What brand of radio do you use?

[emt93]

Just curious what brand of radio everyone is using, both portable and mobile? We are using Kenwood and get along real good with them. TIA

[n0esc]

Nearly everything in this region are Motorola based systems. Most services are still on the VHF HT1250 / HT750 portable radios and a few services in the Gold Cross PSA near Rochester MN are on the new MN ARMER system using Motorola Astra radios.

[Arizonaffcep]

The FD I was working for was using Motorola XTS 5000 VHF. I'm not sure what mobile, but those were the handhelds.

[EMS49393]

I have a Ford factory installed AM/FM with Sirius satellite, CD, and USB port with the voice activated Microsoft Sync system. Is there really any other radio to have? :twisted:

[fortsmithman]

My agency uses Motorola

[CBEMT]

FT: Motorola mobile, Vertex portables.

PT: Kenwood mobiles and portables.

I like Kenwood myself, but damn the Vertexes are light.

[Richard B the EMT]

FDNY, NYPD, and various New York City agencies, basically use various models of mobile, handheld and base station Motorolas, using "simplex", "simple duplex", and "trunked" operations, in VHF and UHF modes. When we were in existence, my VAS used Motorola as well.

I purchased for personal use with my VAS, a Bendix King 14 channel synthesized VHF hand held. The VAS closed in 1996, but my portable is still working great to request assistance, when I come up on something, calling nearby VFDs and VAS groups that operate on the frequency my VAS used to be on.

I also own a bunch of Family Radio Service/General Mobile Radio Service portables, 3 of them Radio Shack, 2 are now antiquated but functional TEKKs, and the other 7 are Motorola (look for me, when I am on, to be on channel #6, private line #3) .

New York State DoH does not consider CB radios to be type acceptable for ambulances, but my "portable base" CB is Radio Shack, my mobile is Cobra, and my "brick" of a hand held CB is a General Electric.

I'll go on about my "scanners" in a different string!

[jsadin]

Big (read - gigantic) Motorola P200 portables. Weigh about 3000lbs and have a range of about 20ft. Good as a striking weapon, however....

[Don1977]

I have a rebuilt UHF HT-1000 I bought of of ebay for my work and VFD, works like a champ

[Eric]

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