JoshDrinksWine
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- Aug 23, 2018
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Hi all,
I’ve got a SDS100 (purchased in 2018) and trying to figure out if it’s defective — or if I’m doing something wrong.
I’m in Nassau County, NY and able to receive NYPD/FDNY signals which aren’t great but certainly have given me plenty of listening.
But for the most part, I can’t hear anything else. I’ve taken the radio planespotting a few times and near zilch....even being within a mile or two of the airport with no interference from buildings, I can’t hear the controllers or really anything else. Even parking my car at JFK/LGA with tons of ATC and other frequencies I can barely hear a thing - with my antenna pointed right at the control tower.
I have the entire RadioReference database for the area on the radio, and few if any stations are even receivable. I’ve swapped out the SDS100 stock antenna for a few others with limited success. I’ve played with the filters, again only limited improvement. The only really clear station is NOAA on 162.550.
In a moment of frustration, I bought an Icom R30 and spent the entire day yesterday in my backyard, pulling in pretty good quality airband with only the stock antenna. So I know it’s not the location.
Any chance this is the SDS100 cold solder problem I’ve read about on here? Some other setting I’ve got wrong?
Any tips would be much appreciated!
I’ve got a SDS100 (purchased in 2018) and trying to figure out if it’s defective — or if I’m doing something wrong.
I’m in Nassau County, NY and able to receive NYPD/FDNY signals which aren’t great but certainly have given me plenty of listening.
But for the most part, I can’t hear anything else. I’ve taken the radio planespotting a few times and near zilch....even being within a mile or two of the airport with no interference from buildings, I can’t hear the controllers or really anything else. Even parking my car at JFK/LGA with tons of ATC and other frequencies I can barely hear a thing - with my antenna pointed right at the control tower.
I have the entire RadioReference database for the area on the radio, and few if any stations are even receivable. I’ve swapped out the SDS100 stock antenna for a few others with limited success. I’ve played with the filters, again only limited improvement. The only really clear station is NOAA on 162.550.
In a moment of frustration, I bought an Icom R30 and spent the entire day yesterday in my backyard, pulling in pretty good quality airband with only the stock antenna. So I know it’s not the location.
Any chance this is the SDS100 cold solder problem I’ve read about on here? Some other setting I’ve got wrong?
Any tips would be much appreciated!
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