rckydenver said:
I'm still debating if i want to do this or not.
Yep.
I've got 3 PRO-96s, 1 with CPU V.1.1 and 2 with CPU V.1.4, and I did the `upgrade' to one of the V.1.4 ones and am doing a bit of a comparison between all three setup off of a common RS #20-283 800MHz antenna via a Stridsberg 4-port multicoupler along with one of my PRO-2096s that hasn't been `upgraded' and is running off of my `normal' outside antenna.
So far I haven't really noticed any `improvements' and *might* actually have some `degradation' on *some* signals but, it's, as far as *I* am concerned, still too early to really tell. I'd really like to take a few days worth of listening to try and be a tad bit more certain. (Just in case it *might* make a `difference' I've manually selected 35th Avenue site, dunno *if* it'll actually stay `on site', though it appears to be doing so right now, as such but that is where I'm starting from at least, and then manually selected `hold' on the WLPD S Dsp TG 1946 for one of my tests. I am also going to try `camping out' on 35th Ave & Weld Law 1 TG 1930, 35th Ave & the Road & Bridges C8 Motor TG 9017, and doing a `free run' on Weld SO, Weld FD, Weld LG/R&B, and Greeley TGs with just the 35th Ave site unlocked for a few hours each in sort of a `rotation'. I'll change sites now and then as, or if, it seems that some sort of `pattern' may develop. [If someone else has any suggestions that might work up this way I'm open to them.])
*If* there is/are any noticeable improvement(s) that are `worthwhile' I'll probably go ahead and `flash?' all of my PRO-96/2096s. After all... I can always go back to V.1.2 if it turns out that the `upgrade' doesn't help after we finally get moved or there are any `issues' that only show up later on `down the road'. {WAN GRIN!} However... *I* am hoping that this `upgrade' actually does make some decent `improvements' which makes these scanners even better than they already are. ('Course I am also hoping that once the `re-banding' is done and over with that GRE and RS see fit to offer either a free or cheap `upgrade' to all of us owners instead of making us go out and buy all new scanners. [That's not to say that I probably wouldn't go and buy some new scanners *if* they actually came out with ones that were *definitely* a `step up' from these. But, it would *have* to be a *definite* `step up' not just a few minor `mods'.)
Just an `Olde Fart's' 2¢ worth.