Vertex VX-450 portable/VX-4600 mobile radio range

A series of portable two-way radios suitable for users looking for a means of efficient coordination to maintain productivity, job-site safety and responsiveness to production problems or injuries has been released.

The VX-450 series of portable radios and VX-4600 mobile radio provide expanded safety and security functions.

The series will feature emergency and lone worker safety alerts built in, with man-down alert and intrinsically safe radios as options. Channel announcement, 700 mW loud audio output and VOX capabilities are also built in for expanded responsiveness and productivity.

Additional features will include voice inversion encryption, MDC-1200 encode/decode and two-tone/five-tone encode/decode built in. Frequency ranges include 134-174, 400-470 and 450-520 MHz.

The VX-450 portables also consist of a full keypad (16 key) model and a four-key model, both with eight-character alphanumeric display and 32- and 512-channel capacity, as well as a non-display 32-channel capacity option.

The VX-4600 mobile features an eight-character alphanumeric display, 512-channel capacity and six programmable buttons for enhanced group communications.