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The manual says .5w/2w. Near the end of the manual.

I guess I should add will we see your opinion/comparision on the quality, reception and usage of you fleet?

One thing I might suggest... Since (I assume) you will have a GMRS license holder at the central command office of the camp, why not set up a 5-watt, narrow band UHF base station on 462.6125 MHz, with no CTCSS tone. Put a small UHF antenna on your 40 foot pole, (use low-loss coax like LMR-400) and you will be able to cover your whole forest on the frequency known as FRS Channel 3. Tell everyone with FRS radios to stay off from channel 3 unless they have any emergency or need to get in touch with the camp headquarters, then just call on channel 3 with no privacy code. Even if those cheap bubble-pack radios can't talk to each other through the trees, they likely can be heard at the base station with the 40' high antenna, and with licensed 5 Watts at 40', they will hear you. Forget about a UHF repeater. NOTE: I'm just using channel 3 as an example, but any channel 7 or below could be used at 5 Watts. You could use higher power (50 Watts) on channels 15-22, but remember, a lot of older FRS-only radios don't go past 14, and channel 8-14 are low-power only. If there is any GMRS repeater within 50 miles, pick a channel 2 or 3 away from its output frequency, so its wide-band transmitter doesn't splatter on your narrow-band base receiver.

Just got my gmrs-v1 pretty happy with it thus far. Well at least compared to my Uv-r50. Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-G891A using Tapatalk

Do not overlook licensing issues. Since most people on site will not be from the same family, you are going to need a lot of licenses. $70 isn’t much to someone who is interested in GMRS as a long term service. But, some may consider that excessive for a week’s use. Amateur licensing is an issue as well. But, the cost (for testing) is much lower and each participant will also be taking a radio class, worth something on its own.

95.1 The General Mobile Radio Serv- ice (GMRS). (a) The GMRS is a land mobile radio service available to persons for short- distance two-way communications to facilitate the activities of licensees and their immediate family members. Each licensee manages a system consisting of one or more stations. GMRS is not a hobbyist service, it is not for expanding ambitions, it is not a place to push the state of the art forward. However, there is a place for that... Amateur Radio. Per the FCC, Part of the Basis and Purpose of amateur radio is the: Continuation and extension of the amateur's proven ability to contribute to the advancement of the radio art. If those are your interests, get an amateur license.