Invisibleflash
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I thought about buying a SDS100. But it is an older model and was wondering if Uniden has any plans to replace it with an upgraded model.
Any idea if Uniden if coming out with an upgraded portable to replace the SDS100?
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I'm actually not a betting man, thank God, but if I had to put money on it, just being around a long time and seeing the trend.. if you're talking about a scanner like the SDS series but more advanced with expanded capabilities.. I would bet against it.
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Uniden scanner sales are shrinking, for obvious r"E"asons.... why would they bring a new model into a shrinking mark"E"t???
There has been nothing officially announced. FYI, there's a Uniden representative on here, Joe Bearcat is his handle.
My opinion- the waterfall option was added not long ago, so the SDS models have been updated recently, so I doubt they're planning on releasing anything new soon. They probably would have saved that for the new model to help sales along if they had something in the pipe
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Yeppers, they don't call them "police scanners" anymore.
Also the team leader, unidens product manager at the time of the SDS 100 introduction in May of 2018 passed away unfortunately in late December 2019.
I honestly don't know if they have the capabilities to make the radio that you would be referring to.
The SDS Series Scanners have not been maxed out yet why would they replace it.
What do you want to receive that you cannot receive with the SDS Scanners?
Yes you can say TETRA but it is said there are not enough TETRA Systems in use to make it worth while.
What do you want to receive that you cannot receive with the SDS Scanners?
Yes you can say TETRA but it is said there are not enough TETRA Systems in use to make it worth while.
Waffle-making capabilities of x36hp?
Does that mean that Whistler Wendy is Papa John's cousin? Whistler Wendy is the orignal Wendy from Wendys. Wendy and Dave had a falling out and she was picked up by Whistler.
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He did indeed.
Besides the waffle maker, the new model should have the ability to add butter and your choice of syrup.
Same thing was said years ago and new models have been released.
Good because they are not Police Scanners anymore and really never have were technically.
There was also less encryption years ago.
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I think I'm getting too old.. before there were scanners and we used tunables we always called them Police radios, fire had their own equipment for fire calls. When Crystal control scanners came out, they were called police scanners and when you could only have four channels and you needed crystals, police is what you bought first to listen to on your police scanner. Maybe a couple fire crystals and of course the state police.
I was making a pun directly related to the fact that we really can't call them police scanners anymore because not being able to hear the police being so widespread now.
A little levity here in what is otherwise not a good situation.
I truly believe that if scanner sales are down it may have to do with the fact that customers, after finding out that the radios don't pick up the police, choose not to buy them. It also might be the reasoning of a scanner company not creating new more advanced, expensive radios with all of the cost and R&D but anyway..
I listen to a wide range of things on the scanner since I don't have the police to listen to anymore.
If Uniden doesn't make a scanner more advanced and capable than the SDS series I can imagine that lack of police reception might play a factor, don't know what's in the minds of Uniden.😉
I was making a pun directly related to the fact that we really can't call them police scanners anymore because not being able to hear the police being so widespread now.
A little levity here in what is otherwise not a good situation.
I truly believe that if scanner sales are down it may have to do with the fact that customers, after finding out that the radios don't pick up the police, choose not to buy them. It also might be the reasoning of a scanner company not creating new more advanced, expensive radios with all of the cost and R&D but anyway..
I listen to a wide range of things on the scanner since I don't have the police to listen to anymore.
If Uniden doesn't make a scanner more advanced and capable than the SDS series I can imagine that lack of police reception might play a factor, don't know what's in the minds of Uniden.😉
What did they say when you asked them?
I suspect that the availability of online feeds, such as those on Broadcastify, siphon some of the more ‘casual’ listeners who, in the past, might have tended to purchase a scanner for their own interests.
As UPMan noted at various times, Uniden normally has one or more projects in development for new models. While there may be some potential new modes and features that could be introduced either as upgrades to the SDS series, or new models, would the additional features attract enough interest to justify the development costs.
It's not just scanners that are down in sales, all radios in general are down, largely because of this thing called "online streaming", you mighta heard of it.........
There are currently NO scanners capable of trunktracking TETRA, but individual frequencies used, both analogue and digital, can be listened to, excluding encrypted, of course....
Uniden's DMA models (SDS, x36HP sets) do have the code embedded in firmware for dPMR, but not the licensing for use in North America. A shame too, as there has been a number of European/Asian radios imported (ie: cheaply dumped) over here that use dPMR, often illegally.
D*Star and C4FM have both been in decline lately, in the ham world, with the ready adoption of P25 and DMR, with some additional NDXN, taking over.
So, other than dPMR and some ability to trunktrack TETRA, there really isn't much needed to be added to any new scanners, at this time, so the SDS units are quite literally the best and most feature filled of any scanner out there. (And you know encryption is never going to be officially supported!)
(Glad I live in a state where most non-federal public safety services are prohibited from going encrypted by law.....)
There are currently NO scanners capable of trunktracking TETRA, but individual frequencies used, both analogue and digital, can be listened to, excluding encrypted, of course....
Uniden's DMA models (SDS, x36HP sets) do have the code embedded in firmware for dPMR, but not the licensing for use in North America. A shame too, as there has been a number of European/Asian radios imported (ie: cheaply dumped) over here that use dPMR, often illegally.
D*Star and C4FM have both been in decline lately, in the ham world, with the ready adoption of P25 and DMR, with some additional NDXN, taking over.
So, other than dPMR and some ability to trunktrack TETRA, there really isn't much needed to be added to any new scanners, at this time, so the SDS units are quite literally the best and most feature filled of any scanner out there. (And you know encryption is never going to be officially supported!)
(Glad I live in a state where most non-federal public safety services are prohibited from going encrypted by law.....)
