FCC makes changes to GMRS and FRS Radio Services.....

As a child of the 1940's, a lot of the kids toy 2 way radios today have more capacity than the state of the art military radios of that time and the average ham radio is just about as capable as the best unit our national guard unit had in 1948. Radios and encryption have come a long ways and the power required to send or receive is a fraction of what they used.

 

Going from analog to digital changed very thing ,
narrowing the band capabilities and strengthening the signal .
I remember when we got radios with phased locked loupe, and side band , we thought that was cool .
Ham radio is still superior ,more freedom of access and more power.
I may get back into it some day,

 

Digital modes for GMRS? Would that be like packet or ax25 tcpip etc or the digital voice modes?
I am curious

 

The FCC acted to grant a rule change proposed by Garmin, to allow GMRS units to transmit GPS (i.e., location) info, in brief bursts. FRS already allows it.

See the fact sheet for the NPRM at the FCC site.

William Warren

 

Thank you for the info, I did go and read the federal register and found that out, but thank you again for the courtesy of a reply

 

I do have one further question if someone can help me out please, this time about GMRS licencing, Does it cost any extra $ to pay the FCC if I want to run a repeater, up here in northern central Maine there is next to no repeater coverage except for one in the Bangor area and I believe that rptr is down for the time being.

Best wishes.
Shane