[bars] GMRS

[cprestia]

I think the license is/was 70 Clams and covered the fam for 10 years if I'm not mistaken.  We'll worth it if you have peeps that don't want to pursue amateur radio level comes.Oh yeah, hello neighbor NIECC73 PEEPS!CharlieW1CEP
-------- Original message --------From: John Schulman via bars <bars at w1hh.org> Date: 10/10/24  08:27  (GMT-05:00) To: Christopher Lennon <kwaj.speedo at gmail.com> Cc: BARS CLUB BROADCAST <bars at w1hh.org> Subject: Re: [bars] GMRS I paid for the license online and bought a couple radios for camp. GMRS is 50W. JohnW1MVDSent from my iPhoneOn Oct 10, 2024, at 2:17 AM, Christopher Lennon <kwaj.speedo at gmail.com> wrote:The low end aren’t super expensive.  I don’t know the details of the licensing, but I think if they were using them in a group with you, only you would need to be licensed.Chris W2BPLOn Wed, Oct 9, 2024 at 10:45 PM Christopher Wood <christopher.wood at firelinkllc.com> wrote:






That is my proposed use case, although I have not yet implemented it (GMRS) .. To have a radio with which to communicate with my grandchildren a couple of miles away.




No licensing test, so we can each get a license and then I can get them a radio and have a radio here at home. I think that might be fun and maybe interest them in future radio development and moving forward to other projects like ham radio balloon tracking
 or tracking satellite beacons, etc.




Maybe I'll try to do this for Christmas?




73

Christopher

KC1GHR





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Good question. I bought one thinking that it might be something like VHF/UHF but there's nobody on that I can find. Repeaters near me (Tewksbury) are not to be found. There's one in Wilmington but never heard anything there. If you have a group of people
 and all have GMRS, that would be useful - but so would CB.

73s
Tony
W1DYS
WRXD549



On 10/1/2024 8:21 AM, Juan Jiménez wrote:

Looking at the specs for GMRS radios, it seems like it's a fancier version of FRS with a little more power, ability to use repeaters and need to get a license without any tests involved. For what purpose do people use these radios?


73,
K1CPR
Juan



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