New Beta 2023 08 09

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A new beta is available

downloads/MD9600/Firmware/6a67f604d1c24 ... 3c377e1c9d
downloads/MD9600/Firmware/Latest

Changes in this version.

• New GPS direction and speed etc screen (F1RMB)
• Turkish language update.
• Beep instead of voice prompt when GPS had fix, when voice prompts are not enabled (F1RMB)
• Tx Frequency offset function in the Channel details screen, By pressing Left / Right button on the Tx frequency (F1RMB)
• UV380 rotary control debouncing (F1RMB)
• Improve GPS NMEA data decoding (F1RMB)
• Various other GPS screen fixes (F1RMB)
• Improve Voice prompts on GPS screen (F1RMB)
• Fix MD-9600 scanning problems. Rotary control restarts scan on paused channel, Up arrow sets currently paused channel as nuisance (F1RMB)
• Remove space characters from font data to save program memory space (F1RMB)
• Fix sunrise and sunset calculations, for use with the Day / Night theme (F1RMB)
• Fixes to Auto Night functionality (F1RMB)
• Fix –W+ power setting on Satellite screen (F1RMB)
• Automatically update realtime clock from GPS (F1RMB)
• Fix PIN code display when no theme is available (F1RMB)
• FM APRS Tx. Quick press SK1 while transmitting on FM - see also the new CPS (VK3KYY)
For details of the FM APRS functionality, see viewtopic.php?f=5&t=3120

We will update the User Guide with these new features soon.


IMPORTANT

Anyone with any existing Emergency System data in the APRS section , needs to delete that data, otherwise the APRS Tx will not work.

Thanks to Daniel F1RMB for all his work on this release and also thanks to Colin G4EML for answering my technical questions about the C6000 chip

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Note.
I just found a problem with the APRS SSID. The bug is actually in the CPS not the firmware

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New Beta viewtopic.php?f=18&t=3166