Hit_Factor
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Trying to bring this thread back from the hijacking: G2 vs. Motorola? Notice the Uni Rep mentioning a future scanner product.
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Prospect62
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Talk to Hoffman Radio Network, LLC
Also, I would REALLY like to see Unication offer some sort of "convertacom" style device - a mobile type cradle/mount that charges the pager and offers connectivity with an external antenna and speaker. They already have the amplified base, I'm sure they could pretty easily fashion a convertacom off that design.
Agreed, but it would have to be of better quality and more realistically priced than their current base offerings IMO.
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Agreed.
allen5565
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I talked to a Unication rep last year, suggesting this very thing, that a mobile amplified charger like a ConvertaCom would be a great accessory that allowed for convenient, compact mobile mounting, charging, and simultaneous amplified listening. I asked why they could not reassemble the innards of the G2/3/4/5 amplified charger case, where the pager dock sits on the biggest, broadest face of the unit, and instead jam all that wiring into the case of the G1 charger, which has the dock on the slimmest, narrowest face, next to the speaker. His answer was they want the 2/3/4/5 units to be readable for users while in the docks, and the G1 slim-end configuration would not allow that.
I'm not sure I totally buy that reply as the official Unication stand on the issue, but that's what one salesman told one person, once. Personally, I think the G1 amplified charger configuration, (or, if the company really does insist on the readability issue being a consideration, a somewhat modified G1 version, but still with the dock on the narrowest face, so it can be incorporated into consoles w/out taking up half the real estate,) would be the ideal solution for mobile mounting these units.
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Interesting. I hope to see some development on this idea from them soon. Seems they are so close with the amplified charger, as you point out.
In my area, and where I travel, I always seem to be on the ragged edges of the County’s P25 Phase 2 system (which is otherwise pretty decent) and man would I love to be able to give this G2 access to a roof mounted NMO antenna. I have a Motorola PMAD antenna on my G2 and I’m still missing a lot with this thing in the cup holder. And a nice loud mobile speaker would also help immensely, as you can’t hear the pager even at full volume when traveling with a window down.
Seems the Unication rep you mentioned was still operating under the belief that these things are mainly used as fire pagers, where a user WOULD indeed want to see the screen when the thing goes off. Luckily, with these new firmware releases it seems Unication is coming around to the fact that a large number of its customers are using the G-series as a scanner. Maybe this realization will lead to the development of a convertacom style device.
In my area, and where I travel, I always seem to be on the ragged edges of the County’s P25 Phase 2 system (which is otherwise pretty decent) and man would I love to be able to give this G2 access to a roof mounted NMO antenna. I have a Motorola PMAD antenna on my G2 and I’m still missing a lot with this thing in the cup holder. And a nice loud mobile speaker would also help immensely, as you can’t hear the pager even at full volume when traveling with a window down.
Seems the Unication rep you mentioned was still operating under the belief that these things are mainly used as fire pagers, where a user WOULD indeed want to see the screen when the thing goes off. Luckily, with these new firmware releases it seems Unication is coming around to the fact that a large number of its customers are using the G-series as a scanner. Maybe this realization will lead to the development of a convertacom style device.
Yes mobile convertacom type thing. Maybe just develop a speaker that is better for the devices. If my G4 could have a retrofit speaker installed I would be happy. The device seems like a cadillac but the speaker and overall audio delivery seems like a yugo.
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