I have to say a big thank you for this video. My area Law Enforcement just switched to P-25. Which wasn't a problem. My HomePatrol 1 & 2 works just fine on P-25 trunking. The problem is Radio Reference and Sentinel software posted the new talk groups, but there were at least 2 talk groups not listed and a couple of channels in some talk groups not listed. So I upgraded to the SDS 100 and watching your video was able to use Discovery mode to find the missing talk groups and add them to the system in favorites. All this was done in just a few hours of receiving my scanner, learning the basics, and then following your video. What made this important to me was, one of the department talk groups missing was the department I retired from after 34 years.
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.
This is great! I just received a new SDS100 and thanks to this video I was able to start programming my local P25 trunk system right away. I'm new to digital scanning so I had to start from zero. Once one figures out the logic of "Favorites/System/Site/Department/Channel" etc. it starts to make sense. Thanks
Thank you! Finally a real guide to program a P25 system. I live outside the US and will certainly give it a try. I really don't have a frequency list so that is an additional problem. I scanned ranges and noted down frequencies in which the radio stopped with a P25 caption. I followed the tutorial but nothing came up. I will keep trying so I can finally get my sds100 to monitor digital systems. Thanks again.
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!
Another extremely helpful video. I may have to slow it down to get it right, but this will help me with my area and the multi-county MARRS system they use.
When you program a scanner like this, you only need to program the control (and alternate) channels. You don’t need to program the voice channels. Just slows everything down
I have a Uniden SDS100 but around here in New York they are Phase II and I just cant get the scanner to work with Phase II. Can you do a video on that?
~ THANK YOU! ~ it's been silent for a while, as I'm learning the SDS100 . . . ~ with this tutorial I managed to start hearing a few things . . ~ one question though . . . ~ I followed the instructions and noticed that you used [DEC] when inputting the information (however) on my menu it shows [HEX] . . . ~ do I continue to input the [DEC] or the [HEX]? and does it make a difference? ~ any assist on this will be very helpful! ~ Thanks in advance! 👍
Hey, glad to hear the tutorial helped you get your SDS100 up and running! 🎉 About your question on DEC vs. HEX: both are just different ways of showing the same information. DEC (Decimal) is what most of us are used to-regular numbers. HEX (Hexadecimal) is a bit more technical, using numbers and letters (like 0-9 and A-F). So, if your scanner is showing HEX but you’ve got the info in DEC, just stick with what you have-it’ll work the same way. Just make sure to be consistent with whichever format you’re using. Hope this clears things up! Let me know if you have any other questions, and happy scanning! 🚀
@@BoyAndAScanner ~ THAN K YOU! ~ this clears up alot of what I was wondering about! ~ I've subscribed and will go over all the related videos for the SDS100 and ensure I get it all correct and by your tutorials, I'm sure I'll be led in the right direction!
So why don't you run a live feed on scanner Pro for bannock and Bingham Bonneville ect evidently the guy who was running it in 2020 is not running it anymore or did they make that illegal?
@@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.
I did not know about the hitting the "Yes" button to add a TG and Unit ID. That is so cool. Question. Is the page you were viewing on Radio Reference on the drop down list on Sentinel? Can I find the TG's you were manually adding on Sentinel and add it that way? Thanks for the video. Subscribed! The videos are well done and are professional quality. It takes a lot of work to do these RUclips videos and I appreciate it.
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.
How can I make it to where my scanner only picks up the TGIDs I've set. It's picking up all the Talk-Groups from the Frequencies in my area, rather than the specific ones I've set. Thanks.
The setup steps for programming Phase 1 and Phase 2 P25 systems on the SDS100 are quite similar. The main difference is that with a Phase 2 system, you need to ensure that the system type is set to “P25 Standard (Phase 2)” when you’re creating or editing the system. This setting allows the scanner to properly decode Phase 2 transmissions. Other than that, the process for entering frequencies, talkgroups, and other details remains the same. Both Phase 1 and Phase 2 systems will be programmed similarly beyond selecting the correct system type. Hope this helps! Cheers
No zip is everything in that area. Keep in mind the dmr / p24 stuff is an upgrade you need to buy and unlock on the scanner but zip finds all in that area within the mule range you set
Hi, in order to learn how to program my SDS100 manually, I'm trying to use the Discovery feature to find P25 Trunking systems. When I set the Discovery feature it asks me for a new session and a name for a system. How do I enter or define a system? It seems that you need to have a system set in order to use the Discovery feature. I live outside the US so I can't use Radio Reference or the zip code feature. Thanks for your assistance. 73.
