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Are the FRS only 1-14 channels dead in your area?
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reloader7sixtwo
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Out in the sticks where I live, you never hear any FRS traffic. GMRS is pretty much limited to one simplex channel on Friday night for about an hour, a couple of GMRS repeaters twelve and forty miles away have good coverage, but traffic is hit or miss and they're hardly every busy. I never hear anyone while monitoring any of the local 2-meter repeaters, but the 70 cm repeater that's about thirty-five miles away stays fairly busy. I enjoy listen to those guy and gals. They talk some radio and antenna stuff, but most of the time it's just normal everyday stuff about family friends and life. Most of the surrounding counties around me fire / EMS are not trunked, so I listen to them more than anything.
K6GBW
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I recently drove to southwestern Montana from Los Angeles. The entire drive I was scanning FRS/GMRS frequencies. As expected, there was a LOT of business use. Lots of those stupid beep sounds. I picked up this stuff mostly in the cities, but when I got out on the open road there was basically nothing. When I got to Stevensville Montana, I set up my friend with some GMRS radios for use on his ranch. I was shocked at the range we got out of them out there. I'm talking 3-5 miles or more out of a pair of 4-watt hand helds. I guess the noise floor and interference were so low out there that they just worked amazingly well. The houses out there are all about a 1/4 mile apart so there was very little ground clutter. I told my friend he was lucky to live in an area with such a good environment for radio.
I get the technical skydiving instructors from 13,000 feet above Socal around Perris/Lake Elsinore. Classes in advanced skydiving stuff. Instructor telling divers how to turn and all the skydiving stuff. Mostly mid-week and mid-morning classes.
More interesting than "carpool".
More interesting than "carpool".
There is a fair amount of use at Disneyland between guests still, although use has declined from cross communications with other guests.
There are several businesses I can hear from my house of various types, Hotels, a county bus yard, maybe a department store. A Taco Bell when the menu board system goes down, and others I can't identify.
Later at night I have heard kids talking with each other from their homes and apartments. I'm a bit surprised they aren't texting or using something like Zello on the phones.
There are several businesses I can hear from my house of various types, Hotels, a county bus yard, maybe a department store. A Taco Bell when the menu board system goes down, and others I can't identify.
Later at night I have heard kids talking with each other from their homes and apartments. I'm a bit surprised they aren't texting or using something like Zello on the phones.
rf_patriot200
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I noticed this week, that a local Nursing home is using 462.625 simplex for their ops, and doesn't seem to use a tone.
Local schools use 462.725 MHz simplex to coordinate bus traffic and the parents picking up kids. It's obvious the four people I hear every day have NO IDEA anyone else hears them or that they're using a radio service where just about anyone with a CCJR bubble wrap portable from Amazon.com can talk back to them.
