colbypr

I had considered the RT97S simply because its a self contained unit and even with its low output power seems to do a great job with the components its assembled from as a whole. Not to mention, its advertised as having a part 95E grant. There is plenty of legacy Motorola or other radios used as part of older part-90 systems, so I don't think its necessarily an issue, but the lack of a wideband emissions grant peaked my interest and wanted to see if anyone else had noticed it or possibly had an explanation. I googled for hours and couldn't find anything on it. I found plenty of info specifying it was capable of Narrow or Wide emissions, but nothing indicating an actual grant existed anywhere or that anyone had discovered the same thing. Same with any other Retevis product. I also found it interesting that buytwowayradios doesn't appear to sell anything marked Retevis for GMRS.

I thought it was odd too so I pulled the grant directly from the FCC and no wideband emissions designator. You might be on to something though, re: amateur use.

Same information I found, which I found odd given its advertised as both narrow (2.5khz) and wide (5khz) capable. The programming software allows you to select narrow or wide, but no grant for 16K03FE emissions exists for this piece of equipment, regardless of the fact its sold as wideband capable.

I searched it on fccid.io. I also searched it directly through the FCC's website to confirm the information was correct. All you need is the FCC ID which is fairly easy to get. Its listed either on various websites or the retailer's sites. In the case of the RT97S, its listed directly on the mygmrs shopping page as a certified transmitter. It just doesn't seem right that its listed as both wide and narrow but the grant only specifies narrow. All of the Wouxun GMRS radios I searched have both 11K03FE and 16K03FE emission designators in the grants, but none of Retevis GMRS stuff I searched did, even if it advertised it as narrow and wide capable. The link direct to the FCC is here: https://www.fcc.gov/oet/ea/fccid

I was looking at the Retevis RT97S and noticed the specifications listed both narrow (11K03FE) and wide (16K03FE) capabilities. The FCC grant for the device only shows the narrowband 2.5khz designator, 11K03FE. Has anyone else noticed this? I couldn't find any other grants for their company for the portable repeater that listed the wideband 5khz emissions designator (16K03FE), even though the programming software and literature for the radio clearly let you set Wideband or Narrowband. In fact, I checked a bunch of their other GMRS transceivers and none of them appear to have the wideband emissions designator grant, only narrow.