Am curious if anyone has a new Uniden SDS100 and to hear how it is performing in our NC environment.
PM sent.Am curious if anyone has a new Uniden SDS100 and to hear how it is performing in our NC environment.
Some reason why you don’t want to share experience on the forum? I’m thinking about getting one too and would like to know others experiences.PM sent.
Marshall KE4ZNR
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Anytime I get near a cell tower of an 800MHz carrier it wipes out anything else on 800MHz on my BCD436HP. Does the SDS100 still have this problem?
Some reason why you don’t want to share experience on the forum? I’m thinking about getting one too and would like to know others experiences.
When someone makes the GPS cable available I’ll use it in my travels across the state and see how it performs on VIPER and other local systems. I’ve tried to order cables from two vendors and both responded mid-July at least before back in stock [emoji849]
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The SDS100 cable is an additional $20. My turnaround is less than a week.
I bought the SDS100 specifically for Rowan simulcast system. The fact that I can use it for everything else I need made it the preferred choice over Unication units. It is performing wonderfully for Rowan and I am experiencing no simulcast issues. I live about a mile from one of the towers. I am getting good performance on Charlotte system as well.
When someone makes the GPS cable available I’ll use it in my travels across the state and see how it performs on VIPER and other local systems. I’ve tried to order cables from two vendors and both responded mid-July at least before back in stock [emoji849]
Bill the signal should be very strong for you from the tower over at Station 82. I'm not close enough to that tower to receive the signal strong enough to avoid distortion from the Al's Knob site. My 436 would garble on about 30% of the time. When I purchased the Unication G5, I've had no trouble. The Unication's reception is just as good as my XTS5000 radio with a stubby antenna. If I lived as close to one of the towers as you do, I wouldn't have had the LSM problem on my 436 that I do. I understand that the SDS models are capable of limiting LSM like the Unication G5's but I like the size and portability of the G5.
Rowan's system is really good but I have to give credit to Al Linker on the performance of the Iredell leg of UASI too. While I receive full signal all the time on the Rowan system, I'm only one bar away from full signal on the Mooresville tower. From where you are, you may be receiving it a full signal as well.
Now if I could only find a good market for my older systems to help me fund acquisition of the SDS100
One difference I see with the extra data being displayed over and above what you see on a 436 is that you can now see the radio stepping through the list of site frequencies one after the other and not finding a control channel most of the time.
In my case, an improvement on this home non-simulcast scenario would be my number 1 priority (since that's where I do most of my monitoring) with improved simulcast coming in a close second - scenario 1 not looking good but it's early.
Even with the external antenna attached (using the "release" firmware still), I see alot of times where the G5 is talking but when I look at the SDS, if it is stopped on the talkgroup, there is no audio.