Several of our Departments here in Lee County have purchased our own Kenwood Vipers after looking at the two. We saw from the cost effective side that we can buy 3 Kenwood’s to 2 Motorolas, with the operations and capabilities we several of us chose Kenwood. We use them for landing zones and communicating with our surrounding counties during m/a calls and large scale incidents. Our city / county per se does not have viper we still use vhf/uhf  for 911 unlike the counties around us. No issues with the kenwoods at all here. 

Good morning, all.  I am looking for agencies who use or have used Kenwood radios on the VIPER system.  In addition to radio performance and ruggedness, I would like to learn about after the sell service experiences, and programming, particularly inhouse programming capabilities.  I would love to hear about your experiences.  Thanks in advance.  Stay safe and have a Merry Christmas.