BTECH GMRS-PRO 5W? I hear digital on scanner

[phiillybruce]

I have the same problem with my GMRS Pro. The selectivity on this radio is horrible. For me, it's intermod from the pager service operated my a near by hospital. Its a randomly spaces set of short digital bursts

 

[spongella]

I've heard exacty what you are talking about, short data bursts on one GMRS frequency. It think it was one of the repeater channels, but this was several years ago. Never figured out what that was.

 

[KevinC]

I have the same problem with my GMRS Pro. The selectivity on this radio is horrible. For me, it's intermod from the pager service operated my a near by hospital. Its a randomly spaces set of short digital bursts

Some of those hospital paging systems are blowtorches and it’s hard to keep them out of any radio at times.

 

[K6GBW]

It wouldn't surprise me if some enterprising individual programmed up a DMR radio on FRS/GMRS and probably enabled encryption as well for there "Comms". I swear, since the CCR invasion the whole GMRS/FRS/DOT/Itinerant area has become a CB like wasteland.

In Japan they have a saying, "Sakita Ga Nai" which loosely translates to, "There's nothing you can do about it."

 

[rf_patriot200]

It wouldn't surprise me if some enterprising individual programmed up a DMR radio on FRS/GMRS and probably enabled encryption as well for there "Comms". I swear, since the CCR invasion the whole GMRS/FRS/DOT/Itinerant area has become a CB like wasteland.

In Japan they have a saying, "Sakita Ga Nai" which loosely translates to, "There's nothing you can do about it."

Remember back some years ago, Motorola marketed the T7200 and T7400 Repeater capable Gmrs/frs talkies, equipped with single inversion scrambling right out of the box. While not legal, nonetheless they were marketed.

 

[KevinC]

Remember back some years ago, Motorola marketed the T7200 and T7400 Repeater capable Gmrs/frs talkies, equipped with single inversion scrambling right out of the box. While not legal, nonetheless they were marketed.

I believe Midland did it first and everyone jumped on the bandwagon (including Motorola, Uniden and Cobra to name a few) as to not lose sales. FCC put a stop to it.

 

[mmckenna]

It wouldn't surprise me if some enterprising individual programmed up a DMR radio on FRS/GMRS and probably enabled encryption as well for there "Comms". I swear, since the CCR invasion the whole GMRS/FRS/DOT/Itinerant area has become a CB like wasteland.

Recently I was driving across the western USA and heard quite a bit of digital on GMRS/FRS.

There are a few sources:
-Those that don't know they are not supposed to do that.
-Those that don't care that it's not allowed under current rules
-Radio shops that use GMRS as a dumping ground for small users
-Amateur radio operators that assume GMRS is an extension of the amateur radio bands.

 

[mmckenna]

Remember back some years ago, Motorola marketed the T7200 and T7400 Repeater capable Gmrs/frs talkies, equipped with single inversion scrambling right out of the box. While not legal, nonetheless they were marketed.

For a while it was not technically illegal. It took the FCC making some rule changes to get rid of it. I think, at the time, someone convinced everyone that voice inversion wasn't really scrambling/encryption.

 

[KevinC]

Midland nailed by FCC - inversion scrambling illegal?

MIDLAND RADIO CORPORATION. Notified Midland of its apparent liability for a forfeiture of $21,000 for marketing noncompliant GMRS transmitters. Action by: Chief, Spectrum Enforcement Division, Enforcement Bureau. Adopted: 06/23/2009 by NAL. (DA No. 09-1390). EB...

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[sempai]

I have no idea what is causing it yet but there's something weird about the RF in my living room at this house. I get bursty staticky voices coming in like waves of the ocean on a pretty regular cadence in the morning and evening in Iowa, US on GMRS and FRS frequencies.
Yesterday I heard a burst of noise on a GMRS channel when my Watch got a notification about the August door lock getting back on WiFi. like my wrist buzzed as the burst was heard on my kitchen HT. I don't know what to make of that but I've had to temporarily skip a couple of the channels we actually use in this house because of it.

I have a fairly dense WiFi network and four SSIDS, about 30-40 devices on the air and the rest on ethernet. Half of those devices are IOT garbage devices i don't even allow on the household network and get slung right out the Internet.

Something worse than the GMRS-Pro digital chirping is the next iteration with a keypad the Vero VR-N76 aka RadioOddity GA-5WB - it operates on 2m/70cm bands and when you disable digital APRS it turns itself back on when you turn the HT on next time. i've got it without an antenna until Vero releases a firmware update. Apparently RadioOddity has already been shipping updates for theirs, these app-controlled HTs are really interesting but the software gaps are maddening.