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Relm RPV3600a Opinions
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I currently own a few of the RPV3600 series radios. One RPV3600A and one RPV3600APlus (256 channel 16 zone with longer alpha tags and MDC1200) - I do like both of them, paging works great, stored voice works sometimes (due to our screwed up dispatch center) but otherwise, it will catch pages that my Minitor 5 does not. Just make sure you program your paging channel for no PL or it won't always pick them up in the fringe areas. Then again, there are some areas that you can hear pages more than 5 miles away from the repeater sites. Unlike us.
KE7TJK
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How do the RELM radios do as far as adjacent channel rejection?
One of my Motorolas always jumps to the priority channel when a strong signal is heard on another channel.
Very annoying, and I constantly miss stuff on the non priority channels, unless I grab the radio, and hold the antenna.
One of my Motorolas always jumps to the priority channel when a strong signal is heard on another channel.
Very annoying, and I constantly miss stuff on the non priority channels, unless I grab the radio, and hold the antenna.
Secret_Squirrel
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tomtefe said:
For some reason, the battery life really sucks on them. The audio sounds muffled and slightly distored on the radios as well. My local fire department bought about 10 of these radios from our local dealer and even the local dealer isn't selling them anymore. The Relm RPV599A-Plus's are a good radio and what I would use if I had the choice.
Well, not to argue with you, but as far as the battery life issue, i have not run into that problem personally. And the audio issue is more than likely due to programming, turning on the compander on that paticular unit does not do the trick. Simply turn it off and it sounds and works excellent!
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anyone needing a fairly inexpensive vhf radio for fire/ems and even ham should look into a kenwood tk-2170.got one a week ago.so far i'm very happy with it.128 ch's/128 zone's.
136-174.it has audio as loud as or louder than a motorola portable.the audio is speced at 500 mw or 1/2 a watt.it has 8 character alpha tagging.you can also designate channel's as pager channel's.i believe it can be setup on 3 different tone set's.while i don't know anything about the particular relm hh that is being discussed in this thread,i do know that some relm portables don't cut it as public safety radio's.
anyone needing a fairly inexpensive vhf radio for fire/ems and even ham should look into a kenwood tk-2170.got one a week ago.so far i'm very happy with it.128 ch's/128 zone's.
136-174.it has audio as loud as or louder than a motorola portable.the audio is speced at 500 mw or 1/2 a watt.it has 8 character alpha tagging.you can also designate channel's as pager channel's.i believe it can be setup on 3 different tone set's.while i don't know anything about the particular relm hh that is being discussed in this thread,i do know that some relm portables don't cut it as public safety radio's.
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Relm/BK RPV3600A
I use this radio for both Fire/EMS works great for both. I use the 2-tone as my pager when I'm on the "Day Crew" I like the Vibrate alert and the stored voice option especially if I'm in loud areas. The only thing I have to say bad about it was the field programing was very screwy. It would only let me program 16Ch. in Zone 1 and would not in all the other zones. But i fixed that by purchasing the PC Programing Kit. Works Great!!!
I use this radio for both Fire/EMS works great for both. I use the 2-tone as my pager when I'm on the "Day Crew" I like the Vibrate alert and the stored voice option especially if I'm in loud areas. The only thing I have to say bad about it was the field programing was very screwy. It would only let me program 16Ch. in Zone 1 and would not in all the other zones. But i fixed that by purchasing the PC Programing Kit. Works Great!!!
i use a rpv3600 for ems and i love it. it is small, easy to use, and does twice what the ht1250 can do.
Like what?
hey, in the RES program under 2tone for each encode tone you want to do you have to turn group call off then it makes it 2 tones
Holy Guacamole Batman! The thread is back from the dead!
Having problems with the decode on my RPV3600A Plus. I can get the radio to encode the right frequencies, there by setting off all of the near by pagers, but i cannot get it to trip when the tones are played over the air. Anyone else have this problem? I gave up programming this radio a year ago after i got frustrated...
Having problems with the decode on my RPV3600A Plus. I can get the radio to encode the right frequencies, there by setting off all of the near by pagers, but i cannot get it to trip when the tones are played over the air. Anyone else have this problem? I gave up programming this radio a year ago after i got frustrated...
