A neighbor of mine has a PR400 radio supplied by the local FD...and now they want another one because its not picking up calls clearly / picking a lot of stray static. The FD just got some new radios 3500e but of course not enough, with the time it would take to wait on a grant he thought he could buy one himself [most likely eBay] and have me program it. Now I'm not familiar with the pr400s but could I copy the existing programing to a different pr400? or better yet to a 3500e? Any feedback on this would be extremely helpful, Thanks.
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Programing PR400 question.
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I’m betting this is for a volunteer department that doesn’t do interior fire fighting? Lots of volunteer departments use lower tier radios, so it’s not that unusual.
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