FIRMWARE INFORMATION


Current Production Version Levels

Product Code Version Date
DSP-93 TNC 3.2.19 Oct. 24, 1996
HandiPacket PMS 5.0 Sept 17, 1997
HandiPacket APRS 5.0 Sept 17, 1997
HeathKit HK-21 PMS 5.0 Sept 17, 1997
HeathKit HK-21 APRS 5.0 Sept 17, 1997
IPR-NB96 5.0 Sept 17, 1997
MICROPOWER-2 5.0 Sept 17, 1997
PC-320 4.0.1 May 1, 1997
PICO 128K 5.0 Sept 17, 1997
PICO 32K 5.0 Sept 17, 1997
PSK-1T 5.0 Sept 17, 1997
SPIRIT-2 5.0 Sept 17, 1997
PTC-I 2.02 1993
PTC-II Contact S.C.S. www.scs-ptc.com
TINY-2 MK-II 5.0 Sept 17, 1997
TNC-2 Compatible 5.0 Sept 17, 1997
TNC200 5.0 Sept 17, 1997
TNC220 PMS 5.0 Sept 17, 1997
TNC220 APRS 5.0 Sept 17, 1997
TNC320 PMS 5.0 Sept 17, 1997
TNC320 APRS 5.0 Sept 17, 1997
TNC-NB96 5.0 Sept 17, 1997

NOTE: 16K RAM versions of any product are no longer supported !!!.

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Version Level Change History

History is listed in reverse chronological order.

970730 CORRECTED CHECK TIME
970715
ADDED 64K PMS BUFFER TO PICO

VER 5.0.0 July 15,1997

970625 CORRECTED VERSION CMD PROBLEM
970624
CHANGED NUMBER OF CONNECTIONS FOR Z181 PLATFORMS
970620 CORRECTED PICO32 RAM PROBLEM

VER 4.0.2 May 23,1997

970523 CHANGED TO MULTI-FUNCTION "MONITOR" COMMAND
970523 CORRECTED LOC RESET ON LGETCHAR

VER 4.0.1 Apr. 02,1997

970409 FIX L1text CORRUPTION WHEN ASYNC PORT FIFO IS OVER-RUN
970411 CHANGED ELOC TO BE A MULTI FUNCTION COMMAND
970416 ENHANCED PASSWORD DETECTION
970429 CORRECTED INTERACTION BETWEEN LGETCHAR AND ELOC
970501 COMMERCIAL CODE UPDATE

VER 4.0.0 Mar. 03,1997

970311 ADDED FINAL PASSWORD PROTECTION TO REMOTE FEATURE
970314 ADDED GPS SLEEP FUNCTIONS
970319 ADDED DIGI ONCE FUNCTION
970319 ADDED DIGI OWN FUNCTION
970321 CORRECTED CMSGDISC FROM REMOTE CALL
970321 ADDED QRA REQUEST ID RESPONSE

VER 3.2.23 Jan. 11,1997

970203
CORRECTED UMPAD KISS OPERATION
970218 ADDED BASIC PASSWORD PROTECTION TO REMOTE FEATURE
970224 ADDED Z182 PRODUCT SUPPORT
970225 ADDED LRAnge COMMAND FOR THE LOCATION TIMER
970225 ADDED GLOBAL STRING ACCEPT FOR GPS SCANNING
970227 ADDED Beacon Slot timing

VER 3.2.22 Dec. 17,1996

970111
ADDED GPSEXIT COMMAND

VER 3.2.21 Nov. 20,1996

961122
MANY CODE CONSOLIDATIONS TO IMPROVE PERFORMANCE
961215 ADDED REMOTE FUNCTION

VER 3.2.20 Nov. 06,1996

961120
CORRECTED PROBLEM WITH RPTSWAP

VER 3.2.16 Sep. 14,1996
VER 3.2.17 Sep. 15,1996
VER 3.2.18 Sep. 20,1996
VER 3.2.19 Sep. 28,1996

961012
ADDED YDAB TDMA CHECK CODE
961016 ADDED GETChar and LOC to ECONORAM
961016 ADDED YDAB AUX PTT
961017 ADDED YDABDIFF CHECK
961106 CORRECTED PERM_CALL

