Used VHF P25 Mobile Rig

[rja1]

Looking for an ICOM VHF p25 mobile rig for 2 meter use and to listen to a P25 utility in my area. It's a state wide trunked system, but has little traffic, except after a major weather event. At home, I listen to it on a Home Patrol-1 and a BCD996T scanner. It also works fine on an R2500 if I put in the local control channels. I don't want to get involved with a trunking land mobile rig because of issues with the radio trying to affiliate with the trunking system. And I don't have a system key.

The rig should be able to do wide & narrow and have 2.5 & 5 Khz steps. A detachable control head would be nice, too. Is there anything on the used market that fits the bill??

I'm (unfortunately) in NY, so a scanner in the car isn't an option. I just want a rig that does 2 Meter FM and VHF P25 Rx.

Any Ideas?

Tnx & 73,
Bob
N2OAM

 

[12dbsinad]

A F1721D has P25 conventional and remote mount kit available. It would have to also have older firmware in it in order to be able to do both wide/narrow. All newer firmware (and new radios) locks the radio to narrow only. I am not 100% certain but I believe analog 3.0 was the last firmware before narrowband lock.

 

[kayn1n32008]

Looking for an ICOM VHF p25 mobile rig for 2 meter use and to listen to a P25 utility in my area. It's a state wide trunked system, but has little traffic, except after a major weather event. At home, I listen to it on a Home Patrol-1 and a BCD996T scanner. It also works fine on an R2500 if I put in the local control channels. I don't want to get involved with a trunking land mobile rig because of issues with the radio trying to affiliate with the trunking system. And I don't have a system key.



The rig should be able to do wide & narrow and have 2.5 & 5 Khz steps. A detachable control head would be nice, too. Is there anything on the used market that fits the bill??



I'm (unfortunately) in NY, so a scanner in the car isn't an option. I just want a rig that does 2 Meter FM and VHF P25 Rx.



Any Ideas?



Tnx & 73,

Bob

N2OAM

Have you even looked at the www.icomamerica.com website?


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[rja1]

Yes, that was the first place I looked. There's talk that the current crop of land mobile radios is narrowband ONLY. Not good for ham / repeater use. Besides, I'm looking for used, as I don't want to pay $1000++ for a single band mobile rig.

Bob
N2OAM

 

[kayn1n32008]

The website is a place to start. Now you see the options for what you are looking for, start hunting for them in the used market place. Likely there is an option to allow wideband programming, as lots of VHF is still +/-5KHz wideband. Is there a reason you won't look at other manufacturers? Vertex and Kenwood both offer VHF P25 mobiles, that can be remote mounted... In terms of quality IMHO Kenwood is light years ahead of Icom and Vertex.


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