DMR Prelease 2 with Sentinel

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I'm going into firmware withdrawals! I need my weekly "fix". LOL.

In all seriousness, Thank you Paul and all at Uniden for all you have done!
 

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As you've noted, it is late in the day and no update. I'm about to head out, but I know the engineer is still working (it is 7AM where he is, and he's been working all night). I do not know how close he is to another update, though, so don't stay up waiting for me to finish dinner. :) Might not be until next week.
 

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Do you know if prerelease 2 will update everything including files in prerelease 1 or does each prerelease need to uploaded into the radios firmware folder 1 at a time?
 

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It's cumulative, meaning all the updates are installed or changed as needed.
 

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As you've noted, it is late in the day and no update. I'm about to head out, but I know the engineer is still working (it is 7AM where he is, and he's been working all night). I do not know how close he is to another update, though, so don't stay up waiting for me to finish dinner. :) Might not be until next week.

Lol,enjoy you're dinner, I appreciate all you and uniden do for the scanner community,I have been a radio aficionado for many years and I have never seen a mfg presence like you give us! Thank you very much
 

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As you've noted, it is late in the day and no update. I'm about to head out, but I know the engineer is still working (it is 7AM where he is, and he's been working all night). I do not know how close he is to another update, though, so don't stay up waiting for me to finish dinner. :) Might not be until next week.

completely unacceptable Paul.. you wouldnt get a person hooked on crack and then withhold the crack from that person would you???? youve gotten us addiced to firmware Fridays.. and now its being withheld.. i dont know what im gonna do.. how am i gonna get my next fix.. omg... is there an Addictions Anon for this???

put the pressure on the engineer!!!! (and enjoy your dinner)
 

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I don't believe that's possible. LCN 3 might not be used very much, but if there is a 4, then there must be a 3 on the same frequency.

Maybe that's why you're missing traffic.

It's entirely possible to have missing LCN's. I work for a company that operates a regional CON+ network and we have several sites that have only 2 or 3 repeaters. Looking at one site in the MotoTrbo frequency file, only LCN's 3 and 10 are active, although there are 16 possible repeaters per site. Some of the other LCN's have (currently inactive) frequencies to allow for future expansion, but others are left at the default, 450.000 MHz.

BTW, I have an issue that's confusing me. I'm having trouble wrapping my head around this "Logical Slot" thing. I have each frequency (per site) programmed only once in my '536 and I seem to be missing traffic with a good signal. My shop portable can be chattering away, but the 536 only displays the TG and remains silent. If there is a pause in the conversation and it picks up again (perhaps it is assigned a different LCN/LSN) I hear it on the scanner. Do I need to have each frequency in a site programmed twice?

I'm programming the scanner the same as I program the Motorola radios and it doesn't work. Maybe I'm trying too hard. There's no place to program the time slot in the Connect+ option board software, it's handled automatically.
 
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As you've noted, it is late in the day and no update. I'm about to head out, but I know the engineer is still working (it is 7AM where he is, and he's been working all night). I do not know how close he is to another update, though, so don't stay up waiting for me to finish dinner. :) Might not be until next week.

You guys do feed the firmware engineers, right? :)

Take as long as it takes to get it right.
 
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BTW, I have an issue that's confusing me. I'm having trouble wrapping my head around this "Logical Slot" thing. I have each frequency (per site) programmed only once in my '536 and I seem to be missing traffic with a good signal. My shop portable can be chattering away, but the 536 only displays the TG and remains silent. If there is a pause in the conversation and it picks up again (perhaps it is assigned a different LCN/LSN) I hear it on the scanner. Do I need to have each frequency in a site programmed twice?

I have the same issue, but it has to do with what is being called an LCN in the discussion and what the scanner treats as an LCN.

Each frequency in a DMR system must be programmed into the scanner twice, once for each slot. Each of those appearances of a frequency will have a different "LCN" (as per what the column is labeled in the programming software), usually the odd number for Slot 1 and the next even number for Slot 2.

In Sentinel, Frequency + Slot = LCN. "LSN" appears to have no practical application to programming a Uniden scanner.
 

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No. Each frequency must be programmed into the scanner only one time. DSD reports Logical Slot Numbers (LSNs) and does show two of those per frequency. The scanner uses Logical Channel Numbers, and there is only one per frequency (and the value is the highest LSN/2 for the frequency...i.e. Freq with LSN 9/10 is LCN 5).
 

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Oh, and beat me up, now, but don't hurt the engineer. 10 minutes after I left, he posted a f/w update. I was out with friends until late, so didn't see it until this morning.

So...close this thread!
 
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