One thing I got from the NC article was Mike Batten is part of the new Whistler. Mike was (actually still is) a member here so hopefully he’ll become active again.
Whistler website back online - 10th February 2025
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tvengr
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Mike helped me previously with compatibility settings when I contacted Whistler about EZ Scan being very small on the screen.
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That divestiture part...
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No whistler rep here ? That's bad form and not a good look. Not even an official announcement.
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The day after president Trump was sworn in, inflation didn't go to 1.4% as it was when he last left office. Millions of illegal violent criminals not deported the next day. You didn't pay three quarters less at the grocery store.. he was in the office for a few days.
Give it some time, weeks, months, whatever it takes but things are looking a little better than they did when this thread started. I can't imagine if they really follow through with a reasonable business model that there won't be a representative on the largest most important venue they serve.
No guarantees, but give it a while, give it time, see how this pans out.
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Oh and by the way, when's the last time you saw Uniden have a representative on radio reference, once in a blue moon, just saying. Give it time, hopefully a knowledgeable representative from Whistler will be their biggest advantage on radio reference, as it would be from Uniden.😄
I agree! The Uniden rep is here all the time.
Apparently, Michael Batten is an engineer, who was with Whistler for over 40 years. His area of expertise seems to be radar detectors and he hold numerous patents. Definitely no slouch!
Also, if you would like to get some insight regarding Whistler, from a radar detector perspective, here's a thread from rdforum.org:
You really took me back in the day with that one.
I think Whistler Wendy bailed before covid. The search function should give you the details, if interested.
Bad form or tipping their hand that the scanner business is not moving forward just selling old inventory?
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A good first step would be to reach out to the customers that sent their scanners in for service.
7 pages and we learned nobody knows what is really happening. Best advice from trentbob, give it time. My only addition would be do not hold your breath, if you need a scanner, buy it elsewhere because nothing new will come from them any time soon. If you must have their old radio stock, I wish you luck. If you need repair, you might risk them.
So just like I said in the second post.
I own the TRX-1, WS1088, and PSR-800 scanners, and they all work well for me. However, I would like to see Whistler come out with a new scanner, like the TRX-1, but with a color display, similar to SDS-100, and with full NXDN and DMR capabilities, but without having to purchase additional "keys".
As has been stated to death: The licensing to use the DMR, and NXDN protocols to trunk track, and properly decode those standards fully, must be bought from MSI, and to do so means - A: Charge you for upgrades, or B: build those costs into the base price making the scanner close to $800.00 by the time you order it.
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Uniden needs to pay for their use of P25, that's why it's excluded from the BCD160/260 scanners to keep the cost down, but let everybody 's P25 capable scanners carry the cost equally even in parts of the world where P25 isn't used.
They could have done the same with DMR/NXDN/Waterfall to keep the added cost lower for the scanner buyer that needs those features. Uniden needs to have a profit margin on everything they do, from adding firmware code in scanners to handle the blocking of functions and opening them when a licence key entered related to the serial number, building a webpage with license ordering and paying functions and supplying the same functions to retailers like ScannerMaster and supplying the whole solution with a database to other parts of the world that doesn't have scanners registered at Unidens database.
If Uniden only pay for the actual license and only report how many scanners they sell, without all the other license management functions, it will be lot less added to each scanner. Then it's also a bit unclear what Uniden pay for, as it is a cost for the number of transmitting radio subscribers in a system. Uniden doesn't have any radio system and do not have any transmitting radios. Do DSD and DSD-FME and SDRTrunk and all other trunk track programs pay any license to just listen to systems?
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They could have done the same with DMR/NXDN/Waterfall to keep the added cost lower for the scanner buyer that needs those features. Uniden needs to have a profit margin on everything they do, from adding firmware code in scanners to handle the blocking of functions and opening them when a licence key entered related to the serial number, building a webpage with license ordering and paying functions and supplying the same functions to retailers like ScannerMaster and supplying the whole solution with a database to other parts of the world that doesn't have scanners registered at Unidens database.
If Uniden only pay for the actual license and only report how many scanners they sell, without all the other license management functions, it will be lot less added to each scanner. Then it's also a bit unclear what Uniden pay for, as it is a cost for the number of transmitting radio subscribers in a system. Uniden doesn't have any radio system and do not have any transmitting radios. Do DSD and DSD-FME and SDRTrunk and all other trunk track programs pay any license to just listen to systems?
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I see quite a bit of discussion about not being able to update one's radios without the update servers being online but I do not understand if this is talking about firmware updates or about updating memory lists.
If the concern is around updating firmware, what is it that the radios do not currently do, or do correctly that needs to be corrected by way of a firmware update?
If the concern is around updating memory contents, is there not a separate software tool which runs independently of Whistler servers that would enable memory management to be carried out?
Apologies if these questions seem daft or obvious but I do not use any Whistler devices, although I know people who do and they have not recounted any shop-stopping issues with their radios thus far.
If the concern is around updating firmware, what is it that the radios do not currently do, or do correctly that needs to be corrected by way of a firmware update?
If the concern is around updating memory contents, is there not a separate software tool which runs independently of Whistler servers that would enable memory management to be carried out?
Apologies if these questions seem daft or obvious but I do not use any Whistler devices, although I know people who do and they have not recounted any shop-stopping issues with their radios thus far.
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