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1. Fixed issue with EDACS CCDump in Analyze mode and corrected the order of the EDACS messages dumped within each two message block Changed Mot 3600 Site ID display format analyze mode to decimal Fixed issue with CONV object delay time early expiration when priority check hits ts DACS I Call 00000 problem fixed Fixed blinking 000 in DCS Search mode menu item Fixed Sweeper All Bands group 9 text Fixed Sweeper line 1 display when toggling bands while paused Fixed up down key in SCAN mode when stopped on Wx Priority 1050Hz detected Fixed Private Call TGID display format in PGM menus Fixed P25 CC quality display percentage formatting in analyze mode Fixed issue where a PSR 500 or PC application may not properly clone to a PSR 600 Improved Tune mode ability to properly detect and display EDACS Narrow control channel information Fixed source target radio ID display for P25 user to user private calls They were swapped previously This is primarily a user interface issue and did not affect the operation of the scanner 1 3 This is the user loadable version of the Factory 1 3 CPU firmware Will display as uP Appl Ver U1 3 after loading and is identical to the factory F1 3 load Please use with DSP version 1 2 or higher otherwise some features may not operate properly New features Added C command to P2. To re enable the police TSYS I d hit MAN 1 1 ENT L OUT SCAN Drawbacks of this method My definition of a few key presses may not be the same as yours To lock out the two TSYS objects above and return to Scan mode required 10 key presses Still it s far less than locking out 50 TGRP objects individually It requires PC software that can directly manipulate the TSYS Object IDs since the radio doesn t let you do that from the keypad For MOT and P25 systems each TSYS object beyond the first takes 10 additional blocks of memory EDACS and LTR would be 4 blocks each If you do this for too many trunked systems it could have significant memory usage effects It may increase scan cycle times Each TSYS would be scanned for the default dwell time unless you change that value in the TSYS menu My local system uses Scan markers which the scanner seems to recognize the PSR 500 only camps on each of my TSYS objects for 100 200 mS watching the CCDump data it looks like the radio leaves a Mot 3600 system if it has seen two of these scan markers even if the dwell time has not yet elapsed It only works for trunking systems where you want to subdivide categories of talkgroups Problems A small screw inside the scanner near the BNC antenna connector has been found to be loose on early production units a short circuit and damage the scanner the four long external screws Carefull small s
3. Please use with DSP version 1 2 or higher otherwise some features may not operate properly New features Added brief ScanList tag and ON vs OFF display when toggling ScanLists This is displayed for gt 500 mS depending on how large the toggled ScanList is on off Added find by lockout status F1l L Out feature to the PGM EDIT FIND menu for objects that hav Added a battery Added a of byte will be low duty cycle battery icon bl charge is active yellow vs bl the permanent lockout set link 200 mS on 1300 mS off when lack battery holder is not detected Ts Mobile bit to remote control Get Status PC IF command bit 5 1 the byte with the RF squelch mute and DSP pin states described in additional detail within the updated user manual This Added FUNC F1 to Sweeper and Limit Search Allows access to alternate function that is not visible when a signal is being received in Sweeper toggles band in Limit enters the Limits menu Added within a TSYS object a Check All CCs option for MultiSite STAT If selected on every SCAN mode pass will force a check of all CC frequencies instead of stopping after the dwell time expires Fixes Enhancements Improvements to P25 control channel message processing particularly on non 800 MHz systems Improved control channel hunt speed should result in significant speed improvements for
4. Also how often does it check for an active channel that is a priority is there a way to change that to make it seek an active channel faster PGM GLOB Pri Channels lt priority channels to check gt the number of CONV objects flagged as priority that the scanner will check each lt priority check interval gt 0 a e A Ri Pri Interval lt priority check interval gt the time in deciseconds between each priority check In Win500 the above two items are on the General Settings tab and are named CONV to check each pass and Priority check interval respectively Show CC Info On TGRP Display Causes CCnn ffff ffffff to appear on line 2 of the display alternating with the voice frequency when a call is active lt nn gt is the index of the Control Channel in the TSYS s list and lt ffff ffffff gt is the Control Channel frequency Site Setting Stationary sites contain different traffic and or you want to check all CCs on all sites all the time With the option scan all control channels on every pass turned off the scanner will check a new control channel on each pass starting with the next frequency in line after the previous pass It will check only one control channel per pass With that option turned on the scanner will check every control channel it can find on each pass through the TSYS object Roam sites contain the same traffic and or you re moving around among sites and only wa
5. MHz Dump trunking data to PC IF Echo DSP comms to PC IF Resume Delay Time Squelch Time Same Band Squelch Time Different Band RF Fade Time Digital Detect Time Noise Threshold Tone Detect Threshold Length of time to wait for a signal on a frequency while scanning scan speed Lower value faster scan speed Higher value slower scan speed Length of time to wait for a signal on a frequency while scanning scan speed Length of time to wait before to closing the squelch after lost signal squelch tail Length of time to wait to detect a digital signal on a frequency in auto Mode Lower values cause analog transmissions to unmute faster but increase the chance of initial motorboating on digital signals A setting of 30 may be a good compromise Analog only channels can be set to CTCSS search to eliminate the delay A lower value may deliver better results The interval of time to check for a Weather Alarm signal while scanning WX Priority Tone Detect Timeout Length of time to wait on the Weather frequency to check for the Alarm signal Alarm Settings Length Alarm Settings Listen Squelch Delay in Scan Mode Squelch Delay 2 in Search Mode Squelch Delay 1 in Search Mode Unmute Delay AM Mode Unmute Delay FM Mode Max Lockouts Per Range in SPCL Max Search Tunes per Scan Cycle Enable FlexStep Tune Mode Text Signal Strength Values Battery Settings ZeroMatic Settings Check Delay
