SDS100/SDS200: Is the SDS100 being discontinued?

[MStep]

Those considering the SDS100 should not hold off because of rumors of impending new radios. While its age may be nearing the 4 year mark, the thing one must consider is that if and when Uniden introduces new radios, would you really want to be the first to jump on the bandwagon, given Uniden's problematic history with getting things right the first time around with new product launches?

By this time, the SDS100 (and 200) are pretty much "tried and true" devices. There will always be something new "on the horizon". But of course, the horizon is nothing the you can really ever reach.

 

[CorwinScansNM]

I was texting Joe today, he said new scanner info coming soon!

I will believe it when I see it. Jokingly, LOL!!

In fact, I just recently purchased the SDS200 finally after all of the Years that it has been out for myself as a 2021 Christmas Present to help monitor & listen to my P25 Phase II Statewide DTRS. It however, still needs lots of improvements & bug fixes with hopeful, upcoming & future Firmware Updates which is really hard to believe in or picture for the SDS line of Uniden Scanners as for there has been no Firmware Updates for them since, (4/15/2019). We are now in 2022 with no sign or rumors of any Firmware Updates for the SDS Models & now, possibly another Uniden Scanner Model coming out it sounds like?

Please JoeBearcat at Uniden, do not just abandon & stop Firmware Updates, Improvements and Support on the SDS line of Uniden Scanners & then bring to Market another new Model of Uniden Scanner when you have not even begun to solve or make the well needed & necessary improvements that the Uniden SDS line of Scanners need & that your Customers of them have been patiently waiting for with no word or sign of for almost 2 Years now...

 

[Fireincarnate1]

The SDS-1000 is designed for extreme combat, driven by a plasma reactor...
It's CPU is a neural net processor...

Its arsenal includes...

...nanotechnological transjectors
Advanced prototype, it can control other machines...

It has to be a terminator 3 reference.

 

[garys]

If it has a waffle maker, I'm in!

I keep telling people Uniden will soon replace the SDS with a new multi-band mulit-protocol radio based off the Harris Falcon III series. And of course if you actually believe that, well...

 

[buddrousa]

If you stand outside and say it is going to rain today at some time you are going to be right. You know who cried the sky is falling all the time right.

 

[sonm10]

This thread and all the ones like it crack me up

 

[MStep]

This thread and all the ones like it crack me up

As I mentioned in another thread, part of the fun of this hobby is to speculate on what may or may not be coming. Especially for old-timers like myself, who have seen so many products come and go.

 

[APX7500X2]

JoeBearcat mentioned that a new device where going to be released in a couple of months. Not a scanner but some other device, perhaps a remote frontpanel or bandscope display. Uniden focus on getting revenue from selling scanners so they work on firmware changes to be able to use new chips to replace obsolete ones in current scanners. Also new scanners are probably planned to be released after this summer. After that initial work on firmware have been done will it be time for bug fixes and adding new features to the current scanner lineup.

/Ubbe

Now if they did a remote head for the SDS200 the size of the TRX-2 remote head I would buy 10 of them

 

[Wnqk784]

Well maybe they will come out with one that will work as good my pro 96 does if could handle simulcast like the SDS it would beat it hands down

 

[garys]

I think that not designing in a remote head option was the only real design flaw in the SDS200. Given the lack of room in all but the largest vehicles the size probably costs Uniden a measurable number of sales.

Now if they did a remote head for the SDS200 the size of the TRX-2 remote head I would buy 10 of them

 

[hey]

If they have a Firmware update hopefully it’s one that if you put in the encryption key code.

 

[buddrousa]

Never happen in a HOBBY RECEIVER

 

[APX7500X2]

If they have a Firmware update hopefully it’s one that if you put in the encryption key code.

The Unication pager lets you do that IF you have the code Big IF

 

[buddrousa]

The Unication Pager is a Commercial Pager designed to be sold to Fire and EMS on P25 Trunking Systems that just happens to be acquired by Hobbiest.

 

[garys]

If you are authorized to have the encryption key. Much bigger IF.

The Unication pager lets you do that IF you have the code Big IF

 

[CanesFan95]

Rumors really don't matter anyways, cause even if a new scanner comes out, you still gotta wait a good 2-3 years before all the bugs'll be worked out.

 

[icemantim8]

I can absolutely confirm that the Uniden SDS100 has been discontinued. And it will continue to be discontinued for the next couple of years. Thankfully I purchased the last 2 available in person or online

 

[doctordialtone]

I can absolutely confirm that the Uniden SDS100 has been discontinued. And it will continue to be discontinued for the next couple of years. Thankfully I purchased the last 2 available in person or online

Prove it.

 

[wxman2003]

I can absolutely confirm that the Uniden SDS100 has been discontinued. And it will continue to be discontinued for the next couple of years. Thankfully I purchased the last 2 available in person or online

Oh oh, I found several new ones online via some vendors. They told me you got the last 2 demo units with no internals.

 

[spikestabber]

Rumors really don't matter anyways, cause even if a new scanner comes out, you still gotta wait a good 2-3 years before all the bugs'll be worked out.

Who would want to buy one after that fiasco, get a new radio with flashy features then boom, no more updates for years, discontinued. There was a ton of new features they could have added to the SDS series had they kept a model where people could pay for updates. This is sick.