"Leland C. Scott" wrote in message
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"MnMikew" wrote in message
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"BigBill" wrote in message
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Pair of radioes, $49.95 License $75.00 yel
right.

Thats what I thought when I bought mine, at
Menards.

You quickly forgot that most other users of the
GMRS frequencies are
licensed and thus have paid their money. They may
not take kindly to unlicensed users showing up and
may go to some trouble to help the FCC track down
the unlicensed users. The repeaters you find on
GMRS are a pay to use service so if some
unlicensed yo-yo jammed it, on purpose or not,
people are going to come looking for sure. On UHF
its incredibly easy to direction find somebody
with nothing more than a hand-held transceiver and
a small directional antenna connected to it. So
don't be too surprised if you get asked to show
your license someday by a gentlemen in a suit who
is accompanied by a uniformed law enforcement
officer.

--
Leland C. Scott
KC8LDO

Yeah right. I bet there are far more unlicensed users than licensed. Most
are two watts or less and dont have repeater functionallity. GMRS will
eventually go the way of FRS.