Cubit wrote:

Did MURS ever catch on?
Is it better than FRS?
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"Kind of".
My wife, and some friends, all use MURs when we are out and about.
It is about like any 2M ham HT running 2W. We have only heard one
other user and that was in Columbus OH.

Conversly, FRS are a lot smaller, lighter and much cheaper!!!
so they are much more convinient in a mall.

The Radio Shack FRS units that had all the guts in a plastic
blob with the antenna that magneticaly mounted on the roof out
performs the MURs on the highwya. If one of our friends didn't
own a 2 way shop and sell us the MURs "at cost" beause they
didn't move, it wouldn't have really made sense. I do know of some
guys in westeren KUY using Radius HT reprogramed to MURs
freqs. Not real legal, but I doubt if they will get caught. Makes much
more sense then some fools I know using marine VHF gear.

Terrry