SDS 200 Complete Signal Loss until power cycled

[jm32935]

Just received my SDS 200 and after a few hours of scanning, complete loss of signal. Checked external antenna with another scanner so it's not the culprit.

If I cycle the power, signal comes back.

Not sure if anyone else is experiencing this phenomenon

 

[jonwienke]

No signal bars or RSSI indicator?

 

[K8EAA]

If it's still scanning normally with no signal indication, I had the same problem and it turned out to be a corrupt SD card. Format and clear "user data" then reload you FLs again

 

[nessnet]

I have had a 200 scanning away and out of the blue, get the nothing to scan error....
Checking the FLs - they were enabled properly.

Has happened twice - 1st time a power cycle did it.
The other, an SD re-load was needed

 

[rsgorman]

My SD200 did this yesterday. When I turned it on, it scanned as usual but had no signal. I turned it off and on, signal came back. I've had the scanner for about the year and this is the first time it did this.

 

[jonwienke]

This may or may not fix the problem, but I would try a new SD card. Card problems can cause all kinds of weird non-intuitive glitches and malfunctions. I use Sandisk high endurance cards, and have never had the problem. (fingers crossed)

 

[jm32935]

Turns out I did not set the clock and for some reason it would shut down the receive capabilities.

I have reset the clock and so far so good on scanning and reception.

 

[Ubbe]

It could be that it tried to do a recording and the time and date must then be in a proper format. So if you had never set the time it might have contained some illegal data that couldn't be used in a filename, and the software in the scanner got lost as it probably doesn't have any error trap for that kind of a fault.

/Ubbe

 

[K8EAA]

That's one for the old notebook.

 

[rcool101]

Got my 200 about 4 months ago. Loaded my Favorites in and got no signal bars or RSSI indicator. But I had audio and was receiving local system. Just no indicators. My 536 is 2 feet away and showing 5 bars. Finally about a week later started messing with the filters. Turned filter off. Bam... 5 bars and mid 80s RSSI. Hasn't missed a beat since. I can change filters now and still OK