Uniden SDS100 - How To Program A P25 System Manually 

Thank you for your service, sir. I'm glad you got it working the way you wanted it to. I'm thinking about getting a digital one like that, but I'm still trying to figure out exactly how they're programmed. This video helps, and I know a little bit about how digital trunked systems work but I'm still not completely sure, and one of the officers in the department where I am said they're probably gonna migrate to the Ohio MARCS-IP system in the next couple of years. And I'm glad because they're so much clearer and safer than the analog systems, but it sure takes a while to figure them out.

I’ll be back full swing soon ❤️❤️

Glad it helped!

That’s great to hear I’m glad this helped you! Is your area not listed on radio reference? They have several countries there. Feel free to email me at contact@boyandascanner.com and I may be able to help you find some frequencies in your area if you’d like. Have you looked on digital frequency search dot com?? Cheers!

You're welcome!

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Glad it was helpful!

You bet 👍 thanks for watching

Thanks!

Thanks for watching glad you got some value! :-)

@@BoyAndAScanner I always do thank you for showing all of us how to run because to be honest bearcat warehouse, Zip scanners, and ect. Made it sound like if you did have the software that it could not be without them programming it or the computer software there for it would make useless it you went to another area without out the software or them programming it but you are making so easy to do and as for me and I'm sure many we appreciate it you got a fan for live with me anyway.

@@johnmongo434 Wow thank you! I actually had no idea they were doing that with people. If you can think of anything specific i could address here on the channel to make things easier for people to avoid needing to pay for those services let me know. I want as much education as possible on the channel and i think with the amount of people that are finding it valuable we can grow and provide a lot of good info as a community. :-)

@@BoyAndAScanner your very welcome! Is there a way that you can separate police from, fire, from ambulance, and ham and ect. From different county's and or different departments I know that will take a lot of channels or banks or whatever you want to call it. For example I live in Ashtabula county Ohio I want to take the sheriff all by itself, then take local by itself and then the Ohio Highway patrol by itself and put the local fire by itself and ambulance and so on. Then go to the next county and do the same thing and so on. I know it sounds silly but let's say one I decide I don't want to listen to the fire department and block that out and put back when I want it on without blocking all the channels you know what I mean or does that sound confusing? That would help. One more thing do you have all the upgrades and do you recommend it because as soon as you go traveling you always run into a different radio system and if you don't have it then you lose out. Sorry for the long reply just trying to give you and idea. lol

@@BoyAndAScanner then that's when it ends up paying almost $1300.00 by the time you pay for the upgrades and accessories and programming from places like bearcat warehouse and zip scanners. Just a little clarification.

How is the 200 going? I almost bought your 100. Got one eventually though.

Any time!

So you don’t have any frequencies listed in your county at all? I will check it out and let you know

Check this out I address your location. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-XNZXQsGU_rQ.htmlsi=WiHMjCptO-U5c3su

Switch off "ID Search"

I would think this would help a great deal yes. Check out the Procomm spider that I did a test with here on the channel. That’s my main base antenna now I and it’s working amazing. Keep in mind you’ll want to stay away from electrical as much as possible. For the antenna I mentioned all you’ll need is a bnc to sma for it to connect to the sds100. It comes with the coax. If I come across anything else I’ll let you know But I only wanted to give you an opinion on a base antenna that I’m actually currently using that’s working better than my other antennas.

Hello thanks for watching and asking this question. So when you’re using the discovery feature it’s best to just use conventional because it will show you if the system is digital by showing P 25 cap+, etc. if it picks up activity on a certain frequency. But for example here in the United States if I put in a ZIP Code and I go to discovery and I use the trunking discovery I can just click enter on the system without entering any text and it will automatically show a list of systems in my area that I can choose to discover. It’s much easier just to use the conventional discovery though and set your lower and higher frequency and just let it search until you find something because it will find digital frequencies and then at that point you can follow my instructions for setting up a P 25 system that I have here on my channel.

I did lots of streams for that area but I moved out of state and just go back and forth sometimes. I didn’t know there was one before

Its helped me big time! The conventional stuff has been night and day. I also have noticed I can pick up some more digital frequencies from another city that I couldn’t before Although the quality on digital is not really any different just more stations are coming in.

Boy And A Scanner I will have to go ahead and find a way to make that happen. Is lightning something I should worry about when adding an antenna outside? I’m in Los Angeles and we hardly get any lightning, but fir them rare days that we do, would like to know if there’s anything I need to do to keep it safe.

@@LURKING323 Yes that can be a concern. I haven't had issues yet but only have had a few thunder and lightning storms come through since I put it up a few weeks ago. I do have a copper ground wire that I attached to the ground on the antenna and took it down to the dirt and attached it to a copper rod that's about a foot and a half deep. They do make lightning arresters though that you can just attach in line with the coax which may be an easier solution for your location. I wouldn't worry too much though, I think you'd need to be pretty up there and isolated to get hit.

Thank you 🙂 and thanks for watching ✌

I now own 2 SDS 100 and a SDS 200 I learned so much watching your videos the and I encourage people to watch your videos especially beginner's it's always good to know how to do it manually. I also have the 536 the 325 P25 and 996 P25

Did it work?

Yes 👍

Thank you very much! Yes you can, I'm working on getting more sentinel videos up so stay tuned for those. I get a lot of questions on sentinel so I plan on putting some out soon. Cheers

Uniden SDS200

@@davidbee3704 thank you

@@benmeyer2916 No worries. I have one and I really like it. I have been scanning for nearly 30 years and it does take a little to get to know - it's a powerful scanner. Best way to get to know a scanner is to program it manually (using the front keys). Here in Australia we do have P25 systems (mainly government) but more and more commercial users are moving to DMR Tier 3 (trunked) networks which the SDS200 can monitor. The SDS200 is pricey but worth the investment if you are a keen radio/scanner enthusiast like me.

It's a scanner

Lol right!! Im second day into hands on with my sds100 and im having to pause/rewind. its definitely a learning curve.

@@SubiSkank Yep, I know most of the radio now, seeing as I've screwed with it long enough. By far the best scanner I've had. All modes activated. Handles P25 Phase 2 like a gem. Wish it ran from 100 kHz though, with SSB and AM with 100 HZ steps. Then it would be a World Class communications receiver. I'll bet that will happen in a few years. I'd be sleeping with the thing !.

Sorry..