"Frank" wrote

Your logic may be the problem.

Not likely....

You're mixing three different types of radio
systems, each with its own set of rules. You would have to apply logic to
each separately or a more general logic to all three.

Logic is logic. At any rate, the FCC is clear as mud on the subject,
saying if it's _only_ an FRS radio, no license required. If you "operate a
radio under the rules that apply to GMRS", then you need the license. It's
easily argued that operating a radio within the rules for FRS constitutes,
on it's face, NOT operating it under the GMRS rules.
The only remotely grey area here are the hybrid radios that're only
type-certified as GMRS radios w/the FRS freqs tossed in and then
mis-marketed.




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