Is the new beta firmware going to let use stop on a channel to listen to that one call .If there is a chase going on I would like to listen to that chase ? I think that why a lot of people have not got this radio . You can't not hold on to a channel it just keep on scanning . Thy why thy buy the police scanner . But if you add a lot of those thing to this radio people would be buy this radio like crazy . It pick up the p25 system better then the scanner still do . I would buy one if it had those thing . It just a idea .
The new firmware will reportedly have hold and delay features. You should know that, even with the current lack of those features, there's ways to address those shortcomings through creative programming. How you approach this is dependent on how the system(s) you're interested in are designed, numbers of sites, number of agencies, and so forth. While the system I monitor here in Albany County NY is not terribly large (five towns and the County Sheriff), I've devised a programming scheme that allows me to drill down to a specific public service agency, to the exclusion of all others. While that doesn't qualify as a hold or lockout, it would enable me to monitor a major fire or police incident in a specific locale in the county with little or no interruption.
But even with the improved firmware in beta, the G-Series won't have the wide frequency coverage you'll find in most scanners. There's no VHF-Low, no Airband, no coverage of your local FM band and, at best, you'll only have two frequency ranges of coverage depending on the model. That said, if you're primarily looking for the best 800MHz P25 coverage, including Simulcast, in a package built like a tank, there is no other.