6. eneral idea of how a particular scanner model tics but in the end there is no substitute for ide how well it works PSR 500 Firmware versions CPU Updates PRPPRPRPRPOOR DoORWNENEFO 09 03 2007 11 05 2007 11 09 2007 11 19 2007 02 19 2008 03 31 2008 06 10 2008 07 14 2008 08 21 2008 DSP Updates PRROO 2 3 sal 2 3 11 06 2007 11 09 2007 11 19 2007 02 19 2008 06 10 2008 Initial production release Beta revision Beta revision Production revision Beta revision Beta revision Production revision KKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK CPU Update Details 0 1 Fixed Fixed previously one too low in number Fixed Pressing ATT preserve the new value Fixed Fixed Fixed RF Squelch timers on CCs EDACS will no longer trunk to encrypted Pro Voice calls Properly display SiteID for M36 in trunking analysis mode SiteID was at power up changing the setting then saving will now P25 dwell timeout when not holding paused Mot3600 CC dwell timeout when receiving RF SQ but no CC messages Should fix cases where CC could not be found Fixed Mon few seconds Improved Improved Fixed Whe Improved itoring of DG signals in Tune mode would pulse the audio every Unmuting on start of DG calls Less falsing of Mot subaudible detect in Tune mode n paused while scanning better handle ch
7. Search Delay Query Interval Fade Delay Qualify Time Analog Mute Time CC HD2 Timeout VC SQ Timeout VC XF Timeout Qualify Time Digital Delay Time End Tone Pattern End Tone Threshold End Tone Threshold GCG Unmute Delay End Tone Holdoff Show Trunking Channel Enable Radio ID Display Use RadiolD Alert Values Use 5khz Steps from 138 174Mhz Enable CC Dump Enable DSP Dump Length of time to wait before unmuting the Weather frequency after an Alarm Length of time to listen to the Weather frequency after an Alarm unmuted the radio Length of time to wait for a signal on a frequency during Sweeper while scanning Length of time to wait for a signal on a frequency during Sweeper while searching Length of time to wait for a signal on a frequency during Sweeper while searching Length of time to wait to unmute in AM mode during Sweeper Length of time to wait to unmute in FM mode during Sweeper The maximum number of special Sweeper lockouts per range before skipping The maximum number of frequencies to check in each search object while scanning Enable the FlexStep feature This setting is used to customize the text to show on the display while tuning This setting is used to customize the signal strength meter bar threshold values Recommended values 470 540 610 680 750 Customize the battery icon threshold values for NiMH alkaline and NiCd type batteries icon off icon on icon blink off icon blin
8. Tunes RF HW update 20 General Tuning SQ Wait 1 Squelch wait time same band 10 General Tuning SQ Wait 2 Squelch wait time new band 15 General Tuning RF SQ Fade RF SQ fade delay 10 Digital Tuning DG Int Prime Preselect DG audio 60 Digital Tuning Noise Thresh Dap threshold value fot 20 A Weather 1050 chk interval in Weather Settings WX Check Int SCAN and MAN modes 60 Weather Settings WX 1050Hz Th Weather 1050Hz qualify time 20 A WX SAME alert time to Weather Settings WX Alrm Time uoue GIO 0 Weather Settings WX Lstn Time Wx Listen lime Auto remute 90 time after unmute Spectrum Sweeper SweepScanSQ2 Sweeper scan large sig qual 5 Spectrum Sweeper SweepSrchSQ2 a Search large sig 5 Spectrum Sweeper SweepSrchSQ1 aia Seen Salley 10 Spectrum Sweeper SweepAMDelay ris unmute delay AM 150 Spectrum Sweeper SweepFMDelay pi ig manne GIy U 50 Special sweeper lockout Spectrum Sweeper SpclSweepLmt count before skip 5 General Tuning SearchTunes MESS era tuhesiper scan 0 loop 0 entire range y a On Allow any 1250Hz freq Misc Setting FlexStep Offzenforce fixed steps Off N 5 Show various data within Mise ecard ADC Cal Tune Mode on LCD line 3 OFF Signal strength meter 970 430 Misc Setting RSSI Sig Cal g g 520 610 thresholds 680 Misc Setting Bat Icon Cal Battery icon thresholds Zeromatic Setting Zeromatc Cal Zeromatic tune thresholds Zeromatic Setting ZM Delay Zeromatic check delay 5 CTCSS DCSNAC ACSO Srei Wait for HDS siginauto CSQ soo CTCSS DCS NAC ACSQ
9. alert when a showing a group call b showing the private TGRP s tag on line for for the radio ID C private TGRP s LED Color is non zero the default off d new menu item enabled Fixes Enhancements Fixed missing DG display for digital trunked VCs bug that was introduced in F1 4 Fixed P25 CC analyze problem with system ID info bug that was introduced in F1 4 Added timeout to trunking analysis results in TUNE mode so spurious false detects esp Mot 3600 low speed won t cause persistent display of trunking data Fixed issue where occasionally pressing MAN while in SCAN mode would not go to the last active object Fixed problem when multi scanning some EDACS systems Swapped Source vs Target Radio IDs in handling of EDACS I Calls per customer reports Un swap version 1 4 source and destination radio IDs when showing a Private Call Wild Card where the source ID was locked out Fixed search modes possibly skipping a freq while paused if zeromatic is turned on While waiting for unmute delay we were checking zeromatic even if paused Added additional qualification to storing polled P25 NAC We only store it if the new NAC is non zero OR we don t already have a NAC value OR the NAC value we already have is zero Other For users that have VHF trunked systems which utilize 5 kHz centers the following changes were made Allow 5 kHz
10. message The reason for this is simple the ID s of the radio s involved in the call are only present in the initial grant messages they generally are not contained within subsequent update messages If monitoring a single TGRP in MAN mode or if the only things enabled for scanning are TGRPs in a single TSYS then RadioID display should be fairly reliable You may not see the IDs under several conditions Some examples include but are not necessarily limited to the following Scanning multiple trunking systems or a single trunking system with any CONV objects enabled By the time the scanner is able to sample the CC the initial grant messages will likely have been issued leaving only the update messages Scanning a single TSYS multiple TGRPs or even a wildcard TGRP in MAN mode where the radio is in a voice call returns to the CC when that call ends then immediately goes to a new in progress voice call based on update messages Motorola systems even within a single call may only give the ID of the radio that initiated the call Responses within the same call if the scanner never returns to the CC will continue to show that initial ID even though other radios are involved This is due to transmission versus message trunking It is anticipated that users who will be interested in the RadioID feature will generally understand these necessary limitations Chan
