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I posed this as a "Trivia Challenge" at last evening's club meeting (Lake County Amateur Radio Club). I asked, "Which of the following is correct?" HAM ham HamThe majority (29 of 32) chose #2 as being correct. Some wag pointed out that #3 would be correct only if used as the first word in a sentence, which is nothing but proper grammar of course.

At my club's board meeting last evening, I made a motion that we as a club make it known that GMRS licensees are welcome to become auxiliary members. Discussions will be ongoing for the next few monthly BoD meetings. Hopefully my motion will be passed and then we can present the proposal to the general membership.

That's a stretch. Part of your claim might be valid if the transmitter has front-panel selectable power output and the combination of amplifier and the highest front panel selectable power setting results in output power that is over the legal limit. But, here's the thing: the amp the OP is asking about is only rated to 40 watts max, which is within the legal limit. Also my TK-805D is internally adjustable (as are many radios) to 5 watts output. Let's take that in another direction, though. Using the TK-805D as an example again, the factory output setting is 25 watts. It is no problem at all to program the 462 MHz and 467 MHz interstitial frequencies into it. The 462 interstitial freqs have a 5 watt limit. The 467 interstitial freqs have a 0.5 watt limit. So how is this radio Part 95 type classified, since it is easy to break the law with it? The answer is, it is legal as long as it is set up so inadvertent violations cannot occur via pressing the wrong buttons during operation. Now, that does mean the GMRS-V1 specifically might not be legal with the amp, since it has the interstitial freqs programmed into it. That would be exactly the same as programming those frequencies into a mobile radio, even without the addition of an amplifier. But to say that it is a violation to use an amplifier on GMRS is a gross and incorrect oversimplification.

To clarify, in case anyone missed it: a "fixed station" is a specific type of station that is set up to communicate with another fixed station. The term does not apply to base stations nor repeaters.

Welcome to the hobby, WRCU244!

Some areas of the country are a hot bed of GMRS, many other areas not so much unfortunately. I went to a "breakfast get-together" with 16 men and 2 women who represent a few of the owners and users of three GMRS repeaters, two of which are in northwest Indiana and the third in lower southwest Michigan. These three repeaters are among those who're Zello-linked with several other repeaters: see: http://NWIGMRS.com

Welcome to the forum, and to GMRS!

Welcome to GMRS. Glad to meet you, 244. Is GMRS popular in your area? What motivated you to get the license?