Have been a Uniden champion for many years, and thought the HP-1 would live up to as promoted, but wish I had waited longer and lost less money on it instead of having paid the full release version price.
The overall concept is wonderful, but the disappointments others have expressed are echoed here also.
The recent complaint touched upon seems to be in engineering limbo and still a problem, viz; I keep mine on AC power supply most of the time set it to local (strong) Weather Alert Frequency of 162.400 whenever not scanning.
In this Tornado Alley terminus area (NW GA), the warnings come through with consistent 5 Bars solid copy on 162.400 MHz. But when we leave our mountain home for a number of hours, I turn it fully off (All Off) and put it out of sight. - Bad idea..
2-5 hours later, we return and I plug it back in to AC Power, the Weather Alert Frequency has switched to the ZERO-Bars 162.55 WX Channel and if I don't keep it plugged in or the power goes off for even a short time, we NO LONGER receive alerts unless I go back through the menus to put it on the 162.400 local station. A few more power glitchs during a storm and we have to KEEP going back into the menu System to get any weather. (Yes, i have set the local counties in as valid alert areas) - this is a serious problem and needs to be fixed ASAP as Spring hits. To have to use an old Midland WX radio instead of my ~$600 investment is bloody sad..
While on this "rant" - Even though the HP-1 is at full charge when removing power as above, it comes back on telling me it needs a "13 hr- 5 9 Min" charge ALWAYS when power applied - This is a consistent "unexplained anomaly". (Our classic excuse at NASA! ;-) ) :roll:
Uniden: You almost had a real winner in the HP-1 - Let's get these real-world problems resolved. It has the potential to be a true winner, but we paid a lot to be a virtual "BETA" test crowd.. ;-)
TNX es 73 (No"s") ;-)
Wouff
The overall concept is wonderful, but the disappointments others have expressed are echoed here also.
The recent complaint touched upon seems to be in engineering limbo and still a problem, viz; I keep mine on AC power supply most of the time set it to local (strong) Weather Alert Frequency of 162.400 whenever not scanning.
In this Tornado Alley terminus area (NW GA), the warnings come through with consistent 5 Bars solid copy on 162.400 MHz. But when we leave our mountain home for a number of hours, I turn it fully off (All Off) and put it out of sight. - Bad idea..
2-5 hours later, we return and I plug it back in to AC Power, the Weather Alert Frequency has switched to the ZERO-Bars 162.55 WX Channel and if I don't keep it plugged in or the power goes off for even a short time, we NO LONGER receive alerts unless I go back through the menus to put it on the 162.400 local station. A few more power glitchs during a storm and we have to KEEP going back into the menu System to get any weather. (Yes, i have set the local counties in as valid alert areas) - this is a serious problem and needs to be fixed ASAP as Spring hits. To have to use an old Midland WX radio instead of my ~$600 investment is bloody sad..
While on this "rant" - Even though the HP-1 is at full charge when removing power as above, it comes back on telling me it needs a "13 hr- 5 9 Min" charge ALWAYS when power applied - This is a consistent "unexplained anomaly". (Our classic excuse at NASA! ;-) ) :roll:
Uniden: You almost had a real winner in the HP-1 - Let's get these real-world problems resolved. It has the potential to be a true winner, but we paid a lot to be a virtual "BETA" test crowd.. ;-)
TNX es 73 (No"s") ;-)
Wouff