missinaz

Thanks guys . . . Much appreciate the responses to my question. I will ID at all times per rules. I will say my journey into radios has been weird. I am getting my feet wet with GMRS -have a legitimate family need. And I don’t think I can convince everyone to get their HAM license. My GMRS license will cover all of us. But even the journey to find the right radio has been crazy. There are so many differing opinions about Part 95 official radios, and all the others that will TX on the same channels and more. There are many who just spring for the UV-5R’s . . . And assume no one will ever catch them. And they might be right. I chose the GMRS-V1 as my first radio as it is legal and I did not have to worry about the issue. And maybe I didn’t anyways. It does seem like government over reach to force a Ham licensed operator to have three different radios if them want to use GMRS and say MURS. But those are the rules. Thanks again.

Hello I am new to GMRS radios. I have three GMRS-v1’s for the family. Do we need to identify our call sign even when using the channels shared with FRS? As an example. When using channels 8-14 the radio defaults to .5 watt - the same as a FRS radio. In fact, I believe the radio uses the same wattage for channels 1-14 as an FRS radio (2 watts pr .5 watt) Only when we go above into channels 15-30 can the radio broadcast true GMRS at 5 watts. I appreciate any help for a noob question.