VER 3.2.14 Aug. 23,1996
VER 3.2.15 Aug. 31,1996

960914
ADDED GPS DIFFERENTIAL
960914 FIXED "NOCALL" WITH CUSTOM EPROMS
960914 FIXED JLOG TIME DISPLAY

VER 3.2.12 Aug. 16,1996

960821
ADDED EBEacon (Echo Beacon)

VER 3.2.10 May. 10,1996
VER 3.2.11 Jun. 12,1996

960614
ADDED CONRPT
960614 ADDED LTEXT TO SIGNON LOG MSG IF CONRPT IS ON
960616 ADDED FIXTYPE
960626 MODIFIED MEM COMMAND
960725 ADDED HARDWARE CLOCK TIME UPDATE (GPS)
960801 ADDED TDMASLOT CODE

VER 3.2.9.3 Feb. 03,1996

960315 ADDED CODE TO TAB FOR SCREEN LENGTH
960317 PUT PERSIST COMMAND BACK FOR KISS ONLY
960317
CHANGED PERSIST AND SLOTTIME VALUES
960320 ADDED UI1 COMMAND
960320 ADDED MINUTECT UI1ADDR, AND UILAST
960402 ADDED LOCATION SLOT COMMANDS
960409 ADDED 1/10 SECOND TO UOSTAMP
960410 CHANGED LOGSIZ TO 18
960410 ADDED 1/10 SECOND POSITION TO LOG
960414 REMOVED LORAN
960418 ADDED LGETCHAR CODE
960430 added code to solve conperm reconnect problem
960507 ADDED ?APRS? BEACON REQUEST

VER 3.2.9.2 Mar. 21,1995

950522
ADDED SLEEP MODE
950525 FIXED FLOW CONTROL FOR Z181
950526 CHANGED HEARD LIST HEADER FOR A-D
950620 ADDED PICOFAST CLOCK DATA
950719 ADDED PICO ASCI 1 BAUD
950805 ADDED MY1-3ALIAS
951014 ADDED MSTAt
951014 ADDED GPSX
951014 ADDED SHORT PACTIME
951016 CORRECTED EXT CLK FOR MULTIPAD
951018 CORRECTED BAUD SET ON SD8530
951024 CORRECTED ESCAPE PROBLEM
951107 ADDED DSP_93
951112 ADDED PASSTHRU
951112 ADDED LOCATION_ECHO
951112 ADDED BEACON ECHO
951116 ADDED LGETCHAR
951127 ADDED DTRDISCO
951128 CORRECTED BAUD TABLE ADDED PICO 300 BAUD
951216 IMPROVE GOOD FIX ROUTINE FOR GPGGA STRING
951222 ADDED DIGI_SWAPP
951229 ADDED UIADDR CHANGE
960114 CORRECTED TNC320 FAILURE
960203 ADDED "PMS" FOR TNC320 LED

VER 3.2.9 Jan. 22,1995

950321
ADDED UILOC COMMAND
950321 ADDED FORCE LOCATION BEACON CODE

VER 3.2.3 Aug. 24,1994

941005
ADDED MYROSE COMMAND
941018 ADDED A COMMAND CPUindex
941105 CORRECTED FULL SCREEN DISPLAY WHEN SILENT IS ON
941122 CHANGED LOG ENTRY SIZE TO 17
941125 ADDED "USER" TO THE JLOG
941128 CORRECTED SCRAMBLED BEACONS PROBLEM
950109 REMOVE PPERSIST COMMANDS

VER 3.2.2c Jul. 14,1994

940822
CHANGE MFILTER CHARACTER RANGE TO "FF" HEX
940823 ADDED MEMORY DISPLAY FOR SPRINT

VER 3.2.2b May. 22,1994

940603
ADDED MONITOR PREFIX CHARACTER COMMAND

VER 3.2.2a Mar. 24,1994

940429
CHANGED PERSIST TO 200
940520 ADDED MEMory COMMAND FOR XMS

VER 3.2 Mar. 15,1994

940416
ADDED COMMANDS LOCation, LPATH, LTEXT FOR GPS
940416 CHANGED GPSTEXT DEFAULT TO $GPGGA
940418 ADDED LOCVAL AND LOCDMY TIMERS
940418 ADD LOCATION BEACON CODE
940419 CHANGED FRACK DEFAULT TO 3

