Can anyone suggest a good dealer to purchase the VP8000 from? I am looking to get a quote for a single portable all band P25 and DMR with front pad programability. Anyone have any idea what the general cost for this would be? Thanks.
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List price on my invoice for V/U only with P25, DMR, 4K channels, cable and 5 year armada was $8800 before sales tax. I had a few other options as well.
EFJ Viking dealers have sales territories, and they are pretty strict on them. You should reach out to your local dealer.
EFJ Viking dealers have sales territories, and they are pretty strict on them. You should reach out to your local dealer.
+1 on what was posted above. Also, find out if any local municipal group is going to that radio, and if you can tack your order onto a larger one.....might lower the cost a bit.
However, they may want to only do this for someone that needs interoperability or the ability to listen to a trunked network. (Coordinating the purchase for some fire departments to maintain interoperability, and our orders are getting tacked onto a county wide order for VP8000 P25 Phase 2 VHF/UHF/7/800 MHz as part of a county upgrade). The cost is about half what you were given, but we are also buying at least two dozen radios, and have interoperability agreements with the county, and often loan county fire an ARFF truck/crew when needed.
Many radio shops have little patience for amateur radio types wanting an expensive radio when they are only selling hardware, do not have any interoperability agreements with anyone, or access to radio network administrators to confirm that they have a legitimate need. (Also why you may have better luck on a popular auction site......but buyer beware, be sure you get what is advertised).
Good luck.
However, they may want to only do this for someone that needs interoperability or the ability to listen to a trunked network. (Coordinating the purchase for some fire departments to maintain interoperability, and our orders are getting tacked onto a county wide order for VP8000 P25 Phase 2 VHF/UHF/7/800 MHz as part of a county upgrade). The cost is about half what you were given, but we are also buying at least two dozen radios, and have interoperability agreements with the county, and often loan county fire an ARFF truck/crew when needed.
Many radio shops have little patience for amateur radio types wanting an expensive radio when they are only selling hardware, do not have any interoperability agreements with anyone, or access to radio network administrators to confirm that they have a legitimate need. (Also why you may have better luck on a popular auction site......but buyer beware, be sure you get what is advertised).
Good luck.
Nice Harris XG-100P by the way.....need to use mine more. This was my interoperability solution for about a decade in another life. Bought it as a demo from a radio vendor when they first came out (I never upgraded it to Phase 2), and use Motorola almost exclusively now.
I only mentioned list price on purpose. I think prices were going up atleast once this year. Also, atleast my dealer, isn't as opposed to selling the VP/M8000 since the VP6000 was discontinued (each band is about $750 I think). EFJ's thought is you can buy a single band VP8000 for nearly the same as an identical provisioned VP6000, no need to sell the VP6000. It may also have helped that I've bought other one off radios/decks from them before.
I've semi-retired the XG100p for the VP8000, it does everything I need in one nice form factor, with current support. Once it had DMR, it kept me from carrying 3 radios.
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Getting the front-panel programming option may be problematic, too. I remember having to certify on some form that our dealer demo needed it for legit state/federal/interop/other part 90 purposes. @human8472 , where are you located?
Maine .. using it for Fire/EMS.
