GMRS Expanded Personal Business Use

[AdmiralCochrane]

7 hours ago, WRTC928 said:

The 220 (1.25 meter) band is absolutely still a part of the amateur radio allocated spectrum. It's true it doesn't get a lot of use, and maybe we could lose it in the future, but AFAIK, there are no actual plans to remove it from ham bands. There's a 1.25 meter in Oklahoma City, although it's pretty quiet, and a friend and I use 1.25m as our personal simplex band.

Same in central MD.  We have 2 1.25m repeaters that only get used by us in the 1.25 mafia

[WSDD519]

On 4/8/2025 at 5:02 PM, AdmiralCochrane said:

Hams in my area are completely friendly to GMRS.  Maybe a reciprocity problem some places.

Indeed.  Our group is 100% open to GMRS users...and nearly half of our group has GMRS licenses.  We also maintain a GMRS repeater (SARC 650).  It's used every day.