CB Radio, FRS & MURS Radios Explained - Which License Free Radio Service Is The Best? 

Ladies and gentlemen ....as predicted....

Every. Single. Time.

@@TheNotaRubicon😂😂😂

Elaborate and Educate for all of us that can't tell right from wrong. But stay as sad as possible so as we'll believe you better.

you knobs are so funny...go somewhere else , you're not doing your image much good here

We need all available customer service representatives to the front of the store to help out with the registers.

Same in my town. They tried to make me get off the frequency with threats. I gave them the fcc rules and left them alone.

That’s true. No one EVER retires in the South and moves to the North. CB radio is for the ones that have relatives that have carnal relationships with each other. GMRS is a close second but they at least don’t do their sisters doggystyle.

The "Good Pencil" was Pointless, however, it makes an eye-catching and mind-boggling prop! Much like driving up to the gates at Mara Lago in a 1971 AMC Gremlin 🤣

So since I don't live on the coast and marine VHF does not require a license I can use those frequencies and they will be quite?

Also on lakes or canals, where you need to tell the lock keeper that you'd really like him to open the lock for you.

​@@Anon-Joe Yes you do need to have a license to operate a marine radio, they are for ship to ship or ship to shore within 25 miles miles of the shore line within the civilian sector, but there is an exception of exemption for law enforcement and military. There have been many of commercial transportation companies and average people like yourself fined for using marine radios outside of itheir spectrum by the FCC, and other law enforcement agencies.

Dude, he bit the shit out of that pencil!!! lol

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You need that rover beep to locate, and alert, the other pole smokers out there. A roger beep is the universal location, and identification, symbol in which the queers find each other. Not judging just making an observation.

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Good to know!

The only acceptable use for charcoal is making Black Powder (and grilling). 😁

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My church group uses MURS radios. Our church building is practically a faraday cage that blocks cell service but MURS actually gets through just fine.

Sometimes it helps to try and picture the animated Betty Rubble instead.

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​@@KrisMinnear🤢🤮

Gut wrenching

Rosie D Rubble

Yep, that's my go-to for tooling around in the desert too. You own the dot channels and nobody is competing for them.

My grandpa was a driver my dad still is , sadly you don't hear the trash on the radio as much as you used to since cell phones no one talks . He used to have a home rig and talk to people across the country it was awesome to see

Any idea what a cb with am and fm channels are compared to. I am lost with this stuff? At least that's what I remember from the 2000s. They talked about side bands and they said they could split channels as well.

Or that Target uses FRS radios.

So what about the plethora of businesses that are using chinese-ieum radios on their out of the box frequencies that aren't legal at all?

Walmart is moving away from MURS and starting to roll out Motorola DLR digital radios to all of their stores.

@@underthehall seems rather fancy

The Wal Marts around where I live use GMRS radios.

I've been using the President Randy II FCC for about a week and I have been really impressed. It blows away any of the handhelds that I've used on Chicken Band since the 1970s ~ 1990s. That stock antenna works surprisingly way better than I expected.

Smoking Ape? He is the ham radio dude! Ha ha

Right turn, Clyde

Thanks!

Automatic or twist it yourself ?

How about: Hands free handle in place of the lanyard. Just in case you find yourself at one of " THOSE" kind of certain beaches or rock climbing. With a built in pencil sharpener. ...

With your teeth . Hold it with your teeth .

Grew up on cb figuratively. I wasn’t driving until I was almost grown. Well, no, not almost grown. But legal at least. But I was cb-ing before I could drive.

He took a right turn, Clyde

CB is really cooking now as we approach solar maxium.

Baofengs just check every box for EDC and cheap for me

Yes a repeater will extend the range at which you can talk to someone. Repeaters use a pair of frequencies. One is the input and the other is the output. The radio you are using to talk on the repeater transmits on the repeaters input and receives the repeater's output. You will also need to what tone the repeater is using, if it is using any. The most important one to know is the tone for the input because without it you will not be able to access the repeater. You don't need to know the tone for output, but it helps filter out any radio traffic not on the repeater. It isn't a major issue in ham radio, but since GMRS is channelized and channels 15 to 22 are repeater outputs it would be very beneficial to use tones on the repeater output. Typically the same tone used for input is used on the output. Think of a repeater as a fancy signal booster. If you are using a handheld and want to talk to someone 20 miles away that typically is not possible on simplex (radio to radio without a repeater involved), but if both of you are in range of a repeater you can use the repeater to carry on a conversation. Now if both people are using a 50 watt radio as either a mobile station or base station you should be able to talk on simplex easily. The distances Randy is able to communicate via simplex are not typical as he is in an ideal location on top of a mountain over looking a valley. As far as the original UV-5G it is basically the GMRS version of the UV-5R that was released so that Baofeng would have an FCC compliant GMRS radio since the UV-5R can only be sold as a ham radio in the US. The UV-5R uses a female SMA connection (SMA-F) for the antenna and the UV-5G uses a male SMA (SMA-M) connection. If you decide to get a longer aftermarket antenna for your UV-5G make sure you get one that is tuned for GMRS as one tuned for the 2 meter and 70 cm amateur radio bands won't work very well.

