SDS100/SDS200: New SDS Firmware (2023)

[pinballwiz86]

The waterfall feature is a GREAT WAY to wear out your selection knob on the scanner. You have to turn the knob to tune the
scanner over to the waterfall line of interest. Click-click-click-click-click dozens of times.

If you hit the function button and then scroll the wheel, it flies across the bandwidth in much fewer clicks. Saving wear and tear.

Edit--I see @bearcat already said that. Carry on! lol.

 

[fxdscon]

If you hit the function button and then scroll the wheel, it flies across the bandwidth in much fewer clicks. Saving wear and tear.

Edit--I see @bearcat already said that. Carry on! lol.

And.... if you have scrolled a ways off of the center frequency that you started with and want to get right back to it, hit "menu" twice and it will instantly snap back to the original center frequency. (If you're using the default "position adjustable" setting for the marker).

 

[Pocket1965]

Would be nice if Uniden had sorted the non US issued credit card issue after all these years.

I'm an Australian user (early adopter of the units) of US market scanners and still can't make a bloody purchase through my.uniden.com due to the above issue. Rather frustrating.

I'm an Aussie user and Purchased upgrade from Bearcat Warehouse they are the answer

Uniden website refused transaction but I used it to get checksum etc
Scan Master refused transaction


However Bearcat Warehouse accepted transaction
With my Us Postal Address from my us.com account and phone number needed
and my Australian address as card validation Paid Visa
I have used bearcat Warehouse for all upgrades on my SDS Scanners with no problems
activation code took 12 hours or so and was all digital via email

I used my Aussie Visa to pay
you need a VPN set to a US server
You need a US address I use "MyUs.com" for my postal address

Cheers Rod

 

[VicradioZone]

Interesting Rod. I've dealt with Scanner Master successfully several times and did so this time also in order to get my Waterfall key purchase completed. I did consider Bearcat Warehouse but becuase I'd successfully dealt with Scanner Master before did so again.

Either way it, it is still a cumbersome approach overseas users of US produciton models have to navigate through unforunately.

 

[Russell]

I am very happy with these upgrades. I am hearing more and better audio from the myriad of systems in Dallas. Fantastic!!!

 

[xusmarine1979]

Listening to Ohio's MARCS for Stark and Summit County's simulcast systems while going back and forth for work, I hear a drastic improvement.

I'm not sure on signal, but definitely an improvement on decoding. Before the audio would become quite garbled on weaker signals, but I swear it stays perfectly clear pretty much up until I totally lose the signal.

MARCS is pretty much all I listen to, but since these two systems are simulcast I do travel with the attenuator on and use a UHF stubby antenna from Smileys, since some of our local VFD's are still on UHF.

No complaints here!

 

[dave3825]

Software Defined Radio. But what does THAT mean?
It means you have an expensive transceiver that is being controlled by software that is running on a pc or a laptop
or dongle.

Expensive transceiver? Generally, sdr is inexpensive, and does not transmit. There are things like Hack RF that transmit but still are less expensive than even the sds100. Maybe if one had an SDRlab 122-16, that goes for 700 bucks, then that could be considered expensive.

 

[Thomaspj2]

That was it, DOH! Thanks!

I am having same checksum issue. The correct numbers have been entered numerous times. Same warning. Any further ideas? All firmware updates onboard.
Thanks

 

[fxdscon]

I am having same checksum issue. The correct numbers have been entered numerous times. Same warning. Any further ideas? All firmware updates onboard.
Thanks

If you're filling out the info on the form shown below to purchase an upgrade, be sure you're using the 14 digit Electronic Serial Number (ESN), and not the 12 digit Serial Number (SN). The first 5 digits of the ESN are already entered for you just above the blank space, so just enter the last 9 digits of the ESN in the blank space. Enter the 3 digits of the check sum on the next blank space.

If that doesn't work, be sure the model number and SN (serial number) were entered correctly when you registered your scanner.

 

[Thomaspj2]

Problem solved. I'm embarrassed to say operator error. My old eyes saw an 8 when it was a B in the 3 digit sum. Was not expecting a letter. Thanks