Digital private mobile radio

dPMR equipment complies with the relevant European standard ETSI EN 301 166 as well as the FCC emission mask applicable for operation in the US.

dPMR446 radios comply with the ETSI TS 102 490[1] open standard and are limited to 500 mW RF power with fixed antennas per ECC Decision (05)12.

[2] They are ideally suited to recreational and professional users who do not need wide area coverage with base stations and repeaters.

This means that dPMR446 can provide voice calls, text messaging (SMS), status and embedded data such as GPS position etc.

Such multiple repeaters can be managed by dynamic channel selection or they can be part of a co-channel wide area network.

To ensure that this will be the case, ETSI has also developed and published a range of European standards for compliance and interoperability testing.

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