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Will VP8000 allow P25, DMR, and NXDN at the same time?
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Not anymore. The sticker is going to change back to EFJ after the business restructure they are going through. It's just a sticker, EFJ and Kenwood are still 2 different companies. The 8000 is a EFJ product with EFJ engineers... not Kenwood.
Kenwood is going back to focusing on school bus and business radios, EFJ is focusing on the big boys.
Project25_MASTR
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The website has always been slow to change. It wasn't until 2020 that the EFJ Orange/Slate was replaced by Kenwood Blue/White and internally EF Orange/Slate was still being used on the Intranet when I left at the beginning of 2024. The Iriving building's color scheme was changed primarily when JVCK moved JKUSA headquarters from Atlanta to Irving in 2019. Also an interesting little side note, EFJ and JVCK are two independent companies to the point EFJ employees are on their own AD and Office system that is not part of the JVCK AD/Office system. One of the struggles there, and EFJ employee can not simply message a JVCK employee in Teams and vice-versa...has to go through email or be invited to an actual Teams meeting as a guest.
What it really comes down to, and what matters most IMO. When you buy a Viking radio (doesn't matter if it is a 1st, 2nd or 3rd generation radio), it says EF Johnson Company on the identification sticker. Further, all Viking first generation radios are guaranteed to have been manufactured in either Dallas (Irving/Las Colinas realistically) or Japan and all 2nd/3rd generation radios are guaranteed to be manufactured in Japan. NX radios, aren't guaranteed to be manufactured in Japan though most of the ones we see in the US are manufactured in Japan.
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