As I said and I'll say it again not everyone is into Ham and I'm getting tired in people keep pushing ham to GMRS users that have no interest in doing so. Just leave us alone about Amateur Radios PLEASE!!!
To operate on Facebook or community group pages you need a computer right now these days not everyone is Tech Savey or have ways of getting on the Internet that's why Radio communications are essential to have and if there's a way to do it legally then go for it.
This may deter amateur thief, but professional thieves will first look around for surveillance camera's and take those out of service before they start their crime spree.
Why do we need to have callsign on FRS these are license free service. The only issue I have is since the FCC paired the FRS with the GMRS service together I'm hearing them on the output side of the GMRS band and causes unwanted interference. IMO doing that was not the smart thing they (FCC) made (LIKE THEY DO ANYWAYS)
I'm glad you said that in my area there are repeaters that are active, but no one is on there as soon as you transmit the owner/admin of the repeater comes on and this repeater is permission use only or it's private use.
To some of us that are not into Amateur Radios (HAM) these are our hobby you ham operators have your hobby and us GMRS operators have our own hobbies why is so hard for you HAMS to realize that?? It gets me so upset to hear them talking down on GMRS all the time.
YOU HAVE YOUR HOBBIES (HAM BAND) WE HAVE OURS (GMRS)
That's the reason some of these radios are previously used by businesses and may have changed to other form of communications don't tell you that so unsuspecting people will by them without telling them it was a used equipment their buying
It looks to me the frequencies on the left are business itinerant channels some of these radios they do have these frequencies already downloaded as test use only and are not to use as regular chat channels you use them you better have the proper license to use these frequencies otherwise you are violating FCC rules
I totally agree with this comment you have 8 Channels and most of them is very quiet there are times people drives through and uses it to communicate with other groups that there with that's what these frequencies are for communications!!! I monitor 700 (CH 21) and I hear traffic