GRE PSR-500/600 – Another great firmware update

As has been very typical of GRE thus far, they have released yet another firmware update that has fixed a few small bugs as well as added a few new features.

Read the full news entry for the update here:   http://www.greamerica.com/support/index.php?_m=news&_a=viewnews&newsid=12

Judging by the discussion on RadioReference , the new features were very well received by users (including msyelf).   The most noteworthy new feature is the ability of the scanner to display the Radio IDs of radios transmitting on P25, Motorola, and EDACS trunked systems.    The scanner will not display the radio ID of the radio 100% of the time on certain systems, depending on how the systems are set up.   This isn’t a limitation in the scanner.   You can alpha tag the radio IDs as well.   For instance, if you know that Podunk PD Car 5 has the radio ID of 5805, then you can add a private call object mapped to that radio ID and tag it so that when that radio transmits it shows Podunk PD Car 5.

Another new feature is the ability to set a power-up password.   This allows the scanner to not function upon power-up until the user enters a password.

GRE has also changed the way certain items are displayed on the display at certain times.

Click here to download the firmware from the GRE Website (both CPU 1.4 and DSP 1.3 firmware is available).

I kept this short purposefully.   Everything that you need to know is available on the GRE website as well as in various threads on RadioReference.   In every way GRE is a top notch company, first by producing a top notch scanner and then by supporting/updating features on it.    The more I own my PSR-500, the happier I am.