The United States permits use by an adult individual who possesses a valid GMRS license, as well as his or her immediate family members.
MIDLAND RADIO PROGRAMMING SOFTWARE LICENSE
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I am new here and want to learn everything I can and get the best legal setup available to me.We're a growing community of GMRS operators who want to encourage licensed legal use of the GMRS frequencies. I want to stay all legal (that's why I got my license) even though I could probably get away with no license and a non-certified GMRS rig. I had read somewhere (either on Midland's site or in the MXT400 manual) that the programming jack on the MXT400 "was not used".Īnyway, I didn't realize changing to WB would void the certification. Well, I didn't miss the post, but I surely misunderstood it (I thought it was said the reprogramming was possible, but I didn't pickup that someone had actually done it successfully and tested it). So, if you were going to do that you might as well just buy the exact same radio without GMRS certification, as sold by vendors mention in the thread I linked to previously. (Changing the PL settings would apparently be ok). However, as has pointed out in another thread, changing the radio from narrowband to wideband would void the GMRS certification.
MIDLAND RADIO PROGRAMMING SOFTWARE SOFTWARE
Original from Midland: Īnd a general purpose cable is available from: ĭid you miss my post from 24-August? There is software that will do what you want and someone on MyGMRS (I can't find the post at the moment) has reported that it worked. But, I doubt it.įor those who want to pursue this topic, here are a few key links from the Facebook posts
One difference is the Luiton version includes help files. And guess what, they seem to be essentially the same, with some functionality removed from the MXT400 version. With the Midland software already installed, I then downloaded the Luiton software. In trying to answer this question, I returned to a post from in 2018 in a discussion which suggests the MXT400 is really a Luiton LT-590 with modified settings for GMRS certification.
First of all, is use of the software by consumers even authorized? If it would allow the customer to set the radio to operate in a manner inconsistent with Part-95E.
Thanks for the additional information and the link.