sferguso11

Not looking at arming anyone, or getting a neighborhood watch going. Wellness checks wouldn't be a main reason, just more of an informal check in/road's blocked/dangerous critter out/has anyone seen or heard from neighbor/wanna get together type thing. Maybe even if kids are out checking in with parent(s) or parent(s) calling kids to get back home. Out fishing and stuff like checking in at home, home calling out saying got a phone call, telling home your headed back and have fish(es) or didn't get anything. Or even kids checking in with friends 2 houses over type thing.

When I say network I'm using the term loosely. I'm looking at getting something going by my parents for the neighbors that are year round or snow birds that I know well enough to be able to do things like: call out see if anyone wants to walk the neighborhood; if a neighbor is out and about and see a bear or other dangerous situation let the other neighbors know; if power or other services go out find out who else is affected or to get help; if the road is blocked see if anyone has reported it; etc. It's on a dead end road, a few miles outside of a small town, so a mix of year round residents, vacation homes, and people that live there in the warmer months and go south for the colder months. I'm sure not everyone in the neighborhood would want to get a GMRS or Ham license. That's why I'd be looking at doing a mix of GMRS(for those who want to get a license) and FRS for those who don't, add in a repeater for those that want to do GMRS and maybe connect with other GMRS users in the area.

I'm looking at setting up a "neighborhood" network that incorporates both FRS and GMRS radios. I know it's technically possible, but I'm not completely sure what if any FCC rules there may be that I'd have to take into consideration before implementing the FRS and GMRS neighborhood network. Any recomendations, suggestions or other input into setting up a FRS/GMRS network that won't violate any FCC regulations or any technical problems.

I'm asking more to see if there's either a FCC required way of doing it, if there's a preferred way to do it in the GMRS or just a personal preference.

When it comes to immediate family using the Callsign of a family member, how do the immediate family use the callsign? What I mean is do they use just the callsign or is it the callsign and something after the callsign like callsign unit 1 or callsign dad or something else?

I just tried Chirp on a UV-5G Pro and was able to get it to work with Baofen Uv-5x