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WRUI365

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  1. I have 2 Motorola's that I use for GMRS and HAM 70cm myself, they are the XPR7550E and XPR5550E. Handheld and mobile which both also do dmr along with analog. Just a thought if you go that route. Also have a Harris XG100pP which covers vhf/uhf and scan the 700/800 bands along with vhf/uhf trunk frequencies.

  2. The 70CM band for Amateur radio covers 420mhz to 450mhz. Some other countries have different blocks, but in the US we have 30mhz of use. People getting devices that are from other countries and using them here in that frequency block are in for a big disappointment because those devices aren't actually legal to use. They complain to the FCC about interference issues and find out the hard way.

  3. I am a licensed general class ham as well as a gmrs license holder. Both services have there ups and downs. Can't compare because they are really 2 different beast. I use one to accent the other because there are times when I need to. Trust me when I say you can make both cost as little as you want to the extremes. That all depends on how much you want to put down on equipment. For example I have P25, DMR, DSTAR, and YSF. have part 90, 95 and 97 equipment. It all comes down to how you want to spend your time doing things and tinkering.

  4. Actually monitor for digital transmissions work differently then they do on analog transmissions. You don't have a squelch noise floor on digital like you do on analog, because digital is only sending data/1's and 0's. So when you hit monitor on say like my XPR7550E/XPR5550E in dmr mode, you just turning on both time slots and all color codes to hear what is on the frequency. You won't hear any static.

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