GMRS Is NOT A Hobby! Difference Between Ham Radio & GMRS - Amateur Radio Vs. GMRS 

It's interesting you refer to yourself as a "queen"! Now we know what kind of disgusting sub-human you really are!

I am just here to watch for spurious emissions.

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 - Am I the only one that finds this guy entertaining? He's awesome!

Thank you Radio Deadpool

I’m a RU-vid Superstar watcher.

I chose GMRS for this very reason. I still listen to HAM and talk sometimes but GMRS users are much easier going.

Still laughing about Disney...TRUTH

For me GMRS is my reliable communications with friends/neighbors and home base family in my secluded area where cell coverage is spotty at best and non-existent down in the hollers... a lifeline to help should this old 74-year-old get hisself into a fix he can't get out of as I putter around the homeplace or while riding the trails around here. Spent 34 years as a big city cop where the radio was my lifeline. Still is on the mountain.

You nailed it! I can see why SomePeople get triggered by your videos. I knew there was a good reason I chose GMRS, but couldn't put it into words until you deconfukulated things.

Radio dork here. Radio is my hobby. But GMRS is the working side of my hobby. It’s way more user friendly and easier to get into than ham. I always advise potential future radio dorks to start with GMRS then maybe move on to ham. So far no one I have told this too has gotten their ham license but use GMRS every day. I’ve made a bunch of friends on my favorite GMRS repeater and we even started monthly meetings. Kinda like a club some would say. From my first Boofwang to my latest Yeasu, I owe it ALL to Randy. (I am also a ham now, but a happy one)

CB, GMRS, HAM or whatever, just get out there and enjoy life. I have all three in my vehicles.

I have GMRS for farm work. I am an extra class ham which lets me yack with folks in far away lands about weather and what kind of rig they are talking on.

funny thing. we had a great GMRS repeater in out area, families and friends used it quite a bit. then they linked it statewide and then then the HAMS took it over even ran a net last on it that took forever. With that I have been a ham for a long time and enjoy both systems. But I recognize the difference, GMRS is talk around for family, friends etc and ham is a system for experimentation, long haul comm and emergency service. All enjoy both, stay in your lane and have fun. Or not.

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GMRS is my favorite thing to do! I have found so many rare GMRS's already even though I just started. A guy I was talking to while GMRSing told me I must be really good at GMRS and I should come over to teach him, so after dinner im gonna go over there!

I got "into" GMRS for 1 purposes. Where I live we lose power often in the winter months sometimes only for a few hours sometimes a few days. Since my cell connection relies on Wifi I loose the use of my cellphone. GMRS allows me to contact family a number of miles away in the event I need any assistance. I do not use it like the CB service or the Amateur radio service

I make contacts on GMRS and say 73. There is a repeater in my area that has a grinder net and we share grinder contact stories.

If they want me to use my call sign on GMRS they are going to have to remove the public database. I wouldn't walk down the street yelling my full name and address.

Randy The Great. Please Bestow your Glorious Information!

The video preview pic of the fat sad ham is amazing

Quote the old grinder men, “I thought you said 73?”

1st, GMRS could be considered "ham radio light", if you're only comparing the cost of the equipment (GMRS $-$$ to ham $$$-$$$$). But it is true. I heard people on the ham repeaters just calling out, begging for someone to start a conversation. Checking your signal, sure, let me talk to you for a half hour while you're trying to set up your rig. But on the GMRS repeaters around me, it's mostly someone calling someone else directly, call sign to call sign, people that know each other. And yes, GMRS is more "utility", especially since your whole family can use it. I get together with the in-laws somewhere, I have GMRS radios to hand out. If there's a repeater nearby, conveniently my call sign is written on the radio for them to use. I find radio interesting and have both GMRS and ham. But the money that I would have used for that tri-band $1,200 ham radio, I've put towards my GMRS base station, antenna, and HT's. Why you ask? Because comms with my family trumps comms with strangers. Coincidently my GMRS base station can scan through important ham frequencies and other frequencies worth monitoring for information, but that's all I really need during an emergency from ham, to listen, and not SHTF emergency where rules don't apply, more like hurricanes. I've also been finding that "Happy Hams" usually posses a GMRS license as well. So keep up the good work explaining the confucularities with your ofactions Randy. Keep em coming.

Knowing the NATO Phonetic Alphabet is incredibly useful. I taught myself it because I was getting frustrated with how our work phone system really distorts English letters making them all sound the same.

That's the best way to describe the difference: GMRS is generally for talking to people you know; ham radio is generally for talking to people you don't know (at least on HF). Well done.

A few days ago I was on the GMRSs for a while. At one point I went more than 15 minutes without using my call sign. The next day Space force fired a giant "space laser" at my house and burned down the whole perperty. Please, everyone, follow the rules closely or the FCCs *will* get you. Lucky for me I was offroading, hence the GMRss, so I lived through it as the FCCs only knew my physical address from my FRN.

