JarrGen

Since they are designed as 50W mobile units, they will not carry the FRS only channels 8-14 mostly due to power. There is a lot more detail to this of course as to the channel spacing also which requires them to be narrow band, and these now have the option to go wideband. I am looking forward to the 500 and 575. While there are plenty of haters who push the Motorolas or Kenwoods, that is not needed IMO for the market Midland is targeting. Jeepers and family campers just want something that is end user friendly, packed full of features and ready to work out of the box without having to dig deeply in the software. Personally, I can go both ways when it comes to the radios but the form factor of the 575 and now having 50W and split tones, that is all I need for GMRS. For more than that, I can switch to my ham radios. :)

From reviewing the data sheet and manual here (https://shop.motorolasolutions.com/ca/t800-two-way-radios-dual-pack/product/B8F22204LBHAAW) quickly, these are only FRS radios. They have the fixed antennas and are limited to 2W. The only 467 channels are the interstitials which are allowed only .5W in an FRS radio. They may communicate with the GMRS radios on the shared channels but will not be able to use the repeater inputs for 15-22. It looks like the only tailoring you can do is to set the tones, which they refer to as an Interference Eliminator Code. Hope this helps.

Good afternoon. A little late but I was scanning the forum and thought to add this... While the channels are being standardized or made common, the CTCSS and DCS squelch tones are not necessarily. I came across this reference which will explain multiple times better than me I think. Clipped from: https://www.k0tfu.org/reference/frs (Web view) The title is FRS/GMRS Privacy Codes Demystified I copied the whole page to my OneNote where I have been keeping all of my tidbits from these forums for GMRS and now also on the ham and DMR side. When you get about half way down, it says what tone "sub-channel/privacy code" (not sure there is an agreed/common term here yet) which lays out how different manufacturers have used/not used/ assigned the frequencies to assigned numbers on their radios.

I really like this idea here.