I have a Relm 7500 it has the paging feature, I believe it and holds 256 channels and is a great radio. Has loud audio just as loud as the HT 1000. I also have a Relm 6500, its not as well built though as the 7500 and the volume is not as loud. I know its not the 3600 but thought you may take a look at the 7500 its made very well and can be bought for a decent price.
Hope this helps you out some.
Fireant
Hope this helps you out some.
Fireant
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Resurrecting this thread one more time...
Can anyone here help me?
I'm the Fire Chief of a very small, isolated all-volunteer fire department in frontier north-central Oregon. We just recently received by way of donation a dozen of these really nice RELM RPV3600A portables and four RM800 mobiles along with programming software and cables.These are the very first radios this town's fire department has ever had. The programming gear is especially nice becuse otherwise it costs us an arm and a leg to have the radio tech (2 hours north, so everything must be shipped to him and we don't see the radios for a while) do the programming whenever there needs to be a change.
I figured out how to program the portables by cable from the PC (could never get the drivers to work with Windows 7, so am using Windows XP) and even figured out the wireless cloning (VERY COOL).
However, I need some help figuring out how to program these radios to decode/encode paging. We have Motorola Minitor 4 pagers and these portables. The pagers and the portables have the same primary frequency and I know the pager tones and information. However, I would like to see if someone out there could give me a little bit of instruction as to how to program these portables (or at least one or two) to encode pager tones/all of them decode pager tones that are the same as the Minitor 4s. I THINK I know where to enter what information but one of our two page tones is something like 367.5 and that ".5" can't be entered. Unless I'm doing something wrong.
We do our dispatching locally. There is no fire service repeater out here. PSAP, which is 2 hours north of here, calls me (or one of my deputies covering for me while I'm away) directly by cell phone and I alert my crew locally. We use the Sheriff's Department repeater on their frequencies for emergency communications and status updates with dispatch (they have no paging capability on that) and do all of our tactical stuff on our primary frequency.
Any help would be greately appreciated. Please PM me.
Sure wish I could wirelessly clone from portable to the RM800. The cable I got for programming that has FEMALE serial cable plug (the other end is for the MIC jack). Unfortunately, our laptop doesn't have a serial port with male jack. The back end of the RM800 has a femal serial cable jack as well. I thought perhaps a serial-to-USB adapter might solve this. Any help on this as well would also be welcome.
Can anyone here help me?
I'm the Fire Chief of a very small, isolated all-volunteer fire department in frontier north-central Oregon. We just recently received by way of donation a dozen of these really nice RELM RPV3600A portables and four RM800 mobiles along with programming software and cables.These are the very first radios this town's fire department has ever had. The programming gear is especially nice becuse otherwise it costs us an arm and a leg to have the radio tech (2 hours north, so everything must be shipped to him and we don't see the radios for a while) do the programming whenever there needs to be a change.
I figured out how to program the portables by cable from the PC (could never get the drivers to work with Windows 7, so am using Windows XP) and even figured out the wireless cloning (VERY COOL).
However, I need some help figuring out how to program these radios to decode/encode paging. We have Motorola Minitor 4 pagers and these portables. The pagers and the portables have the same primary frequency and I know the pager tones and information. However, I would like to see if someone out there could give me a little bit of instruction as to how to program these portables (or at least one or two) to encode pager tones/all of them decode pager tones that are the same as the Minitor 4s. I THINK I know where to enter what information but one of our two page tones is something like 367.5 and that ".5" can't be entered. Unless I'm doing something wrong.
We do our dispatching locally. There is no fire service repeater out here. PSAP, which is 2 hours north of here, calls me (or one of my deputies covering for me while I'm away) directly by cell phone and I alert my crew locally. We use the Sheriff's Department repeater on their frequencies for emergency communications and status updates with dispatch (they have no paging capability on that) and do all of our tactical stuff on our primary frequency.
Any help would be greately appreciated. Please PM me.
Sure wish I could wirelessly clone from portable to the RM800. The cable I got for programming that has FEMALE serial cable plug (the other end is for the MIC jack). Unfortunately, our laptop doesn't have a serial port with male jack. The back end of the RM800 has a femal serial cable jack as well. I thought perhaps a serial-to-USB adapter might solve this. Any help on this as well would also be welcome.
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