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We are unable to keep up with the $2K plus price tag for Kenwood. Has anyone had favorable results using the Icom F7510 P25 in LE or Fire applications?
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Anyone using the F7510 in Public Safety Application?
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We do. Most are Conventional P25 systems, some analog. Initial release had lots of bugs. Seems fixed now with firmware updates and no real issues now. The RMK separation kits suck if you need to go that route. Very cumbersome. RX audio isn't the best unless you run external speakers (tiny, more so on analog). Transmit audio is great. For the money they are pretty good and have been reliable. Hope that helps.
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This does help. I have one that I have been testing for about a week with an external Motorola speaker. I agree, much better than the faceplate speaker. We are too poor for a remote mount so this will be dropped into a console as is. We will give this a shot and see how it goes. This is quite a bit more affordable than the other manufacturers.
Used alot of the 9500 series in SAR for conventional P25. Still have 4 in service. For conventional stuff the ICOM isn't a bad unit.
