Standardized FRS/GMRS channel

[johnlt]

Recommend we set a standardized channel for FRS/GMRS radios. Worked well at El Paseo.

How about channel 2. I plan to switch from CB to GMRS when I get within a few hundred miles

of ES in case I come across other enroute.

[decorbin]

That's a great idea. I thought channel 2, no privacy code was already the one for BMWST.com, but someone needs to confirm that.

[David]

Confirmed.

[fdxkit]

I'm sure some of you guys know better, but when I was having trouble with my chatterbox GMRS. The guy at CB told me the higher channels were the GMRS channels. I just got back to Texas after 5400 miles in Cal. and we used Channel 14 with a sub channel of 01. We never did hear any other chatter on the radio. Just a thought. I'm sure someone out there knows how these things really work.

[David]

I think what we've tried to choose was:

 

1) Easy to remember.

 

2) Was a common frequency between FRS and GMRS (there are only a few).

 

3) Not a sub-channel, since some people don't have the capability.

 

I am noticing more chatter on 2 than I used to, though, and it hasn't been m/co related stuff. Bill Hawkins and I were riding in Mexico a month or two ago, chatting away, and someone answered us in English! It was a missionary family in the village we were winding through.

[DANSBMWGT]

Channnel 1-7 and 15-22 are GMRS (1watt,longer range) channel 8-14 (0.5watt)are FRS.

GMRS require a FCC GMRS license.

[David]

Channnel 1-7 and 15-22 are GMRS (1watt,longer range) channel 8-14 (0.5watt)are FRS.

GMRS require a FCC GMRS license.

 

Just to clarify that a bit, channel 1-7 are also FRS. We'd want to use something in that range. Older radios don't have the higher channels, and 1-7 overlap with GMRS.

[Sails22]

O.K. so are we set at Channel 2 then?

 

Signed, Chatterbox GMRSX1 R1100RT from Hurst Texas.

[johnlt]

Channel 2 it is.