[MarinTeams] GMRS/FRS

[Luke Teyssier]

I agree. If you get a technician license, you can talk on ham radio and have all the others at the same time.

Then, if you buy the Bao-Feng UV5R handhelds for $50 on Amazon or Ebay, you can talk on 2 meter, 70 cm, _and_ also talk on FRS and GMRS frequencies. While you are not allowed to do FRS/GMRS on non-approved radios normally, you can during an emergency.  You can also get the commercial frequencies that Marin county fire uses, too.

Marin county fire and many CERT teams have a strategy of:
- FRS at the immediate structure for the immediate team
- GMRS at the neigborhood (good luck with this one in the valleys)
- 2 m in the vicinity

RACES seems to be planning:
- 2m in the neighborhood
- NVIS regionally (80m sky bounce)

Technician is about two weeks of studying in your spare time a couple of hours a day, and a saturday to take the test. Well worth it.

Be sure to get the free "No nonsense guide"
http://kb6nu.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/09/2011-No-Nonsense-General-Class-License-Study-Guide.pdf
and take the free hamexam.org tests until you can ace them every time.

Luke

On Sep 24, 2014, at 10:18 PM, geoirishbox via MarinTeams <marinteams at mailman.qth.net> wrote:

> I am not fond of gmrs radio as there is no prohibition for chaos.  I think better develop ham radio licencees to create real networks.  Just listen to CB radio and experience chsos.  Get a technician license and join Bill Smith Marin wide network with radio discipline and have fun too.
> 
> 
> Sent from my T-Mobile 4G LTE Device
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> <div>-------- Original message --------</div><div>From: Lee&John Howard <leejohn7 at gmail.com> </div><div>Date:09/12/2014  11:09 AM  (GMT-08:00) </div><div>To: Pauldavmd at aol.com </div><div>Cc: "MarinTeams at mailman.qth.net" <marinteams at mailman.qth.net> </div><div>Subject: Re: [MarinTeams] GMRS/FRS </div><div>
> </div>Paul
> My wife Lee and I have been working hard to establish neighborhood response
> teams in Corte Madera and Larkspur. Most have elected to use these radios
> to communicate within themselves, between neighborhoods, and to a higher
> level of coordination.
> I'd like very much to talk with you about this, as would I'm sure a couple
> of folks in our effort far more radio-wise than I.
> Let's find a way to talk about this.
> John Howard
> 891-8406
> Corte Madera
> 
> On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 10:58 AM, Pauldavmd--- via MarinTeams <
> marinteams at mailman.qth.net> wrote:
> 
>> 
>> To  all,
>> 
>> I have been involved  in setting up a GMRS/FRS disaster plan with a group
>> of neighbors in the lower  Mt. View and Linden Lane area in San Rafael. If
>> any of  you are involved in a similar activity in your area and would like
>> to
>> share  ideas, please let me know.  Bill Smith suggested  that this would be
>> helpful for all of us.
>> 
>> Thanks in  advance!
>> 
>> Paul  Davidson
>> 
>> WB6YHT
>> 
>> WQRK275  (GMRS)
>> 
>> Email:  _pauldavmd at aol.com_ (mailto:pauldavmd at aol.com)
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