MURS channels are dead silent here in Laporte County, IN. We pretty much have them to ourselves when we use them.
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MURS - Do you use it? How often do you hear traffic?
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Concrete workers pouring a big project heard today on 154.600 (with a PL tone, no less). And heard a tree service using MURS the other day. Seems like use is picking up as the weather gets nicer out, which makes perfect sense considering the demographic of who would be using 2W VHF portables outdoors...
Up here in the great white north, MURS is fairly active in the warmer months with American visitors coming up here, and I suspect Canadians visiting the US and purchasing radios there.
bill4long
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The Office finally figured the MURS thing out
The same here. We live far enough away from Wally-world!
The local Walmarts and Costcos used to use MURS, (Even before MURS proper was a thing) I don't hear much traffic on them anymore though. It seems as more businesses are using the blister pack GMRS/FRS radios. I hear a lot more simplext business traffic on the GMRS repeater output frequencies.
Same here.
But, during the "tourist season" aka "part timers season" I have to temporarily block the frs/GMRS frequencies from the scanner, with the kids, parents, grandparents, etc using them 24/7. That's why we went with MURS to use...and it works better in the woods impaired to uhf.
Mongerbl82
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I just got a radio with VHF on it can you tell me what the MuRS frequencies are I have a tid radio gmrs version and would like to look into MuRS
nd5y
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rf_patriot200
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We have a family that uses ch.2 with a pl tone in my area, then Hellmart and that's it for users. I have it in all my portables and mobiles, scanners etc.
The wife and I use it here when we go bank fishing at the lake, or I walk 25' over to the camper (ham shack), or me and the dogs will go walking thru the woods...We use ch 5 with a dpl. Two or three days ago we heard someone very local to us on ch 2, so we decided with a dpl, tx/rx.
We live about 25 miles to town, and every once in a while we will hear Wallyworld on ch's 1 & 3, which is why we went to ch 5.
We live about 25 miles to town, and every once in a while we will hear Wallyworld on ch's 1 & 3, which is why we went to ch 5.
I hardly hear anything on VHF itinerant or MURS freqs in Arizona. We have moderate FRS/GMRS simplex traffic and a fair amount of GMRS traffic throughout of the State. My HAM friends say the 2M and 70 cm freqs are dead except for occasional dead carrier repeater kerchunks. Even the CB traffic is non-existent except near traffic collision events outside of the Phoenix and Tucson Metro areas.
There is quite a bit of traffic on MURS in the southeast part of the valley, mainly construction workers (heavy equipment). I think your HAM friends are listening to the wrong repeaters. There are many 2m, 70cm, and 33cm repeaters that are very active, especially during commute times.
WRMZ361
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here in nyc some private companies- like supers etc use it & some people chat the weekend.
but is good idea have it. i got those freq on my 1250 to scanning...good luck
but is good idea have it. i got those freq on my 1250 to scanning...good luck
rf_patriot200
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Radio usage with hams and gmrs ops definitely seem to be a regional thing, depending on where you live .
The fire watchers in the old renovated fire towers are on MURS, talking tower to tower in Socal/San Diego. You can hear them all over the county on the "LBR" aka
"Little Black Radio".
151,940
"Little Black Radio".
151,940
MURS in San Francisco is much quieter than FRS or even the Baofeng/Ritron default frequencies. And the digital tonebursts (some of them from mesh devices) are so frequent as to make most MURS channels unscannable. It gets better about 20 miles out of the city.
I totally forgot about the MURS radio freqs, will have to scan them and see what I get in my area.
