A friend of mine who went all the way back to the "Little Tiger" converter days, like me, finally got an SDS200 and I copied my lists over and off he went. He doesn't live far from me and listening to the radio at his house, all was fine. He called me 2 weeks later and somehow had trashed the settings on the radio. I told him, "Just reload the file (whatever it was named) and that should take care of it!". He couldn't seem to get it to work, so I went over there and did it in about one minute. All of a sudden, he starts ranting about, "I just want to listen to stuff and don't want to have to learn all kinds of new computer stuff!". That's a rerun of his early PC days about 1989 or so, he had a long struggle to learn how to use a PC. I got a LOT of phone calls with him telling me, "XXXX doesn't work!", but he was the problem. One major part of it was he's a bad speller, and was even worse back then. Then he says, "You can have it for $400, I just want it gone!". I didn't think he was serious, but it's sitting about 6" from my left elbow with salt trucks talking, and a lot of wrecks being talked about. $400 for a near new 200 with DMR in it. I couldn't pass it up. Now he has an old GRE handheld, a PSR-500 and he's happy with it's bad sounding audio and ease of use. I offered to throw in one of mine on the deal for the SDS200 (I have 3 RS/GRE/Whistler PSR-500 clones) but he didn't want them, he just wanted the SDS200 gone. Whose files are he using in Win500? Mine. Lots of traffic, but some of it is totally unreadable. If I could get my SDS200's to pick up the traffic my old GRE stuff does, wow, that would be great. If I sit here at work and put both my SDS200 and my Pro-106 on the Michigan system, the GRE picks up twice what the SDS200 does, it's non stop, especially in bad weather.
Another dream would be that an update would somehow fix the annoying as hell AVC issue. As clear as the SDS is on most things, the volume difference between units is one of the most annoying things about it. I'm about to try a couple of home built projects that hopefully will make sound levels even out. I really don't want to have to add another box and an external speaker, but I guess it will be worth it, if it solves the problem.
Another dream would be that an update would somehow fix the annoying as hell AVC issue. As clear as the SDS is on most things, the volume difference between units is one of the most annoying things about it. I'm about to try a couple of home built projects that hopefully will make sound levels even out. I really don't want to have to add another box and an external speaker, but I guess it will be worth it, if it solves the problem.
