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What is your GMRS call sign?
- Thread starter b7spectra
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ButlerAlerts
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I have a Wouxun UV-6D with 4 Watts for UHF, and 5 Watts for VHF (Which isnt GMRS) and I love it! The yaesu FT-60 I heard it down for $160, which I paid for my Wouxun.
b7spectra
EMS Dispatcher
Welcome to all the new GMRS'ers!
WQJI916
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WQJI916 Just renewed.
Darth_vader
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Is it possible to get a personalised ("vanity") GMRS call? I'm considering holding off on renewing my ticket once it expires in a couple years (want to see what sort of move the F¢¢ make with regard to ticketing regulations/service reform, and I've a hunch it might happen in the meantime) but if I do decide to drop another nonrefundable $85, I want to use my late Grampa's old CB call letters, in tribute to him.
Possible/legal?
Possible/legal?
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Maxmanta
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WQSK564
Just received to today.
Just received to today.
b7spectra
EMS Dispatcher
I wish I could get my old CB call sign to replace my GMRS. KSI6569!
WQSK939
WQSS667
Finally made the dive, WQSY467 here, ham call is K4XXX also.
Ed
Ed
b7spectra
EMS Dispatcher
Welcome to all the new GMRS'ers!
Logan005
Member
Welcome, Welcome. Love the Ham call sign, tripple X-ray!
RandyKnowles
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My Old Call Sign / Call Sign Fee
Greetings to all in the GMRS Zone.
My Class A Citizens' Radio Service (now GMRS) Call Sign is now the oldest active one issued to an individual in the country. It's KAA 8142, first issued in mid 1970. Before last year the oldest individual call was KAA 2800 issued (in late '65 or '66?) to a gentleman in Silver Spring Maryland, whom I met in 2011. I met Al Gross, the father of Citizens Radio, at a meeting of the FCC's Personal Use Radio Advisory Committee (PURAC) in 1977.
My Class B Call Sign was KAN0682 (low power UHF)
My Class D Call Sign was KPJ1093 (27 MHz)
I set up my first repeater in the north suburbs of Chicago in 1971. Over the years I have replaced the mobile relay twice, now on my 3rd generation of gear. My repeater is the main system here for NSEA, 462/467.675 MHz, tone 141.3. Open access to transient users from out of town while in the area, registration required for local users per section 95.33 of the FCC Rules and Regulations.
NSEA (our GMRS public service association) was the first REACT Team with an Class A repeater. We were instrumental (along with folks from Detroit's MEP) in getting the first REACT national convention organized in 1976. In the mid 70's and 80's I demonstrated Class A repeater systems (mostly in the eastern US) to about 5 or 6 dozen REACT teams and some Red Cross Chapters and helped them to get licensed and started with their own repeater systems.
To those considering letting their call signs lapse, don't do it!! Keeping your call sign renewed is one way of demonstrating your support to continue GMRS as a licensed, and thus useful, more disciplined service.
The real issue now is getting the Congress to stop legislating the GMRS Application Fee ($60, separate from the "Regulatory Fee" of $5 per year) as a matter of FEDERAL LAW [Title 47 United States Code, sections 158 (b) and (g)] and to make the Application Fee at least reasonably related to the actual cost of processing (probably less than $5). If we could get Congress to drop the Application Fee altogether (like Amateur Radio) the cost of a GMRS license would be $25.00. (The $5/year Regulatory Fee is used to fund FCC enforcement, Rule-Making, and other activities relating to GMRS.)
My best to all GMRS operators out there!!
Greetings to all in the GMRS Zone.
My Class A Citizens' Radio Service (now GMRS) Call Sign is now the oldest active one issued to an individual in the country. It's KAA 8142, first issued in mid 1970. Before last year the oldest individual call was KAA 2800 issued (in late '65 or '66?) to a gentleman in Silver Spring Maryland, whom I met in 2011. I met Al Gross, the father of Citizens Radio, at a meeting of the FCC's Personal Use Radio Advisory Committee (PURAC) in 1977.
My Class B Call Sign was KAN0682 (low power UHF)
My Class D Call Sign was KPJ1093 (27 MHz)
I set up my first repeater in the north suburbs of Chicago in 1971. Over the years I have replaced the mobile relay twice, now on my 3rd generation of gear. My repeater is the main system here for NSEA, 462/467.675 MHz, tone 141.3. Open access to transient users from out of town while in the area, registration required for local users per section 95.33 of the FCC Rules and Regulations.
NSEA (our GMRS public service association) was the first REACT Team with an Class A repeater. We were instrumental (along with folks from Detroit's MEP) in getting the first REACT national convention organized in 1976. In the mid 70's and 80's I demonstrated Class A repeater systems (mostly in the eastern US) to about 5 or 6 dozen REACT teams and some Red Cross Chapters and helped them to get licensed and started with their own repeater systems.
To those considering letting their call signs lapse, don't do it!! Keeping your call sign renewed is one way of demonstrating your support to continue GMRS as a licensed, and thus useful, more disciplined service.
The real issue now is getting the Congress to stop legislating the GMRS Application Fee ($60, separate from the "Regulatory Fee" of $5 per year) as a matter of FEDERAL LAW [Title 47 United States Code, sections 158 (b) and (g)] and to make the Application Fee at least reasonably related to the actual cost of processing (probably less than $5). If we could get Congress to drop the Application Fee altogether (like Amateur Radio) the cost of a GMRS license would be $25.00. (The $5/year Regulatory Fee is used to fund FCC enforcement, Rule-Making, and other activities relating to GMRS.)
My best to all GMRS operators out there!!
on2baja
Member
Just got my GMRS license, WQTJ625.
Very efficient process I must say. Applied online at the FCC ULS website on Monday night (Federal holiday), and got my license issued early this morning, less than 36 hours later. Great stuff!!
Very efficient process I must say. Applied online at the FCC ULS website on Monday night (Federal holiday), and got my license issued early this morning, less than 36 hours later. Great stuff!!
cgwheeler
Member
Recently WQTI277
Formerly WQAB931
Formerly WQAB931
Applied for It on 2/23/14-(with Online Payment)
Grant Date was 2/25/14
Recieved in Mail Box on 2/28/14
Ha--KC2WBD
Za--WQTK-711
Grant Date was 2/25/14
Recieved in Mail Box on 2/28/14
Ha--KC2WBD
Za--WQTK-711
