Walmart/ MURS

[awattam]

if the store in question was a local mom and pop store just trying to make a living?
The original OP's friend was being a nuisance and Walmart called the police to have him removed. Simple. I personally find Walmart very convenient. 24 hour, one stop shopping.

[phillydjdan]

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I make it a point to key on thier frequency and make inappropriate noises when i am within range

[kma371]

WHY OH WHY did this troll thread get revived ?!

[bravo14]

Back at home the walmart was using GMRS csq. I think they went to a different system cause too many people were talking on it.

[JoeyC]

Originally Posted by Phreakin318

..... and also moved on to other bands(except when i am near a walmart with a friend then we will chat on murs just because we can)

And this line folks sums up and explains the entire rant here.

[kma371]

Originally Posted by Phreakin318

ok admin can close this thread , i was trying to get input about this but i guess they can just own it i'll move to frs

why didn't this even happen? haha please. someone.

[Phreakin318]

Originally Posted by JoeyC

And this line folks sums up and explains the entire rant here.

explains what? they DO NOT OWN THE CHANNEL when them and others UNDERSTAND that then maybe there opinions will mean something.

[Phreakin318]

Originally Posted by kma371

why didn't this even happen? haha please. someone.

also another thing, this is why people use illegal amps on cb radios,use ham radios illegally,screw with drive thrus,and use jammers. on another note someone said there was more to it, your rite, his ex was the manager that nite and also they said he was stealing but they couldnt prove it on the cameras? so yeah more to it

[ScannaMan9]

Really?????
Public=shared= NOT THEIRS

That is why I dont go to walmart

[WZ1]

about this entire thread.. who cares?

[Darth_vader]

>> > "Same thing to the OP, if they banned your friend from the store for 'interrupting' their communications, they sure can. However, your friend can stand on the sidewalk off the property and chat all day long and there's not a thing Wal-Mart can do about it. They can either get new radios and license a frequency in a business band, or your friend can pick another channel!"

>> > "I will not shop at any Wal-mart anymore and have moved on to other bands (except when I am near a Wal-mart with a friend, then we will chat on MURS just because we can.)"

Boy, does this thread bring back memories. The Wal-Mart in town (back when they were *the* Wal-Mart in town) also operated (actually still do) on MURS channel 4 simplex. Well, years ago my fr--well, somebody I'd heard about who apparently lived nearby, "for educational purposes only" (insert disclaimer here) got hold of a MURS walkie-talkie from a yard sale and used to have quite a time pranking them; saying things like "we're in the stooooore! Better come get us, before we call the cops!" from two blocks away! W--erm, they even actually sent Wallyworld into lockdown once, really late at night, for about half an hour or so, and despite their threats to have, uh, these people arrested and kicked off the "property" there was not a thing they could legally do about it!

But, I...don't....know any of these people or anything about them, so......

[CapStar362]

LOL ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ thats funny

[Dude111]

[Wyandotte]

Originally Posted by djones87401

HAHA I hate walmart. Years ago we lived near one and for fun I bought one of those radio shack repeaters that just recorded your radio traffic then repeated it after you where done and then I hooked it up to a radio set to walmart and left it on for a few days. Man were they mad as hell. I heard them a few times saying this is a walmart channel please stop using it. LOL those were the days. I really hate walmart

Since this is the rants forum, let me just say you are a retard.

[Wyandotte]

Originally Posted by CapStar362

i "like" walmart to a certain extent...... but their staff with the exception of a few in my local walmart can goto hell

They work at Walmart's. Think about it.
Take a good look around at the workers in there.
Ever wonder "Who gave them a day pass?".
I mean, this is G.E.D. Ville, seriously.
Am I right or wrong?
I mean, I'm not saying they don't deserve a place in society.
But going in there and complaining about the customers and associates, is like walking down Martin Luther King Blvd and then complaining you got robbed.

[Darth_vader]

"It isnt funny at all,its quite stupid and childish!!!!"

Ah. Kind of like not using apostrophes in contraction words that require them, no spaces after commas and excessive use of exclamation ponts, right?

Nope, it was funny. Very much so. Besides, what do you expect from a bunch of retarded 16 and 17 year-old urban boys with too much time on their hands? Strict bureaucratic adherence to tradition and F¢¢ procedures? That's for hamhocks!

[Darth_vader]

Huh. Well, from the looks of it, they're now using channel 5 ("green dot") with 94.8Hz PL. So it appears to have changed from what they were using when w--uhh, those people I've, uhh, never met ("for educational purposes only") used to crash them back when MURS was the latest thing.

They've mellowed out, though, the Wal-Mart staff-bots. Hard to get those guys worked up, it seems. They're no fun to talk to any more. ;o)

[jparks29]

1. Walmart licensed those freqs. before the transition. IIRC, that means they are grandfathered to use those frequencies in otherwise unlawful manners, in terms of waivers/bandwidth (NFM not required on otherwise NFM only MURS freqs.)

2. It's unlawful to intentionally interfere with others' communications. Same channel use is not illegal, but it's your responsibility to minimize interference to others, despite it being a shared freq.

3. It's private property. They can ask anyone to leave for any or no reason.

4. They work at Walmart, you think they know what MURS is? You think they care? They use pre-programmed Midland/Motorola radios, you think they know how or even have someone to program them?

Go bring in a copy of the FCC regs regarding MURS, I guarantee you they don't know what freq they're on. All they know is that you're talking on 'their' radios.

A bunch of drive-thrus still use MURS freqs, you think you should be able to go around intentionally interfering with them by using the same freq they are?

[Darth_vader]

Well, the "legality" dead horse has been beaten to a pulp enough as it is (including in this thread), so we're not going to engage in yet another debate about it.

That said, whether or not the Wal-Mart staffbots realise it, they are in fact communicating within what is now considered publicly-accessable RF spectrum, thus they should hold no expectation of "privacy" or immunity to interference because of it; whether it be from another company across town with a base station or some dude on a mountain bike at a city park two blocks up the street with a $30 Chinese walkie-talkie. Ignorance being bliss, this Wal-Mart is no different from businesses that insist on using, say, CB or FRS (yes, I am well aware of the difference/s in regulation between FRS and GMRS) for communications. Either the installations that use such spectra are really, really old (the system at this WM does predate the establishment of MURS by several years) or the people who put them in place are just really, really out of touch.

And only the store and the immediate vicinity i.e. the surrounding parcel is Wal-Mart's "private property". The segment of the airwaves they use is not. Likewise, a taxpayer-funded city park that they have no jurisdiction over is not. But, I believe that has been covered in considerable depth in this thread as well.

[KB7MIB]

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So someone needs to hire an attorney to contact Wal-Mart, either store-by-store, regional office-by-regional office, or through corporate HQ, and educate them as to what the rules & regs are for using whatever radio service/frequency they happen to use.