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get you a cheap Baufang HT's if you don't have a radio already, watch some of the videos the guy here makes often, turn on the radio and begin playing.. Probably 99% of us here started that way..

Can you point us to an example of that ever being an issue.. for anyone.. ever? Even just once?

Simple answer is if the transmitting radio is FCC type accept you can be assured that the radio tested and its design has passed basic tests for such emissions. As for low powered transmissions, they can be just as harmful as the high powered ones if it is in close proximity of the receiving device. Some implanted medical device can be effected. On a side note: If your neighbor has her Lush inserted and turned on, spurious emissions can be loads of fun.

I have seen spurious emissions cause cheap appliances and lights turn on and off. That can be fun if it happens to be your neighbor's stuff that is affected. Baby monitors can be annoying at times from the interference they can cause. And it's always fun to mess with neighbors that have scanners that they leave on all of the time that are set to scan all frequencies. Running digital modes on the HF bands makes some obnoxious noses on scanners.

I broke down and participated in the Missouri QSO party this weekend. Four of us got together and ran under the club call sign. We kept everything casual and didn't try too hard. It was pretty fun getting to rag chew with the others while one guy was at the radio.

Demonstrating a firm grasp on the obvious, but for the benefit of newcomers who may not know, those same channels scanned without a "privacy tone" on an FRS radio will also hear GMRS as well. They use the same channels. It will also hear repeaters if any are in range and active, on channels 15 thru 22.

After reading the subject of using repeaters that seem to be silent most of the time, sounds similar to the ones that I have posted. I will admit that I've narrow minded on this subject. Besides, the General Mobile Radio Service wasn't intended as HOBBY. Of course, GMRS is technically intended for recreational, or an alternative use Telephone Systems aren't available. I may be wrong with what just said, but I know I'm not totally wrong about what I tried to say.

So yes. Get a few friends or family together get some radios and go out and do an activity we’re gmrs radios would help communicate. Hike, bike, walk, boat, fish, hunt, go to a park, go to Disney land, take a road trip…… The list goes on. As soon as you do these things, anything, where communication is needed, and you use gmrs for that communication then yes you can hear gmrs radios In use.

Do you have a GMRS radio? If so, set it to scan channels 1-22 with no privacy tones. If people are using GMRS and they’re within range, you’ll hear them.

Sure. You can tune GMRS from 462.550 to 462.725 mhz.

Is there a way I can hear people on GRMS in the Cary, NC - Morrisville, NC area? Greg: WSHS561

Even at that, it's just an annoyance, no actual harm done. And as you say, you'd have to pretty much be talking non-stop to matter much to anyone. It would be so weak that likely you could adjust the squelch to get rid of it. As far as interfering with transmitting, I'll wager if that if I were receiving interference due to a harmonic from a 5-10 watt radio, I could just punch my power up to 50 watts and step on them.

That's Not a TID H3 either !

NEVER going to happen, so GET OFF your soap box !! THIS /\ HAS been explained to You !!

Yeah, it can't really be both, can it?

BEHAVE YOURSELF, or YOUR stars will Never align !! !! DO some research !! IF you have secondary harmomics above the the 40 db max then that's LESS power being transmitted on your Primary frequency !!

The likelyhood is a fraction higher than zero - it's not absolute zero, but very close to zero.. Its funny how "some people" will proclaim that my cheap little CCR can't talk more than a few hundred yards, yet, one minute later they will proclaim that the same radio's spurious RF emissions will bring down a 747 at 38,000 feet or jam an entire police department's communications system from 5 miles away. OMG. The stars have aligned. I TOTALLY AGREE. spurious emissions is not something any one really needs to worry about. Atleast not from a ccr 2-5w ht

Usually that not SE but on the same frequency in a constant transmit mode.

Or 220 As already suggested, get FRS off 15-22. FRS users don't need 22 channels (most activity is on 1 and 3). True, but not what should be done. Removing regulations they don't care enough about to enforce should be SOP.

Spurou's emissions from baby room monitors have known to drive some radio enthusiasts nuts so i can imagine that spurious emmissions from a 5 Watt HT can do the same. However it's unlikely an HT will be in continuous XTMT mode so i dont think the damage would be that severed.

the radios are part 95, at least thats what i see on Maxon's site. . No warranty. Never needed it. i did buy the programing and the cable for another $50 bucks. The Duplexer was given to me from a guy here in town that took down a CH 18 repeater. However i did have BuyTwoWay re ture it. He bought it from BuyTwoway. I recently scored a 25W HR652 on Ebay for $700 bucks, it's pretty much like new and was used on a campus school building. Will be soon be selling the Maxons to recoup some money. No, the Maxons are not waterproof but the Hytera is IP67. And snow, what is that, i never see it or play in it

He's referring to the RT97L, 50W GMRS repeater. I'm curious - was your 40Watt repeater new, with a warranty, is it FCC Part 95 compliant, did it come pre-programmed with the GMRS repeater pairs, was the duplexer pre-tuned for GMRS, is it portable, and water proof, and does it automatically heat up to remove snow/ice when used outdoors in cold weather?

I dont't know which Retivis repeater your referring too, the RT97 is near $500 bucks. I paid 200 bucks for a 40 Watt repeater that works very well off my RV Solar Systems. If you're referring to using two HT's for a repeater.. good luck with that, it would really serve zero purpose other than to play with.

Here you go (yes, that is a man’s hand in my picture but I’m a small man)

They are close. But it's not the same hand.