Heading into Ottawa for my night shift, I heard the buzz on several channels. Ch 7 at Hwy 7 and the Queensway, Ch 1 while passing Downtown, Ch 17 and 4 near the Vanier Parkway.
Yes there are a few DMR stations on FRS/GMRS. Not sure who is selling radios that do this, but I will assume its people with motorola rigs that are doing this. Plenty of "hams" would rather use those frequencies instead of using ham frequencies.
Yes. Or Anytone, BTech, Tytera, etc. A lot of radios can be programmed from 400 thru 470 MHz using DMR.Or cheap Baofeng/Hytera radios with DMR