SDS series feature request

[Ubbe]

If I remember correctly UPMAN was ask about scan speed in the past and if I remember correctly the answer was the digital detection time was the limiting factor.

It's an average of 1,5 sec to complete an evaluation of the digital information. If you set a hold time of 1 sec to a digital system it will still hold for 1,5 sec as that is the minimum time it requires, UPMan said, but it is also a time penalty if the scanner needs to jump large frequency spans that will also impact the scan speed of analog conventional frequencies in an SDS scanner compared to a non-SDR scanner from Uniden, UPMan also stated.

/Ubbe

 

[jperuta]

I would like to see on the go recording for the SD Card, that way if there an event i want to record i can just do it without a computer

 

[jonwienke]

I would like to see on the go recording for the SD Card, that way if there an event i want to record i can just do it without a computer

That feature has been available since the x36 models came out.

 

[rumcajs_tr]

OK, everybody seems to ask for new function while the RF part of the sacanner is bad.
So my first and only rewquest would be - A SOLID FRONT-END - band filters, high dynamic range, high quality ADC, etc. This is what is missing and due to this, peaople mis lot of transmissions, scanner hangs on "ghost frequencies" and transmissions are mixed together.
Current SDS100 front end reminds me a $25 Baofeng's front end which someone tried to fool by sw filters.

 

[StaticDischarge]

OK, everybody seems to ask for new function while the RF part of the sacanner is bad.
So my first and only rewquest would be - A SOLID FRONT-END - band filters, high dynamic range, high quality ADC, etc. This is what is missing and due to this, peaople mis lot of transmissions, scanner hangs on "ghost frequencies" and transmissions are mixed together.
Current SDS100 front end reminds me a $25 Baofeng's front end which someone tried to fool by sw filters.

Maybe the front end could use $2000.00 more in parts to make it closer to lab specs but mine sits on my desk and just like my x-wife it literally does not know how to shut up already! There is sooo much that goes on around me all day every day I could not tell you if it ever really "misses" anything... Heck, if I don't hear at least 10 reports of gunfire, 10 times the fire department says it cannot continue with the investigation because of building collapse, 10 times the police have to respond to an assault and 10 different conversations with the fugitive apprehension teams closing in on someone and on and on and on every single day, then I might get suspicious.. and I have no need to become suspicious... I am more concerned that this thing is simply going to wear out due to over use or end up in a mental institute because of all the crap that goes on in this city!!!! I mean you can only take so much, right???

Yes I do hear what some may say is a "ghost frequency" but come to find out it is usually an officer in a struggle to apprehend a suspect and his mic is being pinned on or it has been broken and he is eventually informed of it and turns his radio off, then there is the one that gets into his car and sits on it...

Come to think of it, yes it does "miss transmissions" but that is the nature of the beast.. As it scans along it comes to an active frequency and stops on an already-in-progress conversation, I will only hear a part of that particular conversation due to the fact that it is a "scanning" receiver and doing it's intended job... On the other hand, if I were to lock it on a particular frequency, I would never miss anything transmitted on that frequency... then the "mixed together" stuff ends up being two or more users keyed up at the same time...
Just statin' the obvious...

By the way, I am very close to the middle of, and listen to, 3 separate simulcast systems along with other systems including but not limited to analog... in one of America's highest crime rated cities dubbed "Detoilet"...

In my opinion this SDS200 sure is a hell of a workhorse, sounds good and thanks to StaticDischarge it doesn't have the hum issue...

I'll end this with the only way you are ever going to get my SDS200 is to pry it out of my cold dead hands... Simply because there is NOTHING better on the consumer market right now that does what this thing does and is relatively affordable... You know, with out the "lab specifications" or the kitchen sink plus a coffee pot!!! Now if they EVER come out with one that has a kitchen sink and coffee pot.. I'll give you my SDS200...!!!

 

[Saint]

I hope before adding anything else to the SDS100 SCANNER they would fix the conventional discovery problem of the scanner logging all frequencies it finds instead of just new frequencies. This is one of the reasons I bought this scanner and it is broken,
Steve

 

[jonwienke]

The difficulty is defining "new". Pretty much every frequency is listed in the database somewhere, and some frequencies are listed hundreds of times. So if you ignore frequencies listed in the database, you ignore nearly everything.

