Help me with a tech question here

[stevemiller000]

FRS and GMRS share a few frequencies. The difference seems to be that FRS is narrow band and GMRS is wide band. How does this effect us in actual use? What make one better than the other?

[gortex2]

In a nutshell if you plan to use repeaters near you (after asking for permission) then you would use wideband as the majority or repeaters are wideband. If you only plan to talk radio to radio and never use a repeater FRS and narrowband is fine. 

 

I could type a entire document on pro and con of each but if you search you will find a ton of info.

[berkinet]

Check the Wikipedia page re: GMRS: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Mobile_Radio_Service#Frequency_Table