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So, I bought some radios to use when we go gallivanting around in the LX. It has 22 channels (FRS/GMRS). Am I understanding correctly that GMRS licenses are no longer required for these combo radios w/ less than 2W transmit? I can use all 22 channels up to 2W now? GMRS license only required for 5W / repeater? (not that I understand all this, just that the radio I have seems to be all usable w/o any license). Also, sounds like with this new policy, new radios will be coming to market that support 2W for all of these 22 channels (currently, 0.5W for the FRS channels). May want to upgrade my radios then.... Dang. "Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it." L.Tolstoy "A government is just a body of people, usually, notably, ungoverned." Shepherd Book | ||
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I've not heard anything about non licensing, and a quick Google search doesn't reveal any info about such a thing. Luckily, I have enough willpower to control the driving ambition that rages within me. When you had the votes, we did things your way. Now, we have the votes and you will be doing things our way. This lesson in political reality from Lyndon B. Johnson "Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible." - Justice Janice Rogers Brown | |||
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I'm assuming .gov pages take time to update.... https://bettersaferadio.com/fc...ds-gmrs-frs-cb-murs/ "Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it." L.Tolstoy "A government is just a body of people, usually, notably, ungoverned." Shepherd Book | |||
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As I understand it, an amateur license is still required to operate them legally. However, since millions of those little radios have flooded the market the past ten years or so, this is not enforced at all. I could be wrong though. ________________________________________________________ "Great danger lies in the notion that we can reason with evil." Doug Patton. | |||
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I believe enforcement is handled by the mattress tag police. | |||
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As I recall, from long ago, no license is needed for those. Elk There has never been an occasion where a people gave up their weapons in the interest of peace that didn't end in their massacre. (Louis L'Amour) "To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors, is sinful and tyrannical. " -Thomas Jefferson "America is great because she is good. If America ceases to be good, America will cease to be great." Alexis de Tocqueville FBHO!!! The Idaho Elk Hunter | |||
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It has nothing to do with amateur radio license. Most of the handheld radios I've seen were channeled for both FRS and GMRS. A license was required for GMRS use. No license is required for FRS. With GMRS, you can set up a repeater, with a high antenna to give more range. Find an unused channel, set up the tone squelch and have at it. It was for business use, like you see at Costco, and similar. There were GMRS radios, with no FRS channels. Now apparently the FCC has seen fit to continue its uninterrupted string of making a pig's breakfast from everything it touches. Impractical, inefficient, unreasonable, unmanageable, hopelessly overly complex and unenforceable. Luckily, I have enough willpower to control the driving ambition that rages within me. When you had the votes, we did things your way. Now, we have the votes and you will be doing things our way. This lesson in political reality from Lyndon B. Johnson "Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible." - Justice Janice Rogers Brown | |||
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The rule says license above two watts. RMD TL Davis: “The Second Amendment is special, not because it protects guns, but because its violation signals a government with the intention to oppress its people…” Remember: After the first one, the rest are free. | |||
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So last year, I could only use channels 1-7 with 0.5w FRS, 8-14 FRS. 15-22 only with GMRS license. Now I can use channels 1-22 as long as less than 2w, right? No license required? Btw, are there any reserved channels? Like CB channel 9 for emergencies? "Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it." L.Tolstoy "A government is just a body of people, usually, notably, ungoverned." Shepherd Book | |||
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