites and such. I only tried it quickly. Are we supposed to be able to make changes? I tried to click some boxes but found no drop downs. Will play more a bit later tonight.

On another note. Will we be able to log tone out frequencies like the XT software?

Thanks,
 

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The qkey option overview seems to be reading correctly. The Dept. qkey column does show dashs at spots where Sites and Systems are listed. However, under the first column, marked (#) the qkeys are correct where marked [DEP].

Will the final version allow printing the overview?
 

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I've been trying out the Virtual Control. It runs for a little while and then stops working and the scanner goes into Mass Storage mode.

I'm seeing that too. I was wondering if it might have been a hiccup with my computer, but with someone else having the same thing . . .
 
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