New to the hobby

[Guest wsfr393]

Hello all! I'm new and just got my got my license recently. I'm in Cleveland TN area and have noticed not a lot of users in my area. I've considered joining the n ga gmrs and believe that would be my best bet. Any other users in the Bradley, Polk, McMinn county area?

[AdmiralCochrane]

GMRS band is primarily for contacting people you already know.

[OffRoaderX]

as the @AdmiralCochrane very eloquently said, GMRS is not for "making contacts" or chatting with anonymous men - for that, you're better off using the Grindr app on your phone.

GMRS is for staying in contact with people in your group whilst off-roading, hiking, road-traveling, etc.

[TrikeRadio]

11 hours ago, Guest wsfr393 said:

Hello all! I'm new and just got my got my license recently. I'm in Cleveland TN area and have noticed not a lot of users in my area. I've considered joining the n ga gmrs and believe that would be my best bet. Any other users in the Bradley, Polk, McMinn county area?

Maybe people you already know in the area would be interested in using radios to stay in touch or use for an activity where radio communications would be useful... you might be able to get them interested enough to get radios themselves to talk to you on your radio. There are repeater clubs out there where you MIGHT meet new friends and find things in common to do things with and use the radios too. But as others have stated, really... GMRS is meant to communicate with people you already know. but yeah.