 

[TailGator911]

I know it's been mentioned before, but an internal GPS would be nice. For cell phones, GPS is the norm, even a cheapie would work. Maybe an interactive Map app. Remote app for Sonim XP8. Just talkin' out loud...

 

[jonwienke]

If I can do internal GPS, so could Uniden.

 

[TailGator911]

Am I correct in assuming most, if not all, cell phones have an internal GPS? I am sure it's a no brainer for an engineer, so there must be another reason why they neglected to include the GPS. Was it so they could market their proprietary GPS puck system? It would not have impacted the cost of the phone very much, if at all. Hmmm...I smell a conspiracy...maybe a Russian collusion.

 

[One13Truck]

Probably another thing not possible. But since I always replace my cards with 32GB cards I'd love to be able have the capability to be able to load multiple profiles or screen color options into the SDS scanners. Now that it's nice enough to go outside when in the sun some colors get drowned out. But others perform poorly at night. I've sort of settled on a medium ground with my colors but it's still tough at certain light levels. I know you can just use the black and white options but where's the fun in that?
It would also make it much easier when traveling to flip from the home profile to a beach, sportsball trip, or visit relatives profile and back again without having to dig out the laptop and wipe what's in there already. Favorite List QKs can do this as well and keep a lot in there but I prefer to have them all on separate profiles. Surely a 32GB card can fit all of this and have plenty of room. All we need is the way to import it and the additional menu toggles in the scanner.

 

[Cantafordit]

I have one very simple request.....when in playback mode, display the time and date of the recording you are listening to and not the current time and date. The information is there you can see it if you playback on a PC.

 

[buddrousa]

Recording to the SD Card is only asking for trouble it shortens the life of the SD Card.
SD Cards only have a limited number of read write cycles.

 

[Cantafordit]

I know but SD cards are cheap these days so I think the benefit of recording to help me identify frequencies when I listen back later outweighs the downside. We are not lucky enough to have any of the frequencies and users published as freely as they are in the US so some detective work is required sometimes to figure out who/what you are listening to.

 

[Ubbe]

Read cycles are unlimited, it is write cycles that are typical at nominal 5000 writes to each bit and there's 4 billions of them on a 4GB SD card. If you have conversations continously for 24 hours a day that you record, a 4GB SD card will only last for 10 years. Get a bigger sized card or the high endurance ones and you will get multiples more years from it, or if your scanner are scanning 50% of the time and produce audio in the other 50% then it's 20 years of use from a SD card, according to the SD card manufactures specifications. SanDisc have lifetime warranty for their extreme and ultra SD cards and 5 years and up for their standard types and they wouldn't be so generous if they fail after a couple of years of recording low bitrate audio files. Think what claims they must have if dashcam SD cards would fail after a year of recording megabit rate video files.

/Ubbe

 

[buddrousa]

My 1080P dash cam is on its 3rd card in 6 years.

 

[phask]

My 1080P dash cam is on its 3rd card in 6 years.

I've only had 1 card fail in all my devices and over many years. Still have an old, original card in an HP1. Same for dashcams put a good one in on day 1 and still going.

Now that I said it everything will fail today.

 

[buddrousa]

SanDisk Class 10 32gb are not cheap cards.
I know you can buy newer cards now but I still have 8 leftover

 

[gmclam]

Presently you can:
- Menu -> Set Scan Selection -> Manage Quick Key Status -> Favorites Quick Key --- Then see a list of FAVORITES with descriptions and toggle on/off
- Menu -> Set Scan Selection -> Manage Quick Key Status -> System Quick Key -- See a list of favorites, select one, the see a list of SYSTEMS with descriptions and toggle on/off

What is needed is to see a list of DEPARTMENTS and SITES, with descriptions, then be able to toggle on/off.

 

[AvidHiker]

A looping HD video recorder is going to be far more abusive to an SD card than something that records tiny audio files.