SRBR

Short Range Business Radio

This was a licensed service offered to European users for just a few years in the days of the Radio Authority Regime. It is now no longer licensable and its function has been replaced by PMR446.    

It offered three channels (MHz)

• 461.26250
• 461.47500
• 461.48750

Maximum erp was 500mW

You can still hear users on these channels to this day. Many old radios have passed hands and are used by carefree chancers around the UK.

Here in Brighton, I hear regular chatter on there by fishermen, crane drivers and their banksmen, as well as a few security companies who probably should know better.

The equipment used is frequently the Motorola Handi-Pro in its original incarnation as a three channel SRBR device, or the Icom IC-4SR EasiWave. The latter appears as a programmable UHF PBR device as well as a more recent PMR446 variant. Many of these models were available to buy with the option of either the eight PMR446 channels or the 3 SRBR channels. Converting an SRBR radio into a PMR446 radio is legally allows but technically unviable in most cases.