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

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