WhislerWendy Appreciation thread!

[RaleighGuy]

Yep, works great... even displays any LED setting you have on the display too. Only thing to watch out for is the Com port setting... check Device Manager before starting the app. Ever since I got my 1088 in April, it's been Com4... until this morning when it came up as Com3. But that's a Windows thing.

But does it allow logging of frequencies in search mode

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[K9DAK]

But does it allow logging of frequencies in search mode

No... but it was never designed to. It was released as only a demo of what can be done with the remote control protocol released back on 14 June.

http://forums.radioreference.com/whistler-scanners/336945-remote-control-demo.html

In another thread recently (in the last three days), Wendy invited any coders to use the protocol to create an app that does logging.

 

[BrianG61UK]

Feature requests and questions

I am in the UK. I have a WS1088.

I see in the release notes for the app V2.17 build 460 that "Added the frequency range of 178.00000 MHz - 220.00000MHz to the UK band plan".
Thank you very much for this. It doesn't say in the release notes for CPU firmware 4.4 but it's obviously been added there too, to match.

The scanner itself has, since some previous CPU update, accepted frequencies from 54MHz all the way up to 88MHz in the UK bandplan, which is great since it covers the 4 meter ham band, UK PMR "low" band etc. At least it looks and sounds like it's working when I enter, say, 86.375 MHz FM anyway. But the PC application refuses to allow input of these frequencies even in the UK band plan. Please can this be fixed?

Please can you clarify the difference between NFM and FM. Is it actually changing a filter bandwidth or just the gain? If so what are the bandwidths or what FM deviation counts as wide and what as narrow?

If this is the wrong place for this please somebody direct me to the right place.

 

[BrianG61UK]

...
I see in the release notes for the app V2.17 build 460 that "Added the frequency range of 178.00000 MHz - 220.00000MHz to the UK band plan".
Thank you very much for this. It doesn't say in the release notes for CPU firmware 4.4 but it's obviously been added there too, to match.
...

But this range is not added, as far as I can see, to spectrum sweeper.

 

[ratpatrol]

thanks wendy for keeping the Agile software development alive and well and it is the primary reason i go the TRX-1 as well as awesome support

 

[WhistlerWendy]

thanks wendy for keeping the Agile software development alive and well and it is the primary reason i go the TRX-1 as well as awesome support

Thank You ratpatrol! That's the way we roll!

 

[n4jri]

Thanks for the last TRX-1 Firmware!

Just wanted to say how much I'm enjoying the new menu access provided by the firmware upgrade, and the global 'light on unmute' feature. Lots of fun.

Would love to see what could be done to enhance searching power. Thanks for those updates!

73/Allen (N4JRI)

 

[Melv7956]

I am in the UK. I have a WS1088.



I see in the release notes for the app V2.17 build 460 that "Added the frequency range of 178.00000 MHz - 220.00000MHz to the UK band plan".

Thank you very much for this. It doesn't say in the release notes for CPU firmware 4.4 but it's obviously been added there too, to match.



The scanner itself has, since some previous CPU update, accepted frequencies from 54MHz all the way up to 88MHz in the UK bandplan, which is great since it covers the 4 meter ham band, UK PMR "low" band etc. At least it looks and sounds like it's working when I enter, say, 86.375 MHz FM anyway. But the PC application refuses to allow input of these frequencies even in the UK band plan. Please can this be fixed?



Please can you clarify the difference between NFM and FM. Is it actually changing a filter bandwidth or just the gain? If so what are the bandwidths or what FM deviation counts as wide and what as narrow?



If this is the wrong place for this please somebody direct me to the right place.

As I understand it in the uk apart from marine band we use nfm as opposed to fm. Also the uk frequency coverage of 178-220 MHz is good but isn't covered in spectrum sweeper which could do with being addressed.


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[BrianG61UK]

As I understand it in the uk apart from marine band we use nfm as opposed to fm. Also the uk frequency coverage of 178-220 MHz is good but isn't covered in spectrum sweeper which could do with being addressed.

Scanners I have owned before just have WFM and FM where WFM is the really wide FM like analogue TV sound or FM broadcasts.

Whistler divides the narrower stuff into FM and NFM.

I find many VHF frequencies work well on NFM but on UHF many more frequencies seem to be wider and need FM. It'd be nice to actually know what the filter bandwidths used are, or the max FM deviation the scanner expects in NFM before it's advised to use FM instead.

 

[milcom_chaser]

Scanners I have owned before just have WFM and FM where WFM is the really wide FM like analogue TV sound or FM broadcasts.

Whistler divides the narrower stuff into FM and NFM.

I find many VHF frequencies work well on NFM but on UHF many more frequencies seem to be wider and need FM. It'd be nice to actually know what the filter bandwidths used are, or the max FM deviation the scanner expects in NFM before it's advised to use FM instead.

You need to email: bhawkins@whistlergroup.com
He is the customer service manager.