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 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.
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
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
So I need some help from the radio community, I’m looking for a desktop digital trunked p-25 phase two scanner, I assume this can do that but other suggestions would be great!
@@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.
@@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 !.
I have to say a big thank you for this video. My area Law Enforcement just switched to P-25. Which wasn't a problem. My HomePatrol 1 & 2 works just fine on P-25 trunking. The problem is Radio Reference and Sentinel software posted the new talk groups, but there were at least 2 talk groups not listed and a couple of channels in some talk groups not listed. So I upgraded to the SDS 100 and watching your video was able to use Discovery mode to find the missing talk groups and add them to the system in favorites. All this was done in just a few hours of receiving my scanner, learning the basics, and then following your video. What made this important to me was, one of the department talk groups missing was the department I retired from after 34 years.
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 am just getting my SDS 100 this week. I am new to all of this. These videos look fantastic. I subscribed and will be watching all of them. Thanks.
I’ll be back full swing soon ❤️❤️
This is great! I just received a new SDS100 and thanks to this video I was able to start programming my local P25 trunk system right away. I'm new to digital scanning so I had to start from zero. Once one figures out the logic of "Favorites/System/Site/Department/Channel" etc. it starts to make sense. Thanks
Glad it helped!
Thank you! Finally a real guide to program a P25 system. I live outside the US and will certainly give it a try. I really don't have a frequency list so that is an additional problem. I scanned ranges and noted down frequencies in which the radio stopped with a P25 caption. I followed the tutorial but nothing came up. I will keep trying so I can finally get my sds100 to monitor digital systems. Thanks again.
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!
I'm going to buy one of these soon, and now I understand more about it now, then I did before. Thanks!!
Another extremely helpful video. I may have to slow it down to get it right, but this will help me with my area and the multi-county MARRS system they use.
Glad it was helpful!
Thank you for this video ! ! ! I have been want to program manually but never could find a video but u make it easy THANKS
You're welcome!
When you program a scanner like this, you only need to program the control (and alternate) channels. You don’t need to program the voice channels. Just slows everything down
Thanks!
Wow..Lots of interesting info. I'm going to have to go to ground watch several more times to assimilate it
Thank you.
I have a Uniden SDS100 but around here in New York they are Phase II and I just cant get the scanner to work with Phase II. Can you do a video on that?
Excellent video! I am getting the scanner in a few days. I will probably use this video to help me program it.
If you need anything feel free to reach out 🙂
~ THANK YOU!
~ it's been silent for a while, as I'm learning the SDS100 . . .
~ with this tutorial I managed to start hearing a few things . .
~ one question though . . .
~ I followed the instructions and noticed that you used [DEC] when inputting the information (however) on my menu it shows [HEX] . . .
~ do I continue to input the [DEC] or the [HEX]? and does it make a difference?
~ any assist on this will be very helpful!
~ Thanks in advance! 👍
Hey, glad to hear the tutorial helped you get your SDS100 up and running! 🎉
About your question on DEC vs. HEX: both are just different ways of showing the same information. DEC (Decimal) is what most of us are used to-regular numbers. HEX (Hexadecimal) is a bit more technical, using numbers and letters (like 0-9 and A-F).
So, if your scanner is showing HEX but you’ve got the info in DEC, just stick with what you have-it’ll work the same way. Just make sure to be consistent with whichever format you’re using.
Hope this clears things up! Let me know if you have any other questions, and happy scanning! 🚀
@@BoyAndAScanner ~ THAN K YOU!
~ this clears up alot of what I was wondering about!
~ I've subscribed and will go over all the related videos for the SDS100 and ensure I get it all correct and by your tutorials, I'm sure I'll be led in the right direction!
Excellent thank you.
You bet 👍 thanks for watching
With squelch at 1 I get signal bar but no audio. It's a P25 system in Lee County Florida. Only 2 channels are encrypted. Still no audio.
