This is a question that is just to satisfy my curiosity.
I am a licensed ham operator as well as a licensed GMRS operator. I am familiar with the FCC's Amateur radio call sign format - its easily found many places as to the format they use to issue Amateur call signs. But I'm curious about the GMRS format. I realize that it isn't broken up in the various classes as Ham radio is - like tech, general, and extra class.
I have searched but haven't found anything describing the format for determining GMRS licenses. Is there any info out there that describes the format rules they use.
I'm just curious to see if the call sign can be somewhat descriptive of the user in any way. For example does a call sign that starts with a W or K or whatever else indicate any length of time that the license has been issued. For example Amateur (HAM) call signs can be somewhat descriptive of the operator. Like the first letter in my call sign of KF5YKO - "K" shows that I'm located west of the Mississippi river, and the number 5 in my call sign supposedly shows that I'm located in region 5 of the US covering Texas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Louisiana,and Mississippi. The 2x3 format length of the call sign shows that I have either a technician class license or a general class license that I didn't get a shortened "general class" calls sign when upgrading "by choice".
Or is it simply issued sequentially/randomly out of a pool of call signs formatted for GMRS - 4 letter prefix and 3 number suffix?
Thanks to anyone who can waste some time answering this really unimportant question.
73's
Ham - KF5YKO
GMRS - WQWJ296