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I may start something here but I'll ask anyway. My HT will take the frequencies and i can dial the transmit power back. If i do so will the removable antenna be the only real FCC issue?

dw200 wrote:I may start something here but I'll ask anyway. My HT will take the frequencies and i can dial the transmit power back. If i do so will the removable antenna be the only real FCC issue?

You'll probably start something with a few people, but...here it goes:

Many people use Jedis for GMRS use even though, if memory serves, they are not type accepted for GMRS.

You are only supposed to transmit on the FRS only frequencies with radios certified/certificated for FRS. Yes, that means no detachable antenna, limiting you to cheap Wally World bubble pack radios. Or the nice and expensive Icom FRS radios.

If you transmit on the FRS frequencies shared with GMRS, you are okay with a radio with a detachable antenna as long as you keep it at 5W or less, and as long as the radio is type accepted for GMRS use. That would be Part 95a. Also, you are supposed to have a GMRS license.

Is anyone going to come and bother you if you do what you mentioned? Probably not. It's all up to the individual to keep things legal. Check out http://www.popularwireless.com for some nice, heated argument over the issue.

In the end, the FCC and a radio that will probably not work properly at .5W would be the issues.

Wicho.

Mr. dw200,

You MUST have a GMRS license to use your HT1000 on the first 7 FRS/GMRS frequencies....PERIOD.....

Anything else requires a FRS radio that is certificated for FRS. FRS IS licensed by rule, and ANY other operation VOIDS the license to operate on FRS....PERIOD....

Either get a GMRS license and operate there, or take a trip to your local Walmart and buy some bubble-pack radios for FRS.

Violation of FCC rules. Topic locked.