Curious to know what radios everyone uses either their personal or what there depts use? On my FD the officers are issued HT1250. In the engines we have PR400s but are possibly switching to CP 200s. I don't remember off the top of my head what the mobile radios we have in all the trucks are though. We are allowed to buy are own radios if we want. A few of us have. I have a tk 2180 that I carry.
What radios do you use?
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theroofable
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Kenwood. Repeaters, mobiles, portables, and base stations. I have a 2180, 7180, and a 2160. All the depts in my town use kenwoods and all have ptt ids.
NCFD43
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We have ht1000's left over from the old system, and still have them for pager dispatch and backup fireground. Currently we are using apx7000s in the trucks, and apx6000s for portable radios.
patrol530
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hitman38367
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Personal purchased Kenwood TK-730HG in the car. Dept. issued CP200 and Minitor V with stored voice.
TritonBoulder47
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My radios were personally purchased. I have a Motorola M1225 Mobile in my Avalanche and I have a Motorola HT1250 Portable.
CodeMan
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Steve0625
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My ambulance squad issues all VHF Motorola gear:
Every member gets a Minitor V.
All Paramedics, EMT's and a couple of drivers are issued CP200XLS portables.
The ambulance has three CDM1250LS+ 50 watt mobiles.
The base radio is a 50 watt CDM1250 with Zetron 19B store and forward for backup activation.
My personal radios are a 25 watt CDM1250 in the truck and a couple of spare CP150 portables.
Three of the Paramedics also have mobiles: a CDM1250, and Icom F-121, and a Vertex VX-2200.
There's a CDM1250 sitting in a box waiting to be installed in the EMS Chief's truck.
I also have a UHF M1225 mobile in the truck for GMRS plus a CP150 UHF portable.
We have a 100 watt Quantar repeater on a small tower a couple of miles outside the village. The county owns it, but it's located at our highway department's building. Due to geography and coverage issues, we are the primary user day to day.
Every member gets a Minitor V.
All Paramedics, EMT's and a couple of drivers are issued CP200XLS portables.
The ambulance has three CDM1250LS+ 50 watt mobiles.
The base radio is a 50 watt CDM1250 with Zetron 19B store and forward for backup activation.
My personal radios are a 25 watt CDM1250 in the truck and a couple of spare CP150 portables.
Three of the Paramedics also have mobiles: a CDM1250, and Icom F-121, and a Vertex VX-2200.
There's a CDM1250 sitting in a box waiting to be installed in the EMS Chief's truck.
I also have a UHF M1225 mobile in the truck for GMRS plus a CP150 UHF portable.
We have a 100 watt Quantar repeater on a small tower a couple of miles outside the village. The county owns it, but it's located at our highway department's building. Due to geography and coverage issues, we are the primary user day to day.
Personally, I have 2 VHF HT1000, one VHF HT750, and one VHF HT1250.
My FD has CDM1250s in all apparatus and other department vehicles, and some kind of Motorola portable that feels cheap in my hands. I'll pull the model number at lunch time.
My FD has CDM1250s in all apparatus and other department vehicles, and some kind of Motorola portable that feels cheap in my hands. I'll pull the model number at lunch time.
Mobiles...VHF CDM1250's , M11225's MCS2000's we have UHF for our police in all our rigs those are CDM1250's and M1225's
Portable.. VHF Mostly HT1000's still, HT1250's in the newer rigs and soon to be getting APX7000XE's on the county wide 7/800/VHF system
My personal radio.. XTS5000 VHF MIII FPP
Portable.. VHF Mostly HT1000's still, HT1250's in the newer rigs and soon to be getting APX7000XE's on the county wide 7/800/VHF system
My personal radio.. XTS5000 VHF MIII FPP
chief1562
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fleetcomm
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chief1565 said:
Motorola XTS 2500 portables, XTL 2500 and 5000 mobiles. The 5000's were replacements from sprint/nextel rebanding.
timlinson
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SBFD-E-9
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dcfrmp255
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delcofirecop
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we use icom 4011 and 4021 portables and a icom 6021 mobile in the engine we also have one lone ht1250 for the chief and a bunch of ht1000's as spares
My company (construction/utilities) did use HT1000's and MCS2000 and now Kenwood TK-3180 and TK-8160 and TK-8180. We also have some HT1250 and a few CDM1550 that slipped in before we figured out that there would be problems with remote heads. Most of our heavy equipment that has a mounted radio and supervisors trucks use a remote head radio so for the past few years that has been a TK-8180. Crew trucks and larger trucks have just a standard radio which at this point could be any of the above but in the future will be TK-8180's as well just without the remote kit. My truck has a TK-8180 and a HT-1250, I also have a HT1000 on my desk that I haven't used in more then a year.
