Hey do you guys know what freq range the common 2-way radios available in msia are on? PMR446? UHF CB at 477MHz? FRS?
Are they officially legal? What's the max power output?


thanks!

I don't mean amateur radio, I'm referring to the typical licence-free radios you buy from anywhere, like the Motorola Talkabouts and whatnot.

There is also UHF CB which is in the 476 to 477MHz range.


I've worked 27MHz before and you really do get a lot of range - but only when there's good skip. 27MHz is useless for urban communications, and 27MHz cb radios don't have ctcss or DCS which makes it even more useless when the front-end gets overrun by local transmitters - you get so much interference breaking squelch that you just switch it off!


So it looks like both of the above are officially illegal - from the link you pasted, the only legal bands are the PRS 477MHz band, and the 433MHz short-range communications band which looks similar to the LIPD band.

Radios from the US would be on the FRS band, which is between 462 - 467 with a 5MHz gap in between. GMRS is not very popular nowadays, as FRS radios are more readily available. Both would officially be illegal too.

I was looking at 'proper' radios in LYP and elsewhere and nobody carried one that could do 477MHz! They all ended at 460 or 470MHz. So much for having a class assignment.


I tried to search - but couldn't find anything. As you can see above, the licence-free radio situation in Malaysia is quite a mess! There are 410MHz radios, 462MHz radios, 477MHz radios, and there's no easy way to search for the official legal band (i.e. with google!). None of the programmable radios that I came across in shops are able to operate on PRS freqs either.

Now that I know that the Malaysian licence-free band is called PRS, even googling for "PRS frequencies Malaysia" doesn't return a list of frequencies, or anything describing the band.

This thread would have all the amateur people already following it, and who else better to ask questions like these, hence my post. A one-line reply would have answered it. Your link was just what I was looking for, thanks!

This post has been edited by eug: Feb 19 2008, 11:04 AM

Probably because Aus/NZ isn't as big as the US!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UHF_CB


If a class assignment allows use of a PRS radio without requiring the user to get a personal radio licence, i would consider that 'licence-free'. i.e. anyone can go out and buy a radio and use it, no need to apply for a licence.


Mine had the standard 40 channels. You can get radios with 120 channels, but they're really just 40 regular channels plus 80 upper and lower sideband channels on the same freqs. I've never seen a 4 channel HF CB radio... apart from some toy ones.


What's a good place to get radios in KL?



This post has been edited by eug: Feb 19 2008, 11:11 PM