drollhauser

1) You cannot manually program a GMRS radio from the front panel. At most, you can change certain settings like transmit and receive PL tones, but frequency programming from the front panel by end users is prohibited by the FCC regulations. 2) You cannot legally program a GMRS radio to operate on park service or other public safety frequencies to contact such agencies whether in an emergency or not. To begin with you’re limited by you license to using the GMRS UHF frequencies which such agencies are not licensed (or equipped) to use. Most of those agencies operate on very different bands frequency ranges outside of and incompatible with UHF, usually digital trunked 700/800 MHz systems in this modern era though many may still be using legacy VHF (150 MHz) systems. State and local agencies are licensed by the FCC under a specific set of regulations which prohibit unlicensed and unauthorized users under all circumstances. The federal agencies are authorized by the NTIA (a separate federal agency outside of the FCC responsible for all federal government radio regulations). Persons caught operating on these frequencies without authorization are usually arrested by the agency involved and can be prosecuted under various laws beyond the FCC regulations.

Yes, you as a licensed user have more authority to operate within the limits of your license under Part 95E than the unlicensed user does to operate outside the scope of Part 95B because they have ZERO authorization to do so.

Hi Rich, If you haven't already figured out how to set up your MicroMobile for repeater access, you have to enable the repeater channels in the menu. By default the radio runs channels 1-7 and 15-22 all as simplex. Press and hold the MENU button for 3 seconds to enter the main menu, scroll through the menu until you find RP, using the channel selector knob select RP ON, next press SELLECT then SCN/MON to exit the menu. At this point if you turn the channel knob you'll see channels 1-7, 15-22, and RP15-RP22. RP15-RP22 are your repeater channels with the fixed +5 MHz offset. Unfortunately as mentioned above, the MicroMobiles only allow full CTCSS operation for tones so when you select a tone to access the repeater that's also your receive tone. Dave WRBP557/KB3CJT