@[LA] Zoomer Medi/k/ that is the usual channel but be aware that many new drivers are foreigners that don’ta speaka the eeenglish and don’t even have radios. I’ve heard some companies don’t allow them to be installed any more either due to dumb ass drivers fucking up the wiring

> Oh, so those are the multiband models and not the cheap 4k?
@EDDSkitz yeah 7000 is dual band and 8000 is multi. 7500 and 8500 are the matching mobiles. All others are single band

Yeah, I got rid of my CB's... they are barely used anymore and I'm right on the northeast corridor

Used to have a 100 foot base antenna and an amplifier that turned all the TV screens red 😂

I don’t hear much on the cb where i am but there are some dedicated guys that still hang on 38 LSB around here. A little south of me a bunch still hang out on there like the redneck internet CB used to be.

I love me some redneck internet

I fried a whole gas station talking on my 400W radio in the car while pulling in. Fried the controllers and blew all the fuses. Looked like Chinese on the gas pump screens.

😂😂😂😂😂

One of my friends to the south knows a particular business that his cb will set off the burg alarm, so he uses that when he needs the cops to be at one end of town while he is up to no good elsewhere

Lol

Talking through people's TV's like the voice of god was always funny

I have radio related antics stories for days...

I emptied a walmart of it’s employees one time. I had a covert vhf radio that looked like a nextel flip phone. Used it on MURS to talk to them, told them i found one of their radios in the store and was out in the lot about to smash it on the ground.

Lol

They came out and kept talking to me trying to find me, and i was walking right past them with my ‘flip phone’ open and talking to them and waving at them and still had no clue

So real quick... cause I definitely can't afford the 6k and up... the 4k will still do encryption correct? I'm probably gonna order two tomorrow if so.

I gotta do some research anyway and see if they still need an amplified PTT, get a programming cable, and find the software

Yes they are all capable, to a certain extent

They can all do software ADP encryption. But to do hardware AES the algo needs to be bought and loaded into the hardware. You can find some that have it already and will say like KG1 AES-256, KG2 DES-OFB, KG3 ADP etc.

Yeah, I'll have to figure all that out, I know you said analog encryption isn't the best anyway... but if they work open air on my business channels they'll still get some use for now

As far as audio adapters just find the APX accy catalog. They have all the right shit to adapt direct to headsets with no interface needed

Hang on let me be clear

All the encryption I’m recommending is digital based

Nobody does analog anymore

P25 is a form of digital modulation, as is DMR/MotoTRBO/Nexedge-NXDN-IDAS

P25 does not mean trunking

Oh okay, like I said, I'll have to figure all that out. Even if I'm under using the radios, just having the capability is nice

Yeah, I'm actually familiar with trunking and P25... I do alot of scanning of the public safety stuff around here

Ok when you were talking about requiring infrastructure and what not, i wanted to make sure you knew p25 could be used simplex radio-to-radio or via a digital capable repeater too. As well as trunking can also be analog like my local power station.

I would consider a repeater of any sort "infrastructure"

Just by definition... I didn't mean like government equipment

Sure it is technically

I have a vhf p25 repeater sitting here I’m trying to decide what to do with

Yeah, p25 is just the standard

That I know

Everything I do or really plan on needing is simplex device to device anyway.... don't really have people here that would buy that gear

That's why I'm gonna buy 2 of the APX units

Oh there are two 4000 models too, a one-knob and a two-knob. I have the single and can’t decide if i like it better or not.

At least I can hand one to someone and have that route

Oh yeah simplex portable to portable or mobile to portable is the most likely use in this crowd

Or god help us a couple of buttfungs cabled together so they can interfere with each other