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WHCA Systems Sabers

Thread starter mbnv992
Start date Jun 28, 2026

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Yesterday at 1:21 PM

DVINTHEHOUSEMAN said:
No stuck mics, must just be heavy compression that RR applies.

Securenet's sound reproduction is so much better than P25, regardless of the slight audio crunch. The only issue is that you take a hit on range if you want to keep good audio.

The audio is surprisingly good as the speaker's voice recognition is much better than the P25 vocoders and there is virtually no delay in the audio stream.

I have not tested range yet. The DES-XL is supposed to improve synch and therefore the range. But I think it does so by robbing some speech bits. I guess that is what you are inferring. I have my SABERS set to -XL = OFF to interoperate with a PX-300S. That said I have wondered if radios with and without the -XL activated can communicate, with each other.