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Just thought I would share, I bought a second SDS200 on Thursday afternoon from Bearcat Warehouse. Some difficulties with having my expiration date on my card accepted and three different employees were helpful, Melissa did it manually over the phone.
Free shipping, it arrived on Saturday morning. I'm very familiar with the radio as I maintained four of them at my job before I retired and I have one of my own already. They all had noticeable hums.
So it took me minutes to hook up to Sentinel and fully program it from my ready profile. It has the latest firmware update 1.10. 08... I'm sure the 08 is just some kind of housekeeping, Maybe a minor adjustment or spelling correction.
My serial number indicates that it is the 1,089th unit made in Vietnam in the year 2020.
The unit does not have a hum as the other five that I have unboxed did. I was pleased with this. With an external speaker plugged in the back of the unit in a very quiet room if I put my ear up against the speaker and push I can barely make out the noise that used to be heard from across the room on other units with the mitigation device installed. I'm sure many of you have heard it on various videos. I recognized it but really had to push the speaker against my ear and listen very carefully if I wanted to hear it, as soon as I removed the speaker from my ear it was gone, nothing, no sound coming out of the speaker. I would call that no hum.
I also noticed that the keypad was well-lit, this is the first time I've seen that. The left side vertical numbers are dimmer just like they are on the SDS 100s but the display is clearly lit well and can be seen in the dark just like the 100. Everything else tech-wise seems to be working fine.
I have 30 days to return it for a refund if I need to.
I have no idea how many they have left, just thought I would share the experience and the changes I noticed.
Free shipping, it arrived on Saturday morning. I'm very familiar with the radio as I maintained four of them at my job before I retired and I have one of my own already. They all had noticeable hums.
So it took me minutes to hook up to Sentinel and fully program it from my ready profile. It has the latest firmware update 1.10. 08... I'm sure the 08 is just some kind of housekeeping, Maybe a minor adjustment or spelling correction.
My serial number indicates that it is the 1,089th unit made in Vietnam in the year 2020.
The unit does not have a hum as the other five that I have unboxed did. I was pleased with this. With an external speaker plugged in the back of the unit in a very quiet room if I put my ear up against the speaker and push I can barely make out the noise that used to be heard from across the room on other units with the mitigation device installed. I'm sure many of you have heard it on various videos. I recognized it but really had to push the speaker against my ear and listen very carefully if I wanted to hear it, as soon as I removed the speaker from my ear it was gone, nothing, no sound coming out of the speaker. I would call that no hum.
I also noticed that the keypad was well-lit, this is the first time I've seen that. The left side vertical numbers are dimmer just like they are on the SDS 100s but the display is clearly lit well and can be seen in the dark just like the 100. Everything else tech-wise seems to be working fine.
I have 30 days to return it for a refund if I need to.
I have no idea how many they have left, just thought I would share the experience and the changes I noticed.