bwoodruff
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Ah, let's see... my personally owned stuff:
Mobiles:
CDM1250 low band (fire dispatch / MA fireground)
CDM1550 VHF high band (Sheriff dispatch & local fireground)
CDM1550 UHF (future use + amateur)
Yaesu FTM-350 VHF+UHF (amateur)
Yaesu FT-8800 VHF+UHF (amateur base)
Motorla Maxtrac low band (fire dispatch base - retired)
Scanners:
Uniden HP-1 Extreme (base)
Uniden BCT-15X (mobile)
Portables:
HT750 low band
HT1250 VHF high band
HT1250 UHF
Wouxun KG-UV2D
Yaesu VX-7R
Motorola GP-68 UHF
HT1000 VHF
JT1000 VHF
I think that is most of them...
My department primarily uses Motrola CP-185s and CDM750/1250s but we also have some Kenwood, Icom, and older Motorola mobiles.
Mobiles:
CDM1250 low band (fire dispatch / MA fireground)
CDM1550 VHF high band (Sheriff dispatch & local fireground)
CDM1550 UHF (future use + amateur)
Yaesu FTM-350 VHF+UHF (amateur)
Yaesu FT-8800 VHF+UHF (amateur base)
Motorla Maxtrac low band (fire dispatch base - retired)
Scanners:
Uniden HP-1 Extreme (base)
Uniden BCT-15X (mobile)
Portables:
HT750 low band
HT1250 VHF high band
HT1250 UHF
Wouxun KG-UV2D
Yaesu VX-7R
Motorola GP-68 UHF
HT1000 VHF
JT1000 VHF
I think that is most of them...
My department primarily uses Motrola CP-185s and CDM750/1250s but we also have some Kenwood, Icom, and older Motorola mobiles.
Dept uses Kenwood TK 790s with the Cal Fire software upgrade, ups the Channels and creates the command group feature.. hand helds are Bendix King GPH commanders,
in my rig PU is the kenwood tk 790, Bendix king DPH commander and Kenwood Tk 280.
pagers are a mix of motorola Minitor 3,4, and 5s and some relm 3600 series Handhelds..
in my rig PU is the kenwood tk 790, Bendix king DPH commander and Kenwood Tk 280.
pagers are a mix of motorola Minitor 3,4, and 5s and some relm 3600 series Handhelds..
We are an all Kenwood dept. I carry a 280 on my hip and a 7160 in my truck. Dept uses a mix of 7160, 7180, 760 in the trucks and 272, 2180 and 2140 for portables. I will never buy anything else. I trust them with my life, literally
We use all Kenwood VHF P25 radios on both Fire and EMS:
TK-5220 Portables
TK-5710 and TK-5720 Mobiles
Motorola Minitor V Pagers
Personal Equipment P25:
TK-5210K3 portable
TK-5210K2 portable
TK-5720K mobile
TK-5720H mobile
Personal NXDN:
Kenwood NX-210
Personal Analog:
TK-7180H mobile
2-TK-7180k mobile's
TK-2180 portable
TK-8160 my only UHF mobile...
Here is a picture of some of them loaded up on reprogram day...
TK-5220 Portables
TK-5710 and TK-5720 Mobiles
Motorola Minitor V Pagers
Personal Equipment P25:
TK-5210K3 portable
TK-5210K2 portable
TK-5720K mobile
TK-5720H mobile
Personal NXDN:
Kenwood NX-210
Personal Analog:
TK-7180H mobile
2-TK-7180k mobile's
TK-2180 portable
TK-8160 my only UHF mobile...
Here is a picture of some of them loaded up on reprogram day...
FD: Motorola Mt1500 with speak mic in strap
CDM1250 in all trucks
EMS/Rescue: HT1250 with speaker mic in strap or on belt(depends on assignment)
CDM1250 in most, some gm300, one has 2 ken woods, state trucks have 1250s, xtl2000, and some type of 800mghz band radio
OEM/HazMat: HT1250 pr MT1500 (intrinsically safe) with speaker mix in radio strap. If air, we have the Scott Comm system for radios that attach to the mask with a ptt on harness of frame.
All have cdm 1250
NJ EMS Task Force: XTS 2500 or XTS 5000. With speaker mic and either on belt or in radio strap
Mix and match of cdm1250, cdm 1550s, xtl2000, and some type of 800mghz
PD: HT 1000 or HT1250 with speaker miss clipped on duty belt. If at a bar post or situation where notice may be a problem I through an ear wig in.