11. show that the civil air band and VHF HI ba filter Uniden breaks the range up into tw 88 108 can hammer the VHF HI band inaG passes the FM broadcast signals while the better job suppressing FM broadcast In th by VHF paging where the Uniden would proba in the civil air band with FM broadcast si 500 has the same number of filters as the overload problems in the 108 174 range The sensitivity chart is mostly single sam had access to four units There is some va production history of tens of thousands of better than average and a few that are muc in the perceived sensitivity of the radios reports about performance You can get ag might perform from measurements and schema using the radio in your environment to dec GRE made Radio Shack model HI more than Uniden radios and clearly it is for the PRO92 93 95 97 2055 and 96 all nd run through a single broadband front end o filters 108 136 and 136 174 FM broadcast RE radio because the wide front end filter Uniden filter cuts off at 136 and does a e civil air band the GRE radio might be affect bly be immune Both brands will have trouble nce it uses adjacent frequencies If the PSR PRO 96 and the others it will have the same ple measurements except for the PRO 97 where I riation among different samples and over a units there are probably a few that are much h worse The RF environment plays a huge role All these factors give rise to conflicting
12. the offending message This is to address apparent drops in CC rate if when bad messages are detected Purged erroneous messages were not dumped previously The purged but otherwise good messages will have a P suffix the bad messages will have an Err suffix P25 9600 Please load DSP version 1 3 which has a similar change to the above to benefit the analysis of these systems When DSP version 1 3 is loaded the PC IF will dump the P25 error messages with a suffix of CRC Error 1 5 This is the user loadable version of the Factory 1 5 CPU firmware Will display as uP Appl Ver U1 5 after loading and is identical to the factory F1 5 load Please use with DSP version 1 2 or higher otherwise some features may not operate properly New features Per FCC approval changed 700 MHz frequency tunable range to 764000000 MHz 805996875 MHz all on 3 125 kHz steps Changed 700 MHz ranges in Public Safety Search and Sweeper to 764000000 MHz 766996875 MHz 769000000 MHz 775996875 MHz 794000000 MHz 796996875 MHz 799000000 MHz 805996875 MHz all on 3 125 kHz steps Added connect tone display to M36 analyze mode alternating with other data QQ SID xxxx Syy Added OmniLink 6 char site name to M36 Analyze mode alternating with other data QQ SID xxxx Syy Added RadioIDAlert item to FUNC GLOB menu If set then we ll show the private TGRP s
13. 34uV 0 31uV 0 43uV 0 27uV 144 00000 0 28uV 0 33uV 0 32uV 0 35uV 0 28uV 0 29uV 0 27uV 0 35uV 0 43uV 0 25uV 155 00000 0 28uV O0 31uV 0 33uV 0 34uV 0 28uV 0 28uV 0 30uV 0 29uV 0 42uV 0 25uV 170 00000 0 31 1uV 0 33uV 0 33uV 0 37uV 0 32uV 0 33uV 0 30uV 0 34uV 0 46uV 0 25uV 250 00000 0 87uV 0 61uV 0 48uV 0 49uV 0 32uV 0 27uV 0 40uV 0 28uV 300 00000 5 50uV 0 78uV 0 54uV 0 57uV 0 35uV 0 32uV 0 55uV 0 26uV 350 00000 2 20uV 0 85uV 0 51uV 0 70uV 0 33uV 0 34uV 0 24uV 0 33uV 410 00000 0 40uv 0 27uV 0 29uV 0 50uV 0 37uV 0 53uV 0 35uV 0 23uV 0 25uV 0 32uV 460 00000 0 42uv 0 29uV 0 32uV 0 53uV 0 40uV 0 39uV 0 39uV 0 23uV 0 26uV 0 32uV 500 00000 0 60uV 0 27uV 0 30uV 0 71uV 0 55uV 0 60uV 0 39uV 0 24uV 0 32uV 0 31uV 765 00000 2 10uV 0 37uV 0 47uV 0 39uV 855 00000 0 48uV 0 36uV 0 38uV 0 29uV 0 59uV 0 44uV 0 44uV 0 41uV 1 20uV 0 29uV 935 00000 0 49uV 0 38uV 0 40uV 0 43uV 0 44uV 0 44uV 0 57uV 0 43uV 1 40uV 0 32uV PRO97 column is an average of four units PSR 500 S meter Settings 470 540 610 680 750 The radio does not accept a setting above 750 The table below lists the minimum signal in microvolts needed to turn on a given S meter bar Bars 46 08 155 475 159 435 452 600 460 700 853 4875 1 0 3 0 5 0 5 0 8 0 9 0 4 2 0 4 0 8 0 8 1 4 135 0 7 3 0 7 1 3 1 4 2 3 2 5 1 1 4 TI 2 3 2 4 32579 4 4 1539 5 Biel 4 2 4 3 Ta2 8 0 3 4 Fluke 6060B Signal Generator Wavetek A151 20dB Attenuator DC 2000 MHz Pomona 2249 C 36 RG 58 cable Belden 8262 3 feet lon
14. C IF protocol STX C lt bitmap gt ETX lt sum gt lt bitmap gt bit 0 CCDump on 1 off 0 bit 1 DSPDump on 1 off 0 These settings are temporary They re not written to the EEPROM Glob area A power cycle will revert to the EEPROM Glob settings Fixes Enhancements Fixed CCDump output for EDACS message pairs for 3rd party software compatibility Improved reliability of the NAC display within the TSYS Analyze mode Changed P25 TSYS Analyze LCD display to increase readability against publicly available system data HHH Hex DDD Decimal From Sys HHH RHH SHH To Sy HHH RDDD SDDD 1 4 This is the user loadable version of the Factory 1 4 CPU firmware Will display as uP Appl Ver U1 4 after loading and is identical to the factory F1 4 load Please use with DSP version 1 2 or higher otherwise some features may not operate properly New features Added power up password option to the FUNCT GLOB menu Press PGM F3 GLOB and Func Down to go to the new item If enabled a non 0000 password entered the password must be entered at power up before the scanner will respond The password can only be cleared by a 0 1 initialization The password is not transferred over the PC IF port so it is not clone able or set read by a PC program The password is alpha numeric so there are many possibilities for its use One can make the password a variable numb
15. MultiSite STAT and ROAM trunking systems with large control channel lists Corrected an issue where in certain programming configurations custom P25 trunking table information from one system could corrupt the stored values for another system Fixed channel selection menus in channel based search objects Fixed CTCSS DCS menu items malfunction when F3 is pressed Fixed Sweeper lockup when moving from All Bands to Public Safety with certain combinations of enabled groups Changed default EndtoneMot value from 250 to 80 The value 80 is used to correct squelch tails at the end of voice transmissions on narrowband EDACS systems Corrected minor discrepancies in Motorola 3600 trunking 800 MHz default and splinter tables Improved AM unmute delay to prevent audio pops when squelch opens on AM transmissions Uses current PGM FUNC GLOB SweepAMDelay parameter 150 mS Minor corrections to help text for SweepAMDelay and SweepFMDelay Fixed MultiSite Stat mode problem if active CC is the first one in the TSYS control channel list it was never checked Changed GLOB menu s default scan list item to allow entries up to 22 for Fav Scan List 21 and SkyWarn Scan List 22 changed all areas of radio operation that allow a numerical scanlist value to be specified to allow values up to 22 allows Fav and SkyWarn to be specified as valid Scan Lists in addition to the normal Scan Lists 01 20
