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FCC Rule Changes Negatively Impact GMRS Licensees

Thread starter RFI-EMI-GUY
Start date Sep 26, 2016

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RFI-EMI-GUY

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Oct 1, 2016

N4GIX said:
Until recently, all of the repeaters (38) making up the Hoosier DMR Network had World Wide English, North America, and the Midwest Regional Talk Groups full-time.

The excessively long winded QSOs on NA especially caused two of the repeater's finals to burn up, so the decision was reluctantly made to make all of those TGs PTT only, thus effectively killing their intended usage as wide-area "Calling TGs".

GMRS is primarily for family communications so the exchanges are more likely to be infrequent, locally centered and brief. There is no purpose or legality for worldwide GMRS system. The design of the systems should be limited to local (1 repeater site) and regional (roaming within a county).