SDS100/SDS200: **SAFETY ALERT** SDS100 battery severely swelled

[phask]

The Uniden BCD325P will do everything a SDS100 will do . Without battery problems .
If your scanning is either searching or scanning pre programmed frequencies .
Problem is both the BCD325P and SDS100 are prohibitively complex to program by hand . I attempted using the software and laptop . Managed to figure out how to search and hard grand success logging frequencies.
As to programming frequencies into channels , banks of what ever . Total failure and much frustration.
The battery on my SDS100 bloated on its own while the radio was sitting abandoned on the shelf 3 years ago . Sent it to service and to their credit they did repair the radio’s lack of sensitivity and they replaced the battery . The battery has been fault free for the past 2-1/2 years

Not even remotely true.

One major issue, on large statewide trunked systems, you very quickly hit the limits on systems, etc.

On Ohio MARCS, for instance, you must create multiple systems whereas with an SDS, you can do it with 1.

Using location is doable but a real pita when programming.

I use mine for very localized, limited scanning just around town, or something specific like rail or airshows.

 

[buddrousa]

Just a HATER THAT DOES NOT KNOW BETTER.

 

[VE3THO]

Not even remotely true.

One major issue, on large statewide trunked systems, you very quickly hit the limits on systems, etc.

On Ohio MARCS, for instance, you must create multiple systems whereas with an SDS, you can do it with 1.

Using location is doable but a real pita when programming.

I use mine for very localized, limited scanning just around town, or something specific like rail or airshows.

Well , I should have qualified the remark . Around here there is no trunking that can be received . . Just P25 and the three other modulation methods that I paid for both on the DCD325P and the SDS100.