GMRS is a personal radio service that you and your family can use or you. It’s a great time to get your license if you haven’t gotten one already because the FCC last month has dropped the price to $35 for a 10-year license.
What You Need To Know
- GMRS is a family Radio service
- The license covers you and your family, and you can use a single license to talk to each other.
- General Mobile Radio service sits in the UHF spectrum in the United States
- These frequencies are intertwined or even the same as FRS.
- On most frequencies, you can use higher power than FRS users if you are licensed to use GMRS
- You can use your GMRS license to communicate with anyone on FRS.
- GMRS allows you to use Repeaters to extend your range
- Some repeaters are open to all users, others are closed to an organization, while others may be for private use.
- In 2017, the FCC expanded GMRS to allow short data messaging applications, including text messaging and GPS location information, to be sent over GMRS frequencies.
- GMRS is analog and never encrypted give you something you can monitor with any scanner radio on the market
- There are versions of GMRS in many countries so GMRS is not limited to just the US.
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🔗 Links from Today's Podcast
MyGPRS https://mygmrs.com
Repeaterbook: https://www.repeaterbook.com
RadioReference: https://wiki.radioreference.com/index.php/General_Mobile_Radio_Service
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Mobile_Radio_Service
==================================== FRS/GMRS Channel Table 01 - 462.5625 02 - 462.5875 03 - 462.6125 04 - 462.6375 05 - 462.6625 06 - 462.6875 07 - 462.7125 08 - 467.5625 09 - 467.5875 10 - 467.6125 11 - 467.6375 12 - 467.6625 13 - 467.6875 14 - 467.7125 15 - 462.5500 16 - 462.5750 17 - 462.6000 18 - 462.6250 19 - 462.6500 20 - 462.6750 21 - 462.7000 22 - 462.7250
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