Pinellas Cnty Fl review of Unication G5

[mitbr]

I live in Pinellas county near the gulf in Dunedin FL.
At my location I have been trying to solve the simulcast issues in hearing the local county P25 system. I listen to the system at home in my living room with the Uniden HP1 and an outdoor large 800mhz yagi antenna and most of the time hear the P25 system without problems.I am tired of being tethered to my external outside antenna.
If I take the outdoor antenna off the radio and put the 800 mhz RS on I hear nothing. There are places around the house that it will work, kinda but not at the spot in the living room. I get similar results with the 436 and 536 Uniden radios.

Enter the Unication G5 Pager!!!
This device is NOT a scanner but rather a pager that has scanning functions. It is a commercial purpose built device designed for fire, ems, and police, it is not a consumer built device.It functions on p25 phase one and phase 2 systems.It scans one system at a time and has no delay, hold or avoid functions at this time hopefully will in future.

So I programed the pager and turned it on and WOW SIMULCAST PROBLEM FIXED!!!!! With no antenna just using the supplied stubby ant that comes with the device I had rock solid signal no distortion, no loss of signal full bars signal.I was floored!!! So with the pager sitting on my couch I tried Clearwaters P25 phase 2 system. Rock solid loud clear audio full signal!!!! Ok so then I tried the new P25 Hillsborough County system with 3 bar system signal on the radio again solid audio no distortion sitting on my couch in my single story stucco house. So then I tried the car with the pager sitting in the cup holder of my Mazda with the stubby antenna the the device comes with. I drove around town.Again rock solid decode and audio every where I went. This was a major improvement over my Uniden scanners which performed poorly in similar situations.

So in Pinellas county if you are having problems with simulcast on our P25 system just buy this thing I know you wont be disappointed.
On sale now at Rays Pagers for $565.00 until Dec21 2018.

Ps Anyone else in this area using this device I would like to hear from you let me know.
MODS please leave this post in the Florida forum Thanks.
Tim

 

[buttaik]

.....until the encryption switch is flipped.

 

[mitbr]

.....until the encryption switch is flipped.

so true sigh

 

[Bolt21]

I was going to get one of those until the SDS100 came out. Happy for the most part with the SDS100 for P25.

 

[mitbr]

I was going to get one of those until the SDS100 came out. Happy for the most part with the SDS100 for P25.

Yea I didn't need another general scanner and based Unidens past performance with simulcast didnt want to spend the xtra 100 dollars over the G5 the G5 just works!!

So Bolt how well does the sds100 perform in the county and have you ever heard a G5 in action?

 

[6Paul21]

Good overview, I have had my G4 and G5 for a year now and it is flawless. I am in Sarasota waiting for their P25 to go live. I do use the RS 800mhz on one unit and can receive Pinellas County with at least three bars down here.
Enjoy Ed

 

[mitbr]

Good overview, I have had my G4 and G5 for a year now and it is flawless. I am in Sarasota waiting for their P25 to go live. I do use the RS 800mhz on one unit and can receive Pinellas County with at least three bars down here.
Enjoy Ed

Thanks for checking in! So in order for me to hear the new p25 in Sarasota where is the data for it in RR?

 

[6Paul21]

In order to hear SRQ P25 you need very good hearing. The original system was to be installed by Airbus and they were purchased by Motorola. Moto did not like the system and since they would have the contract they wanted to rework the Sarasota system. I would think it is at least a year away.

 

[APX8000]

It always amazes me when a long time scanner user that has tons of LSM problems picks up a little Unication with its tiny little stubby antenna is is floored with how well it works. Isn’t it so nice? Welcome to the dark side.


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[mitbr]

In order to hear SRQ P25 you need very good hearing. The original system was to be installed by Airbus and they were purchased by Motorola. Moto did not like the system and since they would have the contract they wanted to rework the Sarasota system. I would think it is at least a year away.

Thanks for the update!

 

[mitbr]

It always amazes me when a long time scanner user that has tons of LSM problems picks up a little Unication with its tiny little stubby antenna is is floored with how well it works. Isn’t it so nice? Welcome to the dark side.


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The big shocker was realizing how much I was missing.I was also surprised how loud the audio is thought I might need to pipe it thru my car audio system nope not needed sounds loud in the car even at highway speeds.