Originally Posted by
Tar Heel David
I noticed somewhere we were to use channel 7 FRS radios for communications. Looking at the instructions with my radios, Channel 7 requires licensing by the FCC. Unless something has changed only channels 8 - 14 are available for non licensed communications. I have an amateur radio (HAM) license and it doesn't allow me the use of the restricted channels.
WN8VUX, then WB8VUX and now WR8Y here! I'm a 20WPM extra from back in the 80's. You and I gotta sit and have a conversation no one around us understands.
Klay is a ham as well (I THINK he is - he's a State Radio tech, we worked together in the 80's for RCA.) He blows into Fontana Friday Morning like a bad wind...
ANYWAY: You only need a license for 1-7 if you exceed the FRS ERP, so if the radio is a legal FRS "walkie-talkie" you need no license. I know what paragraph you are talking about - that is due to a NPRM back a few years ago - they never passed it. But manufacturers thought they were going to and put it in manuals.
BUT I HAVE thought about getting a GMRS license and putting a repeater on the hill above the lodge that would get us wide area coverage around the lodge to the Dam, fugitive bridge, RObbinsville and up the Dragon about half way. Already did the Propagation study.
But then I'd need to find about four dozen GMRS-legal radios - not hard to do with all the narrowbanding we did in the industry a few years back....
