SDS100/SDS200: RE: sds200 signal bars come and go every couple seconds

[ddivine01]

I was searching for the reason this was happening on my scanner a few days ago, and stumbled onto this thread from 2019 and in that thread it was determined that this was "Normal" behavior for the SDS200.

I ended up doing a reset of user setting, which then screwed up a local repeater I had added as a quick save when I first got the SDS200, I often listen to the local nets on that repeater, and it didn't do this "Housekeeping" stuff and drop large amounts of the traffic while I was on channel hold.

Well just now I managed to get the freq saved again as a quick save, and it is INDEED holding on channel hold and NOT missing traffic during the net.

I do not know what setting I had screwed up to make it start doing "Housekeeping" and blinking the signal strength bars and missing traffic, but it does NOT normally miss traffic just as a matter of course while on channel hold.

Rant over!!!

 

[Ubbe]

If you have priority, even DND, set to any function it will override the hold and will go and scan those prio channels at something like each 2 sec.

/Ubbe

 

[ddivine01]

Ubbe,
That's what it seemed like, but I've never intentionally set any priority channels, and when it happened, I specifically looked and made sure the priority was turned off.
What do you mean by DND, I don't think I had that on either unless by accident.
I'm actually a VERY simplistic user, took it outta the box, set location zip code and let it go to work, with the addition of the one local 2 meter repeater as a manual entry quick save.
But I do occasionally get lost in the complexity of its capabilities, and undoubtedly did something by accident, that what is so frustrating about it, not knowing what to undo
Thanks

 

[Whiskey3JMC]

What do you mean by DND, I don't think I had that on either unless by accident.

Welcome to the RR forums:
DND = Do Not Disturb

Priority DND - The scanner checks conventional priority channels only when not receiving other conventional channels.