16. PSR 500 Operating Hints The Object Oriented User Interface Why doesn t my PSR 500 600 stop in the current Scan List when I press the MAN button after the Scanner stops on an active Object You may have noticed that when you are scanning and the scanner stops on an active Scannable Object and you press MAN to hold the scanner on the object the Scanlist and Object ID displayed in the upper left hand corner of the LCD display show a Scan List number that is not what you believe to be th Current Scan List or the Scan List Object ID display shows a Scan List that you do not currently have enabled H his is probably one of the more difficult things to explain about object oriented scanning The very short answer is as follows Once the radio begins scanning it really doesn t know what the current Scan List is A more detailed explanation is as follows In traditional bank channel scanner designs the scanner processes each bank of channels individually and in sequence until all enabled banks are scanned then the process repeats If you want a channel to appear in more than one bank for example an important channel that you want to monitor regardless of which banks you have enabled or disabled you must make a separate copy of it for each bank that you want it in and it will be scanned multiple times in each scanning cycle if it is stored in more than one enabled bank Your PSR 500 600 does not work like
17. Pollnt Interval to poll for CSQ value 100 CTCSS DCS NAC HD5 Fade CSQ fade delay 2000 CTCSS DCS NAC HD2 Qualify CSQ end detect threshold 75 CTCSS DCS NAC HD2 Holdoff CSQ post end wait time 500 P25 Trunking 96CC HD2 TO 9600CC SQ to HD2 timeout 30 P25 Trunking 96VC SQ TO 9600VC RF SQ timeout 50 P25 Trunking 96VC XF TO 9600VC SQ to XF timeout 100 x HD2 qual time to unmute P25 Trunking HD2 Qual DG 96cc 100 z Delay before we start Motorola Trunking SubaudDelay subaudible decade 150 Motorola Trunking M36 ET Patt Mota600 Eridtong 16pit 2B2B pattern to detect Motorola Trunking EndtoneMot HAG panei Oly HeOUSe 80 analog end EDACS Trunking EndtoneEDAcS Of gt baud bits to trig 4800CC 49 analog end EDACS Trunking EDACS UnMute EDACS unmute delay 18 EDACS Trunking EDACS ET HO EDACS post end tone holdoff 35 R R Show CC Chan while Misc Setting Trunking Ch showing vo Off Misc Setting Show RadiolD Show RadiolD group calls No if available on line 4 Misc Setting RadiolDAlert U Facil is al Sells No showing tag on line 4 z Allow 5 kHz steps between Misc Setting 138 174 5kHz 138 and 174 MHz No Misc Setting CCDump Dump CC msgs to PC IF No Misc Setting DSPDump Dump CPUS SDS msgs to No PC IF Abbreviations CC Control Channel CSQ Carrier Squelch DG Digital ET End Tone HD2 in DG P25 CC detect in CTCSS DCS reverse burst turn off code detect HD5 CTCSS DCS NAC detect HW Hardware SQ Squelch VC Voice Channel WX Weather F IMBE d
18. RP information Once the radio starts scanning scan list membership is irrelevant for TGRPs The scanner builds a list of things to scan based on enabled scan lists and each object s scan list membership Priority does transcend scan lists as long as the objects flagged as priority belonged to at least one enabled scan list when you hit the SCAN key or as long as you subsequently enable the objects scan list s while scanning In SCAN mode unless you re PAUSEd on an object any priority flagged object in any enabled scan list can override the current object as long as the current object itself is not flagged as priority I have a PSR 600 and I am using Win 500 software to program the scanner I noticed that the program lets me select multiple priority channels How many priority channels can I have Any conventional channel or talkgroup object can be set for priority so the limit is how many of those objects you have programmed and in what order do they go to the priority channel They re all peers with equal priority Does one priority channel have priority over another No An object flagged as priority will never be interrupted by any other priority object How does it know which one to go to Once per lt priority check interval gt and only if no priority object is currently active the scanner checks up to lt priority channels to check gt conventional channels flagged as priority
19. an list tag alternating on line 3 along with the CONV tag The Scan List displayed will be MAN and PGM modes the current scan list SCAN mode the lowest numbered enabled scan list to which the CONV object belongs The Scan List will not displayed while scanning FAV or SKY or when those two scan lists are shown in MAN and PGM modes Fixed occasional SW Scan List indication displayed to the left of the object number when pressing MAN KKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK KK DSP Update Details 0 2 Fix V Folder numbering error on U0 1 otherwise identical to UO 1 0 3 Slight improvement over U0 2 especially on very weak signals 1 1 This is the loadable version of the Factory 1 1 DSP firmware Will display as U1 1 after loading and is identical to the factory F1l 1 load This is identical to the beta version U0 3 which provides improvement in Project 25 decoding on most systems over the factory F1 0 firmware 1 2 This is the user loadable version of the Factory 1 2 DSP firmware Will display as DSP App Ver U1 2 after loading and is identical to the factory F1 2 load Please use with CPU version 1 2 or higher otherwise some features may not operate properly Improves P25 control channel message processing particularly on non 800 MHz systems Fixed control channel message processin
