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.

@redbeard yeah, that's what I have

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

Software is all online so pirate copies are easily obtained

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

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