New non-ham prepper radio is here

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For those that always complain about getting a license or guberment ain't got no right ..... yada, yada. Here's your new free-band prepper radio. It's RTG. ;)

 
Note, the video won't play unless you log in to Farcebook - at least that is what happened for me. I was able to copy the URL and then open that in another tab.

It looks like their clarifying and adjusting so that non licensed FRS systems can operate up to 2W PEP and the GPRS radios that operate above that will still require a user license. One place I used to wok had some 5W HTs that I and another guy carried around. They were licensed radios and it was no big deal. We used to use them to communicate where the boss, Rex, was and to avoid him. One day I was talking to him and the radio beeped and it was the other guy, Frank. I answered and he said, "I wanted to let you know that Curly Cue is coming around the corner." I replied, "Yes, Frank, he's right in front of me". Not a word was said. I don't think Rex even noticed.

I did notice this interesting little tidbit in the ARRL notice:
The rule changes will phase out the use of voice-scrambling or “obscuring” features in all Part 95 devices, and it will ultimately prohibit manufacture, importation, or sale of any devices incorporating such features, “regardless of whether the Commission has previously certified that radio.”
So, in other words, they want all non licensed phone traffic to be sent "in the clear" .... That is interesting to say the least. My first thought, before realizing it was phone traffic, was of the fact that we use a couple of Part 95 radios with Yagi antennas to create an ethernet bridge on part of our VLAN at work and that uses WPA2.
 
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My first thought, before realizing it was phone traffic, was of the fact that we use a couple of Part 95 radios with Yagi antennas to create an ethernet bridge on part of our VLAN at work and that uses WPA2.

WiFi radios are Part 15 unlicensed RF devices.
 
Might be my old ears but I don't think that radio speaks English.

You have to go into the settings and change it from Chinese to English, like a Baofeng. Set a Baofeng to Chinese and all your buddies will sound like Southern Chinamen. ;)
 
Sure enough there'll be someone complaining that opening the box to get to the radio is "too hard".
 
So, in other words, they want all non licensed phone traffic to be sent "in the clear" .

Pass a law, solve a problem.

The government mantra. They're all evil idiots.
 
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