Has anyone used or know anything about this radio

[k8zgw]

I have been "looking" at the E-TECH ( sold by Tekk in the US) IM-400
UHF 40 watts, 255 channels NARROW BAND radio.
Don't know a thing about it, but it is "intriguing".
List about $300.00
Mobile Radio(IM-Series) - E-TECH Co., Ltd.

Does anybody know anything about this radio ??

http://www.d-d-s.nl/iris-im400-german.html
Nice pics, if you read German

Thanks

Don

[W2NJS]

No FCC certification indicated for Part 90 use in the USA.

[cabletech]

This radio is a Motorola CM1200-1500 series eradio for Germany and France and is NOT TYPE ACCEPTED for the USA.

What do you wish to do with this radio? If it is cost, there are radios available with same features for about the same cost by Icom, Kenwood, Vertex.

[k8zgw]

When you said it wasn't type accepted, it got me to thinking,
How could Tekk sell them if they were not.
So I did a little more looking, here is what I found


https://apps.fcc.gov/oetcf/tcb/repor...cc_id=R72IM400

My use would be a "combo" piece of "test equipment" as well as GMRS / Amateur.
And the fact that Motorola sells it, it can't be all bad.

Don

[W2NJS]

Interesting FCC statement in the fine print at the bottom of the certificate limiting the radio's mobile antenna to unity gain. Don't recall having seen that before.

Also am wondering why, after going to all the trouble to get the FCC listing, the data does not show the Part 90 certificate data.

[SteveC0625]

Originally Posted by W2NJS

Interesting FCC statement in the fine print at the bottom of the certificate limiting the radio's mobile antenna to unity gain. Don't recall having seen that before.

Also am wondering why, after going to all the trouble to get the FCC listing, the data does not show the Part 90 certificate data.

Look at the approved emission types. Not your normal Part 90 ones, I'm guessing.

[W2NJS]

Originally Posted by SteveC0625

Look at the approved emission types. Not your normal Part 90 ones, I'm guessing.

Right you are. Those designators are not in the list I got off this board sometime back, so I have no idea what type of operation they define. Maybe someone here will dig into it and let us all know.

[k8zgw]

I talked with Dave at Tekk this afternoon, he said he has had no legal problems in the 5 or 6 years
he has been selling them and that the FCC has no problems with them..

from the FCC authorization

FCC Rule Parts Frequency Range (MHZ) Output Watts Frequency Tolerance Emission Designator
90.210 420.0 - 500.0 5.0 2.5 PM 8K50F3E
90.210 420.0 - 500.0 50.0 2.5 PM 8K50F3E
90 420.0 - 500.0 5.0 2.5 PM 16K0F3E
90 420.0 - 500.0 50.0 2.5 PM 16K0F3E

From the license apps I have been watching, it looks like most look like 11K2F3E and 7K60FXE

from the FCC rules:

private land mobile licensees operating in the VHF/UHF bands as of January 1, 2013
·
Must operate on 12.5 kHz (11.25 kHz occupied bandwidth) or narrower channels, or
·
Employ narrowband-equivalent technology, i.e., a technology that achieves the narrowband equivalent of at
least one channel per 12.5 kHz of channel bandwidth for voice and transmission rates of at least 4800 bits
per second per 6.25 kHz for data systems operating with bandwidths greater than or equal to 12.5 kHz.

It looks to me that 8K50F3E would comply with this rule.


Don