In article , Steve Calvin wrote:
Michael Black wrote:
Steve Calvin ) writes:
Sorry if this isn't the right group to ask this, if not and
someone know of a more appropriate group I'd appreciate a
pointer.

GMRS, FRS, CB and whatever are not amateur radio.

It amazes me that people can't grasp that, and continue to
post such questions here.

Doing a decent search on the newsgroups would find appropriate
newsgroups. Clearly you didn't, since you found this one
and not the proper ones.

Right now there are probably a high percentage of hams using
FRS, perhaps not GMRS. There used to be a GMRS and FRS forum
which is gone, but the ham groups is probably the best informed and
also the boating people. Sometimes people post to a group they are familiar
with, and not necessarily the best for answering the question.
They may respect the answers with people they
are familiar with. Perhaps they also are looking for another channel in case normal
inspecting does not come up with results in a given time.
As always, your going to get all kinds of answers, but on Usenet, you
tend to get corrected in a short interval.

Doing a decent search would have found the same question asked,
and answered, many times before. Chances are really good if
you "chose" this newsgroup because you found discussion of
GMRS in old posts here, the very posts that made you think
the question was "on topic" was the same question, and if you'd
just looked at the replies you would have had the answer without
adding yet another off-topic question to the newsgroup.

Michael VE2BVW

Well, EXCUSE ME Mr. High and Mighty Ham Operator.... woooooo
I'm just shaking here!

For your information asshole, I've been involved with
computers for the last 34 years and use DOS, WindoZe, AIX,
Unix, Solaris, HP, and pretty much any flavor of Linux you
can think of.

Searches are subjective and if you don't happen to enter the
right arguments you ain't gonna get the right answer. Shoot me.

I sincerely choke apologize for monopolizing your valuable
time.

To all of the other reasonable and helpful replies I
received, I thank you all very much.

Mr. Black can kiss my ass

A person can search with any method they choose. Using search engines,
especially Google, is getting more difficult do to extreme advertising.
I'm not sure where computers came into the discussion, but I worked for Digital in 1969.

greg
N6GS