RFI-EMI-GUY
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I will start with my rant about Midland GMRS radios. Just as I was admiring their mobile radio line up, I realized they are Narrow Band only, not Wide Band +/- 5 KHZ like permitted on GMRS. So you are throwing away a big chunk of audio and signal performance. Yucch!
Then those Pesky Baofeng BF888s. Take a moment and look up the FCC certification grant for those. Turns out, they are also narrow band, and worse yet, the deviation so constrained that they barely produce a third of the occupied bandwidth permitted for even narrow band operations.
Baofeng is selling those radios cheap because they are crap.
I heard one of these on a GMRS repeater last week and it sounded like a whisper. The CTCSS can't be very good, so if the radio doesn't open up the repeater, no surprise.
Save your money and buy real radios.
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Then those Pesky Baofeng BF888s. Take a moment and look up the FCC certification grant for those. Turns out, they are also narrow band, and worse yet, the deviation so constrained that they barely produce a third of the occupied bandwidth permitted for even narrow band operations.
Baofeng is selling those radios cheap because they are crap.
I heard one of these on a GMRS repeater last week and it sounded like a whisper. The CTCSS can't be very good, so if the radio doesn't open up the repeater, no surprise.
Save your money and buy real radios.
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