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THEY ARE NOW AVAILABLE!
Below is a link to a review of the TERMN-8R radio. Thank you, John Miklor for this great review! -Polly-01
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Comment by John Miklor:
I just completed a whole new section of the Miklor website dedicated to these radios. I was fortunate enough to have a pre-release to review. The review can be found at: http://www.miklor.com/COM/Review_TERMN-8R.php Very impressive.
Are these radios type accepted by the FCC for all bands they can transmit on?
Information from AnyTone Tech:
Every single radio included in the “8R Series” launch is Part 90 Certified and compliant for commercial users along with having access to amateur features for licensed Amateur radio operators. We are most excited to announce the OBLTR-8R and TERMN-8R that are the world’s FIRST multi-user licensed radios. These brand new radios have modes of operation that can access and legally communicate on MURS and GMRS* frequencies – they also include NOAA Alerts and Weather station monitoring. We are introducing these radios for users that need the most flexibility from one radio and don’t want to purchase multiple radios.
The TERMN-8R includes the ability to also dual receive; allowing your radio to listen to two frequencies at the same time (even if they are on different bands). The dual receiver chipset can be used as a crossband repeater** – allowing you to use your radio as an affordable on-the-fly repeater for extending the range in between almost any handsets. The TERMN-8R can monitor 6 Bands (UHF, VHF, Aviation AM, Shortwave, AM Radio and FM Radio frequencies), which brings some of the most affordable frequency flexibility. The TERMN-8R also can communicate using MSK tones that enables ‘on the radio’ messaging (text messaging) and Frequency Hopping (Randomized Frequency Communication).
On both the OBLTR-8R and TERMN-8R commercial users will appreciate the 2 Tone Paging – this allows you to filter ‘shared frequency’ calls that are intended for only your department. 5 Tone calling is another available calling method on these two radios – and you can store up to 99 5 Tone commands that allow communication, messages, and radio commands to be sent from the push of a button.
CTCSS, DCS, Tone Burst, and DTMF tones are standard calling methods on all “8R Series” radios. The “8R Series” even allows custom CTCSS tones, which insure that if your repeater or business doesn’t use a standard CTCSS tone – our radios can still handle whatever you, require. The “8R Series” also supports all standard and inverted DCS (DPL) calling tones. All of our radios can be programmed with ANI and send or receive radio commands with DTMF tones. DTMF can be used in conjunction with other calling methods and can activate or receive commands like remote stun, remote kill, radio identification, and repeater functions (such as activating a phone line and more).
* The radio operates on the General Mobile Radio Service (GMRS) frequencies when using GMRS Channels. You must have a GMRS license issued by the Federal Communications Commission to legally use these channels. For licensing information and application forms, visit the FCC online at: http://www.fcc. gov/wtb/ uls or call the FCC hotline at 1-800-418-3676. If you have any questions, you can contact the FCC direct at 1-888-225-5322.
**Crossband repeating works by taking a signal on UHF and sending it to VHF or vice versa.
***Frequency Hopping is illegal for use outside of Amateur Bands
Can anyone supply the FCC ID for these units? I’d like to look them up and see what they are certified for.
Petra,
Reading the questions answered on Amazon I saw this:
Part 90: T4K-QZQX3318
Part 95a, 95j: T4K-8RSERIES
Baofeng Tech answered on March 09, 2015
http://amzn.to/1B11IQu
Thanks Charlie Mike-01!
I got the Termn-8r delivered last night. Got my base radio channels programmed in late last night. Hit my local repeater. Good sound reports on the other end. Very solid construction. Looking forward for CHIRP compatibility. Still getting my feet wet with the new layout and features. Will wait a while to leave feedback on Amazon.
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Took delivery yesterday and spent last night evaluating.
Physical design is good, knobs solid, keypad solid, good heft and ergonomics. Nice display.
Radio features are nice. The “FM” mode really takes you to “Alt” radio, from which you can select FM, Aircraft, WX, SW, or MW. An external antenna is an absolute must, even for local AM (MW) reception. Noted that with a female SMA to SO-239 adapter, the signal was ‘grounded out’. If I pulled the connector so only center pin of coax was making contact, signals were rock solid. In the field, speaks to a longwire and a banana plug for RX. The frequency hopping is a misnomer. If you are expecting spread spectrum direct sequence FH, not happening. Cross-band repeater function is nice and opens up interesting possibilities in the field. TX range is wide open, no having to dink with other sw utilities. One little feature I like is the ability to program one of the side PF keys for sub-band transmit. If you are monitoring two bands, saves you from having to move the ‘arrow’ with the AB button before you xmit.
The lack of sideband RX support is a limiter, but for SWL it does the job. Pulled in Radio Havana off my 80m loop with no problem. I still need to play with finding a PSK trace and seeing if the phone app will decode it off this HT.
To get it into GMRS/MURS mode, you have a power-on / keypress combo that automatically sets channels and power levels. I think with 200 memory slots, I’d just program the channels in for availability in Normal mode, then I have all bands accessible with single power on.
The NOAA channels with breakthrough option into sub-band is a nice feature. Unfortunately, Pendleton has a broadcast rotating 7×24, so it would always be on. I just programmed WX6 into a memory slot for quick access., or can get at it via the “FM” (Alt) band mode.
All of my KG-UV3D accessories except batteries and power adapters work perfectly – mic, headset, antennas, programming cable, adapter cables for Argent simplex repeater, SLUSB, TinyTrak 4 TNC, KPC-3+ TNC.
The weak spot at this time is the programming software. No sugar coating it – it’s simply horrid. It does the job, but you have to painstakingly hammer in the entries cell by cell. No support for basic copy and paste (which means you can’t xfer data from CHIRP or your other HTs), the tab key returns you to the menu tree instead of going to the next cell. Also missing are simple back-end logic nice-to-haves, like recognizing the band and freq position, and automatically suggesting offsets and direction. A driver for CHIRP is in the works, and can’t come soon enough for me. Nonetheless, the sw is functional in a basic way, and I was able to quickly hammer in a dozen or so local repeaters for testing.
And the alarm button is, IMHO, a joke. Why? Stick something useful in that hole, like a bright LED on-demand light.
All in all – a heck of a lot of features for around $138 (Amazon). It doesn’t replace something like an FT-817, but it’s about 1/5th the price. As a general preparedness HT for unlicensed family and friends, I could recommend it.
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The CHIRP project website has a current beta version .img file and supporting daily build version of CHIRP. Supports the TERMN-8R. Still being fine tuned, but a major step up in functionality from the factory software. Just the interoperability of CHIRP to copy and paste memory entries from other radios you have already configured is a huge efficiency.
Where can I purchase the TERMN-8R ? I don’t see it on Amazon.
Per Anytone Tech: We are still in process with the new applications for both the TEMRN-8R and OBLTR-8R; please be patient and know that the radios will be back online shortly.
Here’s an email I got from Anytone:
Final approvals are going on in-between our lab and the TCB. The prior date given was an estimated timeline from the TCB but the FCC is still in the process of reviewing the application
We expect them to be live soon; but due to the missed timeline previously given – we are not going to set any dates. The application could be approved even within 24 hours; but until it is live again we will not process any sales for the TERMN-8R or OBLTR-8R
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