I question the need for GPS at all if they sit in one place. If the desk they sit on is mobile you might be better served by connecting them all to a computer via USB and having one GPS receiver for the computer. You can then update the scanners via the “location update” command with whatever coordinates your computer has received from the GPS unit. This seems like a better idea than 14 different GPS receivers.
GPS should come embedded but I think it's receivers have to be in direct view of Geo-stationary sats but how do phones work?
You can use GPS with a base sds200 setup but it is only gonna max out your basic zip-code and a little farther anyways.
If you punch in your zip-code without GPS it I believe it concentrates and makes the manual 1-50mile reception tune-able.
I might have misunderstood this.
With my BC885 it seems to work that way.
I use it mobile of course but as a base I can get trunking from 70 to 80 mile away sitting in my living room and all I have is a wilson cb antenna w/bnc hanging on the side of my house.
My only problem is it seems I hear half the conversations/audio sometimes because all bands(?) are walking on each other.
On the highway everything seems more divided up I guess of less concentrated transmissions.
This will be great with the sds200 to be able to zero in on a conversation and hear only that and even record it.
