The moral of this story:

DON"T try to turn frs/gmrs into ham radio. It's NOT ham radio

.. What works on ham radio doesn't work on
frs/gmrs and even has the completely opposite effect than what you
intended to accomplish by doing so.

By trying to prevent certain things from happening, the licensed users
caused to happen the very things they
were trying to prevent from happening,

have a one-minute time-out "feature" which makes
conversations last hours longer than they
normally would otherwise, thereby violating the FCC rules of keep
transmissions as short as possible
and therefore illegal to use.


Ironically, it was the licenced users who wanted the manufacturers to
include a time-out feature on the
frs/gmrs radios in order to follow Fcc rules and keep transmissions
as
short as possible which
caused the radios to have these time-out features that violate FCC
rules by making transmissions
take hours longer than they otherwise would.


Just listen to the conversations of anyone who has these frs/gmrs
radios with a time-out feature.


It causes a bunch of arguments between the two parties involved that
never used to happen when the
exact same people used to use frs/gmrs radios that didn't have any
time-out feature at all.