SDS250 potential?

[Bob1955]

I've decided I am holding out for the SDS250, assuming one will be released, before buying a 150. My 100 works fine for what it is, and my 436 makes up for the analog side the 100 has issues with.

Smart decision.

 

[ansky]

Best scanner by far. Knocks the snot out of my SDS200 I sold awhile back. I was hesitant at 1st but glad I jumped. You will not be disappointed.

The biggest problem with my SDS200 is that digital transmissions often sound muffled or garbled, even when the signal strength is high. Does the 150 improve on that?

 

[buddrousa]

The same can be said for a $12,000.00 Motorola Subscriber Radio.

 

[Whiskey3JMC]

The biggest problem with my SDS200 is that digital transmissions often sound muffled or garbled, even when the signal strength is high.

Try experimenting with different filters?

 

[dmfalk]

The same can be said for a $12,000.00 Motorola Subscriber Radio.

Digital transmissions have a low bitrate, considered slower than what dialup internet used to be, when it was still a thing.

They're highly compressed, meant for intelligibility rather than fidelity. They're not meant for audiophiles!

 

[Ubbe]

The biggest problem with my SDS200 is that digital transmissions often sound muffled or garbled, even when the signal strength is high. Does the 150 improve on that?

Set the display to show digital bit errors, D-error, and if that show a low value below 5 then it is the portables/mobiles in the system that are received poorly by the system, or if the dispatchers can be heard clearly but mobiles worse.

If you always have full signal from a system then try and enable the attenuator to bring the signal down in level. It can be a too strong signal that makes reception worse in the scanner. The receiver in SDS scanners overloads very easily compared to other scanners.

/Ubbe

 

[4436time]

The biggest problem with my SDS200 is that digital transmissions often sound muffled or garbled, even when the signal strength is high. Does the 150 improve on that?

Have you tried connecting an external speaker to the 200? All of my base/mobile Uniden's have these due to the stock speaker lacking mid/high tones. The 150 is about perfect at volume level 5 IMO although it can be screechy at times on some transmissions to which I adjust the volume offset. YMMV