<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span>True, but not likely to happen. That low power FRS "won't reach the fo'c's'le.<br></span></div><div> </div><br><div><br><div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><font face="Arial" size="2"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Eric Lorenz K9LGE <k9lge@emlorenz.com><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> Charles Doughtie <n5exy@yahoo.com>; TAPR APRS Mailing List <aprssig@tapr.org><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Sunday, August 28, 2011 1:37 PM<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [aprssig] Clubs, FRS and Ham Response teams<br></font><br><div id="yiv1386596238"><div>Charles,</div>
<div>If they're using them strictly as FRS service, then no license is required. Only if using the GMRS channels. (I believe).</div>
<div>Eric Lorenz K9LGE<br>
Communications Trailer Coordinator<br>
American Red Cross<br>
of Greater Chicago<br>
Disaster Services Technology<br>
630-430-2421 (cell)</div>
<div class="yiv1386596238gmail_quote">On Aug 28, 2011 1:19 PM, "Charles Doughtie" <<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:n5exy@yahoo.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:n5exy@yahoo.com">n5exy@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:<br>> YeahBut - - what about the license requirement? They sound like good Justin Case insurance but you cannot get insurance at the moment of need - - -<br>
> <br>> <br>> "An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life."<br>> Robert A. Heinlein<br>> <br>> <br>> “I’ll work every day to try to make Washington, D.C. as inconsequential in your life as I can.” <br>
> Rick Perry<br>> <br>> <br>> ________________________________<br>> From: Bob Bruninga <<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:bruninga@usna.edu" target="_blank" href="mailto:bruninga@usna.edu">bruninga@usna.edu</a>><br>> To: <a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:aprssig@tapr.org" target="_blank" href="mailto:aprssig@tapr.org">aprssig@tapr.org</a><br>
> Sent: Sunday, August 28, 2011 1:15 PM<br>> Subject: [aprssig] Clubs, FRS and Ham Response teams<br>> <br>> Cheap Radios for Emergency Preparedness!<br>> <br>> We bought 10 pairs of FRS radios amounting to about $14 each and made them available to our entire school ham radio club. The idea being to make sure that all boots-on-the-ground could contact each other and the local campus EOC during the Hurricane.<br>
> <br>> Even the Hams found them very handy for short range contact so that their HT could remain on the EOC, AREA/RACES and other vital channels, leaving the FRS channel available for logistics and coordination within the club and on scene.<br>
> <br>> This sure keeps a lot of simplex traffic off of the HAM channels that are already busy with longer distance traffic.<br>> <br>> The FRS radios are 1 watt UHF with 22 channels, PL, CTCSS and DCS (including CTCSS Scan!) and rechargeable batteries and charger for $28 a pair. We consider them expendible so they are the ones we use in the rain, over the water, and into the mud.<br>
> <br>> Plus the unlicensed newcomers to the club can use them to stay in touch with our Cadre of communicators ntil they get thir licenses.<br>> <br>> If you are Radioactive, dont overlook these excellent HT's. PS. I measured several on a Sig gen and ALL are identical 0.2 uV or so sensitive as good as any ham radio.<br>
> <br>> Bob, WB4APR<br>> <br>> _______________________________________________<br>> aprssig mailing list<br>> <a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:aprssig@tapr.org" target="_blank" href="mailto:aprssig@tapr.org">aprssig@tapr.org</a><br>> <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="https://www.tapr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/aprssig">https://www.tapr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/aprssig</a><br>
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