Squelchtail
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With most of the commercial radio manufacturers not making lowband radios anymore what model of radio is CHP using currently?
With most of the commercial radio manufacturers not making lowband radios anymore what model of radio is CHP using currently?
There may be a closeup of the old GE control head on this page.For 2018 & 2019 CHP motorcycle units out of the Templeton barracks (Monterey County) area still have & use "ancient" 1980's GE low band
mobile radios. Though all motorcycles units back in 2018 did in fact have their VHF mobile repeaters removed, and 2018 I started to see the 700MHz mobile repeaters in use. Each CHP officer obviously had a brand new Motorola 700/800MHz radio now, no more VHF hand-held portable. See the attached below pic of the old 1980's GE mobile radio. I tried to attach close up pics of the remote head, the mobile rptr antenna, but the file sizes are too big. Another pic I have that's too big, that motorcycle has a Kenwood TK-690 remote head. In the below pic, the left handle bar is where the 700MHz mobile rptr antenna is located.
Is CHP getting rid of that ungodly awful CPVE thing they were using, and going back to separate radio/lights/computer?
...the asterisk and hazard light buttons...[/QUOTE said:What do those two buttons control?
On the old GE heads the asterisk activated the vehicle extender, not sure about the hazard button.
Budget for next system
The plan is in progress to move away from it as detailed in the budget request.
Hazard likely controls just that - the hazards. CHP does use them. Glad to hear that the plan is to move away from CPVE. It was a nice thought, but entirely overkill and entirely too expensive. As a taxpayer, I didn't appreciate the fact that they chose to outfit EVERY vehicle as a massive interoperability platform. The equipment in the vehicle costs more than the vehicle itself. There's a problem there.
After reading that document, that's the best news I've heard all year!