Can you operate a GMRS radio without FCC license? A friend of mine is
doing it and I was surprised to know it. I always thought to
send/receive signals on GMRS frequencies requires some kind of unique
code being passed around.

Yes...you need a license!



"Manoj Nair" wrote in message
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Can you operate a GMRS radio without FCC license? A friend of mine is
doing it and I was surprised to know it. I always thought to
send/receive signals on GMRS frequencies requires some kind of unique
code being passed around.

"BigBill" wrote in message
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Pair of radioes, $49.95 License $75.00 yel right.

Thats what I thought when I bought mine, at Menards.

Regardless of who says what, the answer to your question is the same answer
to this question:
Can you drive a car in the United States without a license?

Of course you can; just don't get caught.


73 from Rochester, NY
Jim


"Manoj Nair" wrote in message
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Can you operate a GMRS radio without FCC license? A friend of mine is
doing it and I was surprised to know it. I always thought to
send/receive signals on GMRS frequencies requires some kind of unique
code being passed around.


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"MnMikew" wrote in message
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"BigBill" wrote in message
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Pair of radioes, $49.95 License $75.00 yel
right.

Thats what I thought when I bought mine, at
Menards.

You quickly forgot that most other users of the
GMRS frequencies are
licensed and thus have paid their money. They may
not take kindly to unlicensed users showing up and
may go to some trouble to help the FCC track down
the unlicensed users. The repeaters you find on
GMRS are a pay to use service so if some
unlicensed yo-yo jammed it, on purpose or not,
people are going to come looking for sure. On UHF
its incredibly easy to direction find somebody
with nothing more than a hand-held transceiver and
a small directional antenna connected to it. So
don't be too surprised if you get asked to show
your license someday by a gentlemen in a suit who
is accompanied by a uniformed law enforcement
officer.

--
Leland C. Scott
KC8LDO

Saw this on a Tee-shirt:

"I am a
bomb
technician
if you see me
running
try to keep up "

You are full of **** on all accounts.
Like they will go looking for two kids talking on the
little walkie talkies. How will they know if the ones that are talking have
a license or not. Are you going to sit on your ass and type in all the call
letters and check it to see if they are good.
Send the Walkie Talkie police to all the National, state parks, Lakes,and
all the neighborhoods . This is a real bad thing.
O **** I scared.

"Leland C. Scott" wrote in message
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"MnMikew" wrote in message
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"BigBill" wrote in message
news:Ft81b.162785$cF.56891@rwcrnsc53...
Pair of radioes, $49.95 License $75.00 yel
right.

Thats what I thought when I bought mine, at
Menards.

You quickly forgot that most other users of the
GMRS frequencies are
licensed and thus have paid their money. They may
not take kindly to unlicensed users showing up and
may go to some trouble to help the FCC track down
the unlicensed users. The repeaters you find on
GMRS are a pay to use service so if some
unlicensed yo-yo jammed it, on purpose or not,
people are going to come looking for sure. On UHF
its incredibly easy to direction find somebody
with nothing more than a hand-held transceiver and
a small directional antenna connected to it. So
don't be too surprised if you get asked to show
your license someday by a gentlemen in a suit who
is accompanied by a uniformed law enforcement
officer.

--
Leland C. Scott
KC8LDO

Yeah right. I bet there are far more unlicensed users than licensed. Most
are two watts or less and dont have repeater functionallity. GMRS will
eventually go the way of FRS.

From: (BigBill)
I guess most of the young ones here doesn't remember the days when a so
called license was needed for CBs until it ran rampid and nobody got
them either. Lets face it 1,000,000 CBers and growing the FCC had to
give in. Same goes for GRMS.
_
Yup,,,and as you see, some are making problems for themselves over it.

"BigBill" wrote in message
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You are full of **** on all accounts.

No.

Like they will go looking for two kids talking
on the
little walkie talkies.

No, but they will go after some dumb yo-yo who can
pay the $7500 fine to make an example out of them.
Make enough examples and the rest will get the
message.

How will they know if the ones that are talking
have
a license or not. Are you going to sit on your
ass and type in all the call
letters and check it to see if they are good.

It happens all the time. It won't be the first
time somebody has looked me up on the FCC ULS,
while talking to them on the air, and came back
asking me if I'm so-and-so from such-and-such
place. In fact it happened just a day or so ago
when I was talking to a station, on 2m sideband,
in Cleveland from Detroit during a tropo band
opening. Others have been caught bootlegging
red-handed on the Ham bands that way using BS
callsigns or "barrowed" callsigns. Its funny when
they can't seem to remember their address, or the
city they live in.

Send the Walkie Talkie police to all the
National, state parks, Lakes,and
all the neighborhoods . This is a real bad
thing.

It is.

O **** I scared.

So should your wallet.


--
Leland C. Scott
KC8LDO

ARRL Member
NCI Member

Charter member of the
Lawrence Technological University
Wireless Society W8LTU
--
"We learn in time that it is not subjects which
are controversial, but the manner in which
we communicate about them and the
elements of personal blame we
add to them in anger."

From: (Leland=A0C.=A0Scott)
"BigBill" wrote in message
news:H_p1b.225053$Ho3.29214@sccrnsc03... You are full of **** on all
accounts.
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No.

Like they will go looking for two kids talking on the little walkie
talkies.

No, but they will go after some dumb yo-yo

who can pay the $7500 fine to make an

example out of them.


Source? Example? Anything that brought you to the conclusion that the
FCC actually has a person ascertain WHICH person can afford the fine
and who can't? And how is this accomplished? And how do you claim
knowledge of such a fantastic lie? How is this done, Lelnad? By
subpoena of his tax returns? LOL,,you;re talking through your ass again
and the way you wish/want/hallucinate/need things to be,,not
reality.,,,,the problem that plagues you,,,detached from reality.


Make enough examples and the rest will get

the message.




How many is "enough"? Hammies have been getting popped for years and
years for the same infractions,,,,,,,,,,,appears they didn't "get the
message" you claim, despite thousands upon thousands of hammies that
have been cited. You lose again, lelnad.

_
How will they know if the ones that are talking
have a license or not. Are you going to sit on your
ass and type in all the call
letters and check it to see if they are good.

It happens all the time. It won't be the first time
somebody has looked me up on the FCC

ULS, while talking to them on the air, and

came back asking me if I'm so-and-so from

such-and-such place. In fact it happened just

a day or so ago when I was talking to a

station, on 2m sideband, in Cleveland from

Detroit during a tropo band opening. Others

have been caught bootlegging red-handed on

the Ham bands that way using BS callsigns or

"barrowed" callsigns.


But of course, you again have no example, nor can you cite one. More
bull****.


Its funny when they can't

seem to remember their address, or the city

they live in.




Or the address they provided to the FCC.

_
Send the Walkie Talkie police to all the
National, state parks, Lakes,and
all the neighborhoods . This is a real bad thing.

It is.

O **** I scared.

So should your wallet.

Not everyone is as unfortunate as you and NO other hammie is as hung up
about cbers as you,,,,except Geogre and HH.

--

Leland C. Scott

KC8LDO

ARRL Member

NCI Member

Charter member of the

Lawrence Technological University

Wireless Society W8LTU