Software: Win32 Trunk88 v4.88 out

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matthewn1983
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Software: Win32 Trunk88 v4.88 out

Post by matthewn1983 » Sun Feb 19, 2012 2:53 pm

New version of Trunk88 out, no need for disc. tap apparently, paste of the changelog is below..
http://home.ica.net/~phoenix/wap/TRUNK8 ... 8-488D.zip

Win32 TRUNK88 Change Log
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4.88


- Feature Changes:

- This is the first version of TRUNK88 to use the
BitBooster adaptive signal processor. As a signal degrades,
BitBooster uses more CPU resources to recover the digital datastream.

BitBooster processing is capable of recovering 100% of the
control channel data from many radios' headphone jacks -
no discriminator tap required. See the instructions in the
New User Quick Start section of the ReadMe.txt file for more details.


- By request, the Ctrl-D stats summary display now reports how long
TRUNK88 has been monitoring the current system/site.


- When TRUNK88 detects a new RF channel, talkgroup or radio ID on a
system, the "<TRUNK88 x.xx>" program name text at the top of the
screen will flash continuously. This is to alert you to the fact
that something new was seen, which you may have missed if TRUNK88 was
running unattended.

The new Shift-Ctrl-D extended stats summary display will list all of
the new items (e.g. the actual channels, talkgroups and radio IDs
that were seen)

Pressing Shift-Ctrl-D also stops the flashing of the program name text.

If any more new items are seen, the program name text will begin
flashing again and the new items will be added to the extended stats
summary display.

To clear all new items from the extended stats display, you must first
view them (by pressing Shift-Ctrl-D) and then perform an Autosave
operation (e.g. just do a quick Autosave 0)



- Parameter Changes:

- Invert Tuned Comms

By request, additional modes have been added:

[ Invert Tuned Comms ]
When a voice receiver is tuned to an active channel, TRUNK88 displays a
flashing '>' symbol in the channel status column (normally, this is the
column to the left of the Talkgroup Name field). A similar character
can be displayed beside the Radio Name field. These symbols don't
provide much of a visual clue to which voice communication you're hearing.

If Invert Tuned Comms is set to 1, the foreground and background colors
of the Talkgroup Name field are reversed on the channel that the voice
scanner is tuned to.

If Invert Tuned Comms is set to 2, the Radio Name field is reversed instead.

If Invert Tuned Comms is set to 3, both fields are reversed.

Set Invert Tuned Comms to zero to disable this feature.



- New Parameters:

- Show Voice Receiver In Title Bar

Added by request.

[ Show Voice Receiver In Title Bar ]
When this option is enabled, if TRUNK88 is controlling a voice receiver,
extra data is displayed in the program's title bar.

Valid values for Show Voice Receiver In Title Bar are:

O:Display no data
1:Display serial port number
2:Display voice receiver model number
3:Display both values


- CC Audio Noise Level and Distortion Level indicators

Note: these four parameters replace the Clip and LFR indicators

[ "NL:" ]
These parameters control the screen location and foreground (text)
color of the "NL:" control channel noise level display title text.
Set Width to 3 to display the entire string.
Set Width to zero to suppress the display of this field.

[ Noise Level ]
These parameters control the screen location and foreground (text)
color of the control channel noise level display. The noise level
display can be used to fine tune your RX antenna location and orientation.
The display updates every half second to facilitate quick adjustments.
Ideal signals have single digit noise levels.

Note: If the signal source is filtered (headphone) audio, the displayed
noise level will always be fairly low, as most of the noise is removed
before TRUNK88 can see it.

Set Width to 2 to display this field.
Set Width to zero to suppress the display of this field.

[ "DL:" ]
These parameters control the screen location and foreground (text)
color of the "DL:" control channel distortion level display title text.
Set Width to 3 to display the entire string.
Set Width to zero to suppress the display of this field.

[ Distortion Level ]
These parameters control the screen location and foreground (text)
color of the control channel distortion level display. The distortion
level display can be used to evaluate the quality of your control channel
audio source as well as the interface between it and your PC. A strong
local signal feeding a high quality discriminator tap that is properly
impedance matched to your PC's sound hardware will have distortion levels
close to 1O. Poor interfaces that attenuate low frequencies will bring the
distortion level up to about 2O. Filtered (headphone) audio distortion
levels are usually around 25-55. Very high distortion levels will cause
decoding failures.

Set Width to 2 to display this field.
Set Width to zero to suppress the display of this field.


- Unknown OSW Alert

Added by request.

[ Unknown OSW Alert ]
These parameters control the alert tone that TRUNK88 generates when an
unrecognized command sequence is broadcast on the outbound control channel.

Frequency units are Hz; Period units are milliseconds; Typical range for
Volume is 1 to 1OO. Set Volume to zero to disable this alert.

If a PCM .wav file named "Unknown OSW Alert.wav" is present in the
TRUNK88 folder, TRUNK88 will play that file whenever an unrecognized
command sequence is seen.

You can press Ctrl-V (vocalize) while editing an alert's parameters
to test the alert.

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