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The rules years ago allowed business to operate on GMRS before the name changed from Class A Citizens Radio Service and those were grandfathered in unless they let their license expire.I have one guy a few counties away that had a license since the 1800s I believe. He had been taking advantage of GMRS and was basically selling radios to anyone and covering them under his license and selling air time to the county wide transportation system and they were non-stop chatter from 7 am-5 pm rendering the frequency useless to licensed users.I did some checking and he had several police using it at night as a chit chat channel plus he had it set up with multiple PL tones so it was hit or miss to try and find a free tone. I got so tired of not being able to use the frequency that I actually called the guy out on the air and advised him it was illegal for him to be using GMRS as he was.I received a immediate reply over the radio saying please call me on the phone and let's talk about it. I have not heard them in years but to blatantly set up a government entity and everyone in the town on a GMRS frequency unlicensed and knowingly do it and getting called out for doing it would cause some embarrassment especially with the wide area repeater he was employing...William

I sure wouldn't want mine living under my roof.