I'd like to see the FCC not regulate them at all. They have no range on FRS, so everyone, licensed or not uses the GMRS channels. The kids will not stop using them no matter what, lots of interfearence in crowded places like amusment parks.
I bought a set of Midlands, like them a lot, but then shortly after got a set of Trisquare radios. No license and they transmit as far as GMRS, no interfearence, total privacy and may other benifits.
I also think $85.00 is too much for a license. Increasing the price will only cause fewer people to get legal. I'm on a limited budgit, I cannot afford to give the government more of my money, it goes against my grain, general class with lots of privlages is one thing, but for radios with very limited range, not unless I have not other choice, they remain for emergency only.
I don't use GMRS at all anymore except to carry in the car for emergancys should I have no cell service and hope someone might be listening.
I did not get the license and so I stayed off the GMRS channels to be legal, with the Trisquare, I don't need to feed the government and can talk just as well.
I'm holding off on getting a license for GMRS to see what happens. In the mean time, me and my friends have all bought Trisquare radios and are happy as can be with them. We are in a slightly sloping valley, can transmit as far a 5+ miles to some due to few homes and trees, great line of sight, it pays to live rural sometimes.
Should the FCC do away with the license fee, I would use both types of radios, but for now, I love my Trisquares, let the GMRS go to the CB crowd, that's where it's headed now unless they make them Freq Hopping like the Trisquare, there is no use in messing with them.
The one in 100 who has bough a license to be legal get mad at those who have not, especially those who abuse and use them to annoy others, the licensed people get mad, reporting to the FCC does nothing, they have bigger fish to fry. I'm just being real, it's the way it is and short of including the price of the license in buying a bubble pack, most will never get a license.
Thankfully, most do not buy the more expensive equipment on other frequencys, if you want to have much more professional communication, go to another freq, GMRS is just the newest CB radio, I wish it were not, but if you take a real look at what is going on with them, it's true.
My Best, John
I bought a set of Midlands, like them a lot, but then shortly after got a set of Trisquare radios. No license and they transmit as far as GMRS, no interfearence, total privacy and may other benifits.
I also think $85.00 is too much for a license. Increasing the price will only cause fewer people to get legal. I'm on a limited budgit, I cannot afford to give the government more of my money, it goes against my grain, general class with lots of privlages is one thing, but for radios with very limited range, not unless I have not other choice, they remain for emergency only.
I don't use GMRS at all anymore except to carry in the car for emergancys should I have no cell service and hope someone might be listening.
I did not get the license and so I stayed off the GMRS channels to be legal, with the Trisquare, I don't need to feed the government and can talk just as well.
I'm holding off on getting a license for GMRS to see what happens. In the mean time, me and my friends have all bought Trisquare radios and are happy as can be with them. We are in a slightly sloping valley, can transmit as far a 5+ miles to some due to few homes and trees, great line of sight, it pays to live rural sometimes.
Should the FCC do away with the license fee, I would use both types of radios, but for now, I love my Trisquares, let the GMRS go to the CB crowd, that's where it's headed now unless they make them Freq Hopping like the Trisquare, there is no use in messing with them.
The one in 100 who has bough a license to be legal get mad at those who have not, especially those who abuse and use them to annoy others, the licensed people get mad, reporting to the FCC does nothing, they have bigger fish to fry. I'm just being real, it's the way it is and short of including the price of the license in buying a bubble pack, most will never get a license.
Thankfully, most do not buy the more expensive equipment on other frequencys, if you want to have much more professional communication, go to another freq, GMRS is just the newest CB radio, I wish it were not, but if you take a real look at what is going on with them, it's true.
My Best, John
