Unication G-Series Voice Pager with Digital Trunked Scanner Feature

[picscan]

Something buggy, I just pressed the message replay and instead of playing messages, the pager shut down and restarted with the unication splash screen with the "programming" sign. Also the block doesn't always work, I keep blocking and they don't block even though it says it's blocked. Then when I go to the blocked section to unblock them it tells me I have nothing blocked. Kinda wacky.

 

[RRR]

What would really be nice is be able to play messages from first to last instead of last to first and a way to scroll quickly through instead of one at a time.

I do NO concur.

Currently, the G4/5 will play back the previous 1000 "key-up's". If "first to last" was implemented, either you would have to sit and wait for all 999 other messages are replayed to get to the most current, or a limit on replays would have to be put in place. -I like the previous 1000, latest to earliest, as I can put my G5 into a position with "Zero TG" (or an off-group nobody uses) to replay the events from the night before (without a current TG interrupting) . Also, as it is now, if you missed what was just said, a quick tap of the top button would replay the most recent conversations, which is usually what someone wants to replay anyway (House number, etc.)

And while one conversation is replaying, you can tap the top button to go to the next one, so you can already "scroll past"

 

[trido]

The easiest part if on your old knob postions with TG scan system to TG HOLD and TG remove is now two BOXES to check ONETIME in the PPS.
also if you havea knob position in TG MONITOR mode you have NO TG HOLD or TG remove however away around that change that knob pos to TG scan and add TG 65535 thast a wild card.
Oh unless changed be sure to have TG 65535 as the 64 TG or lower reason I tried at 64 TG wildcard and got some error so you can have 62 TG plus the TG 65535 as the 63 group.

 

[picscan]

"picscan said:
What would really be nice is be able to play messages from first to last instead of last to first and a way to scroll quickly through instead of one at a time.

I do NO concur."


Make it both ways, give us a choice, I don't want to have to scroll through 1000 calls to hear what happened the night before in reverse when I wake up in the morning. A quick scroll would be nice to get to a certain time instead of pressing a little button 500 times, a press and hold option like setting a clock.

 

[policefreak]

Couple of questions after working with the new beta firmware and PPS.

1. My overall P25 reception performance has taken a major step back. Has anyone else noticed this? Video will be coming hopefully later today. I've tried to set the squelch settings to OFF which is not an option in the PPS. No improvement. I also tried to turn off the Voice Buffering (What does this actually do?)

2. Forgive me if this has been asked before but is there a way to record audio when in PTGL mode?

3. Is there a way to select individual sites of the systems you can choose from in User Defined Scan List mode? If not there should be. I'm scanning a statewide system and I don't want the pager to waste time scanning 46 different sites of the system which I can never pick up. But I do like the ability of this mode to choose systems and talkgroups on the fly. It could be a useful feature. Also in User Defined Scan List mode is there a way to better identify the systems that we can choose from? All it lists is the RFSS ID in some strange format, so I need to go and look at the talkgroups or control channels to figure out which system it is.

4. Sorry I forgot one. In the Diagnostics menu I see an option called RFSS CAL and it either says ON or OFF. What does this do? I've tried it both ways and while the RFSS value changes sometimes with either option, I never notice a change in reception.

 

[Jordan_yeh]

Unication, please take note that your users have to remove the antenna from their radios to operate the menu...that is sad

Paul

We are design the high performance antenna ,which can support full public safety frequency band Vhf/uhf/700/800mhz band , see below prototype picture ,will available shortly

 

[markjrenna]

New Antenna is great but his point is that when you go into the Menu, a signal coming in shouldn't override the Menu screen. Removing the antenna allows one to continue doing what is needed within the Menu without interruption.

 

[Jordan_yeh]

New Antenna is great but his point is that when you go into the Menu, a signal coming in shouldn't override the Menu screen. Removing the antenna allows one to continue doing what is needed within the Menu without interruption.

Thank you, got it

 

[RRR]

I do NO concur."

Sorry, mean't "NOT"

We are design the high performance antenna ,which can support full public safety frequency band Vhf/uhf/700/800mhz band....

Sooo... I understand the G4 / G5 has an "Internal Antenna" for VHF / UHF. How does your antenna improve the signal of those if this is the case?

 

[winstonsf]

A dedicated higher gain antenna for the G4 to cover only 700/800 would be good. Perhaps one that is 2-3 times the height of the current stock antenna.

