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Happy Thanksgiving! Hopefully everyone's bellies are full and you're spending time with your friends and family. Now that we're heading straight into the holiday season, I wanted to mention that we have launched a new store. Previously we had a Spreadshirt shop which only sold t-shirts and similar apparel. Now, we're expanding into other categories such as radios and radio accessories. Many of our Spreadshirt items are available on this new Shopify store. We're still working on dealer arrangements with some GMRS radio manufacturers, but in the meantime we have a great Black Friday/Cyber Monday deal: 20% Off your order of $50 or more! Just use the discount code BLACKFRIDAY19 at checkout. If you have ideas for products or designs we should carry, please let me know! https://shop.mygmrs.com/

Update: Thanks to @Radioguy7268 my first VX-264 is on the air in wide-band mode. Some notes for those who may follow... My Vertex Standard branded VX-264 with firmware 2.07 just arrived today and I used the Motorola CS150 v5.01 international version software to program it. To switch the radio to accept wide-band channel settings I used the Wide_Band_Recovery_Tool software v1.03. (This is not available from Motorola but, thanks to Radioguy7268, I can share a copy with anyone who needs it.) NOTE: with the VX-261/264 radios you must use v1.03, v1.02 does not support them. I did not use, though I have ordered one, the FIF-12 programming adapter. Instead, I used the <$20 CT-106p cable from BlueMax49ers. Extras: I do not own any windows machines so I used a Win-7 VM in VirtualBox for the wide-band recovery and programming. Also, as my MacBook only has USB-C ports, I used a USB-A to USB-C adapter. So far I am very pleased with the radio and find it almost ideal suited for CERT type applications.

I still have and use a Diamond dual-band antenna that has been exposed to 22 NW Indiana winters and is still working just fine. I also have a Laird UHF that's survived 13 NW Indiana winters so far. SWR on both antennas remains < 1.2:1 which I consider acceptable.

You can search on the FCC ID Search web page. However, it is, unfortunately, not that simple. First you need the FCCID. To get that you can usually look at the radio's label (often located under the battery or on the back of the radio) or do a Google search something like: icom IC-F4001 "fccid" and look through the results. If you see something from fccid.io it might contain not only the fccid, but all the related information you are seeking. Usually the requested compliance is in the Test Report. Then you can scroll down to the Grants section to see what certification was actually granted. In the case of the IC-F4001, the FCCID is AFJ and the Product Code is 328601 If you use the FCC ID Search page, then choose the radio you want from the list that is returned and click on the checkmark in the Grant column to see what, if any, certification was granted. For further information click Detail in the Display Exhibits column. From the resulting list you can select the document Test Results to see which certification was requested. In the case off the IC-F4001, it was submitted for 47 CFR, Parts 2 and 90 (Subpart I) So, the IC-F4001 is not Part95 compliant.