Thanks!
As a fellow idahoan, this is exactly hwta i was looking for 😅
Thank you so much!!! NZ
How is the 200 going? I almost bought your 100. Got one eventually though.
Any time!
Very valuable channel, thanks !!
Hey thanks for the video. So in my state, James City County, Williamsburg, Va., if there isn't any frequency's listed, I cant access that county?
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. ruclips.net/video/XNZXQsGU_rQ/видео.htmlsi=WiHMjCptO-U5c3su
So why don't you run a live feed on scanner Pro for bannock and Bingham Bonneville ect
evidently the guy who was running it in 2020 is not running it anymore or did they make that illegal?
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
Great video. I did everything. Not 1 hit yet. Not sure if it's the Global Settings giving me the silence
Did it work?
Awesome video Boy and a Scanner!!!!
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.
So my question is , is it really worth the expense? What can it do that my current scanner cannot ? I have the uniden Bc75xlt. Thanks .
I did not know about the hitting the "Yes" button to add a TG and Unit ID. That is so cool. Question. Is the page you were viewing on Radio Reference on the drop down list on Sentinel? Can I find the TG's you were manually adding on Sentinel and add it that way? Thanks for the video. Subscribed! The videos are well done and are professional quality. It takes a lot of work to do these RUclips videos and I appreciate it.
That RSSI is beautiful. I hate how I’m steady staying around 90-100+. I honestly believe I need an outside antenna 😭
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.
So i've set up my city PD. For some reason another citys fire department and some PD im hearing. Is there anyway to fix that or remove certain IDs????
How can I make it to where my scanner only picks up the TGIDs I've set. It's picking up all the Talk-Groups from the Frequencies in my area, rather than the specific ones I've set. Thanks.
Switch off "ID Search"
Can you use Sentinel to program P25 & simulcast systems?
Yes 👍
Can you scan through frequency’s and talk groups at the same time
Can you help me with Puerto Rico frecuency ???
I don't get audio on mine I wonder why
Is there different steps between phase one and phase two set up?
The setup steps for programming Phase 1 and Phase 2 P25 systems on the SDS100 are quite similar. The main difference is that with a Phase 2 system, you need to ensure that the system type is set to “P25 Standard (Phase 2)” when you’re creating or editing the system. This setting allows the scanner to properly decode Phase 2 transmissions.
Other than that, the process for entering frequencies, talkgroups, and other details remains the same. Both Phase 1 and Phase 2 systems will be programmed similarly beyond selecting the correct system type.
Hope this helps! Cheers
What is best between SMA and BNC for a handheld scanning receiver for listening to VHF Airband between 118~137mhz
Por favor, sería tan amable, de un tutorial en Español. Mil graciass...
Do you program a P25 phase II TDMA as a P25 trunk or P25 X2-tdma on the bcd436hp
So if you use the zip code thing, will that only automatically pickup analog channels? And then p25 has to be programmed into the sds100?
No zip is everything in that area. Keep in mind the dmr / p24 stuff is an upgrade you need to buy and unlock on the scanner but zip finds all in that area within the mule range you set
@@BoyAndAScanner I appreciate you
This is a scanner or a radio?
It's a scanner
Hi, in order to learn how to program my SDS100 manually, I'm trying to use the Discovery feature to find P25 Trunking systems. When I set the Discovery feature it asks me for a new session and a name for a system. How do I enter or define a system? It seems that you need to have a system set in order to use the Discovery feature. I live outside the US so I can't use Radio Reference or the zip code feature. Thanks for your assistance. 73.
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.
Would an antenna in my attic or something not too obtrusive in/near a second floor window work? Any suggestions? What type of connectors would I need?
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.
cant find the filter place. what is the default new name? how do I find it again
How do you know kind of Trunked system to list them as
WOW you did a great job in explaining, can you proam P25 systems using Sentinel?
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
This is a great video thank you
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
How do you name the TGID?
So I need some help from the radio community, I’m looking for a desktop digital trunked p-25 phase two scanner, I assume this can do that but other suggestions would be great!
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.
can you show us again ? I missed most of that.
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 !.
You lost me at 3:50 It got off track.
Sorry..