Non-Handheld GMRS/Multi band?

[N_Jay]

Ham gear is notorious for not just being not certified, but also for not meeting the basic specifications required for certification.

 

[prcguy]

With a high stability oscillator option the Icom 706MKIIG would be as frequency accurate as most any commercial GMRS radio and the TX harmonic and spurious response would be well within specs as would many amateur radios. Yes its not type accepted, yes it puts out too much power on CB and FRS but I've tested, aligned and repaired a few thousand radios on a well equipped bench and can say most amateur radios are technically as clean and stable as any commercial land mobile transceiver.

The reason its not a good idea to use them on commercial frequencies is a legal one not a technical one.
prcguy

Ham gear is notorious for not just being not certified, but also for not meeting the basic specifications required for certification.

 

[N_Jay]

Check the deviation limiter. Especially on a 12.5 kHz channel.

I am not saying that they can not be aligned to fall within the specification, but they typically are not from the factory, and I doubt many hams, and certainly even fewer non-hams have the understanding, skills, or equipment to do so.

Just how many people buy the high stability option?

 

[Don_Burke]

I'd love to see the design of such a rig. With a design like that, they might take away Obama's Nobel Prize and create a new category. We can name it after that little ole machine gun maker - Hiram Percy Maxim.

Actually, it was Hiram Stevens Maxim that invented the Maxim machine gun.

His son, Hiram Percy Maxim, invented a type of silencer.

 

[Don_Burke]

Why can't they build an all-in-one radio?

For instance, an Icom IC-706MKIIG can output 100W on 6 m, 50W on 2 m, and 35W on 70 cm.

Why would it be so hard to make a rig that outputs 50W on GMRS only frequencies, 5W on the interstitial GMRS frequencies, 0.5W on FRS, 2W on MURS, 12W on SSB, and 4W on CB? Is it a physical impossibility?

An all-in-one radio sure would save me a lot of space in my truck.

I would think getting the manufacturers to come up with a standard audio and control bus would be your best bet.

That would mean a control head goes up front and a chassis with the various RF decks is hidden away somewhere.

Heck, I would like to see scanners be made that way.

Would it happen? I doubt it.