Thanks for continuing to put out content like this. I have considered a NEXT but I just don't see the appeal versus an APX8000. I have an APX8000HXE for my personal every day carry radio. I just got myself a Motorola LEX11 smartphone and plan to try out the pairing/control/RSM feature with it.
My pleasure, thanks for the kind words. I’m curious about your experience with the LEX, I didn’t have much success with it, but I did just buy a SI500 speaker mic to control my APX3000. I haven’t had a chance to try it yet. Please keep me posted.
@@AdventureCruiser Posting this comment from my LEX. Came in this afternoon. It's clearly an older Android device. But, it's still perfectly useable. I am not a power user other than RUclips, Facebook Messenger, and a few other apps. It does all that fine. My priority was the APX RSM/control feature, the hot swappable large batteries, the LOUD volume, and the ruggedness. I haven't swapped my SIM yet. I'll likely release a video on it soon.
Thanks for sharing. My moto rep has been slow to get me some demo units. I honestly don't think the features make much sense for my org, however navigating huge numbers of zones and channels via a screen is pretty nice. Maybe it'd end up being useful as one of our interoperable radios since they can talk to every system in the region and that can be a bit difficult to wrangle as an end user. As expensive as it'd be, it'd also be great as a personal unit for non affiliate scanning.
Not sure if you noticed the same thing but the to me the screen on the next seemed of poor quality, I wasn't expecting smartphone but it still seems rough for something that expensive.
@@beaker15tyler39 the screen quality decreased from the APX7000 to the APX8000. I really harshly judge Motorola for this move, the APX7000 is great! Then you have the APX NEXT, and the pixel density and display quality is that of a cheap gas station burner phone. It’s despicable considering the price point.
How does one buy a professional radio and software do you have to buy them on ebay or will a professional radio shop let you buy them or does one have to have a business License i have a GMRS and ham radio license and would like to get into professional radios. but don't know who to trust on eBay.
@@MKEPTV it all depends on the brand of radio. For Motorola I applied for a Motorola On Line account and get their software directly from Motorola. For BK Technologies you can buy their software for $159 (I think) from any of their dealers. For Kenwood I bought a license when I bought my radio from a Kenwood dealer.
Sunny Communications (Used-Radios), Haloid Radios, and Elite Technology Inc (Rick Thompson) are all reputable resellers; they tend to have a mix of used, new old stock, and refurbished radios. In my personal experience, I've purchased several new P25 radios from a Kenwood/EFJ dealer. They're primarily for business use, but I also have a ham license and use those radios on 440. The purchase process was easy - I requested a quote, verified the quote, paid, waited a couple months, and received my equipment. I've heard that sales of new APX radios are considerably more locked-down; buying small quantities for non-agency use is said to be very difficult. Kenwood/EFJ, BKR, and presumably Icom are all generally friendly to small customers - it seems they've realized that sales of $2000-3000 radios here and there eventually add up.
I'm not asking this sarcastically or judging, curious because they are extremely expensive radios, do you have a particular reason why you're choosing p25 radios? For example, I bought a Radtel RT-730 of aliex for £18 ($22) and it does 12W, a solid 10W dmr radio goes for around $100, a motorola xts5000 model 3 sells for $110 on aliex wihout the battery.
@@ExploringWithJason fair questions, and I’m not offended in the least. I suppose I’m intrigued mostly with high-end p25 radios because for most of my life I considered them unobtainable which magnified my curiosity. There are many great radios, and some are quite reasonably priced and I have nothing against them other than to say that they simply haven’t caught my attention in the same way.
@@AdventureCruiser I totally get and respect that, I'm a former cop (somewhere in europe) and my department used VHF radios and then switched to tetra, I do find P25 more intriguing and I'm so tempted to get an XTS5000 for £100...even though I would probably never use it, I'm currently in Japan, in Japan or Europe only people using them are the US military, also..I'm not sure if you've ever owned an sdr, but for $28 you can get the RTL-SDR v4 (just make sure it's the official store of aliex), with that you can listen to any frequencie between 500kHz up to 1.7GHz, you can decode DMR, Tetra and P25 (not decrypt), you can even monitor boats AIS beacons and planes ADS-B becons...even from android phone.
@@ExploringWithJason intriguing! Good points all around. I’m interested in your SDR setup, I don’t have good experiences with SDR yet, though I know they work for many people. Can you suggest a good device and software for me?
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Thanks for continuing to put out content like this. I have considered a NEXT but I just don't see the appeal versus an APX8000. I have an APX8000HXE for my personal every day carry radio. I just got myself a Motorola LEX11 smartphone and plan to try out the pairing/control/RSM feature with it.
My pleasure, thanks for the kind words. I’m curious about your experience with the LEX, I didn’t have much success with it, but I did just buy a SI500 speaker mic to control my APX3000. I haven’t had a chance to try it yet. Please keep me posted.
@@AdventureCruiser Posting this comment from my LEX. Came in this afternoon. It's clearly an older Android device. But, it's still perfectly useable. I am not a power user other than RUclips, Facebook Messenger, and a few other apps. It does all that fine. My priority was the APX RSM/control feature, the hot swappable large batteries, the LOUD volume, and the ruggedness. I haven't swapped my SIM yet. I'll likely release a video on it soon.
