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This is another "specialty" radio. It's an Icom IC-F3162DT FM/Digital. The digital mode is dPMR, a close relative to NXDN, but not compatible with it. Now I have a radio in my collection for dPMR. The two photos on the left are from the US seller’s ad. The one on the far right is the one I took when the radio arrived.

The radio is only going to be legal for use on the Ham bands since it doesn't even have an FCC ID tag! Based on the frequency showing on the display the original owner was messing around with it on MURS.

https://pdf.nauticexpo.com/pdf/icom/ic-f3162dt-ds-ic-f4162dt-ds/21749-73295.html

https://adradiocoms.com/files/icom/files/DOC-IDAS-dPMR-angl.pdf

Of course Icom has to use their own weird antenna port connector. I found a place to order the antenna port adapter from, to female BNC. I didn't get raped too bad on the price.

https://www.ruggedradios.com/products/bnc-antenna-adapter-for-icom-handheld-radios?_pos=1&_sid=51449eb2d&_ss=r

I’m have a UHF version I just purchased from a seller in the Middle East, IC-F4162DT. Just so I have at least two identical radios to experiment with I ordered a second one from the same seller.

dPMR is basically a European centric digital voice mode. It seems to be popular there and a competitor to NXDN. I haven't stumbled across anyone else using dPMR here, at least in the US. For more info about dPMR look here.

https://dpmrassociation.org/dpmr-downloads-technical.html

In the EU they have a license free service called "dPMR446". It like our FRS but allows digital voice modes.

https://kenwoodcommunications.co.uk/files/file/comms/uk/pmr446/PMR446-White-Paper-V6_18AUG2016_JT_KB.pdf