GMRS travel channel

[AdmiralCochrane]

Its a good ham board 

[back4more70]

On 5/13/2022 at 8:42 PM, Sshannon said:

I would support the idea if it weren’t for the fact that 10 - 12 million people live far enough north that they are not allowed to use channel 19 because of an agreement with Canada.

Based on my subjective and nerdy calculations, there are a little over 10,000 licensed GMRS users that are affected by this, which works out to about 7% of the United States licensed GMRS users.  I say we (the 93%) use channel 19 anyway hahaha

[Wildzebra]

On 5/17/2022 at 12:15 PM, marcspaz said:

 

Well, I hope my post may help clear things up. I doubt it, but hopefully. 

 

I know I stir the pot with some of my posts about this, but reality is, this is my current and typical daily situation while I'm driving around...

[Picture of Midland radio on Ch 19 - Deleted to reduce space]

I'm probably still go a stir the pot when this topic pops up though. LOL

I'm lucky enough to have dual channel, that said my secondary is on Simple Ch 19 as well.  

Taking over GMRS one licensee at a time

[FreqieRadio]

I always have it on. Still quiet tho 

[WSCN364]

I read through all 3 pages of this thread. 

If i understand it all correctly, Ch 19 is the "Road channel" and Ch 16 is the "off-Road" channel.

Do i have it correct?

In the twin cities area of Minnesota, not finding much of anything whilst scanning. Still have a huge lot to learn about these Radios, I just got my license and went with a Randy recommendation for a beginner radio, Baofeng UV-5G Plus. (Randy is worth listening to, correct?). Being so new I'm still trying to sort the wheat from the chaff.

Jimmy

[WRXB215]

Yes, Randy's videos are very good. As far as "road channels" are concerned, there is nothing "official." There is a lot of history and logic that would suggest certain channels but it really depends on the group you hang out with. You use what works for you and your group or what's common in your area.

[nokones]

A standard for a "Travel Channel" and its history is well documented and established probably way before many people on this forum were born or took up this hobby and that may be the reason why there is this confusion between Channels 19 and 20. 

My position the standard hasn't gone away its still there I just wish that people would honor it.

[Lscott]

4 hours ago, nokones said:

A standard for a "Travel Channel" and its history is well documented and established probably way before many people on this forum was born or took up this hobby and that may be the reason why there is this confusion between Channels 19 and 20. 

My position the standard hasn't gone away its still there I just wish that people would honor it.

Those that push using channel 19 haven't looked at their license I guess. The frequencies for channel 19, simplex and repeater, are prohibited north of "Line A" and East of "Line C". That cuts out a LOT of population centers. That's why it's a dumb idea.