My wife and I got our GMRS tickets. after much consideration.
Waiting on radios tp arrive.
Waiting on radios tp arrive.
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My wife and I got our GMRS tickets. after much consideration.
Waiting on radios tp arrive.
Same here! Radios were ordered two minutes ago.
Which radios did you decide on?My wife and I got our GMRS tickets. after much consideration.
Waiting on radios tp arrive.
I got a 2 pack Baofeng UV 5G Plus HTs
GMRS seems to have pockets across the country where it is popular. There is a fair amount of GMRS traffic in the Miami/Ft. Lauderdale area. There is also a small group down in Key West.
Same here. Over the past few years, I've been talking to people I know who have decided to get GMRS rigs. These are people that know I'm into radio so they always start talking to me about gmrs. They are mostly in the age range of 30 to 50 years old.
Where this service shines is car-to-car like on vacation trips or dropping off a car some place. May be worthwhile to put a small antenna on a car and use it with your hand held but a lot depends on your geography and topology. There's a few repeaters in my area but not a lot of traffic. Might be fun to identify local repeater's and their tones just fyi. My SDR has a plugin that identifies tones, but these little radios can ID them with a little patience.
GMRS is a non-starter up here in Canada. We are limited to handhelds with fixed rubber duck antennas and a couple watts maximum. No GMRS base radios are allowed. No GMRS repeater networks exist.
Not sure about the rest of Canada, but out here on the west coast the closest similar service is the LADD frequencies, which are four VHF channels used by truckers and other workers. Not used by regular people though.
CB, especially AM CB, is deader than dead up here (I haven't heard a trucker on CB here for at least 15 years now, maybe longer). VHF marine radios are very common where I live (on an island!) but are only used by boaters, mariners, and ship-shore traffic.
GMRS up here is limited to very short range comms by families, small businesses and folks travelling together on highways.
Not sure about the rest of Canada, but out here on the west coast the closest similar service is the LADD frequencies, which are four VHF channels used by truckers and other workers. Not used by regular people though.
CB, especially AM CB, is deader than dead up here (I haven't heard a trucker on CB here for at least 15 years now, maybe longer). VHF marine radios are very common where I live (on an island!) but are only used by boaters, mariners, and ship-shore traffic.
GMRS up here is limited to very short range comms by families, small businesses and folks travelling together on highways.
The GMRS group in the Miami area has a repeater antenna up on top of a tall building, so it is several hundred feet up in the air. Boaters with GMRS walkie talkies have hit the Miami repeater from the Bahamas. The South Florida set up serves its area really well.
We just got back from a whirlwind trip to New Orleans for New Year's celebration. ( We are all safe, the Bourbon Street tragedy happened two hours after we left) We took two cars and used GMRS handhelds to communicate between us. It really shines when trying to work through slow people in the left lane. It never fails, there will be ten cars in the left lane and three in the right, and the people in the right lane are going faster...
We have been running Baofeng UV-5Rs on the farm and in our mobiles for several years. Great performers EXCEPT the 4 watt output limits our range. Just bought a BTech U25 40 watt amplifier for our base to try it out. If it does a good job, I'll buy another for my mobile.
There is a lot of UHF traffic in Medellin. 470.95 is the contact channel most operators use. Taxi dispatchers use 464.95 and taxi operators use 469.95. Never a lot of traffic on these freqs (not many taxis have 2-way radios), so if I jump in askings for directions, some cabbie always comes back to help. Many home and mobile stations, but in town very limited range. Still, a lot of fun
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There is a lot of UHF traffic in Medellin. 470.95 is the contact channel most operators use. Taxi dispatchers use 464.95 and taxi operators use 469.95. Never a lot of traffic on these freqs (not many taxis have 2-way radios), so if I jump in askings for directions, some cabbie always comes back to help. Many home and mobile stations, but in town very limited range. Still, a lot of fun
- J.J. 399
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