Midland GXT740VP3

[JASII]

I was surfing the internet tonight and I saw that this midland lists the usual 22 GMRS/FRS channels "...PLUS 20 EXTRA CHANNELS..." Does anybody have any idea what the "extra 20 channels" are? Did they add some UHF itinerant channels?

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GMRS/FRS FREQUENCY CHART (MHz)
CH. No CH. Freq. CH. No CH. Freq. CH. No CH. Freq.
1 462.5625
9 467.5875
17 462.6000
2 462.5875
10 467.6125
18 462.6250
3 462.6125
11 467.6375
19 462.6500
4 462.6375
12 467.6625
20 462.6750
5 462.6625
13 467.6875
21 462.7000
6 462.6875
14 467.7125
22 462.7250
7 462.7125
15 462.5500
8 467.5625
16 462.5750
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24
25
26
29
30
31
32
33
34
27
28
35
36
37
38
39
40
41
42

The chart in their online owner's manual is blank for those frequencies.


I did more searching and I found the answer in a wiki. Hmm, "extra channels" huh?

http://wiki.radioreference.com/index..._channel_chart

Midland has started marketing "Extra Channels" on several of their radios. These extra channels are simply existing FRS/GMRS frequencies with hard coded tones. (See Below)
MIDLAND CH FREQ FRS/GMRS CH TONE MIDLAND TONE NUMBER
23 462.5625 1 250.3 38
24 462.6125 3 225.7 35
25 462.6625 5 203.5 32
26 462.7125 7 179.9 29
27 462.5500 15 162.2 26
28 462.6000 17 146.2 23
29 462.6500 19 131.8 20
30 462.7000 21 118.9 17
31 462.5875 2 23 DCS 1
32 466.6375 4 31 DCS 4
33 462.6875 6 47 DCS 7
34 467.5625 8 65 DCS 10
35 467.6125 10 73 DCS 13
36 467.6625 12 115 DCS 16
37 467.7125 14 131 DCS 19
38 462.5750 16 143 DCS 22
39 462.6250 18 156 DCS 25
40 462.6750 20 172 DCS 28
41 462.7250 22 223 DCS 31
42 462.5625 1 107.2 14

[gewecke]

Sounds like a simple gimick to get consumers to pick up the sales on the bubble pak radios so they don't have to discontinue those lines. WE consumers are viewed as stupid $$$ and gullible enough to fall prey to their ploys!
N9ZAS

[jwilkers]

Ok.. there are NO extra frequencies at all.

How they do this is they "hard code" a CTCSS tone into these "extra channels".

For those not technical savvy... those "privacy codes" you hear about are added to one of the real frequencies.. this creates an extra channel.

That is why you cannot set a "privacy code" to one of these.

They use the exact same 22 frequencies all the other channels use.

Neat huh?

[rescuecomm]

You would think that people that use the muliple features of cell phones could figure out how to set privacy tones on a set of walkie talkies. On several of the cruises I went on, it was very apparent that there is a market for Midland's gimmick.

Bob