VX-4207-7 Question

[jordoncloutier]

hello all ,

I recently picked up this VX-4207-7-45 from a garage sale for $40 bucks, I have zero experience with commercial radios and was hoping it was a 2m radio but I am realizing it is a 450-500ish radio .

unit powers on , beeps when I scroll through the channels . seems to have a handful of channels programmed into it . I have no means of testing output or anything but I can attach an antenna and maybe call for a radio check .

Is it worth cleaning up and flipping for a profit , or can it be programmed for a different frequency range ?

Thanks , any info will help

 

[radiotweester]

They are good COMMERCIAL radios. Nice price. 501 channels to pre-program. Work great on HAM. The 450-500 radios can be brought down near 440. Do NOT just key it up! just attaching an antenna and keying up you'll LIKELY end up with pissed off people on the other end at best. There is a BUNCH of legal stuff regarding FCC, freqs and licenses. Get a cheap power/SWR meter for UHF and a 50W dummy load. Are you a HAM, GMRS, CB or no license?

 

[jordoncloutier]

They are good COMMERCIAL radios. Nice price. 501 channels to pre-program. Work great on HAM. The 450-500 radios can be brought down near 440. Do NOT just key it up! just attaching an antenna and keying up you'll LIKELY end up with pissed off people on the other end at best. There is a BUNCH of legal stuff regarding FCC, freqs and licenses. Get a cheap power/SWR meter for UHF and a 50W dummy load. Are you a HAM, GMRS, CB or no license?

I'm in Canada . We don't require gmrs licensing here . Besides let's be real , the FCC does.not enforce their laws or not around here at least . The big scary threat that if you key up or talk on a frequency without a license the FCC will hunt you down and give you a fine is just a fairy tail that most hams tell everyone . Im not buying any of it ... As long as I'm not saying inappropriate, hurtful or playing music over the frequencies I'll be fine ... Doing a few radio checks will not get me in trouble. .. if someone truly had an issue I'm sure they would pipe up on the frequency and tell me to stop . Which hasn't happened yet .

 

[radiotweester]

I missed your location before. In all honesty malicious interference is what the FCC in the US really goes after, public safety interference being highest priority. I've had my hands on a number of these radios since they came out and still own and use a couple VHF and UHF A & D models. As long as you know what the " handful of channels" are, like GMRS cool. I'd still consider getting a meter so if something is messed up with antenna or coax you'll know that your 45W out isn't reflecting 30W back to the radio and high power is actually that and RF transistor is only putting out a few Watts. I had this happen recently on a UHF D model. Only other thing is the newer the firmware, the more option you are able to use (MDC1200 encode)