I’ve had a hell of a time finding someone to sell me one of these. Thanks for the videos! Do you have any complaints after a couple months of use?
Thanks for sharing. My moto rep has been slow to get me some demo units. I honestly don't think the features make much sense for my org, however navigating huge numbers of zones and channels via a screen is pretty nice. Maybe it'd end up being useful as one of our interoperable radios since they can talk to every system in the region and that can be a bit difficult to wrangle as an end user. As expensive as it'd be, it'd also be great as a personal unit for non affiliate scanning.
Where are you getting the Motorola Radios from? Everywhere I go, it seems like they only sell the retail radios
Have you figured out if you can program it from the radio or not and if you can could you do a video on that as well
Btw, I think you can also install ATAK on this radio
I think you can, but you must have Radio Central or something like that to manage the system. I haven’t found out how to add any sort of mapping yet.
@@AdventureCruiser i posted a reply on my previous comment but it's not showing up, I recommend the RTL-SDR V4
@@ExploringWithJason thank you!
@@AdventureCruiser I have ATAK on XN and works well.
Not sure if you noticed the same thing but the to me the screen on the next seemed of poor quality, I wasn't expecting smartphone but it still seems rough for something that expensive.
@@beaker15tyler39 the screen quality decreased from the APX7000 to the APX8000. I really harshly judge Motorola for this move, the APX7000 is great! Then you have the APX NEXT, and the pixel density and display quality is that of a cheap gas station burner phone. It’s despicable considering the price point.
@@AdventureCruiser that’s another vote for BK I suppose, I’ll keep sending quote requests.
@@beaker15tyler39 are you not getting responses?
@@AdventureCruiser got 1 so far but it seemed pretty high, from 49er communications for about $6600
@@beaker15tyler39 unfortunately that’s not unreasonable.
I had an ion and I really wasn’t a huge fan of it. But I have yet to get my hands on a NEXT
How does one buy a professional radio and software do you have to buy them on ebay or will a professional radio shop let you buy them or does one have to have a business License i have a GMRS and ham radio license and would like to get into professional radios. but don't know who to trust on eBay.
@@MKEPTV it all depends on the brand of radio. For Motorola I applied for a Motorola On Line account and get their software directly from Motorola. For BK Technologies you can buy their software for $159 (I think) from any of their dealers. For Kenwood I bought a license when I bought my radio from a Kenwood dealer.
Sunny Communications (Used-Radios), Haloid Radios, and Elite Technology Inc (Rick Thompson) are all reputable resellers; they tend to have a mix of used, new old stock, and refurbished radios. In my personal experience, I've purchased several new P25 radios from a Kenwood/EFJ dealer. They're primarily for business use, but I also have a ham license and use those radios on 440. The purchase process was easy - I requested a quote, verified the quote, paid, waited a couple months, and received my equipment.
I've heard that sales of new APX radios are considerably more locked-down; buying small quantities for non-agency use is said to be very difficult. Kenwood/EFJ, BKR, and presumably Icom are all generally friendly to small customers - it seems they've realized that sales of $2000-3000 radios here and there eventually add up.
At $8000+, that is one hell of an expensive toy
@@JakobBuis I’ll happily sell it to you for $7,999. I know, such a generous offer. Ha ha.
@@AdventureCruiser haha, I'm sure you found one for less. I was quoting of the GSA list. If you take all addons it gets way worse..
How do you get these radio for free ?
@@coreybabcock2023 I'm pretty sure he doesn't, just discounted
I'm not asking this sarcastically or judging, curious because they are extremely expensive radios, do you have a particular reason why you're choosing p25 radios? For example, I bought a Radtel RT-730 of aliex for £18 ($22) and it does 12W, a solid 10W dmr radio goes for around $100, a motorola xts5000 model 3 sells for $110 on aliex wihout the battery.
@@ExploringWithJason fair questions, and I’m not offended in the least. I suppose I’m intrigued mostly with high-end p25 radios because for most of my life I considered them unobtainable which magnified my curiosity.
There are many great radios, and some are quite reasonably priced and I have nothing against them other than to say that they simply haven’t caught my attention in the same way.
@@AdventureCruiser I totally get and respect that, I'm a former cop (somewhere in europe) and my department used VHF radios and then switched to tetra, I do find P25 more intriguing and I'm so tempted to get an XTS5000 for £100...even though I would probably never use it, I'm currently in Japan, in Japan or Europe only people using them are the US military, also..I'm not sure if you've ever owned an sdr, but for $28 you can get the RTL-SDR v4 (just make sure it's the official store of aliex), with that you can listen to any frequencie between 500kHz up to 1.7GHz, you can decode DMR, Tetra and P25 (not decrypt), you can even monitor boats AIS beacons and planes ADS-B becons...even from android phone.
@@ExploringWithJason intriguing! Good points all around. I’m interested in your SDR setup, I don’t have good experiences with SDR yet, though I know they work for many people. Can you suggest a good device and software for me?
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