20. anging CCs PC IF remote control presents the radio s speaker mute stat within more real time 0 2 Fixed FUNC key problem in V Scanner mode sometimes gave an error beep Fixed Disappearing FrLO softkey in TUNE mode Fixed Cancel WX alerts when any WX mode exit key including WX key is pressed Fixed SAME event area matching when 000000 area codes are received Fixed Allowed values in GLOB help text Fixed Default scan list Improved Whil Dflt ScanList item to match the correct GLOB item to allow 0 no scan list le on a CONV object in MAN pressing MAN again now resets the tuned object to allow a new mode detect DG FM SQ Search etc Improved channel and CC freq Whil le the ShowCCInfo GLOB setting is enabled Removed control CC index quality display from TGRP MAN display Within P25 M36 modes while showing TGRP and the voice channel VC show the CC index slot blinking alternating useful within multi site areas with the VC frequency understanding which CC the radio used to trunk to the VC This is an aid to This is especially ror Fixed WX mode would occasionally unintended increment to the next freq 1 2 This is factory the user loadable version of the Factory 1 2 CPU firmware Will display as uP Appl Ver U1 2 after loading and is identical to the WELZ Woad
21. e Scan List number indicates that the object is mapped to that Scan List Default Scanlist When programming an object select the scan list using the menu or the default scan list one will be used To return an object to your selected scanlist set the default the scanlist to the number you want To return an object to the default during EDIT or NEW press Dflt Dupe function To repeat commonly used object attributes use the Dup function Object access To go to an object press MAN or PGM and the object number then press E to go to the object Force Analog If you have a CONV object that you know is analog You can set the object to tone search to force it as analog Force Digital If you have a CONV object or trunked that you know is digital you can force it as digital by forcing it to search for P25 NAC Flex Step Super Expert Setting Menu PGM FUNC F3 GLOB Scroll down to flexStep and Rt Arrow it to On Fl Save FlexStep allows entry of frequencies that are a multiple of 1250 Hz except in the civil air band 108 136 where the step size is fixed at 8 333 kHz Audio Boost Expert menu AudioBoost On or OFF Applies a 6 dB boost to audio levels when the object is active EDACS expert settings control how the scanner behaves after it has already recognized a call grant message EndtoneEDACS while on a voice frequency qualifying time in bits for the endtone to i
22. e amout of time for one of your priority talkgroups to appear or b a second tuner receiver that is looking at the control channel s of the trunked system s whose talkgroup s you want to set as priority Here s how the PSR 500 600 handles priority for CONV and TGRP objects 1 Currently monitoring a non priority CONV object periodically tune to any priority CONV objects to check for activity This can be pretty fast without too much of gap in the non priority object s received audio It can slow down noticably with much larger gaps in the audio if the priority CONV objects are opening squelch but not matching any CTCSS DCS NAC values programmed 2 Currently monitoring a non priority TGRP object a if the TGRP Pri Int option is turned ON periodically tune to any priority CONV objects to check for activity This can lead to some gaps in the TGRP s audio since returning to it requires a re check of the control channel in case the TGRP is either no longer active or on a different voice frequency It can also have the squelch related gaps in 1 b during breaks in the TGRP s conversation where the scanner returns to the control channel to look for continued activity on that TGRP if any priority TGRP activity is seen monitor it instead c on some trunked systems e g Mot 3600 if the system is programmed for it and LTR for some talkgroups look at low speed data on the voice frequency checking for any priority TG
23. e the radio If you find yourself confused or stuck about the basics of Object Oriented Scanning it may be helpful to review this list again The OOUI memory organization is nothing more than a large list of Scannable Objects A Scannable Object is simply something that can be scanned including conventional channels trunking talkgroups limit searches servic searches and Spectrum Sweeper setups In OOUI scanning there are no systems banks groups sub groups or ID lists There is simply a very large collection of objects each with their own attributes Scannable Objects all exist at the same level or hierarchy within the scanner no single type of Scannable Object is more important than another and Scannable Objects do not have dependencies on or links to other Scannable Objects in order for them to function properly The primary method of grouping the collection of objects is by mapping them to Scan Lists Mapping a Scannable Object to one or more Scan Lists does not change the physical location of the object in the memory system Even when an object is mapped to one or more Scan Lists the object itself has not moved nor changed from what it is a simple standalone object that is part of a larger collection Operating Tips Activate Deactivate Scan Lists Sets membership in Scan Lists Use left and right keys to scroll through Scan Lists Use SEL key to toggle Scan List membership A next to th
24. er of key presses For example to require a keypress of 12 when the radio is powered on set the password to 2000 Another example is to require 2122 press on power on set the password to ABOO Set the password back to 0000 to disable this feature Moved private call radio IDs to line 4 alternating between source and target Line 2 now shows VC CC info like in group calls P25 IDs follow hex dec convention like Mot and EDACS The radio IDs will override softkey text e g TGL O TSYS Stor but the softkeys are still active Added Show RadioID option in SE GLOB If enabled shows radio ID where available during voice calls The RadioID will be shown on line 4 of the LCD in place of the any softkey text that might normally be there e g TGL O TSYS or Stor but the softkeys are still active Radio IDs will be displayed as HEX if the TGID Format GLOB item is set to HEX otherwise they will be shown as a decimal value Note the radio won t prefix Motorola IDs with 7 Additionally if there is a Private Call TGRP object in the current TSYS for the received Radio ID that object s alpha tag will be displayed instead of RadioID xxxxxxxx RadioID information is only available for Project25 EDACS and Motorola 3600 bps CC Type II systems Additionally the ID is only available if the radio trunks to the VC based on a call grant message as opposed to an update