You are correct! That is an unrelated, otherwise known as off-topic question. But on THIS video, we are all talking about license-free radio services..

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@@TheNotaRubicon Thanks

A cb is around 26-29 mhz am most radios above that are Fm

If you liked those images you might enjoy one of Randy's previous MURS videos ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-j2h5ZLOHI0Q.html

There is skip on CB when the atmospherics are good. In some regions abuting the US channel 9 isn't an emergency channel.

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Are you sure???@@TheNotaRubicon

Can you at lease go over good base antennas?

@@TheNotaRubicon concise!

No... and no soup for you today!😂

That's the ISM frequencies. There are few affordable radios in this area snd lower power. The distance on a handheld varies but it's good inside buildings. I say varies because some business band Motorolas can be reprogrammed to use them.

I have a fair amount of DTR700 and DLR1020 radios that I use on family vacations, onsite events where cell signal is busy and especially cruise ships where you might not have cell service and need to communicate around a mile to a group of people and don't want other radio transmission to be heard by anyone else, at all. The range on a ship is really good, usually covering the entire ship. The DTRs have caller ID, Basic Texting, Direct Calling, Group Calling, Private Reply and when programmed they are basically private. Yes they are digital radios that frequency hop around the 900mhz spectrum only staying on one channel for 100 ms. When you key the radio that is programmed to talk to each other they "handshake" the hop set and start transmitting, they transmit the digital data twice, once per hop, that is why there is a delay. Open range on flat ground with a few trees I get about 1.7 miles of FARS from mine from 880mW of transmit power. The digitizing scheme that Mortola uses is known however if you don't know the hop set of the radio transmitting you cant follow the transmission. Also since there is not a commercially available scanner that has been built for them even if you had the hop set correct (there are 10,000 choices) if the transmitting radio was on a private channel you would have to have your 11 digit radio ID programmed into the transmitting radio to receive the transmissions. GMRS will have more FARS all day every day but everyone can hear what you say. I use both types of radios, GMRS and 900MHz, they both have a use case. Not sure why Randy loathes 900MHz so much, I think it is because it is private and the range is very short. Asking a friend to buy a 900MHz radio is probably not going to happen as they are not very useful without programming, that is why I have 14 of them (get them on Ebay used) to pass out to friends and family as needed for the event.

@@gnarkill57 I want to explore these radios. Which is the most rugged? Which do you recommend? Are there any other brands selling ISM radios?

Yes, but it's not exactly what I would call a popular or viable method of 2-way radio comms for the average Joe.

@TheNotaRubicon good way to send text from what I seen. Love your videos keep up the good work. I ❤️ baofeng

@@TheNotaRubiconTexting works well. The bandwidth isn't there for voice comms. Plus it's easy to do meshing to extend the range. In the US 915 mygigglehertz band, you still only get line of sight, but LORA does a good job of punching through foliage.

Other people can hear you on FRS if you use privacy codes. The privacy codes work on your end to ignore any transmissions on the same frequency that are not sending the privacy code you have configured to use, such that your radio will only play over the speaker any transmissions using that code, but it does not encrypt or otherwise hide your transmissions on that frequency to prevent anyone else listening in. Other people whose radios are set to use a different privacy code will ignore your transmissions, but they can either configure the same privacy code or no code at all, and they'll hear you.

Jeezus.. Dude.. I could hear that WHOOOSH all the way over here.

@@bryantsmith1295 please tell me we're playing the same game?

@ronjones1414 @TheNotaRubicon Apparently I'm in over my head here. Carry on.

@@bryantsmith1295 This just in, sarcasm still not working well on internet. Now back to our regularly scheduled shitposting...

I dont think anyone will be able to help because we are all here talking about license-free radio services, which is what this video is about and nobody wants to be the guy responsible for derailing a conversion and going off-topic.

@@TheNotaRubicon 👍🏻 understandable

Adjust your squelch?