GMRS & MURS
Mediaguy500
I never said that I was going to operate on GMRS without a liscence. I know it
requires one. What I said was that those particular hams can't ddo anything
about me operating there.
because they don't have any control over the liscening for that. The FCC does,
as far as I remember.
Therefore, those hams can't abuse the liscening for that like they did at the
ham radio liscening exam.
I always try to stay legal. If I plan on using GMRS, I will get a GMRS
liscence, and follow the GMRS rules.
The MURS frequencies do not require a liscence. At least not the last time I
checked a few months ago.
But I'll take another look at them to see if something's changed in these past
3 months regarding them.
Al Arduengo
Mediaguy500
you are correct. I have seen it officially spelled other ways also, but those
were probably also misspellings like I made. After I read your post, I took
out my driver's license, and it was spelled exactly as you said.
Tony Meloche
Not so far as I know. I have a GMRS license, but MURS and FMRS (if
they aren't indeed the same thing) don't require one, unless that has
just changed recently.
GMRS license is $75 for 5 years, or was as of January, 2003, anyway.
Tony (WPWP365)
Lloyd Davies - The Time Lord
No, they don't. If you are a Ham, most HT's will work on the MURS freqs.
Lloyd Davies - Time Lord and Talk show host
"On the Domestic Front"
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/domesticfront/
Lloyd Davies - The Time Lord
Wish you could pay $75 just for a HF Extra class Ham ticket!!!!!
Screw the code requirement!!!!!
Michael Black
>>The MURS frequencies do not require a liscence.
>
> No, they don't. If you are a Ham, most HT's will work on the MURS freqs.
>
Ham equipment is not type approved (or whatever it's called nowadays)
so it is not legal for use in anything but ham use. Move it out of
band, and it's illegal.
The fact that MURS does not require a license is irrelevant. You still
must follow the rules, and the rules require type approved equipment.
Michael
Jeff Seale
MURS equipment out there. Well you have to remember that MURS is still
in its infancy and more stuff should surface as MURS matures. FRS was
the same way when it came to being, very little selection of equipment
when the service was introduced but look at all we have now.
Lloyd Davies - The Time Lord
>so it is not legal for use in anything but ham use. Move it out of
>band, and it's illegal.
That is only done so the big folks can make money!
Jeff Seale
What big folks might we be talking about? The fed maybe?
Mediaguy500
>so it is not legal for use in anything but ham use. Move it out of
>band, and it's illegal.
>
I have always heard that it's legal *in the U.S.) to operate a radio out of
it's band as long as the radio isn't breaking any of the rules.
In other words, that it would be legal to operate a ham radio on MURS
ffrequencies except that there's a few little things in the way making it
illegal, such as
liscence-free MURS frequencies are limited to 2 watts of power. Ham
transmitters usually use much more power than that. It is illegal to operate a
50 watt or 100 watt ham transmitter on MURS frequencies.
A cb modified to transmit in the 10 meter ham band is legal as long as you're a
liscened ham and as long as the cb meets all emission requirements for the 10
meter ham band after you modify it. that is, as long as it meets all legal
standards.
At least, that's the way I've always learned (heard) it from various places.
Phil Wheeler
Mediaguy500 wrote:
>>Ham equipment is not type approved (or whatever it's called nowadays)
>>so it is not legal for use in anything but ham use. Move it out of
>>band, and it's illegal.
>>
> A cb modified to transmit in the 10 meter ham band is legal as long as you're a
> liscened ham and as long as the cb meets all emission requirements for the 10
> meter ham band after you modify it. that is, as long as it meets all legal
> standards.
A ham can modify anything or build anything for use in the ham bands, so
long as it meets all technical regs.
It is illegal to modify ham equipment to use in another service -- or,
more accuately, it is illegal to use it in another service (likley
merely modifying it is not illegal).
Phil
Michael Black
>>Ham equipment is not type approved (or whatever it's called nowadays)
>>so it is not legal for use in anything but ham use. Move it out of
>>band, and it's illegal.
>>
>
> I have always heard that it's legal *in the U.S.) to operate a radio out of
> it's band as long as the radio isn't breaking any of the rules.
>
This has nothing to do with amateur radio.
If you want to use a radio service, you need to use equipment that fits
the requirements for that band. With one (or maybe a few) exception,
that means the equipment must be type approved. So you want to use CB,
you need equipment that is type approved. MURS, GMRS, marine band, "Public
Service band" and the list goes on, and you need equipment that is type
approved.
Amateur radio is the unique exception. Because it has always been seen
to some extent as a technical hobby/service, if type approved equipment was
required that would kill any technical experimentation.
Take ham equipment and move it somewhere else, and it's illegal because
it's not type approved. The fact that it's has higher power than the
band might allow is only secondary, because it never received type approval
in the first place.
Of course you can move any other equipment to a ham band, because there
there's no need for type approval.
Note that type approval is related to the actual radio service. One does
not have a CB set type approved for every radio service, it's type approved
for CB. So even if amateur radio equipment needed to be type approved,
moving it elsewhere would not mean it was legal elsewhere, because it
hadn't been type approved for that new service.
This is precisely why I brought it up. People don't know the rules, and
either truly believe the rules are the way they want them to be, or they
just decide the rules don't apply to them.
Michael