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Anybody stumble on people using license free PMR446 radios in the US?


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There are several license free radio services in the European Union, PMR446 (narrow band FM), Digital PMR446 (DMR Tier-1), dPMR446 (dPMR). These all operate from 446.0MHz to 446.2MHz. The Ham band there is only from 430MHz to 440MHz so it's outside of their segment but within ours in the US. The licensed power is only 0.5 watts like our old FRS standard.

I would suspect hearing them around popular tourist destinations for international visitors. They likely would bring their radios with them unaware they would be operating in the middle of the US Ham band. 

There is a forum where EU radio use is discussed. Some of the old posts are fun to read.

https://transmission1.net/viewforum.php?f=4&sid=a74e04a3a9d842dce32abec0669cc532

PMR446 White Paper.pdf

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We just got back from a week in Yellowstone with some family from France. My uncle was considering bringing his pair of PMR446 radios down.
I explained why that was sort-of a bad idea (would it have bothered anyone with half watt radios? Probably not) ...but that I had us covered ;)

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2 hours ago, amaff said:

We just got back from a week in Yellowstone with some family from France. My uncle was considering bringing his pair of PMR446 radios down.
I explained why that was sort-of a bad idea (would it have bothered anyone with half watt radios? Probably not) ...but that I had us covered ;)

53753262501_fe8c9d24fd_h.jpg

What are these items in your Go-Box?

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