Not sure about the C version but the TK-350G was an 90's version Commerical UHF Wide Band Radio used by many Police and Fire Departments in the US.
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Correction: it's a TK-350G.
I was told that it originally had limited use in a government building.
Also, I have found some postings indicating that it is Part 95 accepted (not verified).
I wonder how it would fair compared to the current Chinese GMRS specific radios in terms of audio clarity, receiver sensitivity, etc.
I was told that it originally had limited use in a government building.
Also, I have found some postings indicating that it is Part 95 accepted (not verified).
I wonder how it would fair compared to the current Chinese GMRS specific radios in terms of audio clarity, receiver sensitivity, etc.
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mmckenna
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Verified:
Word of caution:
It is an older radio. Components age. As the components age, the alignment of the radio may shift.
Mights shift a little, might shift a lot. That may be an issue.
A radio slightly out of alignment on the ham bands isn't a big deal. Get outside the ham bands where things are channelized and working alongside other radio services, it can be an issue.
Give the radio a try if you want. But if it seems like it's not working well enough, have someone put it on a service monitor.
As for the Cheap Chinese Radios:
I had a site I inherited at work that had a bunch of those. They were having all kinds of issues with their radios and their repeaters. I had them buy some -new- Kenwood's. That fixed most of the issues. I took their CCR's and started putting them on my service monitor. They were all over the place, some way off frequency, some over deviating.
So, new CCR may work just as bad as a 20+ year old name brand radio. In other words: You get what you pay for. Sometimes you get lucky, sometimes you don't.
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Motorola puts their name on some really low end radios that I was too embarrassed to use (T5800). The commercial offerrings are of course the best in the business. If the OP really wants a GMRS radio, I suggest the best at the moment, the Wouxun KG-UV9GX.
This is not a cheap radio, and ironically, better than some name brand options. Why won't Yaesu, Icom, etc. step up to the plate with an offering? People in the GMRS world don't need the hostile user experience commercial offerings provide. They just want to speak with their jeep buddy that's about 500 feet away.
- Double-Conversion Superheterodyne (yeah, not triple but still)
- Wide band receive that includes NOAA WX.
- Two independent receivers
This is not a cheap radio, and ironically, better than some name brand options. Why won't Yaesu, Icom, etc. step up to the plate with an offering? People in the GMRS world don't need the hostile user experience commercial offerings provide. They just want to speak with their jeep buddy that's about 500 feet away.
Project25_MASTR
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Icom did GMRS back in the 90's and 00's. The F4GS, F420, F221 and the F21 were all type accepted for use in GMRS. Icom even had a special variant of the F21 called the F21-GM which could be field programmed for use in GMRS.
The real question, were there ever any Vertex Standard radios (prior to Motorola's acquisition of the brand) that were type accepted for Part 95A...
mmckenna
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Yaesu is amateur radio. Vertex, no longer associated with them, probably had some Part 95 approved radios at one time.
Icom, as Project25_MASTR said, had some really good GMRS radios back in the day. The Icom F-21GM was a really nice basic radio that did what a lot of GMRS users wanted. I still have a few F-21 (non-GM) radios sitting in my garage, and they do have Part 95 certs.
I ran a lot of Icom gear back when I was active on GMRS, The F-420 and F-2020 were my favorites at the time.
Problem was, most people didn't know what GMRS was, and the market wasn't there. GMRS chat boards would be full of people complaining about the lack of GMRS capable higher end radios. Eventually industry started listening, and produced some:
Pryme had the PR-460, which was pretty popular. It had front panel programming, and a lot of channels.
Icom had the F-21GM
I think there were some others.
Mobiles were more or less missing from the line up in most cases.
But, there wasn't enough sales to really support more expensive GMRS radios, and they dropped off the market.
Not sure what Midland did, I think it was good marketing, but they seemed to break the mold and get some good products out there and hook the off road users.
The CCR's started cashing in on this a while back, also.
Used to be GMRS was legal for more business type use than it is now. Was fairly common to have some businesses on GMRS in some areas. Locally we had a towing company that was legally on GMRS for their business.
The big name radio companies often had UHF mobiles and portables that were Part 95 approved. Problem was, they were not "consumer" friendly, as you had to have programming software/cables, and most consumers didn't want to deal with that.
Same thing sort of happened with MURS. For a while, finding decent MURS radios was a challenge. Radio Shack had their 2 watt mobile and I think a portable. A few of the older Motorola Spirt (I think) radios were MURS approved. Ritron had a few.
But they didn't have the market penetration.
Icom still sells a nice MURS portable, unfortunately it's not as inexpensive as the CCR's, so it usually gets ignored.
Manufacturers have been there all along, it's the consumers that were missing/reluctant. Supply and Demand, or in this case, Demand and Supply….
nvrpc1
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Well, I did a search for Wouxun KG-UV9GX GMRS and came up with you. I just ordered one of these and it's 15 weeks out. I saw where I could look up my local emergency freq and put them into the radio via some online software I saw on line and a red cable. Do you know if this server they are talking about here on this website has this information and can I download those freq into the Wouxun KG-UV9GX GMRS directly from this site insted of adding them in manually
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Could you provide a couple examples of such a “…local emergency freq”?
He's probably talking about this local PD/FD frequency.
The Wouxun KG-UV9GX GMRS is also a wide-band scanner radio.
It seems almost all radios are made in China these days, even some Kenwoods.
nvrpc1
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That is exactly what I am taking about. Police, Fire, Res Squad, Emergency React, State Troopers, GMRS clubs, etc, etc etc. Can that information be obtained off this server, put into spreeadsheet and then do a copy and paste into the KG-UV9GV software to enter these freg into this radio or do I have to enter them one by one manually. -https://www.radioreference.com/db/browse/ctid/2498 Also while I have your attention does anyone know if there are any GMRS clubs in cookville, tn. Heck I went to My gmrs.com to look for repeaters and the best ones you have to pay for and I'm thinking many people don't want you to know they exist.
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For your reference not all repeaters are open. Some list them as "paid" just to keep folks off of them. The Cumberland West Repeater is one of those in your area. It may or may not be private. I would reach out to the owner and ask. I don't know of any repeater clubs in your area but you'd find more info in the GMRS forums on mgmrs I would assume. In my area that's not a thing. GMRS is a utility for me so never even thought about clubs.
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