25. etect ZM Zeromatic 1 to 1000 tunes 1 200 x1 ms 1 200 x1 ms 0 99 x10 ms 1 100 x10 ms 1 128 5 250 x100 ms 7 250 x10 ms 0 600 x1 sec 30 999 x1 sec 1 100 x1 ms 1 100 x1 ms 1 100 x1 ms 1 300 x1 ms 1 300 x1 ms 1 20 0 9999 tunes Off On OFF RSSI ZM DSP 1 750 1 1023 1 1023 0 1000 x1 ms 10 2000 x1 ms 10 1000 x1 ms 10 10000 x1 ms 1 1000 x1 ms 10 1000 x1 ms 10 250 x10 ms 10 250 x10 ms 10 250 x10 ms 10 250 x10 ms 0 65535 x1 ms 0x0000 0xFFFF 0 250 0 250 0 100 x10 ms 0 100 x10 ms Off On No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes Max cached tunes In band SQ Timeout Out of band SQ Timeout RF SQ Fade Timeout Digital detect timeout Noise threshold Check interval 1050Hz qualifier Alarm timeout Listen time Wide SQ timeout Narrow SQ timeout 2 Narrow SQ timeout 1 AM unmute delay FM unmute delay Special lockout limit SRCH tunes in SCAN Enable FlexStep TUNE mode display RSSI Bar Thresholds Battery Settings Zeromatic Thresholds ZM Check delay Search Interval Query Interval Fade Timeout End detect qualify Delay after end CC detect timeout VC RF SQ timeout VC Digital timeout Qualify CC in analyze Subaudible start delay Endtone pattern Endtone threshold Endtone threshold GCG unmute delay Endtone holdoff Show trunked chan w VC Show Radio IDs for group calls Use RadiolD Alert Allow 5kHz steps 138 174
26. ething that can assign Object IDs to any object If I want to monitor my local trunked system City of Santa Clara CA an analog only Mot 3600 system and have control over whether I m monitoring a everything b just police c just fire d police and fire etc but only use Scan List 01 for everything here s what I d do Create three TSYS objects They re all identical Their object IDs are 0010 0011 and 0012 TSYS 0010 will have all of the interesting talkgroups except police and fire TSYS 0011 will have police only TSYS 0012 will have fire only Add TGRP objects to each TSYS according to the filtering in 2 By my convention the TGRP objects are in scan list 01 This is the tens place of the three TSYS object IDs If I was putting the TGRPs in scan list 02 the TSYS object IDs would be 0020 0021 and 0022 My convention limits me to the first 10 scan lists Normally I d be scanning all three TSYS objects leaving the TSYSs not locked out and enabling scan list 01 If something interesting happens on the Fire talkgroups I might want to ignore all of the talkgroups in the everything 0010 and police 0011 TSYS objects Via a few key presses I can lock out all of those TGRPs by locking out the TSYS objects MAN 1 0 ENT L OUT 1 1 ENT L OUT SCAN I ve just locked out TSYS 0010 everything and TSYS 0011 police and am only scanning the Fire talkgroups
27. g 0 6dB 900 MHz Audio isolated detector circuit Fluke 8050A meter DC scale dB function The prevailing myth is that GRE radios are more sensitive therefore overload more easily No data is ever offered to support this opinion just scattered anecdotal reports in uncontrolled environments When judging sensitivity blanket statements are not useful as there are variations for each band among the radios At VHF LO and the civil air band all the radios are about qual except the BC780 which is worse than the others On the VHF HI band there is a spread of sensitivity values with the BCD996 best and the BC780 worst my PSR500 was less sensitive than most other radios on VHF HI On the Mil Air band the 2096 is by far the worst since it wasn t really designed to cover that band Among the other radios the PSR 500 is worst in this band At UHF frequencies the PSR 500 is also the worst and in general GRE radios are not as sensitive as Unidens at UHF At 800 MHz The PSR 500 and BCD996 are the most sensitive and the BC780 is the worst Scanner sensitivity is greatly affected by the front end filters and it appears that GRE did some tinkering in the PSR 500 becaus the sensitivity varies from the GRE Radio Shack models measured In particular they made the 800 MHz band hot while some other bands were less sensitive than the typical GRE radios have tended to overload on VHF not because of sensitivity The schematics
28. g issue that on certain systems resulted in missed talkgroup calls Fixed control channel message processing issue that on certain systems resulted in an abnormally low control channel quality display even in areas with strong signals Please note that if you use the TSYS Multi Site Roam mode on a system where the CC displayed low quality values you may need to modify the Threshold Hi and Threshold Lo settings to higher values for the Roam feature to properly work Fixed issue of not being able to properly use NACs starting with 3 or with an 03 in the last two digits 1 3 This is the user loadable version of the Factory 1 3 DSP firmware Will display as DSP App Ver U1 3 after loading and is identical to the factory F1 3 load Please use with CPU version 1 2 or higher otherwise some features may not operate properly On P25 9600bps Control Channels will dump multi packets to the PC IF port while CCDump is enabled This is to add further support for 3rd party trunking analysis PC software for P25 systems This new feature will have slightly increased reliability when used with CPU version 1 4 firmware or above Otherwise this version is identical to DSP version 1 2 Everyone can upgrade to version 1 3 even if external trunking analysis software is never used
29. ged radio ID display for private TGRP objects so that they can be displayed in decimal The format will follow the TGID Format item in the GLOB menu IDs will be shown in HEX only if that menu item is set to HEX otherwise they re displayed in decimal Fixes Enhancements Fixed bug in Mot 3600 CC handling which will facilitate faster and more reliable trunking for these systems TUNE mode don t do trunking analysis if RxMode AM Changed max HD5 Fade value in menu to 10000 TSYS Menu removed invalid T Tables settings from P25 splinter and MOT VHF UHF default and splinter Added ability to handle mixed mode frequencies where we previously would stick on DG if we ever saw DG until a new tuning operation Now it will be able to switch between FM DG FM automatically Trunking added priority TGRP checks at start of each trunking pass to enhance priority operation Stops after earlier of a priority TGRP found b 200 mS delay expires c first TGID seen again or d two scan markers seen This doesn t wait for new priority TGRPs to go active it makes us look for priority TGRPs that are already active since it s not a rigid time based delay early outs if not a very active system However any that do go active while we re waiting will be picked up Disable DSPDump while V Scanner Load Store or read folder info operations are running T
