Storm chasing using mobile GMRS?

[WSIC517]

Recently acquired a GMRS license and mobile radio with the hope of using it as primary coms during storm chases in Upstate SC, down to the Columbia area. So far... crickets. Like, all the time. Zero activity.

Anyone here active in west SC/NE GA?

[TrikeRadio]

8 minutes ago, WSIC517 said:

Recently acquired a GMRS license and mobile radio with the hope of using it as primary coms during storm chases in Upstate SC, down to the Columbia area. So far... crickets. Like, all the time. Zero activity.

Anyone here active in west SC/NE GA?

If you are using GMRS to communicate between multiple vehicles in your group, or have any local GMRS repeaters, then using during storm chasing might be useful... but if you are looking for locals reporting on the storms, more likely to find it on HAM frequencies or MAYBE CB -- I would guess. 

[amaff]

43 minutes ago, TrikeRadio said:

If you are using GMRS to communicate between multiple vehicles in your group, or have any local GMRS repeaters, then using during storm chasing might be useful... but if you are looking for locals reporting on the storms, more likely to find it on HAM frequencies 

This is such a wonderfully succinct way of putting the differences in intended (and, often, the actual) use cases of the 2 services.

[WRYZ926]

All the Sky Warn Nets (weather reporting) are normally done on local 2m repeaters. That's not to say a local group could not run a Sky Warn Net on GMRS as long as the repeater owner is okay with it and you have people that can report directly to the NWS.

We do not use our GMRS repeater for Sky Warn Nets but most of us do monitor it just incase during severe storms. We were asked about running a Sky Warn Net on GMRS but that would take away from our 2m Sky Warn Net as we are only allowed so many people that can actually report directly to the NWS. We don't have enough people that can report to the NWS to run two nets at the same time.