Advice For Programming VX-2200

[ccravens]

I am planning on purchasing a new radio in the next few months and have decided that the VX-2200 seems to be the best option for me. The main thing I am looking for is more or less your opinions on how difficult it is to program. I have programmed countless scanners for other people but they way I understand it radios are much more complicated. It would be a lot cheaper for me to program the radio myself rather than have the local shop to do it, since they charge $1 per channel and I will probably have to reprogram it from time to time. Any good advice will help me make my decision. Thanks.

 

[stevelton]

I am an Icom dealer, so I am really used to programming Icom radios. I was asked to get the programming cables and software for a few vertex radios for Our local EMA. I took me a few times of reading the help menu, but after about 3 hours, I had figured most of the options out. I programmed these with windows XP and a real vertex cable, not a clone.
They are nice radios. One of the things I really like about the vx2200. You can program the buttons for many different things, for a long hold down, or a momentary press. But the one thing it lacks, there is no way to re-write the priority channel. This is useful if certain days you are on call for fire, and then other times on call for EMT.
Steven

 

[auxscan]

better than brooklyn

you got it good, my local dealer charges $40 a zone, so 16 channels for $40 BUCKS. So two $2.50 for each channel.

However the department dealer charges $40 per a radio. So if you have a 200 ch radio or 512 ch radio programming all the frequencies would be $40. So two cents per a channel lol.

 

[Maverick22]

Steven, I have a vx2200 ltr model. There is an option to assign a button as the home channel set. The way i understand it, the home channel is the priority channel. I dont have a conventional model and it may (and probably is since i havent seen one) be different.

 

[stevelton]

Thank you. I will try that and see how it works.
Steven

 

[Maverick22]

You will also have to enable home channel scan. If you cant find it, let me know and i'll look it up.

 

[ColonelMike]

When programming a narrowband channel in, is it as easy as selecting narrow on the channel edit screen? I have done this but the voice is lower than other radio's when it is transmitting thru our narrowband channels on the repeater. Someone told me that I need to change something else to increase the loudness but I have no clue what they are talking about.