NWI_Scanner_Guy
SCANNING THE AIRWAVES SINCE 1987
Even though I live in Indiana, I work the night shift in Lansing, so I have site 102 programmed into both my 436HP and now my new SDS100 as well. I enjoy listening to the ISP as well as the Pace dispatchers and drivers. Some of those dispatchers are a hoot. LOL!!
Anyways, I thought my 436HP was doing a good job of picking up the different talkgroups I had programmed into a favorites list, along with picking up some "unknowns" while in ID Search mode, but over the past two nights I have found out how poorly the 436 was performing.
I got my SDS100 last Thursday while on vacation, so even though I copied the 436 programming to the SDS100 about 5 minutes after it was out of the box, I didn't turn on the Starcom favorites list until I took it to work with me when I went back this past Monday night. Immediately, I could tell something was up. I was seeing TG descriptions pop up on the screen that I hadn't seen before. The reception was better, and I was seeing a few "new" unknown TG's pop up as well. I noticed the same thing last night while at work, so tonight when I go in, I'm going to take both with me and do some side-by-side comparisons to see just how much better the SDS100 will do on site 102 versus my 436HP.
I did a side-by-side comparison between the two on the Lake County (IN) simulcast system I had some difficulty receiving with the 436, and was blown away by how much better the SDS100 handled the system. While I don't think the differences will be as dramatic with Starcom, based on what I've heard the past two nights, the SDS100 should hear things I suspect the 436 will not.
Anyways, I thought my 436HP was doing a good job of picking up the different talkgroups I had programmed into a favorites list, along with picking up some "unknowns" while in ID Search mode, but over the past two nights I have found out how poorly the 436 was performing.
I got my SDS100 last Thursday while on vacation, so even though I copied the 436 programming to the SDS100 about 5 minutes after it was out of the box, I didn't turn on the Starcom favorites list until I took it to work with me when I went back this past Monday night. Immediately, I could tell something was up. I was seeing TG descriptions pop up on the screen that I hadn't seen before. The reception was better, and I was seeing a few "new" unknown TG's pop up as well. I noticed the same thing last night while at work, so tonight when I go in, I'm going to take both with me and do some side-by-side comparisons to see just how much better the SDS100 will do on site 102 versus my 436HP.
I did a side-by-side comparison between the two on the Lake County (IN) simulcast system I had some difficulty receiving with the 436, and was blown away by how much better the SDS100 handled the system. While I don't think the differences will be as dramatic with Starcom, based on what I've heard the past two nights, the SDS100 should hear things I suspect the 436 will not.