We are new to GMRS . We recently had a bad snow storm with a several day power outage. This brought up a renewed interest in emergency comms. We have poor to none cell phone signal here and have to drive about 10 miles to get a good signal. We installed Starlink internet a while back and that has been rock solid for us even in heavy snow. I can talk to my wife on my GMRS handheld through a repeater when I go to town which is about 30 miles away but she prefers text messaging. That's ok but if she is not at her computer it may be sometime before she reads the message and she rarely uses her cell phone. I prefer the radio because she can hear me right away. I have to find ways to make it easier for her. I ordered a plugin handheld mic/speaker so I can keep the radio out of her way. That should help. She used to like the radios when we would caravan on trips but she has become disabled and rarely goes out anymore. Luckily we have some new friends on the mountain we live on that are interested in radios and that has peaked her interest a little.
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So who here uses GMRS properly?
