Can anyone advise how I can tell if a walkie talkie uses FM or FSK? It is not given in the sales info.
Without attempting to contact every manufacturer, and hope for a reply, is there anyway I can determine this from the general specs, or by price, or brand?
I am looking at the low end Midland models, for example.
Larry perkins
"Larry Perkins"
** I doubt there are any "walkie talkies" that use FSK.What on earth make YOU think there are any ?
AM on the 27MHz band is the norm and FM elsewhere.
.... Phil
It's very unlikely any walkie talkie would use FSK at all. Are you talking about radios for voice communication, HAM radio stuff with digital modes or RF modules usually employed in remote controls? HAM radio, military or special gear aside, most (probably all) recent walkie talkies use FM, some old CB ones (maybe airband VHF portables too) would use AM instead.
If the products are sold in the USA, then you should be able to find the complete specifications at the FCC's Office of Engineering and Technology's online equipment authorization database. Link:
Look for the "Advanced Search" button, since you likely won't have the FCC ID's numbers from the product's label, packaging or User Manual to start from. You could also Google image for the manual or photo to get the ID's individually, etc... Once you know the first 3-letter code for a given manufacturer, you can probably get all their walkie-talkie products at once (one query). However, for a company like Midland, you're likely to get a whole lot more results returned than just walkie-talikes. For example, I know they make (or once made) CB radios, and weather radio receivers, just to name a few.
In the Advanced Search, you can narrow down the returned results by entering the frequency ranges of interest. That should weed out a lot of unwanted hits.
-mpm
There is FSK, at least in Eurpoe. Please see these links:
How common is the protocol? IOW if one were to purchase the digital version would this of necessity be described on the packaging?
And the feature would probably be restricted to high end business or industrial models?
Anyone know for sure.
Larry
The OP asked if there was any way to tell if a walkie talkie used FSK.
The amount of advertising on the packages would be the first tell-tale sign.
It looks like these devices need to be switched into digital mode.
Second tell tale-sign.
In other words, RTFM.
don
"Larry Perkins"
** You are posting from Australia - right ?The license free requirements for UHF CB allow only certain frequencies between 476 and 477 MHz.
You will not find any dPMR radios on these frequencies.
.... Phil
for Voice they use FM, Single Side Band Upper, Single side band lower, and AM (the last three are used in the CB band) but walkie Talkies are in many bands, which band do you have? GPRS is FM
But not FSK, that is digital, does your walkie talkie have a connection for computer?
Thanks. I completely forgot about digital PMR radios. They talked about them years ago but I still didn't find one in shops.
OK, it would seem the digital versions are rare, at least in the current consumer market. Now I know. Thanks to all.
Larry
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Hello Larry, Here in Europe the 446MHz digital walkie/talkies are very common, I guess even more common than their analog versions. Prices start at around 50Eur for a pair (70usd ?), so they are definitively not limited to high end applications. The marketing brochures talk about a 5 to 10km range, I guess that 1 or 2km would be a more reasonnable assumption... Motorola is one of the manufacturers. Yours, Robert
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