New Radios

[Meestor_X]

Thank you. A lot of choices there, I wish companies would do a feature matrix of all their products on their webpages! It takes forever looking through spec sheets and trying to remember which product has which feature!

How much is the CPS software, and is it available to anyone?

 

[Hit_Factor]

CPS was a free download from the dealer. Updated software and firmware is readily available via search. Depends a lot on your tolerance.

There is a local Hytera dealer, so it's easy for me to stay up to date.

I can see dealers charging a small service fee in some cases.

 

[Meestor_X]

CPS was a free download from the dealer. Updated software and firmware is readily available via search. Depends a lot on your tolerance.

There is a local Hytera dealer, so it's easy for me to stay up to date.

I can see dealers charging a small service fee in some cases.

Sounds a bit odd. If the software is free, why isn't available through Hytera? Is it that maybe the dealers aren't SUPPOSED to be giving away the software?

 

[Hit_Factor]

I don't know. As I said it was free from dealer.

 

[memtech3]

The CP200d does have voice announcement capability.

If you want smaller, lighter, and less expensive, I'd say the EVX-261. Especially if you don't care about it working on a trunking system, or playing nicely with other brands/models of radios. They're not super rugged, but they're decent & have a 3 year warranty.

The EVX-261 has channel announce, Analog & Digital DMR, plus it's smaller & lighter than the CP200d. Cost should be about 25% less than what you've been paying for new CP200's. Oh, and DMR digital has much less latency/call setup than your 900 Mhz DTR's.

I've heard the evx 261 has bad audio and is overall a bad radio

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