Yeah, I'm with ya on that. I'll consider one used in a few years and after a generation or two go by. Until then? My SDS100 and SDS200 are suiting me perfectly.
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Comments like this puzzle me. Even if the radio can decrypt, like a Unication G5 for example, it’s still useless unless you know the hexadecimal key value. In my region, we have shared public safety encryption keys, but they get transferred from Key Variable Loader (KVL) to another KVL via cable transfer. While the Common Key Reference (CKR) number is known, nobody actually sees the key string, and you can’t read its actual value from the KVL. Besides the fact that the agency doesn’t know the key value, even if they did, they’d never share it with anyone. It’d get them fired and maybe arrested.
Maybe I am missing some nuance, but if they’re encrypted, they’re gone.
We've seen a couple videos from Mr. Houk on this. He compared reception of a weather channel between the 100 & 150, with a noticeable improvement in reception on the 150.
Originally, when the SDS series were introduced, there was no need for TETRA and dPMR, outside of the EU and Australia, and even then, TETRA wasn't part of the plan. Now, with several TETRA systems in use, it's become desirable. Still no official word about its implementation, but the matter of dPMR is different: the code is in the firmware, as it's already available in overseas models of the SDS series, but the licensing hasn't been approved yet for North American models, yet, even though thanks to the flood of cheap Chinese radios, and tourists from Europe bringing in their radios, dPMR can be heard here, especially by some hams. It's because of this, that I believe there's a good enough reason to work on licensing the dPMR keys in the US & Canada, now.
Whether either or both get implemented, remains to be seen.