Digital modes or ?

[hill]

I here it alot on 462.300 . bet its GMRS being encrypted . possible group or club??

462.300 isn't a GMRS frequency.

 

[GettingOld]

I think there were some exceptions for some positioning information like Garmins Rino 120s etc... Although it probably isn't what you're talking about having heard.

I was actually thinking the same thing. That it could be a Garmin Rino reporting its posistion.

 

[GettingOld]

For a few years there was a group that had an FCC issued experimental license for DMR on GMRS. It was limited to one repeater in one area for use by a small number of users. Request was essentially to test the use of DMR on personal radio services and to check compatibility with other analog users.
The applicant renewed it every year for quite a while, and eventually the FCC stopped allowing it.

It can cause problems with PL/DPL falsing on analog radios. It also makes the "monitor before transmit' thing pretty hard. Any consumer not smart enough to understand coded squelch is going to have issues with it. In urban areas, tying up a frequency pair for one special group of users isn't helpful.

No, if people want to play digital voice, amateur radio is the place to do it. That's where experimentation belongs.
If we really want to do digital on personal radio services, it needs to be very carefully designed and not a random choice by users.

Well said!

 

[jeepsandradios]

As said 462.3 is not a GMRS frequency but rather a business band frequency and I would think DMR/NXDN and other modulations are in use on it dep[ending on busines case.

 

[K6GBW]

That frequency is apparenlty used by The Shops at Montebello and that is a DMR system. So being in Pico you're basically right there next to it.