SDS100/SDS200: What's your favorite feature of the SDS100/SDS200 Scanner?

[WX9RLT]

What's your favorite feature of the SDS100/SDS200 Scanner?

You have to pick only ONE thing, that you like about the SDS100/SDS200 Scanner.

What feature do you like best?

I will start this:
The customized display!

 

[trentbob]

The fact it has an SDR chip and can receive simulcast transmissions like a real commercial radio like NO other consumer scanner is able to do.

 

[Whiskey3JMC]

The fact it has an SDR chip and can receive simulcast transmissions like a real commercial radio like NO other consumer scanner is able to do.

^^^THIS above all else. But umm...the colorful customizable display the OP mentioned is a close 2nd

 

[Ubbe]

Its' good AM aircraft audio quality, using external speaker.

 

[dmfalk]

It's a damn good radio, overall, and has too many things I feel are "favourite features"! Customisation, check.... Able to handle most trunking systems, check... Able to handle most digital modes (but not all- would be nice to cover as many amateur radio digital voice modes as possible), check... Excellent range and sensitivity (with built-in solutions for reception problems), check... Nearly unlimited programming capability, check... Fun, once you get used to it, check....

 

[kirk5056]

All of the above!

But the feature I use most is the multiple locations offered at the DEPT/SITE level using rectangle GPS.

A good example is when a hospital has trunked multiple campus system but you only want to hear them when you are close to one of those hospitals.

 

[KB4MSZ]

Due to my lack of ability to remember lyrics, I really appreciate the humming feature.

 

[Ubbe]

Most functions and features that are mentioned are also found in BCD436/536 and are not unique to SDS scanners.
Humming are unique to the SDS200, having to experiment with filter settings are also unique.

/Ubbe

 

[rf_patriot200]

I think the Play back and Record features are among my top 10 !

 

[donc13]

Being GPS enabled so I can drive 1,000s of miles and never have to touch it to receive local public safety systems.

 

[Trucker700]

Being GPS enabled so I can drive 1,000s of miles and never have to touch it to receive local public safety systems.

Same here. Had my SDS100 with GPS, and a Larsen scanner antenna ( mounted on the passenger's side mirror) attached to the dash of a 2004 Peterbilt. Having the GPS made monitoring a breeze. Plus, I used a BC23A amplified speaker. ( loud diesel rig)
That setup worked great. It kept me out of some big backups and long waits when I could catch information about an accident up ahead. ( CB use by truckers is sporadic at best and cannot be counted on for traffic information anymore)
James

 

[bearcatrp]

It works as advertised.

 

[StoliRaz]

The magical ability to make $700 disappear in a flash