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The GMRS radios are out there everywhere and have lots of frequencies availableHow well are they working for you? Mine seems to have a pretty limited range.Is there a way to scramble the frequencies for secure comms, or frequency hop? Anything commercial available?I can tell you it is pretty easy for some folks to get on freq pretty quick and listen away without you knowing. If I'm giving my wife my birthday wishes, I'd prefer to keep it private!Thoughts...Experiences???
So, Bobby...being the calculating trained warrior NCO that you are. Take the appropriate action, Execute!
your standard grunt level CQB is just putting rounds and rounds on scary stuff till it stops scaring you!
Not familiar so I went to the FCC site and licensing is currently required for GMRS but no testing. They are low powered but higher than the FRS (walkie talkie). There is a proposal yet to be ruled on that would eliminate the license requirement (doubt they will remove it since that is a revenue stream) If you apply for a license, the rest of your immediate family members can operate under your license. Think of it as a higher powered more well constructed walkie talkie. Range is likely to be about 1-5 miles depending on antenna height. Hand held is likely 1-2 miles.
w4wn nice to see you over here, I think you would be an awesome asset to the communications area of this site since you are already licensed.
Well, I just received my GMRS license in the mail today. Time to get serious about the details so I will report back. Yes $90 covers the whole family and for 5 years. More to come
That's kind of what I figured I would get in response, obviously was hoping someone had found something that works great as far as GMRS, but ham is the best solution because you can always improve your comms abilities of desired. I looked at the tech license back in 2011 shortly after I got out of active duty, would have been able to pass it with minmal studying as a lot of it was still fresh on the brain. Yea I think wife and I will have to add this to the to do list.Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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