But what channel does the user know they are on until the radio fully boots? "Northwest Central Detectives Tactical-14" or "Central Dispatch-1" š¤£
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But what channel does the user know they are on until the radio fully boots? "Northwest Central Detectives Tactical-14" or "Central Dispatch-1" š¤£
The top display is functional as soon as the radio portion boots up, same as any other APX.
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He is Don't be fooled by him he a serial encryption salesman.
They did it here when they discontinued any and all support on the XTS/XTL radios; most of my customers made a beeline for Harris and Tait.
I may get an APXNext all-band for testing and so on, but if you have to go to the touchscreen to do much of anything it's going to be el floppo around here. And don't get me started on VIQI.... with our current radios I can't get 99% of our personnel to remember anything other than the name of the dispatch channel, let alone zone names and what is in each zone. I can just imagine one of them saying "VIQI switch to Zone XX" (it being the wrong zone) and then trying to say "VIQI go to Channel XXX". Won't work, they get ticked off and have to haul the radio out of the holster, manually scroll to the desired zone, and manually switch to the desired channel. Won't fly.
And ditto on boot time for the KVL5000; it's Android based, takes forever and 8 days to boot up. If the APXNext is anything like that, it will be a massive PITA.
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Got apx?
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Not me they are garbage.
Not around here; we have several still deployed and they're working fine, although some look like they've been through the wars. Good, reliable, rugged radios.
The issue comes in when replacement is necessary; Motorola's prices are considerably higher than Harris, Tait or EF Kensonwood, so our customers ran away from /\/\ screaming. Plus /\/\ codeplug management is a PITA; with the others, I can use a single codeplug for multiple models of radio simply by telling the software what the radio is, and the software ignores any programmed features which aren't in the radio.
I wouldn't consider that the same thing as ditching the legacy APX design and only retaining the NEXT series. The XTS/XTL were replaced with the APX series, and there was quite a few years of overlap between the series where the ASTRO 25 line was still supported. To the untrained eye, there really isn't much difference between an XTL and an early APX mobile...O5 heads, same deck, etc. The biggest difference was that the APX supported TDMA. Yes, the portable design was quite a bit different from the XTS, however they are both pretty straightforward "standard" radios. The NEXT is anything but standard.
Do you ever have anything pleasant/constructive to say? Only when it comes to your ego-boosting APX collection I guess, huh?
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Has Moto changed the flavor of their Kool-Aid over the years of is it still raspberry flavor?
BTW, garbage truck operators wear vests that look like your APX's
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