Would you upgrade to V3 in Northern NJ?

[evilgriff]

To those of you who have tried the upgrade to V3 on the 996t, how is it working with the Morris Digital network? I am still on V1 and not sure if I should make the change right now.

 

[RocketNJ]

I upgraded my 996 to V3 then went in the hidden menu and set it to 3 instead of 1. THen in each site for Morris I set decoding to auto. No issues.

 

[Markscan]

Can't speak about Morris system, but Montclair system was motorboating and very poor audio with the V3 firmware. I went back to V2.

 

[RocketNJ]

DId you change the hidden menu as per Upman? Scanner defaults to setting of 1 but needs to be changed to 3.


http://www.radioreference.com/forums/showthread.php?t=120985

 

[Markscan]

Yes. i also tried the manual adjustments. But i found the version 2 firmware is almost flawless. I routinely listen to Montclair,Parsippany,Lincoln Park, and Montville. They are all P25, and with the version 2 firmware are a pleasure to listen to. Maybe when the next firmware fix is issued this problem will be fixed. Its kind of dissapointing to have to perform so many "tweaks" on a $500 radio just to get good performance.

 

[evilgriff]

Well, I upgraded to V3 and reset the hidden menu to 3. Works good so far. Thanks all!!!!

 

[nydxa]

Stay with V2

I also upgraded.
"Auto" feature cannot produce as low an error rate as using manual mode.
Rather than going back to V2 I simply went back to "Manual" mode and adjusted for lowest error rate.
Honestly, I see no real advantage to V3 - if your radio isn't broken, don't try to fix it!

 

[RocketNJ]

30 second fire tone out delay is nice

 

[n3wrx]

I upgraded to 3.00.0 and, although I don't listen to a lot of digital stuff, the occasional NJSP stuff that is transmitted in digital comes through OK.

edit: also, I haven't really needed to make any adjustments (auto mode).