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Too Soon For VP8000 Wants/Bug list?

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No preamble adjustment on DMR. Helps encode especially with encryption if extended. My other radios improved when I increased preamble time.

Still want to be able to select normal or selective squelch per channel.

If VP series revamped in Sept will it be adding LTE or something more dramatic?
 

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I have a few zones with more than 16 channels which I use the rocker switch to access the extra channels. On my other radios so configured once I twist the channel knob the radio re-syncs to the knob positions. On the VP once I’ve gone beyond 16th channel I have to keep pressing switch to get it back into sub 16 channel before the knob will re-sync and behave normally.
 

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1.46.11 with firmware 8.46.11 just dropped, including NXDN and Broadband Voice (uses ESChat service Home - ESChat ESChat for PTT over wifi).
 

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NXDN is free with that update?
No, I was holding out that it might be. I just placed my order after confirming it was not free or included.
 

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FPP on DMR/NXDN pretty big add. Also ARM support. Still no trunking on either….
Bug left I mentioned a few posts up. I wonder if location services will ever be interoperable or at least radio to radio direct even if only viking.
 
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I ordered mine yesterday and got this as a follow up email from Texas.

"Please let your dealers know this option will not be available until mid-October. We will process any orders (i.e.,XXXX quote XXXXXXX), but are unable to load the option to the vault until the software update is released.
 

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Note that release 25.2 (Armada 1.46.11, firmware 8.46.11) came out yesterday. Or maybe they meant a new Vault release.
 

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"Please let your dealers know this option will not be available until mid-October. We will process any orders (i.e.,XXXX quote XXXXXXX), but are unable to load the option to the vault until the software update is released.
That's annoying if true, which I believe. When I asked a few weeks ago, I was told you could order it on a new radio already, which is how they got the part number, but it wasn't in the catalog yet.
 

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I ordered mine yesterday and got this as a follow up email from Texas.

"Please let your dealers know this option will not be available until mid-October. We will process any orders (i.e.,XXXX quote XXXXXXX), but are unable to load the option to the vault until the software update is released.
I checked my vault today and it was in there.
 

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Side issue. Can any dealer sell me a license and put it in my vault or only the dealer who sold me the radio and set up my account?
 
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