BCD436HP/BCD536HP: Going to buy soon

[Jimco]

A couple of months ago Upman was in town for a trade show. He and I got together one evening to do a real life comparison between the SDS100 and my 436 on our local simulcast system, which can be challenging.

I was very impressed by how much better the SDS100 performs. It didn't have nearly the simulcast distortion and it was receiving at distances farther than I expected it to.

Interesting. Does this mean that the SDS100 still had simulcast distortion, but it just wasn't as bad?

 

[UPMan]

1) Commercial radios have simulcast issues under some conditions. No one can claim 100% free from simulcast decode issues.

2) Sample being used was an engineering sample with a few known issues that prevented it from performing as well as final production design units.

3) Even with 1/2, above, decode quality was significantly better than BCD436HP and nearly as good as the duty radio.

I am expecting final production to come very close to commercial radio decode quality under most conditions.