SDS200E Overview, Features & Specifications

Summary: A tour of the Uniden SDS200E True I/Q base and mobile scanner: what it can receive, what’s in the box, its main features and key specifications.

What the SDS200E Is

The SDS200E is a digital base/mobile TrunkTracker scanner (the manual calls the platform TrunkTracker X) with a True I/Q receiver that captures the complete signal waveform for improved digital error correction and signal recovery in difficult RF environments. It has a customisable, high-resolution colour display, runs from 11-16.6V DC, and has a LAN port. It’s the desktop and vehicle counterpart of the handheld SDS100E: the same memory structure, menus and Sentinel software.

The HomePatrol database, zip code selection, Repeater Find, the reverse list, preset broadcast screens and the weather/SAME functions can only be used in North America. Fire Tone-Out and SAME weather alerts are also marked “For USA only”. Elsewhere you’ll normally scan your own Favorites Lists (see SDS200E Loading Frequencies From Squawker PC & Squawker Online).

What It Receives

• Trunked systems: Motorola (Type I, II, IIi, X2-TDMA), EDACS (FM, NFM, SCAT), LTR, and APCO 25 Phase 1 and Phase 2 (ASTRO IMBE, ASTRO 25, P25 AMBE HDQPSK).
• DMR and NXDN: MotoTRBO/Tier III DMR and NEXEDGE/IDAS NXDN. The manual says included upgrades add multiple types of NXDN and DMR trunking as well as EDACS ProVoice decoding.
• Conventional: analogue and P25 digital channels.

What’s in the Box

• AC adapter (13.8V, 700 mA)
• DC adapter / cigarette lighter cord
• Mobile power harness (DC cord with orange wire)
• USB cable (USB A to micro USB)
• microSD card (installed)
• BNC telescoping antenna
• Mounting bracket with screws and feet
• Printed material

Main Features

• Customisable colour display – choose the information shown and the colours for each field.
• Location-based scanning by GPS coordinates or Auto Locate, with Range Control.
• Favorites Lists – up to 256 lists; scan any combination of lists and the full database.
• Instant Replay (30 seconds to 4 minutes) and audio recording to the microSD card.
• Custom alerts for a channel or unit ID, Close Call hit, emergency flag or tone-out (9 tones, 15 volume levels, 7 colours and 3 flash patterns), with a multicolour LED.
• Trunking Discovery and Conventional Discovery, plus Analyze tools (System Status and LCN Finder).
• Close Call RF Capture with Do-Not-Disturb, Broadcast Screen, Repeater Find, Fire Tone-Out (32 channels, USA only).
• Priority, Priority DND and Priority ID Scan.
• IFX, channel volume offset, configurable band defaults for 31 bands, and RF filters for difficult environments.
• Data naming up to 64 characters; 100 Quick Keys; Startup Keys; Number Tags.
• 10 Custom Searches, 3 Search Keys, Quick Search, Search with Scan; 250 temporary and 250 permanent search avoids.
• SAME weather alert and priority (USA only).
• LAN connection (Ethernet, RJ45) with DHCP or manual IP settings.

Key Specifications

• Bands: 31. Step sizes: 5, 6.25, 7.5, 8.33, 10, 12.5, 15, 20, 25, 50, 100 kHz or Auto.
• Display: 3.5-inch LCD, 320 x 480 dots, white backlight (and white key backlight)
• LED: multicolour ALERT
• Speaker: 8 ohm, 5W max (77 mm)
• Jacks: BNC antenna; 3.5 mm stereo phone; 3.5 mm mono external speaker; 5.5 mm DC power (centre positive); modular GPS interface; 3-pin external DC/orange-wire; micro USB (front); mini USB (rear); USB A (front); Ethernet RJ45; microSD slot
• Controls: rotary encoder with push switch for FUNC; a volume control with power switch and a push for the backlight; a squelch control with a push for the menu
• Power: DC 11.0-16.6V; orange-wire input 3-16.6V (under 10 mA)
• Current draw: about 353 mA squelched (white backlight high) and 680 mA at full output
• Size and weight: 180 x 130 x 75 mm (W x D x H); 1,400 g
• Operating temperature: -10 to +60 C; storage -20 to +70 C
• Scan rate: about 70 channels per second; search rate: about 195 steps per second (5 kHz) and 65 (12.5 kHz)
• Sensitivity (12 dB SINAD): typically 0.25 to 0.8 microvolts on most bands (1.0 at 1200 MHz)
• Audio output: about 3W into 8 ohm; 12 mW into 32 ohm headphones
• GPS: NMEA-0183 v3.01 (GGA and RMC); compatible only with the Uniden SDS200E option GPS unit
• Two-tone sequential: 250-3500 Hz, 0.1 Hz steps
• First IF 265.55 or 380.75 MHz; second IF 2.4 or 2.22 MHz

Water

Uniden doesn’t represent the SDS200E as waterproof, and it isn’t warrantied against water damage.