30. gital voice If I set DG Int Prime too low the scanner pften gives up on waiting for digital on the second system giving me motorboating though the first system s analog voice is very fast My happy medium for the two is 30 corresponding to a 300mS delay while waiting for digital I do get that 300mS delay at the beginning of every new transmission on the analog system but I never get motorboating on the digital system Pause vs Man PAUSE stops on the currently active TGRP object does not perform any MultiSite sequencing in the TSYS If the current CC is lost for some reason the scanner will look through the TSYS s list for a new one You ll also see any alpha tags programmed for detected RadiolIDs MAN stops on the currently active TGRP object performs full MultiSite sequencing in the TSYS Any detected RadioIDs are shown as the raw ID value the scanner won t lookup any alpha tags you may have programmed for those RadiolIDs If you want to pause on and follow a particular talkgroup ID as its users move between sites sites that use different control channel frequencies you want to use the MAN method Priority Unfortunately there s no way to catch priority talkgroups no matter what if you re also scanning conventional channels To do that would require either a the huge audio gaps in the CONV objects in order to go look at the trunked system s control channel and wait some noticabl
31. his is to fix the V Folder error message seen when loading a V Folder that has DSPDump enabled Enhanced the P25 CC message handling code to facilitate the RadioID feature above which has a nice side effect to speed the P25 CC trunking operation In Mot 3600 setting a TSYS Dwell to anything other than the default of 0O setting 0 use an internal auto time will also make the scanner ignore Scan Markers forcing the selected Dwell time When Dwell 0 two Scan Markers on systems that send them will cause the radio to leave the TSYS immediately even if the internal auto time has not yet expired Previously Scan Markers would have this sam ffect even if the user had selected non zero Dwell time for the TSYS Fixed menu entry of private call TGRP IDs now just a number whose format defaults to the TGID Format setting When switching a TGRP object between Group and Private the ID menu item s type is toggled between Talkgroup and either Hex or Dec depending on TGID Format setting Within the Hex and Dec settings of course the user is free to toggle between the two formats for data entry Other The following enhances the ability of PC based trunking analysis applications to better track the overall trunking system s state Mot 3600 when purging CC message queue when demod errors are detected dump the purged messages to PC IF Also dump
32. ilver colored screw near the BNC antenna connector Do not over tighten it and apply a drop of Super G scanner and enjoy GRE is aware of this problem If it falls out it can cause To gain access to the screw remov ly remove the rear cover and locate a lue or other glu Re assemble th Rebanding for 800 MHz Motorola 3600 bps trunked systems Here is the custom table to program ChLO 440 000 720 815 958 961 This is meant to support systems whether they ar ChHI 559 719 7159 831 958 1022 Step 25 25y 29 25 25 25 000 000 000 000 000 000 Offset Base 440 851 0 851 0 848 0 846 958 868 0 843 025000 012500 000000 625000 975000 400000 in the process of transitioning from 866MHz freqs or have already switched over and only use 850MHz frequencies To simplify programming if your system has rebanded and does NOT use any frequencies above 862MHz you only need to program the two ranges below ChLO ChHI Step 440 000 YOU MUST PUT THE 559 719 25 000 440 25 3 000 Offset Base 851 0 851 440 ROW FIRST OR IT WILL NOT WORK PROP 025000 012500 takes priority over a lower row ERLY A higher row PSR 500 Expert Settings PGM FUNC F3 GLOB Press FUNC SEL to see menu help text Setti g Type Menu Name Menu Help Text Default Values 500 Name PSREdit Name Desc iptio Notes A Max tunes before complete General Tuning Max
33. is setting is used to show the trunking channel number on the display If enabled shows radio ID for P25 EDACS and Mot type II where available during voice calls Added in firmware 1 4 If set then we ll show the private TGRP s alert when showing a group call showing the private TGRP s tag on line for the radio ID private TGRP s LED Color is non zero the default off or new menu item enabled Added in firmware 15 If turned on 5 kHz steps are used in ALL modes Added in firmware 1 5 Enable the Control Channel Dump feature Enable the DSP Dump feature The chart below compares the GRE made PRO 2096 PRO 97 PRO 2055 and PSR 500 to the Uniden PRO 83 BC246T BC780XLT BC796D BCD396T and BC996T This is a bench test for raw sensitivity and does not test overload desense etc A single signal is applied to the scanner and the squelch control is set at minimum T 20 dB Quieting Test All Channels NFM Mode except PRO 83 and PRO 2096 FM mode Frequency PRO 2096 PRO 83 BC246T PSR500 PRO97 PRO2055 BCD396 BC796D BC780XLT BCD996 030 00000 0 3 1uV 0 32uV 0 28uV 0 28uV 0 33uV 0 27uV 0 33uV 0 34uV 0 44uV 0 32uV 040 00000 0 26uV 0 29uV 0 30uV 0 24uV 0 24uV 0 24uV 0 30uV 0 25uV 0 45uV 0 31uV 050 00000 0 26uV 0 29uV 0 29uV 0 24uV 0 26uV 0 25uV 0 31uV 0 25uV 0 43uV 0 29uV 125 000000 0 30uV 0 38uV 0 35uV 0 29uV 0 29uV 0 30uV 0 34uV 0 50uV 0 27uV 135 00000 0 31luV 0 36uV 0 31uV 0 28uV 0 28uV 0
34. k on Customize the Zeromatic tune threshold values for 5kHz ranges and non 5kHz ranges entrance low value and high value exit low value and high value Length of time to wait for a CTCSS DCS NAC signal in auto carrier squelch search The interval of time to check for a CTCSS DCS NAC signal Length of time to wait after losing a CTCSS DCS NAC signal Max value changed from 2500 to 10000 in firmware 1 4 Length of time to check to detect an end of signal turn off code command Length of time to mute a signal after an end of signal turn off code command Length of time to wait for P25 control channel detection timeout Length of time to wait for P25 voice channel RF squelch timeout Length of time to wait for P25 voice channel digital IMBE timeout Length of time to check for a P25 control channel before unmuting in Analyze Length of time to wait to check for Motorola subaudible data to decode The Motorola 3600 End Tone 16 bit pattern to detect an end of signal command The Motorola 3600 End Tone number of bits required to mute at end of signal Default changed from 250 to 80 in firmware 1 2 The number of bits of the 4800 Hz end tone to detect before muting the audio and returning to the control channel The default of 10 is 1 04 milliseconds plus microprocessor polling time which can be up to two milliseconds Length of time to wait before unumuting an EDACS trunking signal Length of time to wait after an EDACS end of signal command Th
