P25 systems holding on site with good signal, but RSSI indication blanks and many comms are missed.
Results: Appears to be fixed.
Links: Ohio MARCS-IP - Various sites
Discussion: Although, I only noticed this when I initially programmed the scanner and had all kinds of problems. After going through all of the settings, my issue with comms missed had to do with location settings and using location. I don't normally use location settings and thus disabled location based scanning. Works fine. I don't know that the firmware fixed it as much as me correcting my settings.
With a ducky antenna I can copy the Jefferson Co Simulcast (site 3-001) of Ohio MARCS-IP from the middle of an adjacent county with 100% decode. It sounds beautiful. And this with an RSSI of 100 or worse on the ducky.
One thing I do notice, and this is just particular to most trunked sites being nearly out of range for me when using ducky from my location -- With the Open Beta firmware I have to adjust squelch to "1" to pick up the sites, which causes any conventional channels without PL/DPL to stop on noise. If I switch to squelch of "2" it no longer stops on conventional frequencies that do not have traffic but I lose the marginal trunked systems. Probably nothing can be done about this other than for me to actually acquire a better signal.
If I use my Yagi, I can pick up 6 or seven MARCS-IP sites (including Jefferson Co Simulcast) as well as Canton/Stark County Moto Type II analog/digital simulcast and Tuscarawas Co Moto Type II analog simulcast with ease, no issues whatsoever. With the increased signal strength from using the Yagi, I can scan with squelch of "2" without issue.
Inconsistent backlight operation
Results: Appears to be fixed
Links: Various P25 / Moto Type II sites
Discussion: I never noticed the issue on the older firmware, and I don't see any issue with Open Beta. The backlight appears to be working just as Paul described it should, and my results are similar to kikito's.
I am 100% pleased with the performance of this scanner. P25 Simulcast sites sound as good or better than standalone P25 sites. I have yet to see any decoding behavior that even remotely resembles that which would occur on a scanner not designed to handle LSM.
Mike