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TampaTyron

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However, that did not stop sales people from many different dealer channels from using the 2012 narrowband requirement to try to force people to buy digital. TT
 

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I have interop that will go from one digital format to the other. They can get pricey. I’m having troubles once I move a site to digital they keep going back to analog. i had to put there analog in the radio during the change over. Now it is done and they all have digital radios the keep going back to analog. It’s driving me crazy.
 
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While there no mandate per say, try to push a radio through for Part 90 approval that makes more than 2W of power and isn't digital capable.
 

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While there no mandate per say, try to push a radio through for Part 90 approval that makes more than 2W of power and isn't digital capable.

Why would there be any problem certifying an analog narrow band mobile or portable radio? The FCC does not care about this (except 700 MHz interop).
 

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I remember reading something in a FCC document where one of the requirements for grant approvals past 2015 would require that radios over 2W have to be capable of a voice mode of 6.25 kHz equivalency.
 

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I remember reading something in a FCC document where one of the requirements for grant approvals past 2015 would require that radios over 2W have to be capable of a voice mode of 6.25 kHz equivalency.

Yes you are right, that is correct. It can be analog, but yes that would be functionally pointless.
 

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And that's based on experience as a ham, professional/public safety communicator, radio tech, or scanner listener?
 

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Yes I am a Ham. I have used P-25 conventional and Trunked as a End user working Security. I have also Used DMR and NXDN. I I feel I have enough experience in Digital Modes. I have Tested DMR to Analog in City’s and on Flat land and Mountain terrain. I will take Digital over Analog any day
 
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