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Cool little GMRS mobile introduced by Midland at CES 2015

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N1GJB

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As many commercial radios as I have owned and used over the years, this does definitely pique my interest. Interested to see how it performs as a secondary unit for the wife's car at the very least.
 

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I'll be darned.. it IS a GMRS radio....

5 watt output.

FCC IDENTIFIER: MMAMXT100

Name of Grantee: Midland Radio Corporation

Equipment Class: Part 95 Family Radio Base Transmitter
Notes: MOBILE GMRS TRANSCEIVER
 

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Could be useful for some people. I'll pass, it looks like it may be a little fragile for my use.
 

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DID anyone notice the display? PLEASE, please tell me the damn thing doesn't have FRS in it?? ... Please?? :(:mad:

That's all we need are MORE Frs radios, running around now with gain antennas on a ground plane on repeater outputs? How would that thing even be type accepted, since the antenna is removable, and with no offsets for repeater use? Why we're at it let's throw an amplifier on it shall we??

The box states "compatible with all midland 2 way radios? Yeah, frs included!!

Midland needs a wake up call....

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PACNWDude

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Midland lost me at "142 Privacy Codes".

I'm still amazed that companies try to market CTCSS as "Privacy Codes". Many people I deal with honestly think that means the radios are secure or encrypted. Granted, I work with engineers on 911 call taking and dispatch equipment, they don't get out that much. There is a heavy Microsoft influence too, but using the term "Privacy Codes" always annoys me.

The top firing speaker doesn't work for me either.
 

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What makes you think they are uncommon? There are lots of UHF collinear mobile antennas available from many manufacturers that are way longer than 1/4 wave.

Based on what I see on commercial and government vehicles.

Atleast in my area.
 

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Only 5 watts? No repeater capability on the 8 main channels (15-22)? It's a nice start, but they need to keep going.

The 5 watts, into a quarter wave antenna, on the 7 interstital channels that are shared between the FRS & GMRS would help keep it within the rules limiting the ERP to 5 watts on those channels. That's understandable. However, if a user can attach any antenna, including collinear gain types in place of a quarter wave, the ERP could be exceeded.

But, they need to increase that power output several times (at least 5x, and preferably 8-10x) for the GMRS only channels, and add repeater capability to them, to really make this an attractive radio to GMRS licensees.

I'd also like to see receive-only capability for the FRS channels 8-14, with no possibility of modifing it to transmit on them. Firmware could handle this, as well as the different power levels for the interstital and main channels.

Add in a seperate UHF only scanning receiver, covering 450-512MHz (minimum), 400-512 MHz or 380-512 MHz, with analog and digital, conventional and trunking capabilities, and that's what I want. (Uniden did something like this in Australia awhile back, with a radio for the UHF CB service there, that included a 400-512 MHz scanner, although it didn't include digital or trunking. The UH-015SX.)

I'd also like to see a MURS mobile, that includes a seperate 151-174 MHz (minimum) or 108-174 MHz analog/digital, conventional/trunking scanning receiver.

John
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