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Yeah, but they work 🤷‍♂️

I had 150 Motorola CP200's until a few years ago

So do Hi-Points but nobody is telling people to buy them in the armory lol

When I sold them that's when I was looking at buying a couple APX's

Cp200 has been a workhorse for awhile in the business world

I mean, think what you want but they work

But even Motorola makes the distinctions between business radio and mission critical radio

Yeah, but I've destroyed more 200's than uv-5r 😂

Yeah, I'm probably gonna grab 2 of these 4k's

I don’t think ‘work’ means what you think it does haha. How’s the desense from nearby transmitters? How’s the spurious emissions that are wasting your output power?

That two pin mic connector is no where near water resistant, it’s a funnel to pour water straight onto the internal pc board

Yeah, but most people never notice that stuff

“The more you know”

I open all mine up and use conformal coating, I can drop mine in the water

People don’t know what they don’t know and everyone skipping by all those major defects doesn’t teach anyone

And have

I agree, but most people think $350 for a yeasu is expensive

Well you can’t conformal coat any of the button pads or inside the volume pot and that stuff WILL corrode

‘Most people’ will say that then spend 2k on an AR

So they just have a poor idea of what radio is and how much proper radio comms cost and act accordingly because of everyone acting like a buttfang is the holy grail

Really the o ly reason I run the baofeng iver any of my cp200 or the kenwood I have is they are front panel programmable and literally everyone uses them so I never know what channel I need to be on.

True FPP is a nice asset but when you put it in the hands of the unwashed you end up with paint ballers all talking shit unknowing on the local sheriff frequency

Lmfao... except VERY few government agencies aren't on P25 at this point... they usually just end up pissing off the local HAM club

That’s a wide brush you’re painting with. My locals here are all vhf and uhf analog except for the state police

It’s different everywhere

I guess... I'm on the east coast, so everything is not only P25, but encrypted out here.

But from what I hear in my scanner groups, theres not much left on UHF/VHF

Case in point, i found some local band crew members using shitfangs and they were on the local vhf Sheriff’s freq since they have no idea what freq is what.

Lol

Luckily the sheriff just switched to 800 p25 and they weren’t running any PL tone so if there was any backup radios on they wouldn’t have heard them.

NYPD is all analog and non-encrypted fyi...

Yeah, I find people on my itinerant channels all the time

That’s just the nature of itinerants

But they give you a legal place to run encryption

Kinda, but it's always idiots with chinafangs

I thought you still couldn't run encryption on business band?

You can run encryption anywhere it’s not specifically excluded

Like ham, MURS, FRS all exclude it

Right

Like i mentioned, we licensed a bunch of itinerants across low band, vhf, and uhf. We specified analog narrowband emissions, p25 emissions, trbo, and NXDN. Once you go to digital modulation adding encryption is easy.