P25 on the marine radio

[KampingAnthony1AolCo]

Hello I wanted to know if you allowed to have P25 on the marine or if you are only allowed analog.

Thanks in advance
Anthony Lee

 

[lep]

Depends on Who you are and your purpose. Where I live the USCG uses P25 on VHF daily.

 

[ecps92]

Also, remember many of the VHF Marine channels are used for OTHER purposes, outside of the Marine (Part 80) when in-land as well as near the water some are allocated to Part 90 (Public Safety, Railroad etc)

Depends on Who you are and your purpose. Where I live the USCG uses P25 on VHF daily.

 

[KampingAnthony1AolCo]

Does the coast guard use 164.900 with P25? Would I hear it with the government shut down?

 

[ecps92]

Yes the CG LMR is P25

The Federal Government has not shut down, they have only limited the public access (web sites, Tourist Park Rangers etc) to make us think they have shut down.

Essential services are still operating
TSA, FPS, NPS, FRB, FBI, ICE, CG etc

Does the coast guard use 164.900 with P25? Would I hear it with the government shut down?

 

[mmckenna]

Also, keep in mind that there are different rules for the US Coast Guard than there are for the rest of us. The US Coast Guard, and other federal government agencies follow the rules of the NTIA, not the FCC. The rest of us have to follow the FCC rules.

FCC rules say FM or PM (Phase Modulation) voice and data are the only allowed emissions, and only 20KHz bandwidth. P25 does not fall into those limitations. So, unless you are part of the Federal Government, you are stuck with plain old analog voice or data.

 

[poltergeisty]

What kind of two way would you use for P25 on the marine band? Some XTS variant?

 

[jhal94]

Here in St. Pete the coast guard runs full-time P25 encryption on channel 82. Real nice when your scanning with your marine rig and get a nice rggrrrggrgrgggggg. Of course I carry a XTS2500i now.

 

[com501]

What kind of two way would you use for P25 on the marine band? Some XTS variant?

XTL, XTS or APX.

When I was flying C130s, we had Saber Rs with DES-XL with 6-16-21-22-23-81-82-83 plus Customs in them.

 

[forums manager]

I've removed all the OT chatter. Lets please stay on-topic; not what type of commercial radio to use on the marine band or cracking encryption for example.