35. ndicate end of transmission EDACS UnMute after tuning to a voice frequency a delay before unmuting audio EDACS ET HO after returning to the CC from a voice frequency how long to ignore any calls on the same voice frequency Delete Alpha Characters during entry Func CL will delete all the characters in a line Use the decimal key to delete a character and make a blank space Heap Error 21871F 218E is often caused by having one or more TGRP objects that aren t assigned to any TSYS Either delete those TGRP objects or assign them to a TSY S Battery Settings Change the battery setting in the Global menu Alkaline NiCad or NiMIH to set the proper battery warning levels for the battery type you are using Quick Menu Move Func Up or Down will move to the top or bottom of a menu Go directly to a newly saved conventional object Press MAN right after pressing Stor in the search you ll be taken right to the CONV object you just stored Object Search If you press manual you can then scroll through the scanlist the default save to is scanlist 1 with the up down arrows You can also use the Find feature press Program Edit Find enter a alpha text or frequency And you can find it by object type by pressing Program Edit press left or right key to select the object type such as CONV the up down arrow to select the conventional object Signal Strength Me
36. nt to check the strongest Presuming there are 32 or fewer control channels for all the desired towers in one TSYS Create one TSYS with all the control channels Set the TSYS to Multi Site ROAM Enter the desired TGRPs for that TSYS and only enter each TGRP once Assign each TGRP to one or more scan lists depending on how you want to turn groups of TGRPs on off me WN EF EDACS Narrow For some systems the control channel data may need to be inverted Once the EDACS narrow system is created arrow down to the Expert Below section until you see Invert Data No arrow right or left to display Yes press Save F1 to save changes Show RadioID added in CPU firmware 1 4 in SE GLOB If enabled shows radio ID where available during voice calls Organizing Scan Lists In various threads it s been mentioned that the PSR 500 s 20 Scan Lists might be somewhat limited based on users preferences for subdividing groups of talkgroups in trunking systems Sometimes comparisons are made to some brand U radios that have systems and quickkeys that essentially let you create complex hierarchies of things to be scanned I don t own such a radio so my terminology may be off I think I ve come up with a potential workaround for the PSR s apparent limitation here It makes use of the fact that you can lock out a trunking system TSYS object It does require some kind of PC software som
37. steps between 138 MHz and 174 MHz These ar nabled with a new menu item in FUNC GLOB If not turned on use the normal steps If turned on 5 kHz steps are used in ALL modes CONV objects created in one mode will tune based on the active mode that is if you create a CONV object 138 005 MHz with the featur nabled the radio will tune to 138 000 MHz if the the feature is not enabled although 138 005 will be displayed Changed default receive mode for 138 MHz to 144 MHz to AM if the new 5 kHz feature is disabled in the FUNC GLOB menu default Changed default rx mode for 138 MHz to 144 MHz to FM if the new 5 kHz feature is enabled in the FUNC GLOB menu 1 6 This is the user loadable version of the Factory 1 6 CPU firmware which will display as uP Appl Ver U1 6 after loading and is identical to the factory uP Appl Ver F1 6 firmware Please use with DSP version 1 2 or higher otherwise some features may not operate properly New features Allow Temporary Lock Out TLO to also apply to TSYS objects per customer requests Fixes Enhancements Change 3600CC CT display from 76 60 to 76 76 and improve Mot3600 CT display decode Improve 3600CC OmniLink site name decod Improve the reliability of the LTR trunking decode analysis display within Tune mode P25 Analyze Improve the reliability of the NAC decode When displaying a CONV object show the sc
38. ter Settings Settings of 470 540 610 680 750 provide a wider range indication of signal strength than the default settings To change the settings press PGM FUNC F3 GLOB and scroll through the menu to RSSI Sig Cal Press SEL and edit the entries for each RSSI Bar 1 5 DG Dg means that a digital transmission is being received DG means that the digital AGC is on for that object being monitored Dg means that the digital AGC is off for the object being monitored PGM FUNC GLOB DG Int Prime or Digital Detect Timeout in Win500 controls how long the scanner waits to automatically detect digital P25 CAI transmissions when the type of transmission isn t known expected ahead of time This is in three cases 1 MOT trunking systems can be either analog or P25 CAI 2 CONV objects where Sq Mode is set to Search 3 The various searching modes TUNE SWPR SRCH A P25 TSYS isn t affected as all voice transmissions must be P25 CAI EDACS and LTR systems aren t affected as they must be analog A CONV object whose squelch mode is set to P25 CTCSS or DCS isn t affected as those settings imply the voice type For example here I listen to several CONV channels where I know the voice type I set each one s Sq Mode to force either analog or digital So my CONV channels aren t affected by the DG Int Prime setting However I also listen to two MOT trunked systems one is all analog the other is all di
39. this It does not process Scan Lists sequentially when scanning Rather it uses Scan Lists to organize your Scannable Objects into logical groups of your choosing We call this mapping objects to Scan Lists Scan Lists make it easy for you to find your objects and make it easy for you to enable and disable groups of objects when scanning The objects aren t really stored in Scan Lists Rather they are members of one or more Scan Lists that you have identified in the Scan List mapping for each individual object Once scanning begins the radio doesn t know what Scan List s an object is a member of It just knows that an object it is scanning is mapped to one or more enabled Scan Lists and is not locked out In this way it is possible to have objects that are mapped to multiple Scan Lists without having separate and independent copies of an object for each Scan List that you want it to appear in making memory usage much more efficient and making scanning more effective since the same object is not checked multiple times during a single scan cycle It is important to remember that when you press MAN while scanning to stop the radio on an active Scannable Object the radio always displays the lowest n a umber Scan List that the object is a member of You may then use the left nd right arrow keys to navigate to another Scan List if desired We suggest that you keep the following OOUI Tenets in mind as you us
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