When will VSELP DIE

[BRIAN99]

Hello:
I live in Trenton N.J. and my Police Dept. is still using VSELP digital which can not be received by digital scanners. I have been waiting 2 years for them to change to APCO25
because I was told that VSELP was on it's way out. I bought two digital scanners. I guess I overeacted. I listend to my POLICE DEPT. FOR 30 YEARS BEFORE THEY WENT DIGITAL IN 1996. Does anyone have any information?
Thank You,
Brian

 

[mancow]

VSELP astro sabers can be had fairly cheap on ebay. Unless they are encrypted one should work fine.

 

[N_Jay]

Hello:
I live in Trenton N.J. and my Police Dept. is still using VSELP digital which can not be received by digital scanners. I have been waiting 2 years for them to change to APCO25
because I was told that VSELP was on it's way out. I bought two digital scanners. I guess I overeacted. I listend to my POLICE DEPT. FOR 30 YEARS BEFORE THEY WENT DIGITAL IN 1996. Does anyone have any information?
Thank You,
Brian

They will change when they want to or when they have to.

It is up to their funding and equipment needs.

 

[RocketNJ]

They will change when a critical piece of equipment dies and can no longer be replaced.
THey'll run that system to the ground.

 

[steveng]

Motorola RSS will not support the VSELP Astro Saber after 2007. Thats why Cleveland has begun taking bids for a new radio system. Also Vselp Vocons are becoming much harder to come by. Steveng

 

[Grog]

Just because mother M does not support it, does not mean they won't be used. My county Sheriff still has some units using HT600s

 

[rescue161]

Just because mother M does not support it, does not mean they won't be used. My county Sheriff still has some units using HT600s

The thing is, HT600's are analog only, so any analog radio can talk to them and vice versa.

The thing with VSELP is that only Motorola VSELP Astro Sabers, VSELP Astro Spectras and some VSELP XTS3000's will work. Now Motorola does not even support or sell anything to replace old VSELP Vocons, so if a radio breaks, there is nothing to replace it with. They'll try to sell you IMBE radios which will not work even though they're digital.

As someone has said in the past, "Analog = Interoperability."

Edit: Forgot to add, I personally think those old Genesis radios, HT600, MT1000, etc, were awesome radios. We abused the crap out of them and they kept on ticking.

 

[K4APR]

I personally think those old Genesis radios, HT600, MT1000, etc, were awesome radios. We abused the crap out of them and they kept on ticking.

I work on HT600s and MT1000s almost daily and they really are a workhorse. Owned several myself. We have alot of older PD and FD departments in my part of Virginia and they are trying to make the old gear hold up...and they do. I rarely have to retire one.