Yaesu will keep selling their System Fusion repeaters at "club discounts". And, the CCR folks are already marketing GMRS repeaters (RT97 Portable GMRS Repeater Mobile Repeater).
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CCRs used for mischief?
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ecps92
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Been occuring for years, even back to some of the earlier FPP Radios (Icom V/U 16) with the 1-5-9/3-5-7 code to access the FPP
MTS2000des
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The FCC's primary focus is pandering to the telecom cartels. If you are not AT&T, Verizon or T-Mobile, they really do not care.
Learned the same process when dealing with a rogue BDA a couple years ago. The EB was about as interested in pursuing the offender as a retired in place cop. Ended up going the county attorney route and recovered most of our costs (to the tune of 100 grand) from the building owner.
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It's gonna be a moot point soon enough because (I feel) anything public safety is gonna get P25'd and encrypted so CCR's will be useless and why (for me) would I spend 600 on a trouble prone digital scanner whose performance frankly isn't worth a sht compared to a commercial radio? The heyday is over for me.. I had the Motorolas in the golden age of HT-220-MX300-MT1000-Sabers but all finito now. Glad I'm old.
DeoVindice
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In large part because of CCR shenanigans and live streaming of scanner audio. Private business is joining in as well; internet traffic has largely been encrypted for years and LMR should follow suit for the same reasons.
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Yup... thank scanner apps. IMO that's when this all started.
Now, I need to dig out one of my old Icom U16 handhelds. Worked for a company that had piles of them, along with the IC-U400 mobile. I sold these to an Australian company a decade or more ago now, as they were perfect for their UHF citizen's band use. Kept the U16's though, but never knew about the FPP code.
ecps92
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just remember you need to perform the MOD first to have FPP
Thank you for posting.....will have to dig these out. I still have a clone cable, got rid of the keypad programmer for the IC-U400's. But found the manual still in a three ring binder so far. I always liked the form factor for the U-16, and similar Icom marine VHF radios.
DeeEx
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I forgot those existed!
Somewhere I have a box with the U400 and it’s VHF brethren. Along with multiple handheld programmers, remote separation kits, etc.
Haven’t used any of that stuff in years! Now you’ve got me curious.
When I think about it…since then my wife has become a ham so perhaps they all have some use after all!
Midland had a version made by Icom that was the same radio as the H16 and U16 make the mod and they are FFP.
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