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The FCC can just dispense with the license like they did years ago for CB 11M and just let people do whatever they want. The FCC screwed up when they allowed the sale of combo FRS/GMRS radios while requiring people to get a license to use the then at the time GMRS only channels. Almost everyone ignored that requirement so the FCC just changed the rules and gave FRS access to the GMRS channels with out the license requirement. As a reference point Australia has a UHF 80 channel license free CB radio service WITH repeater access. So it can be done. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UHF_CB

Nope. Otherwise why bother with getting a license, much less having to pay a fee for it too.

Thank GOD for that. The gym is way too crowded right now. It should thin out in a month or two.

However FRS is an UNLICENSED service which would be causing interference to a LICENSED service in this case GMRS. I would hope the FCC realizes GMRS users paid for the use of the spectrum and should have some reasonable protection from an UNLICENSED service interference.

Somebody else likely did, and your luck would be they live just down the street from you.

It's a repeater output frequency. Yes you do have to share the spectrum, however having a 24/7 signal doesn't qualify as "sharing" the frequency.

On a GMRS repeater frequency? Well see how good a 50 watt radio does compared to a low power FRS signal. I'm sure when the new parents are getting quizzed on what the kids name is on the receiver end, reminding them it's due for a diaper change every 15 minutes and asking if they can repeat their credit card number with the pin since you missed it the last time they will likely turn the D**mn thing off and get rid of it. Nobody wants something in their house that lets the whole neighborhood spy on them. From time to time this kind of crap gets imported and missed by the FCC. I remember when there was a rash of "high power" cordless phones showing up on the Ham 2 meter band. You could hear the things from several miles away.

All the BNC antennas I've ever seen use Male BNC connectors on the end, not Female types. The BNC adapter that screws into the radio uses a Female BNC connector as seen in the attached photos. Many of the Chinese radios use the same format as the more expensive Kenwood commercial radios, reverse polarity Male SMA to a standard female BNC.

MDC is useful if you know how. The linked thread on another forum has some of the details. https://batboard.batlabs.com/viewtopic.php?t=41389 As a further note a number of my Kenwood HT’s have MDC built in, so it’s not limited to strictly Motorola radios. For example my NX-1300’s support MDC1200. https://comms.kenwood.com/common/pdf/download/NX1K_Specsheet_K.pdf https://forums.mygmrs.com/gallery/image/290-nx-1300duk5/?context=new

That would be interesting to see. I would guess some rather high gate count FPGA’s. They would be programmed to run DSP algorithms far faster than a micro could do it since the calculations could be done in parallel on the data.

And you thought Motorola and Harris was expensive.

I can see Putin's face as he craps his shorts when he realizes one of his new hyper-sonic missiles he ordered lunched is homing in on a GPS target location in North America. Oops.

I was doing some searching for general info on dPMR radios. In the course of that search I found some interesting info that at least a few of the Russians in the Ukraine are using a nice analog/digital multi-band radio. https://www.cryptomuseum.com/radio/azart/ I wonder if any of these have ended up in private hands for personal use.

Are you looking for a dual band radio for Ham use on 2m/70cm, or for just GMRS? Most new Hams start off with one of the CCR's, Cheap Chinese Radios, until they figure out just what they like as features and their operating requirements. Portable Ham specific radios can run anywhere from $25 for the CCR's to $700+ for some tri-band analog/digital radios. If you want to look at commercial grade radios, well that's a whole another topic. They are normally single band types. The multi band ones get rather spendy, even used.

The 1.25M band is sort of ignored by a lot of Hams. Most of it having to do with the fact the allocation is in ITU region 2, basically North America. Due to that few of the major manufactures make equipment for it. I only know of two that make radios with digital modes that will operate on the band, Kenwood TH-D74A and TH-D75A for D-Star, and Anytone D578 radios for DMR with the proper band settings. Don't try using the D878.

I'm really encouraged when I see young people showing up at Ham swaps. I would like to see more. It proves Ham radio isn't dead.

I would not recommend that one. I have something similar, but with a BNC connector on the end. There is no ground plane resulting in a bad SWR match. The crappy coax shield is used as the other half of the dipole.

Can you provide a definitive reference for the above comment?

You might getaway with slipping the payments past, but where are you hiding the "new" radio?

They can use the phone on board. https://weather.com/news/news/2019-01-07-astronaut-accidentally-dials-911-space-station https://youtu.be/3L82DHQfcF8

My radios were aways sent back to a manufacturer approved repair depot. They would have all the required test gear to work on the class of radios they have been approved to service. For scopes I would just buy one of the “cheap” digital Chinese ones new. Our company purchased a bunch of dual trace 50MHz ones from Rigol. They held up well considering how our service people beat their equipment up in the field.

Gets to be an addiction of sorts.

I've purchase many used radios on ebay. If you shop carefully you can find some good deals. Just make sure the seller has a return option. I did buy a few radios with no return option, however many sellers are HIGHLY motivated to avoid any negative feedback. In the few cases I got a bum radio, with a no return policy, the seller refunded the full, or nearly so anyway, the purchase price and told me me keep the defective radio. In that case I ended up sending it out for repair, which basically cost about the original purchase price. So, in the end I spent about the same amount of money, but ended up with a fully checked out, repaired and aligned radio.

One of the first commercial radios I purchased was a Kenwood TK-270G. It works fine on MURS. It's not Part 95 certified for it since the radio was certified in 1999, before the MURS service was created. My understating is it should be fine to use, grandfathered in, so long as the power, frequency and bandwidth are set correctly for the 5 channels. https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-47/chapter-I/subchapter-D/part-95/subpart-J/section-95.2705 https://fccid.io/ALH29463110 https://www.manasrekha.com/pdf/TK-270G-370G.pdf