PMR - Private Mobile Radio FAQ's

dPMR is part of ETSI – one of the world’s leading standards development organizations for Information and Communication Technologies (ICT). Founded initially to serve European needs, ETSI has grown rapidly to become highly-respected as a producer of technical standards for worldwide use.

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Digital Private Mobile Radio (dPMR) is a standard that has been developed by ETSI and defines digital Professional, Personal and Private Mobile Radio (PMR). PMR has enjoyed great success in Europe for many years, and serves a very broad community of users.

dPMR is a Frequency-Division Multipl...

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It is common for a single radio hand portable or desk top microphone to be used by a number of people in just a few hours. It is important that you are aware of the risks of using a shared handset.

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With the release of the UC-FR5000 network card, it is possible to:

• set up a repeater for trunking functionality
• program the trunking parameters
• carry out some simple diagnostics of the repeater like PLL temperature and power connection (requires an application to do th...

Yes, it is possible. All analogue signalling features available in IDAS terminal products (and other analogue radio products) can be handled by an IDAS repeater.

Your current analogue radios and repeater system can be used by IDAS radios in the analogue mode just like any other analogue radio. IDAS and analogue-only radios can talk directly to each other or through an analogue repeater. IDAS system features will not be available on your current analogue-...

IDAS provides for spectrum-inversion digital voice scrambling with a 15-bit key (more than 32,000 different codes).

The digital signal audio quality remains the same throughout the range, with no deterioration at the extremes of the communication range. The biggest difference you will notice is the lack of noise in the received audio of the digital signal. In most instances, the greater the distance between s...

In field tests carried out by Icom and other third parties, IDAS in digital mode is observed to provide up to 20% more communication coverage than analogue.

Some reports have indicated coverage of over 80km, but as with any wireless communications system, antenna height, topography and o...

NXDN™ or Next Generation Digital Narrowband, is a new “Common Air Interface” (CAI), the name for over-the-air methods by which radios and repeaters communicate. NXDN™ defines next-generation digital radio.

IDAS is Icom’s version of the new Next Generation Digital Narrowband (NXDN™) radio technology. Icom’s IDAS is the equipment and technology – the platform – that operates using the NXDN™ system.

Icom was the first to bring NXDN™-compliant radios to market, giving Icom more than two and a h...

IDAS stands for Icom Digital Advanced System.

Lone Worker is a safety system incorporated in many types of on-site portable radio systems.

The radio will sense whether a user has made a transmission within a preset period. If there has been no radio activity within this period, the handset will provide an audible alert.

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One of the questions that is always been asked of me is what does MIL STD, IPX or JIS stand for and more importantly what does it mean for the product I have sold or purchased?

So here it is. The definitive lists that should explain away any confusion.

Japanese Industrial Sta...