GRMS in Cary, NC - Morrisville, NC area

[WSHS561]

Is there a way I can hear people on GRMS in the Cary, NC - Morrisville, NC area?
Greg: WSHS561

[Jaay]

Sure. You can tune GMRS from 462.550 to 462.725 mhz.

[SteveShannon]

8 minutes ago, WSHS561 said:

Is there a way I can hear people on GRMS in the Cary, NC - Morrisville, NC area?
Greg: WSHS561

Do you have a GMRS radio?

If so, set it to scan channels 1-22 with no privacy tones. If people are using GMRS and they’re within range, you’ll hear them. 

[Socalgmrs]

1 hour ago, WSHS561 said:

Is there a way I can hear people on GRMS in the Cary, NC - Morrisville, NC area?
Greg: WSHS561

So yes.  Get a few friends or family together get some radios and go out and do an activity we’re gmrs radios would help communicate.  Hike, bike, walk, boat, fish, hunt, go to a park, go to Disney land, take a road trip……   The list goes on.   As soon as you do these things, anything, where communication is needed, and you use gmrs for that communication then yes you can hear gmrs radios In use.  

[Raybestos]

2 hours ago, SteveShannon said:

Do you have a GMRS radio?

If so, set it to scan channels 1-22 with no privacy tones. If people are using GMRS and they’re within range, you’ll hear them. 

Demonstrating a firm grasp on the obvious, but for the benefit of newcomers who may not know, those same channels scanned without a "privacy tone" on an FRS radio will also hear GMRS as well.  They use the same channels.  It will also hear repeaters if any are in range and active, on channels 15 thru 22.

[WRUE951]

get you a cheap Baufang HT's if you don't have a radio already, watch some of the videos the guy here makes often,  turn on the radio and begin playing..  Probably 99% of us here started that way..

[WSHS561]

I have a couple Repeaters programmed in my Baofeng AR-5RM radio now. Reached out to a local contact who took me to GMRS school yesterday.

[GrouserPad]

Is GRMS different from GMRS school?

[BoxCar]

2 hours ago, GrouserPad said:

Is GRMS different from GMRS school?

One is dyslexic.

[Jaay]

3 hours ago, BoxCar said:

One is dyslexic.

I wasn't going to go there ... I'm a nice guy usually .

[WSHS561]

@Jaay @BoxCar @GrouserPad

OK - jokes taken - corrected my typo [I am only human] 

That being said - I have added a second Baofeng radio [UV-5RM-PLUS] . Anyone got some clear guidance on using a frequency my Baofeng AR-5RM and UV-5RM-PLUS so they can communicate [as a walkie talkie]? I want to get my youngest grandson interested in amatuer radio use. Would be great to teach him what frequency is safe for us to use on the GMRS radios [see attached]

[GrouserPad]

https://www.buytwowayradios.com/blog/2022/11/list-of-gmrs-frequencies-and-channels.html
 

 

there’s all you need to program it so you can have gmrs frequencies. Mind the power settings as well. Use CHIRP software. Chripmyradio.com Be careful not to mess it up or you’ll possibly end up transmitting on hospital/school/county frequencies that you are ABSOLUTELY not allowed to do. 

[WSHS561]

@GrouserPad
I have chirp loaded on the AR-5RM. Seeking to to mirror on the UV-5RM-Plus [carefully]. 

[WSHS561]

@GrouserPad
And - thanks for that list link.

[WSHS561]

Outstanding when I set both of these Baofeng radios to the same frequency in the list you sent - they connected -
BRAVO!