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I know this topic has been discussed in other threads, but I think we need a central place for the info. I have several vertex radios and they are great, however I would like to get my 920 to work in the HAM band, eliminating the need for me to carry three radios. I have a vx-500 and a 520 and they ...

Besides the cable you will need the tyco/macom windows programming software. Which is a current product and not readily available for d/l.

The KMC mobile is the only GE radio that will decode GE Star. It was traditionally a console/dispatch function. Lately Cimarron has made a chip that will snap into Vertex radios like the vx-920 that will encode and decode ge-star. The newer radios have the ability to have a full featured system usin...

I have the Macom Windows programmer software. It works well but it will not program the older conventional radios like PCS, MPA, MPD etc. It will program the 800mhz and EDACS versions of these radios, even if you want conventional only. The only solution is find an old slow computer that will run th...

In use by the NYPD:

Officers in the Bronx vx-510 and vx-520
Detectives vx-800
SOD and some other select units vx-537 and vx-800

I have also seen a few vx-10 in the fields but unknow if they are Job issued.

FDNY now has vx-800 as an interop radio in addition to their other portables

Will the VX-920 take freqs out of it's band? Like 70cm ham freqs.