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Got GMRS lic. and was 1 missed Q away from Amateur Radio lic. in 2022. ( 40 Q out of a possible 1500 or something like that ) Don't know much more about radios now than when I started, for the most part. That Amateur Radio test is more about Gov. reg. vs teaching people how to use radios. (Basically a written driving test, without knowing how to drive a car.) Radios will remain "Emergency use ONLY" in my life. Because there are older pre 2017 radios with NFM only. Your suggesting I keep both FRS/GMRS 1-7 setting as NFM and FM just in case someone with an older radio would like to communicate? Good info. didn't know that and was thinking about deleting the FRS because I thought NFM vs FM was basically a power setting. Thank you! The only time someone would us tone squelch with FRS/GMRS is for privacy ? I have handheld GMRS from 10 yrs. ago with channel selector and then privacy channel option dial. If I wanted to set up a privacy freq. on programmable GMRS Radio using Ch -14 and only wanted to transmit / recieve radios with those settings. Would I use "tone squelch" setting only ? (CHIRP Name ) So my radio only receives communication from other radios on Ch-14 using same "Tone Squelch" setting ? Radios only use DTCS, cross mode, offset, skip, etc. settings for repeaters? You can tell I would need to be dying and repeaters my only hope of survival before I went through the trouble of trying to unlock the secret code and get permission from the owner to transmit on repeater if I"m asking this many Q's about general GMRS privacy settings. Thank you

My radio use is for remote off road comm. ONLY... The attached image spreadsheet from CHIRP list GMRS / FRS settings. My question is... if I only use the freq. without yellow highlighter settings. Will all store bought GMRS / FRS radios be able to communicate with my radio freq. only settings. SIMPLEX ? The yellow highlighted settings are only for repeater use or people choosing to modify their tone settings from factory ? There may be private radios or Motorolla pre programmed for company use but the info. I'm looking for is if someone buys a GMRS radio and puts it in a JEEP. Will the GMRS channels be SIMPLES only ? If I tell others channel 7. Everyone on channel 7 can communicate ? The GMRS repeaters in the area would assign a private freq. and code for use. If you can get that info. Thank you