Pd On Frs!!

[scanfan03]

One time I was snowboarding in Breckinridge Colorado and we were using FRS radios. Someone got on the radio and said "Get off of our channel, this is our channel, get your own!". I busted out laughing and didn't say a thing back.

 

[KB1JHU]

On a similar note, the Waldo County SO, in Maine, uses MURS 154.570 PL 141.3 as a car-to-car channel. Yesterday I heard 2 deputies joking about some warrant one of them served.

 

[MacombMonitor]

On a similar note, the Waldo County SO, in Maine, uses MURS 154.570 PL 141.3 as a car-to-car channel. Yesterday I heard 2 deputies joking about some warrant one of them served.

They must work in the same area...one, maybe two miles apart I would think.

 

[loumaag]

They must work in the same area...one, maybe two miles apart I would think.

Unless, of course, the local radio tech has illegally programmed the freq in the car radios in which case they are going to get what ever they get normally in Simplex mode out of the high-powered VHF radios.

 

[K5MAR]

Since it used to be possibly, pre-MURS, to get a license on those frequencies, what happened to the licensees when MURS was established? Were they "grandfathered", which would allow them to use higher power, base stations, etc., or were all the existing licenses canceled? I know there is a business in my area that continues to use their pre-MURS equipment: base radio at the office & mobile radios. If the agency in question had a county license on the freq. in question, they could be legal, depending.

Mark S.

 

[n4jri]

This stuff does happen from time to time. A rescue squad in my area uses 154.600 [88.5] for its Ch-2, with bases and mobiles on full power. Oddly enough, this is the input freq for several McDonalds drive-thrus in the area, and at least one high school uses this freq for drivers ed with open squelch.

I also found a small-town police dept. using 467.900 [d703]. They referred to it as "V-TAC". It all depends on the scruples of your radio tech.

73/Allen (N4JRI)

 

[Voyager]

On a similar note, the Waldo County SO, in Maine, uses MURS 154.570 PL 141.3 as a car-to-car channel. Yesterday I heard 2 deputies joking about some warrant one of them served.

As there is a 2W FCC power limit on that frequency, I hope 'car to car' does not mean it's in their MOBILES! (but, maybe MURS 'upped' that limit)

Joe M.

 

[HillbillyUHF]

462.7125 MHz is FRS/GMRS channel 7.

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[kb2vxa]

Hi guys,

"I think some just use it in special circumstances as a quick and dirty way to keep the bad guys from listening in."

Now lemme see, what if the bad guys were using the same channel? Yeah I know, another episode of The Pukes of Buzzard.

Sorry but I just couldn't resist being I was reminded of when a small town nearby used CB channel 11 as a talkaround. More recently the Ocean County strike force cracked me up with "We're not in communications with Lakewood, these guys have scanners."

"I would have asked 'Restricted by whom? I have authorization from the Federal Government (the FCC) to use this frequency, and lower governments cannot preempt that authorization. Have a nice day."

Uh Voyager, FRS is unlicensed so I thank you too for adding to the chuckle factor.

Since this first page has me LOL I dare not read any more or I may go into convulsions. (;->)

 

[Voyager]

"I would have asked 'Restricted by whom? I have authorization from the Federal Government (the FCC) to use this frequency, and lower governments cannot preempt that authorization. Have a nice day."

Uh Voyager, FRS is unlicensed so I thank you too for adding to the chuckle factor.

You're the one giving the chuckle. Unlicensed does NOT equal unauthorized. If you think nobody has authorization from the FCC to transmit on FRS, to the limits allowed under Part 95, you're saying that everyone using FRS is illegal. Now THAT'S a good chuckle.

Just for another chuckle, what, if anything WOULD give someone the authorization to use FRS if it's not the FCC through Part 95?

Joe M.