![]() The commercial radios had almost everything I wanted and the durability and quality. I have been wanting to upgrade my edc ht. He had the harris at dinner, the other night. Hardware like programming cables ris boxes etc, he points me to fleabay. He's a God in my book and a crazy resource. Can't get a job because doesn't have the accredited/documented experience. Have a friend who is heavily into commercial gear (knows more then some of the radio managers for the government agencies). $2500 can get a lot of radios, or one really good one, if you can find someone trying to offload an APX8000 radio for that price. It does not have some of the more recent features that have been added to newer models, mine having the blue button on top. My own 878 is the Anytone AT-D878UV Plus with GPS and Bluetooth. +1 on those mentioning the Anytone 878 series, that is a lot of radio fort he buck, as long as it is known to be a much cheaper alternative than a Motorola (or Harris) or any other commercial radio. (I have RPM12 for one Harris XG-100P bought as a demo unit). They are available for about $1000-1200 on the auction sites, but getting that software to program one radio is not worth the effort in my case. ![]() Cool factor wise, you can't beat it by much, unless you have a full blown military AN/PRC-152 though. Getting the Radio Programming Manager software, parts, and accessories can be an issue. While multi-band, there is very limited support for this discontinued model. I would caution the OP and anyone else on the Harris XG-100P radio for hobby use. It seems to work just fine and I can see my history on APRS.FI. I had it set to report periodically on 144.390, regardless of the channel I’m using. On my Alinco, analog APRS positions are sent either at the beginning or end of PTT or at periodic intervals. Nothing like what I consider APRS with checks for channel clear, beacon timing variable with vehicle speed and turning, etc., and using a dedicated channel/VFO, not tied to some voice channel settings). (Okay, the programmer seems to imply a fixed interval ability, but one still has to configure an active channel for which APRS data will be sent - using a defined frequency setting. Having to specify a separate channel on which to send digital position reports is rather meaningless as most repeaters likely won't carry it, and I've not seen if analog APRS is compatible with common APRS digipeaters on 144.390 (for one thing it appears tied to PTT does that mean one would have to ON 144.390 and hit PTT to send a position report?) At least D-STAR rigs embed the position in with the voice data on the same channel. I haven't found much use for the so-called APRS modes on DMR radios. Unfortunately, the tabular formatting from the manual itself is lost in the copy&paste.
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