Viking Operating Manuals

[Synapt]

Anyone know offhand a source for operating/user manuals for the EFJohnson (Kenwood) Viking series radios? Specifically the VP & VM 6000's (Specifically the VP6430 and VM6930 if that matters). I found some old user manuals for the VP400's and VP600's but nothing for the newer 6000's.

EFJohnson isn't the most responsive company unfortunately (been trying to get officially certified for ages and they never have anything posted on the site or respond to inquiries about it, and I'm pretty rural so nothing even remotely local), and I'm trying to put together a little crash course training presentation as our county is going into a functionally forced radio upgrade into 800MHz P25 but the county for the most part only supports Motorola's (long dramatic and corruption-likely story to this one lol) as far as training goes, despite the fact a significant portion of the county mixed in some Vikings with the Motorola's.

I'm familiar enough with the Vikings that I can put something together myself but I'd love to be able to save a little time by referencing user manual things for the more fine-use things in the screen menus. But damned be if they don't make a digital/PDF copy of the operating manuals an absolute pain in the ass to obtain lol.

 

[kd4efm]

Out of town, email me evans@rrt2way.com
I will see what I have for vp6000.

 

[Synapt]

Out of town, email me evans@rrt2way.com
I will see what I have for vp6000.

Will do here shortly, thanks. Like I have just about every spec, data and info sheet you can possibly find for them, just not an actual full operating manual (which is funny because every sheet references the operating manual but doesn't give any URL to it lol).

 

[LTR]

All of the Viking radios come with a card in the box with a QR code to download a Quick Reference Guide. Also your dealer should have access to the Quick Reference Guides and the full Operator Manuals too.

 

[Synapt]

All of the Viking radios come with a card in the box with a QR code to download a Quick Reference Guide. Also your dealer should have access to the Quick Reference Guides and the full Operator Manuals too.

Ah wish I saw that message before I just went up to the station, I could have grabbed one while I was there lol.

Yeah I talked to our main dealer, she talked to I guess their main intermediary and all they gave her was some subscriber overview PDFs lol, which is why I was like screw it I'll just make something myself at this point.

Our network is supposed to start launching next week and I'm set to do a class for the motorola's on Sunday, I just wanted to cover the Viking's as well since so many of us in the county opted to get them as well.

 

[n7maq-1]

EFJ Does have one on the myefj site. It won't attach due to the file size. Here is a link.

Dropbox

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Anyone know offhand a source for operating/user manuals for the EFJohnson (Kenwood) Viking series radios? Specifically the VP & VM 6000's (Specifically the VP6430 and VM6930 if that matters). I found some old user manuals for the VP400's and VP600's but nothing for the newer 6000's.

EFJohnson isn't the most responsive company unfortunately (been trying to get officially certified for ages and they never have anything posted on the site or respond to inquiries about it, and I'm pretty rural so nothing even remotely local), and I'm trying to put together a little crash course training presentation as our county is going into a functionally forced radio upgrade into 800MHz P25 but the county for the most part only supports Motorola's (long dramatic and corruption-likely story to this one lol) as far as training goes, despite the fact a significant portion of the county mixed in some Vikings with the Motorola's.

I'm familiar enough with the Vikings that I can put something together myself but I'd love to be able to save a little time by referencing user manual things for the more fine-use things in the screen menus. But damned be if they don't make a digital/PDF copy of the operating manuals an absolute pain in the ass to obtain lol.

 

[Synapt]

EFJ Does have one on the myefj site. It won't attach due to the file size. Here is a link.

Dropbox

www.dropbox.com

Yeah I've been waiting ages for an 'account approval/review' for there. I just managed to finally catch someone by phone at EFJohnson, at least I'm not crazy and my memory of there being like a whole training portal was accurate, he said though they recently took it down while they work on a paid annual-subscription training portal :/

But he's gonna send me all the old training resources he still has available so I'll see what all they toss me (he said it should include the operating manuals as well).

 

[mauzy]

Where on myefj did you find the operating manual? I can't find anything there or in vault.

 

[DeoVindice]

VM5000-VM6000-VM7000 Operating Manual - 002-VMX000-100 Rev 09.pdf

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www.dropbox.com

Here's a link to the operating manual for the Gen2 mobiles.