Kenwood NX 210

[dankoos]

My son was railfanning and a guy came along and said he was a former railroad employee and gave him this radio. Two questions:

1) I assume he wont be able to talk/transmit?? Guessing that would not be good

2) the instructions I found online say to scan frequencies, hit the button that was programmed as the scan key. None are labeled as such, how do I know which one it is??

 

[DeoVindice]

1. Yes, ideally the radio should be reprogrammed to disable transmit on any frequencies he is not authorized to use.

2. Any or all of the buttons on those radios can be programmed to start/stop scanning. Just try each of them, you probably won't mess anything up. The NX-210 is basically a TK-2180 set up for NXDN.

 

[mmckenna]

Wow, good deal.
Our PD is still using those radios. Pretty dang durable.
The Railroad versions have different firmware in them, and programming requires a different type of software than what is available to the general public.

You may find that it doesn't have a scan function programmed, as scanning will often result in missing important traffic. As DeoVindice said, these radios are programmable, and which buttons were programmed to do which functions will vary depending on the owner.
You can try pressing buttons and see if it'll scan. If it is, it might show "SCAN" on the screen, or it might just show a circle with two arrows on the top row.

 

[n3obl]

They are nice radios. I had wished they made a 310. Go figure VHF and 800 model! I think they would have sold a bunch of them on UHF.