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Hi to everyone, Am a vol firefighter and a paid EMT for NJ. I have a motorola ht1250 in uhf and a motorola saber 2 in vhf> My ? is dose motorola make a UHF and a VHF combo? If so dose anyone know what model? Thanks for any info

No Motorola does not, Yaseu used to make one, but I don't believe they make it anymore. The only Dual band portables you may find now are amatuer equipment and thus not type rated for your applications.

The Vertex/Yaesu FT2070 was the dual-band HT, hasn't been made in years. I used one about 12 years ago and it was 32ch, big, and felt like it could be tossed off of a bridge and still work. Had an ultra cool 4 segment LCD display


While it would not work for you, Vertex does have a handheld radio that can have a sub-band reciever installed. So you could have a VHF radio thet can also RX on UHF, or a UHF radio that can RX on VHF. Not a true dual-band handheld, but as close as what is available outside the amateur radio community.

Check out the Vertex VX-60R......its a small decent radio that covers VHF & UHF transmit (after a simple modification)and receives up to 800 mhz.
Again, this is for ham use and probably not type accepted for the commercial bands.

firetech792 wrote:Check out the Vertex VX-60R...... ........Again, this is for ham use and probably not type accepted for the commercial bands.

Do you mean Yaesu FT-60R, or does Vertex have it's own VX branded version now? It's definately not certified for anything beyond amateur use.

Never take anything like this into a fire...

firetech792 wrote:Check out the Vertex VX-60R......its a small decent radio that covers VHF & UHF transmit (after a simple modification)and receives up to 800 mhz.
Again, this is for ham use and probably not type accepted for the commercial bands.

i believe he was referring to a VX-6r or VX-7r.. i believe there is also a vx-2, and vx-5, all differing in what bands they cover..

i utilized a VX-7r once, it might have been modififed :)

definately NOT a rig to use in the emergency service. I believe a ham operator modified their VX-7 and mapped wattage output over the span that the radio could do, the power drop off was dramatic off-ham band, so the 140mhz stuff was 5w, 155mhz was nearer to 2 wats, 440mhz was 4 watts, 470, was nearer to 1 watt.

Thanks to everyone for the info.

Vertex does make the VX-920 series which have the option to RX only on the opposite band (VHF could RX on UHF with optional module, UHF RX on VHF) but as others have said the only true dual band portable for part 90 (LMR/PS) was the FTH-2070, which Yaesu made for many years (believe it went OOP back in 2001/2002), first showed up in the late 80's. I've seen tons of them on Ebay, various vintages from early production to the later ones actually made by "Vertex Standard". IIRC they don't do narrowband, (for sure the early ones). The later radios made by VS says "Vertex DUO" on the front cover. Believe they have much wider VCO's. I picked one up at a hamfest for 75.00, very clean one at that. It sure is a brick. Old school design. Sure to last as long as my old Sabers and GE MPI-2's...