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Found a Chinesium APX 8000 on ebay.
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rescuecomm
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With respect to what few agency guys actually post here.
What about you guys who buy the real used Motorolas, do you wear real Ray-Bans when you pose? Nobody carries an HT these days unless the job requires it. What do you with all that M bling? Closet whackers?
What about you guys who buy the real used Motorolas, do you wear real Ray-Bans when you pose? Nobody carries an HT these days unless the job requires it. What do you with all that M bling? Closet whackers?
kato
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Chinese APX, sounds like a lawsuit from Motorola. They sued Hytera for millions, but seems to be a stretch on collecting any money from the Chinese.
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rescuecomm
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Hytera has a lot of business in western Europe and the USA worth more than the radio business. As far as suing the Chinese companies, one might as well try to sue Vladimir Putin for the pain and suffering in Ukraine. The naming is a ploy to capture web browsing American's attentions. And it works.
MTS2000des
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Yep, all with stolen IP from other companies who developed and patented them. but who cares right? Victimless crime. Well fortunately someone does. They are thieves and scoundrels. Right up there with Huawei.
rescuecomm
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I was making the point that doing business in western countries requires one to respect the laws of copyrights. Hytera is based in Europe. The people marketing the Hamgeek are behind the bamboo curtain. If Taiwan is invaded, we may get a chance to change that. By we, I mean you and I going ashore with the young men. Do you have the guts for that?
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OT but the Huawei tablet I have is the best device I ever owned.
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I was almost gonna take one for the team until I read somewhere that the thing won't recognize USB and there's no software to be found.
And besides, CCR's arewhere I'm at on the food/income chain. And I do like the looks.
And besides, CCR's arewhere I'm at on the food/income chain. And I do like the looks.
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So I bought this sort of as a gag, but just as an item to have as a side unit. Nevermind that, I obviously want it programmed like everything else, so where does one download this software? Seems too new to be on github et al.
TIA
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It would appear there is knock offs, of the knock off which doesn't contain any sim slots but has components where it would go. I'm not surprised by the knock offs of a knock off.
It has its own version of mdc which is laughable and for this wondering cannot decode or encode mdc1200 or any lower variant of. It has its own version.
Battery is different obviously so no real batteries will not fit these unless the actual knock off can. But the hamgeek ones are pretty light and cheap as expected from a knock off.
It has its own version of mdc which is laughable and for this wondering cannot decode or encode mdc1200 or any lower variant of. It has its own version.
Battery is different obviously so no real batteries will not fit these unless the actual knock off can. But the hamgeek ones are pretty light and cheap as expected from a knock off.
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I was on a video they said the hamgreek apx 8000 is made by Motorola it was a daul band radio that was supposed to sell for cheap but they thought it was a bad idea and kicked it to the curve and sold it off to some company and these is it. I actually brought one from eBay good radio love the audio
rescuecomm
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Sorry guys, but it's been 40 years since big M sold a radio for $120.00 other than the FRS consumer stuff.
mmckenna
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They already had a dual band APX model. I would take whatever video that is with a grain of salt.
rescuecomm
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That's the PoC/UHF version. I presume it would need a SIM card to access cellular networks. As a guess, the Hamgeek version would have a different motherboard. It's another way to amortize the cost of the injection molding dies for the case halves.I found a site with a download link to the programming software in case anyone wants to have a look.
Military Intercom XL6500 GPS POC UHF 4G LTE SIM Card Two-way Radio Long Range Phones Telecommunications Police - ALAFONE
Alafone Military Walkie Talkie XL6500 POC+UHF+SIM Card Two-way Radio Long Range phones Telecommunications Police Phone Transceiver Global PTT+Analog UHF +Phone Call LTE 4G POC support 72 countries: Europe: Britain, France, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, the Netherlands, Finland, Norway, Poland...www.alafone.com
The actual version non sim dual bual (🤣) band software is a zip file named 608.zip or some sort.
There is no way they'd make this. Now if they were going to they tossed idea all together and it would have had different firmware and software in the radio completely and would have been more like a actual apx with less ability.
I think that is just rumor as it would not make sense for them to waste time with it.
It's a junk honestly. The PL tone works minus the reverse burst doesn't and squelch is awful.
rescuecomm
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Guess you guys will have to pony up $7000 for the real Mccoy. Too bad.
Own several personally and have fleet but the Chinese fire cracker is fun to break.
The correct file for the non sim is 680.exe not 608 for those wondering.
And it just happens to have the exact frequency ranges as CCR's, including the FM broadcast band. What a coincidence.
And I think you mean "kicked it to the curb"...but I could be wrong.
