All GMRS and FRS equipment must be certified by the FCC. It used to
be called "Type-Acceptance", but the current term is "Certified."
Here is a quote from the GMRS regs.

95.603 Certification required.
(a) Each GMRS transmitter (a transmitter that operates or is intended
to operate at a station authorized in the GMRS) must be type accepted.

You can buy a certified radio from RS and have it programmed for GMRS.
You can also bet next week's paycheck on the fact that the Motorola
radio sitting in front of you was type accepted before it was sold..
Motorola couldn't have sold it otherwise, and it wouldn't have been
available to you. If you look up that Motorola model on the FCC
website, you will be able to find the certification documents. You
also need the FCC ID number which should be on the serial number tag.

Dick - W6CCD



On Sun, 19 Jun 2005 16:28:15 GMT, "Patrick"
wrote:

Are your absolutely positively sure about that.

I am not trying to be cantankerous here, but I don't think there
is specific type acceptance of GMRS or MURS band radios.

In fact you can buy a RS radio and have it programmed for FRS,
or GMRS is you have the Ticket and they will jack up the power,
the rig can also be programmed for business radio. I have a GMRS
rig made by Motorola right in front of me, I am licensed and use it
on a licensed GMRS repeater.... it has no FCC type acceptance on
it at all.

I could be wrong, but I don't find it in the regs anywhere