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Rugged Radios finally gets an FCC Smack-Down

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I know the midland is narrowband. It still works on all GMRS frequencies. He stated nothing would work. Ive never seen that to be the case with the midland. Yes audio may be low or distorted but it should still RX. My guess is the guys are on some non GMRS channel.
 

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I know the midland is narrowband. It still works on all GMRS frequencies. He stated nothing would work. Ive never seen that to be the case with the midland. Yes audio may be low or distorted but it should still RX. My guess is the guys are on some non GMRS channel.

CTCSS tones could also come into play. Some of those radios do weird things with automatic CTCSS tones and such.
 

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I was watching one of the Rugged Radio videos recently and the owner was saying that the newest GMR2 portable radio was 100% designed by them. Yet I read somewhere that even their newest “GMR2” radio is basically a copy of a Radioddity model. So I don’t know why they said it was designed from the ground up by them when it clearly wasn’t. Same as their blue radio was a Beofeng radio just blue instead of black and for 3 times the price.
 

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A Stretch of the truth, a lot of companies have made deals with the Chinese manufacturers to build a radio with THEIR name on it and negotiate a spec or two maybe three, It at its core, the same radio as all the others but there are slight differences that a company can claim "it's build to our spec" If you look around you will find manufactures that will market "your radio with your name on it"
 

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A Stretch of the truth, a lot of companies have made deals with the Chinese manufacturers to build a radio with THEIR name on it and negotiate a spec or two maybe three, It at its core, the same radio as all the others but there are slight differences that a company can claim "it's build to our spec" If you look around you will find manufactures that will market "your radio with your name on it"

Yep, that’s why the B-tech DMR HT radio has repeater functions that the Anytone 868 doesn’t.
 
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