Radio?

[Tama]

Had a look at the radio guide and it seems like there's quite clear categories that radios fall into over here.
I've just moved here from South Africa, but I have a radio that I took with me from there, it's just a simple little 0.5W radio with the following stats:

• 8 UHF (Ultra High Frequencies) Frequencies
• 38 Quiet (CTCSS-Continuous Tone Coded Sub-audible Squelch) Codes
• 83 Quiet (DCS - Digital Code Squelch) Codes
• 968 channels (COM 8)
• Digital Volume Control (5 levels)
• Channel Scanning
• VOX (Voice Operated Transmit) Function (3 levels of sensitivity)
• Frequency band: Simplex UHF 446MHz 446.00625 ~ 446.09375 MHz 
• Transmitter power: 500mW ERP 
  Size (inc.antenna): 131mm (h) x 41mm (w) x 22mm (d)  
  Number of Frequencies 8 (12.5KHz channel spacing) 
  Modulation FM 
  Frequency Control PLL 

Would this be compatible with the local 0.5W radios? (the PMR446 stuff)

[Prisce]

Should be the same. Can’t see why not, fortunately Radio waves are the same world over so you shouldn’t have any issues.

[Tommikka]

I’m at a conference (just waiting for a Brexit session to start) but the details you have shown look fairly like PMR446 or close enough.

 

The 0.5w limit makes you better than many UK players who use imported or ‘licenced’ radios without a licence.

If it is PMR446 then you can just switch on, if it’s close enough and programmable then you can possibly set it to specific frequencies  by software and/or the buttons.

 

Then it’s just knowing who you want to talk to and what channel/frequency

 

 

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/PMR446

 

[Tama]

Thanks for the info, looking at the link it seems to fall pretty neatly into the Analogue FM PMR 446 category. (With access to only the first 8 channels)