mmckenna
I ♥ Ø
Yeah, same here. I was getting a bunch of text messages all day and a few phone calls. Was even surfing the net while sitting in the waiting room at the dentist office.
-
To anyone looking to acquire commercial radio programming software:
Please do not make requests for copies of radio programming software which is sold (or was sold) by the manufacturer for any monetary value. All requests will be deleted and a forum infraction issued. Making a request such as this is attempting to engage in software piracy and this forum cannot be involved or associated with this activity. The same goes for any private transaction via Private Message. Even if you attempt to engage in this activity in PM's we will still enforce the forum rules. Your PM's are not private and the administration has the right to read them if there's a hint to criminal activity.
If you are having trouble legally obtaining software please state so. We do not want any hurt feelings when your vague post is mistaken for a free request. It is YOUR responsibility to properly word your request.
To obtain Motorola software see the Sticky in the Motorola forum.
The various other vendors often permit their dealers to sell the software online (i.e., Kenwood). Please use Google or some other search engine to find a dealer that sells the software. Typically each series or individual radio requires its own software package. Often the Kenwood software is less than $100 so don't be a cheapskate; just purchase it.
For M/A Com/Harris/GE, etc: there are two software packages that program all current and past radios. One package is for conventional programming and the other for trunked programming. The trunked package is in upwards of $2,500. The conventional package is more reasonable though is still several hundred dollars. The benefit is you do not need multiple versions for each radio (unlike Motorola).
This is a large and very visible forum. We cannot jeopardize the ability to provide the RadioReference services by allowing this activity to occur. Please respect this.
- Status
Yeah, same here. I was getting a bunch of text messages all day and a few phone calls. Was even surfing the net while sitting in the waiting room at the dentist office.
N4DES
Retired 0598 Czar ÆS Ø
AT&T might have stopped the upgrade before a lot on the west coast was affected. I was in a conference call mid-day with about 20 others and all but one had SOS on our .gov issued FN phones for hours. He was in WA and said he never lost service.
I was up around 4AM, thanks to an early Amazon delivery that triggered one of my cameras, and noticed both my personal phone and issued FN phone were SOS and stayed that way until around 7AM. One out of the four family phones had to roam out of the local cellsite into another before it came back. Was very odd that a re-boot didn't fix it or just might have been a coincidence. Local MDT's on AT&T were OOS as well.
I was up around 4AM, thanks to an early Amazon delivery that triggered one of my cameras, and noticed both my personal phone and issued FN phone were SOS and stayed that way until around 7AM. One out of the four family phones had to roam out of the local cellsite into another before it came back. Was very odd that a re-boot didn't fix it or just might have been a coincidence. Local MDT's on AT&T were OOS as well.
MTS2000des
5B2_BEE00 Czar
Really calls to question is FN on a separate core? If so and "upgrades" were rolled out simultaneously (consumer and FN), then this is piss poor planning on their network management team. Life safety should always be vetted. Either way, lots of questions that the FN Authority needs to be asking AT&T and delivering the answers to all of us.
FWIW our EMA team has Verizon and had zero issues except our director's personal FN phone which was in SOS for most of the day. Can you hear me now?
FWIW our EMA team has Verizon and had zero issues except our director's personal FN phone which was in SOS for most of the day. Can you hear me now?
While not directly related to the ATT outage from a few days ago, i can tell you that a year or two ago ATT had a messaging outage (SMS/MMS) and that affected our firstnet customers as well. I immediately thought to my self, wait isnt firstnet supposed to be seperate from AT&T. Well in this case it was not. But after about 72 hours they figured out the issue and our users were finally able to get alerts.
radionx
Carrying carriers
Just another case of "failure of complex systems". Noted, thanks!
My bet is: When a really large natural disaster hits or widespread civil unrest emerges, these systems will go down fast and hard.
Think about how many systems/devices a packet has to pass when travelling from one end device to another.
Do they still maintain their low band radios in SF?
My bet is: When a really large natural disaster hits or widespread civil unrest emerges, these systems will go down fast and hard.
Think about how many systems/devices a packet has to pass when travelling from one end device to another.
Do they still maintain their low band radios in SF?
Nah, isn't this just called cost efficient? Maybe the core is only separated by "virtual" means...
Last edited:
mmckenna
I ♥ Ø
Outage on February 22nd:
So, someone sent out a change that wasn't tested/approved. Smells awful familiar.
FCC study pins all blame on AT&T for massive mobile outage
The errors and foibles that led to AT&T’s massive mobile network outage in February that impaired millions of devices and blocked millions of voice calls were “all attributed” to the carrier, the FCC’s Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau concluded in its damning assessment of the outage.
urgentcomm.com
So, someone sent out a change that wasn't tested/approved. Smells awful familiar.
RFI-EMI-GUY
Member
- Joined
- Dec 22, 2013
- Messages
- 8,201
- Reaction score
- 5,551
FIRSTNET/ATT was recently hacked and customer data stolen. AT&T now says call information for most 2022 FirstNet users downloaded in data breach - Urgent CommsOutage on February 22nd:
FCC study pins all blame on AT&T for massive mobile outage
The errors and foibles that led to AT&T’s massive mobile network outage in February that impaired millions of devices and blocked millions of voice calls were “all attributed” to the carrier, the FCC’s Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau concluded in its damning assessment of the outage.urgentcomm.com
So, someone sent out a change that wasn't tested/approved. Smells awful familiar.
speedway_navigator
Member
That's like a medic telling a shooting victim "it was only an accidental discharge, you were not targeted, so quit bleeding so much."
- Joined
- Oct 4, 2004
- Messages
- 1,057
- Reaction score
- 126
It only works with certain phones, doesn't work with my android. I'm not familiar with all the technology stuff but I do know that the next morning after the Rolling Fork, MS tornadoes that killed 13 that AT&T was there with 2 first trucks, they got there about 730 am. Nobody that I'm aware of lost cell service or radio communications and I was there until Monday.
Be safe
Be safe
- Status
