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Just curious, but why don't GMRS mobile units have a PA option like some CB radios do?

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Just wanted to say thank you to those who got us going in my gmrs. Thank you for resetting and it’s worked perfect since! Thank you!

That's about it.

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At least the battery is included.

Anyone can report interference or non-compliance. The FCC seldom (never?) does anything about GMRS. I have no idea if many reports are made about GMRS. I know virtually no actions have been taken against GMRS users. I have no idea why a ham would be disgruntled about GMRS. I participate in amateur radio and we simply don’t often discuss GMRS often. Probably about 20% of us hold both licenses. There certainly are “sad hams” but most hams are not them. In fact many of the people who complain most vehemently about GMRS users breaking the rules aren’t even hams. I’ve seen many more radio professionals complain about noncompliance in GMRS than I have hams.

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This is just my opinion and by no means intended to be legal advice, but I have to agree with Randy and others with the same type of response. It seems that unless someone is committing some wild infraction, they aren't getting FCC attention. There are way too few enforcement agents and way too many people with radios for anything else. I used to think it mattered, but time and inaction have unequivocally proven otherwise. I have an XTL5000 that has the ability to run wideband digital encryption on UHF at 115 watts. From a technology standpoint, it exceeds every single minimum requirement established for type approval. If I where to program it to transmit 20w of output, only able to access the upper channels for high power simplex and repeater operation, narrow-band analog voice only, adhere to all of the other configuration requirements (including not transmitting on non-GMRS frequencies) and the FCC enforcement team knew I did it... I highly doubt anyone is going to care. Shoot... unless I were to get on the internet and start bragging about it, there isn't even any way for anyone to know. Signal interception sure isn't going the tell anyone anything. The bottom line is, I would never advocate or condone intentionally violating the rules... but damn dude... the FCC has way more important things to worry about then if you are using an iCom, Kenwood, Motorola, Yaesu, Harris, Baeofeng, TIDRadio, or any other radio. Ensure you don't cause harmful interference by using a quality radio and not acting like a Richard Cranium and im pretty confident if you roll the dice, you won't go to prison or get a $14,000 fine.

No. These are not standard metric machine screw sizes. Under magnification the screw threads look like sheet metal screws or wood screws with the screw pitch much larger than machine screw sizes.

Unfortunately, all the non-member good repeaters are down in Phoenix area, don't know for sure why but I think I know.....Ug peeps always ruin a good thing.

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i had a couple and just found them after the fact. This is how you collect program cables.

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I hate it when you have to orfder the cable separate.

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So 1 watt with a 3dB gain antenna.

Way easier to answer when I didn't

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how many stop-signs have you rolled through in the last month how how many times have you exceeded the speed limited by more than 1/2 mph?

People would be stupid to admit to anything in a public forum.

Real certified MURS radios are a bit hard to find. However there are plenty of old Part 90 radios that can be made to "work", depending on one's definition, with the right programming. The main issue is the power level. For HT's it's usually 1 watt on low and 5 watts on high. MURS allows only 2 watts ERP. I started this thread some years back asking the question. Interesting answers I got were old Part 90 radios programmed to meet frequency, bandwidth and power spec's were OK if the radios were certified BEFORE MURS was created. I'll bet a fair number of people are using old Part 90 radios, same with MARS/CAP mod'ed Ham gear, at 5 watts. Might find the occasional "mobile" at 50 watts. Oops, people don't really do that do they?

What else do y'all cheat on besides GMRS?

You would have a much better chance getting hit by lightning twice standing at the same place than the FCC knocking on your door with a GMRS violation.. And as Steve Shannon pointed out, there is no organized monitoring VM's for GMRS and i woiuld say there never will.