DaveInDenver
Rising Sun Ham Guru
I was just looking at the FCC documents and it appears the MXT275 does 11K0F3Ε, which means it's a narrowband radio. So it's not a bandwidth question apparently. It does 5 watts on low and 15 watts on high.True, but the MXT400 doesn't have channels 8-14 either. Maybe Midland just hasn't updated them according to the most recent FCC rules.
Now my head hurts.
Incidentally, that's kind of odd to hamstring a GMRS radio by making it adhere to narrowband when you could use your full allocation to increase fidelity and range. I guess it's to meet in the middle so as to be compatible with FRS radios.
If you're gonna do might as well put in a 1/2 watt output and include all 22 channels. Not sure the reasoning of the FCC.
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