We are design the high performance antenna ,which can support full public safety frequency band Vhf/uhf/700/800mhz band , see below prototype picture ,will available shortly View attachment 82613

 

[fmulder13]

Sorry, mean't "NOT"



Sooo... I understand the G4 / G5 has an "Internal Antenna" for VHF / UHF. How does your antenna improve the signal of those if this is the case?

I would give my left arm for the G5 to be able to use the external antenna on VHF!

 

[RRR]

Make it both ways, give us a choice, I don't want to have to scroll through 1000 calls to hear what happened the night before in reverse when I wake up in the morning. A quick scroll would be nice to get to a certain time instead of pressing a little button 500 times, a press and hold option like setting a clock.

You are completely backwards. If it plays newest to oldest, like it does now, you DON'T have to play back 1000 messages, you start at newest, and go back to where you feel like stopping. Latest conversation, the ones a vast majority want to replay, would be pretty close.

If it were "oldest to newest" like you suggested, then you would have to cycle through 1000 messages to replay what the dispatcher just said.

Unless you want it clipped to 240 seconds like the SDS series. Then you lose the ability to go back much longer periods of time, like we can now.

 

[mdsxfire]

You should not have a problem. There are a few more tabs and check boxes, for the most part. I figured it out pretty easily. Now explaining to those 80 guys you program for may be the bigger challenge. .

Yeah fortunately I don’t think we will put it on our FD pagers as it could end up missing pages, but it def will be on my personal

 

[picscan]

You are completely backwards. If it plays newest to oldest, like it does now, you DON'T have to play back 1000 messages, you start at newest, and go back to where you feel like stopping. Latest conversation, the ones a vast majority want to replay, would be pretty close.

If it were "oldest to newest" like you suggested, then you would have to cycle through 1000 messages to replay what the dispatcher just said.

Unless you want it clipped to 240 seconds like the SDS series. Then you lose the ability to go back much longer periods of time, like we can now.

I want the option of fast forwarding or reversing calls, I leave it on all night with my neighborhood channel and when I get up in the morning I listen to the calls, it would be nice to listen to calls from beginning to end instead of end to beginning and not tapping the little button 500 times to seek out a certain time of the night. It's fine the way it is now if all you do is listen live.
A few friends and neighbors always ask me for example, what happened around 2 AM? So I have to tap the little button a few hundred times to get back to 2AM.
It would just be nice scroll back quickly to 2AM like when you're setting a digital clock, hold to scroll fast, then press play and hear the original call and listen to the from beginning to end to see what transpired.
90% of the time when something is going on, all that is recorded is the beeper when they're doing a search for a suspect so you have to listen to a few dozen beep calls before you actually hear anyone speak.
It would be a nice option to start listening to calls in the gap from when I go to bed until I get up without tapping the button all the way back from 8 in the morning to 10pm the previous night.

 

[MonitoringDelCo]

I have been successful in setting up the Free Scan and the Pager TG List (PTGL) scan features. However, I have not been having any luck in getting the User Defined Scan List to operate. I have selected the proper systems and selected the talk groups in PPS D7 -> Trunking Free Scan -> User Defined Scan List -> Linked Talk Group ID.
The pager shows that it is scanning but no control channel is received. The pager will scan for a while and then reboot. After rebooting, the process will repeat.

Has anyone been successful in setting up the User Defined Scan List and having it operational? If so, what steps did you take?

Thanks,
Bill

 

[eorange]

DId you set up Trunking Free Scan with the correct frequency range, i.e. the range that encompasses the control channel(s) associated with the TG IDs?

 

[MonitoringDelCo]

Yes, I have had it set to scan from 763-870, and I even narrowed it to start at one system and end at the other system. Free Scan works fine; however, once I choose the "Ulis" soft key and then select the "Scan" key, the pager shows "Scanning" and will eventually reboot.

 

[mharris]

Bill, try re-reading the radio then re-writing back to it. This has helped me with a few issues I've had with this new FW.

 

[RRR]

No "button pressing" necessary, if you just let it play out on it's own....

 

[MonitoringDelCo]

No "button pressing" necessary, if you just let it play out on it's own....

If I don't select "Ulis," the pager will remain in Free Scan (scanning between a beginning frequency and an ending frequency). I'm trying to use the "Ulis" (User Defined Scan List) as shown in the attached screenshots.