VER 3.1 Mar. 12,1993

930414
CHANGED SIGNON TO REMOVE CHECKSUM
930418 ADDED FIX TO BLINK MSG WAITING ON SR TO PMS CALL
930419 ADDED PacTOR Adapter HARDWARE FEATURES
930420 REMOVED MNONAX25
930420 CHANGED DEFAULTS FOR DWAIT, PACLEN, & FRACK
930719 FIXED ANYONE BEING ABLE TO DELETE ANYONE'S MESSAGES
930719 CHANGED PMS LEVEL TO 3.2
930721 ALLOW PMS TO PRESERVE 8TH BIT FOR GRAPHICS FILES
930722 FIXED FBB SIGN ON PROMPT WITH "OK" DRIVING US NUTS
930806 CHANGED GPSBUF LENGTH FROM 80 to 90 CHARACTERS
931103 ADDED FRev, FNRev, AND PMSDisc COMMANDS
931103 ADDED CODE IN FPMS TO CHECK FOR VALID MYPCALL
931103 ADDED FRev, FNRev, AND PMSDisc COMMANDS
931228 CORRECTED 8TH BIT PROBLEM WITH STEXT AND JLOG
931229 CORRECTED FRev COMMAND TO FREv
931230 CORRECT REVERSE FORWARD PROBLEM
940104 CHANGED FNRev COMMAND TO RFNPms
940104 CHANGED FRev COMMAND TO RFPms
940119 ADDED THE UIBeacon command
940202 corrected KISS open squelch problem
940318 Corrected conflict between BREAK and BRANGE
940318 CORRECTED PAC LENGTH ON LONG PACKETS
940405 FIX EXIT ON GPS TYPE ZERO
940414 CHANGED TYPE 1 TO BE UNIVERSAL AND USE GPSTEXT
940414 ADDED GPSTEXT AND GPSITEXT
940414 CHANGED DEFAULT GPSTYPE TO TYPE 1

VER 1.1.6D8 Jun. 10,1992

920628
ADDED BSLOT AND BESLOT COMMAND
920628 CORRECTED DISPLACEMENT IN GPGGA STRING FOR GPS AVAIL.
920628 ADDED TKILLOK, FOR USERS TO KILL TRAFFIC.
920628 ADDED BSLOT FUNCTION
920712 ADDED MKISS COMMAND
920830 ADDED FULL SCREEN DISPLAY OF COMMANDS
921022 ADDED "RT" READ TEXT COMMAND FOR LOGGER PRODUCT
921027 CORRECTED INTERLOCK LOCKOUT ON FORWARD
921108 ADDED CTXCALL & RMTCALL
930129 ADDED GPRMC STRING
930411 ADD MSGROUTE COMMAND

VER 116D5 Apr. 02,1991

910724
CHANGED 'SR' COMMAND TO FIND TRUE ORIGINATING BBS
910724 MADE LENGTH OF SUBJECT FIELD 64 CHARACTERS
910728 ALLOW $00 SENDPAC TO WORK CORRECTLY FOR RLI BBS
911205 CHANGED DEFAULT FOR FIRMRNR TO YES
920112 ADDED BRange COMMAND TO GPS
920220 ADDED RENUMBER COMMAND TO PMS
920220 REMOVED PERIOD AS END OF MESSAGE INDICATOR
920331 ALLOW "SB" COMMAND FOR PMS
920331 ALLOW RADIO USERS TO ENTER "B" AND "T" MESSAGES
920419 CHANGED LENGTH OF SUBJECT TO 70 CHARACTERS.
920426 ADD AUTOMATIC FORWARD FUNCTION CODE (PFPMS)
920506 ADDED CODE FOR GPS TO NOT PRINT *** MESSAGES

VER 116D4 ???. ??,1990

900109
ADDED TNC320 AUX1 AND AUX2 COMMANDS
900123 INCREASED SIZE OF NODETEXT BUFFER TO 23, FOR 1 FULL DIGI FIELD
900730 Fixed BUDList
910307 Added MTRANS ON/OFF to Monitor while in Transparent
910307 Removed MNONAX25 due to interaction with PIDCHECK cmd
910308 Added DATAMode Y/N for startup to go into CONMODE


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