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Depends on the area and no guarantee someone is listening
> @redbeard I've been looking at the APX series, but I've always held off because I have 25 licensed UHF channels from the FCC and most of the people I work with use standard UHF channels.
@EDDSkitz nothing about an APX limits you from operating on an analog uhf channel if the radio is a uhf model or multiband model.
My channels are in the 500 business band
> Getting even business band channels licensed is expensive, and P25 digital even more so. If you're just talking with your crew, the FRS bands tend to be fine for most.
@EDDSkitz itinerant channel licensing is cheap and easy, and you can specify what emissions mode you want for no extra charge at all. We have all of our set up for all emissions modes just because.
Cheap if you don't yourself, but I paid a company to do it so nothing got messed up... the government sucks
*do it yourself
Yeah the APX is available in vhf, uhf in two ranges, 700/800 in one radio, and 900. Then there are dual band models, and multi band models. Mine is an APX 4000 in vhf
Oh, okay... I'll have to look into that again...
What did the 4k run you?
APX 7000 with vhf and uhf range 1 and the FPP option is ideal. Or an APX 8000 with vhf/uhf full/and 7/800.
I traded an XPR 5550 vhf mobile for it, so I’d say about $500ish
I priced out a 6k a while back just for shits and it was like 2500 or something
Was just wondering if the uhf only stuff is cheaper
But that also was with the software
Our software for the CP200's was like 800 bucks 8 years ago
My 7000 xe was $2400, brand new sold out the back door of the federal depot haha
Lmfao
And I have depot level software so I can activate all required features without paying for them
Do you know if the encryption is on the non 700/800 models? I know you're not supposed to use it on 500, but ya know....🤷♂️
Oh, I guess that would be software locked huh?
You can use it on any freq the radio is capable of. We run aes 256 on FRS all the time lol
😂
Okay, maybe I'll have to look into a few of the lower end models again
There’s a lot of surplus XTS 5000 out there worth grabbing
Was just on ebay... lots of 4k 400-512's out there for 500-600
Would just need a programming cable and NATO wired PTT for my peltors
Yeah and that
...
That’s nice because these radios are meant to work with all that hot shit operator gear like peltors
So adapters are easy to find and work properly
Yeah, I have some specialty gear made for the baofengs to work with all that
Amplified PTT and vest mounted antenna
The up side is we use kenwoods at work and I use my peltors there too, so same PTT
:barf
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