Greetings to the DMR Groups.
I'll begin with a thank you for all of your reports and
comments regarding your experiences with the CS750 and
CS800. I will also apologize for not posting more often,
but things are very busy at CSI right now.
Good news first then - as some of you have already
noticed, we posted the Data Extraction tool for the CS700
.rdt files, written for us by Tom Wheeler who also created
the Contact Manager software. This tool will extract your
Contacts and Channels information from the .rdt file and
export them into an Excel spreadsheet. Yes, unfortunately
Excel is still required at this time. From there, they can
be imported into the CPS. Due to the nature of
interdependencies in the CPS, we cannot export or import
Zone, Scan, or Receive Group
information. We are aware that this still leaves quite a
bit of additional programming, but the heavy lifting of
large contacts lists and extensive channel information is
handled by the new tool. One more important note - import
your Contacts FIRST and then your Channels, otherwise the
TX groups will not populate correctly.
On to the bugs. Please continue to post any issues that
you find with our radios, even if it is listed below. I
read every post placed here even though I cannot respond
to most of them. We are chasing down some elusive causes
for these problems and you never know who might post that
one small bit of information regarding a setup or
experience that provides a critical clue. This is by no
means a complete list, but these are the priority items
now for both the CS750 and the CS800.
Intermittent TX / RX issues on both time slots
'Motorboating' noise during TX (CS800)
Power level changes via menu not operational (CS800)
DTMF feature not operational
Menu access not available during Digital RX
RSSI intermittent or not representative of actual signal
That is the short 'Hot List', although there are other
reported bugs being worked on and some of the simpler
items may get corrected before some of the more
challenging ones. I am testing radios daily and trying to
provide enough feedback to CoValue to assist in their
diagnosis and tracing of problems. We are hoping for
completed solutions soon, but I do not have any estimates
of when that will be at this time.
Thank you for your patience and faith in our products. We
will get these fixed, and once they are stable we will
devote similar energy into the updates that will provide
more Amateur related features for these radios.
Chris Edwards
Connect Systems Inc.
Is this the most recent update ?
ReplyDeleteIt's getting tiresome listening to all of the comment section experts dog everything and everyone. The truth is that Motorola radios are made in Mexico. Their parts are made in China, Thailand, Malaysia etc just like evry other radio manufacturer today. This figment of Made in the USA is limited to a very few decent protucts that we use in the Hamradio community. Hams like to tell you that you are wrong. Hams like to tell you that you don't know anything. Hams like to tell you that they are better than you and their old outdated analog or secondhand digital equipment is better than yours. So when you are talking to a ham or reading their jibber jabber on these boards just keep all of what I said in mind.
ReplyDelete