Vault licensing options, what's perpetual?

[ve2hkw]

So just had a meeting with the radio committee I'm a part of and one of the main questions that came out of that meeting was what licenses are perpetual for the VP8000 radio and which ones do you have to buy every time. I know that the P25 stuff is perpetual, and I'd assume DMR now falls in that category as well, but I was also wondering if the band options are forward transferable as those are very pricey as well.

Basically, what licenses (if any) are not forward transferable between Viking radios?

Cheers,
Harrison Kyle VE2HKW

 

[tweiss3]

Significantly less than you would think. This is what my vault says, only P25 conventional and Phase1 are conventional. Ph2 and DMR are not.

 

[DeoVindice]

MDC1200, Conventional Mobile Data, and FireSafe are perpetual as well.

 

[AM909]

In a demo VP8000, these show up as "perpetual":

• FireSafe Commander
• FireSafe Responder
• MDC-1200
• P25 Conventional
• P25 Data Conventional
• P25 Data Trunking
• P25 Phase 1 Trunking

there were supposed to be at least three more according to some announcement somewhere, but I don't know what they are.

These are "not transferable":

• 1024 Channels/Talkgroups
• 7/800
• ARC4
• Audio Recording
• Bluetooth
• Bluetooth Low Energy
• Cloning
• Custom Transmit Power
• Disable 25kHz
• DMR Tier II Conventional
• Enhanced VRS Portable
• GPS
• Instant Recording Replay
• Keypad Programming
• Man Down
• Multi Key AES
• Multi Key DES
• OTAP
• OTAR
• OTIP
• P25 Authentication
• P25 Paging Decode
• P25 Phase 2 TDMA
• Text Messaging
• UHF
• VHF
• WiFi

Here was another related thread: vp8000 seller cant transfer ownership

 

[otobmark]

No beef in that burger….
As is they should forget the entire scheme and just keep radios competitive without coupon clipping.

 

[AM909]

I like the idea, in total. I think they should move some more of the licenses to perpetual, though.

 

[csimpson911]

I spoke with some EFJ folks about the vault/perpetual license issue, they said....so take this for what that is worth. "Once they recoup the money they spent on creating the vault all licenses will be perpetual.
My question...well how close are we to that amount? Can we get a counted posted somewhere so we know when/if this may happen. That was a no go, but I tried.

 

[AM909]

Sounds like a "tongue-in-cheek" response.