Gm300 in patrol cars for now, new radios coming soon.
FD,Ems, Rescue, OEM, HAZMAT are all in VHF
PD and EMS Task Force are in UHF.
Task force also has 800
CDM1250 in all trucks
EMS/Rescue: HT1250 with speaker mic in strap or on belt(depends on assignment)
CDM1250 in most, some gm300, one has 2 ken woods, state trucks have 1250s, xtl2000, and some type of 800mghz band radio
OEM/HazMat: HT1250 pr MT1500 (intrinsically safe) with speaker mix in radio strap. If air, we have the Scott Comm system for radios that attach to the mask with a ptt on harness of frame.
All have cdm 1250
NJ EMS Task Force: XTS 2500 or XTS 5000. With speaker mic and either on belt or in radio strap
Mix and match of cdm1250, cdm 1550s, xtl2000, and some type of 800mghz
PD: HT 1000 or HT1250 with speaker miss clipped on duty belt. If at a bar post or situation where notice may be a problem I through an ear wig in.
Gm300 in patrol cars for now, new radios coming soon.
FD,Ems, Rescue, OEM, HAZMAT are all in VHF
PD and EMS Task Force are in UHF.
Task force also has 800
hawkspringsfire
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FD: Motorola Astro Spectra, XTL2500, XTS2500
Sheriff's Office: Motorola Astro Spectra, XTS1500,XTS2500,XTS5000
Personal: Motorola Astro Spectra
Sheriff's Office: Motorola Astro Spectra, XTS1500,XTS2500,XTS5000
Personal: Motorola Astro Spectra
dustymedic
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We work off of a Motorola analog 800 mhz trunking system. At dispatch, we use Moto Gold Elite consoles, with Spectra Astros as back up radios. We have 2 XTS5000 walkies for when we run errands and go to meetings. I have a XTS2500 and a E F Johnson 51SL for off duty use and when I'm out with the fire rehab unit...
foxtrot5 said:
Totally forgot about this until just now. The portables in the trucks are XPR 6350s.
When I'm at my "real job" we have XTS 5000s on (I believe) an 800 system... but I don't normally have any use for those so I don't really care.
patrol530 said:XTS 5000 for the belt, XTL 2500 in the car.
and Beta tested-
We use the same mobile and portable radios (5000s & 2500).
Quick question though...
What is that large Motorola radio head? I have never seen that before. Is it a radio-siren combination system?
Ericsson M-RK
Used for FD but it is issued by the town and is used by PD, FD, EMS, public works, crossing guards, ect
Personally I am not a fan and they are very outdatted
Used for FD but it is issued by the town and is used by PD, FD, EMS, public works, crossing guards, ect
Personally I am not a fan and they are very outdatted
chief1562
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dropfire said:
O9 head for the APX 7500, siren, light control, plus radio control in one head. That said, you also need the radio drawer and the light/siren remote box to make the system work.
RolnCode3
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MTS2000s and Astro Spectras. But we got the letter today about the P25 upgrade so the portables will probably be out around October.
wkr518
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Work: XPR3500 UHF portable,PM400 mobile
FD: XTS1500 display,MTX8000 for Fire Police-uses same charger,lucky me!
GMRS- no business nor work CP200,RDX and a few Icom F-4000
FD: XTS1500 display,MTX8000 for Fire Police-uses same charger,lucky me!
GMRS- no business nor work CP200,RDX and a few Icom F-4000
picone239
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FD (UHF):
Chiefs - MT 1500
Captains - HT1250
Crew/Officer - MT 1500
Fire Prevention - MT 1500
Mobiles: CDM1250, CDM1550, MCS2000, possibly others
PD (UHF):
Patrol/Bosses: XTS 1500
Detectives: EX600
Mobiles: CDM1250, CDM1550, XTL 2500
EMS (VHF):
Portables: MT 1500
Not sure on mobiles
Personal (UHF):
Portables: XTS 1500, PRO7150
Mobile: CDM1550
Chiefs - MT 1500
Captains - HT1250
Crew/Officer - MT 1500
Fire Prevention - MT 1500
Mobiles: CDM1250, CDM1550, MCS2000, possibly others
PD (UHF):
Patrol/Bosses: XTS 1500
Detectives: EX600
Mobiles: CDM1250, CDM1550, XTL 2500
EMS (VHF):
Portables: MT 1500
Not sure on mobiles
Personal (UHF):
Portables: XTS 1500, PRO7150
Mobile: CDM1550
picone239 said:
PEMS used a variety of mobiles while I was there. It varied ambulance to ambulance.