I have a business near my work where a fairly busy warehouse coordinates shipments with trucks on 156.800, which I believe is the marine "emergency channel". I can't ever get any names or a location, but the seem to be a fairly big operation.
I am thinking that unfortunately there are probably plenty of illegal users with these radios, as I see the cheap ones sold everywhere, and I'm sure they would work quite well in place of the bubble pack GMRS radios that most of the businesses around my office use. There are at least a dozen businesses around me using GMRS for daily operations that I've heard, and it's been that way for years. So with that said, does anyone think the FCC would really be interested in doing something about someone using this marine frequency in the middle of a desert?
I am thinking that unfortunately there are probably plenty of illegal users with these radios, as I see the cheap ones sold everywhere, and I'm sure they would work quite well in place of the bubble pack GMRS radios that most of the businesses around my office use. There are at least a dozen businesses around me using GMRS for daily operations that I've heard, and it's been that way for years. So with that said, does anyone think the FCC would really be interested in doing something about someone using this marine frequency in the middle of a desert?