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Handheld GMRS Repeater?

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I was up on a local mountain the other day on a random GMRS channel using the Baofeng GMRS V1. My buddy was about 18 miles away at his home and we could easily talk to each other mind you we where not using a repeater at all. I was extremely surprised I was able to hear him clearly (by the way we both have our GMRS licenses) so just theoretically speaking if I purchased 2 more GMRSV1's and purchased the little Baofeng repeater control box I think it's called SainSonic RPT-2D, and I used a GMRS repeater frequency that no one around me uses for example if I used 462.700 as my receive frequency and used a +5 offset input 467.700 and and for ex a PL of 77.0. So let's say I got this far and I put it in some box or something and put it in a tree or some location on that mountain where I heard my friend prior. Wouldn't I basically have a fully legal GMRS repeater? The only issue I see is the Repeater ID'er would be the only thing I would have to figure out a solution. Thanks!
 
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