Enlightening and informative!

Thank you so much for your channel. Every so often I think about getting a HAM license but then I think about it and realize I can't think of anyone I would want to talk to on it.... While with GMRS I got my license and I can just hand a family member a radio or something, or I can hand a friend an FRS radio and talk to them that way. I think that is my big issue with HAM radio, unless you got some buddies who are already deep into it.... there is just no way I am going to get any of my friends and such to go study and take that test. Plus if there ever was a real emergency I could just transmit on those HAM frequencies if I really needed to anyway for emergency reasons. Don't get me wrong, I get there are some use cases for HAM but honestly for the every day person who just wants to be able to talk to friends and family in any sort of useful way, I just got myself a really nice scanner, some GMRS radios [along with some FRS radios to compliment them] and a MURS just to see what the heck that is [plus my GMRS ones are unlocked anyway soo......] and it just fits in 95% of all practical uses, and that extra 5% is pretty much just edge cases or stuff only radio Karens [cough often HAM guys cough] And you were the one that showed me the truth! Look, I am not saying there are not cases for HAM, but for most people.. well honestly there just are not over the alternatives. But for some people it is great and good on ya.

"That normal people do not care about one bit!" I'm rofl over here! Great stuff.

Oh great Queen of GRMS we bow to you for spurting out your deep and glorious knowledge.

'Finding anonymous men to chat with' 🤣 It's true but when you say it out loud...

‘C’mon baby u know u wana drop the jerky hams call sign. Call em out’ - my wife We both love your show

I have both GMRS & HAM Technicians licenses. Both are very useful around our ranch where cell phone coverage isn't reliable. I guess I should look into Grinder as a back up to my back ups! Hahaha!

Height is might! More power, more distance, more more...GMRS baby!

Boy you got (SOME PEOPLE) cranked up.Gotta love it

Geeze, if that’s how you "try not to offend anyone", I’d hate to get on your bad side! 😂😂

Since my smartphone doesn’t have enough space to install the grinder app, I’ll keep watching this channel

Gmrs city scanning is my hobby. Can be very entertaining at times. There's also a gmrs club in my city.

Epic!!! When Jason ranted about how normal people were ‘just too lazy’ if they didn’t have their HAM license. I laughed. He also acted like he and the SAD HAMS owned the frequencies they transmit on. It was hilarious. The Call Sign Club couldn’t be more wrong.

Thanks for sharing, I found like always your video very informative, I really like learning from you.

Another good vid Randy. GMRS plays an important role with our family & friends as we spend alot of time together fishing, hunting, camping, off-roading & more. Since early 70's, (up until 2020) CB's were our comms in the same outdoor activities we enjoy now and with many of our same family & friends with the addition of Kids and Grandkids that have come into into the mix. Now even our mid elementary school grandkids are on the radios in our outings. About the only time I connect with someone I may not know, is when I call for a radio check.

Love your work Randy. Keep it up man. always look forward to your next video.

As a ham I can say this is completely accurate

I feel cheated … there was no chewed up pencil pointer in this video. ✏️

hey Notarubicon, somehow you got a real life picture of me for your video thumbnail and it triggers me timbers

I use GMRS as the broadcast method for my off-road comedy act!

Good info! I hope people that are doing this are responsible enough to read and follow these simple rules. And again I was even unfamiliar with the new regs on gmrs. I was still on lower 2 to 4 watts lol

Im here to learn and potentially, get my GMRS license and continue with amateur radio hobby as well. Had i could started over i would have started eith GMRS, then my technician as i still struggle with 10m for qrp and pota.

Well said! I use both ham and GMRS. Ham on HF frequencies is a “hobby” with roots in electronics tinkering for making random contacts to inconsistent locations. Ham on UHF/VHF frequencies is mostly local line of sight contacts to sad or happy hams unless using digital modes (another topic). GMRS is mostly more purpose driven for local line of sight communication.

Well worth the 5 minute review if for nothing else but to experience the punch line

I like hams, and I like the radio, so clearly, this channel, is... for, me.

You hit the nail on the head! I got my GMRS license to stay in contact with my deer camp group while out in the woods since the area we hunt in has spotty cellular service. If I want to chat with someone in another part of the country, or the world, I will use ham radio.

Radio dork here. Love your vids. Lots of weirdos in my hobby. That's what makes it fun.

When I want to "play radio" I use my amateur radio and when I'm offroading I use GMRS. Seems like *most people* don't have amateur licenses anyway. The sucky part of FRS and GRMS is how many people are on the radios so you have to bounce around channels to try and find something where it's open but anywhere around San Bernardino seems to have a ton of people...

The last thing I wanted to do in the army, other than sharing the hole beside me in the 2 hole thunderbox we took everywhere, was radio watch in the CP! Talk about rules!!!! At least until the bullets started flying! The FCC description is perfect. Keep in touch with fruends and famiy, how simple. Industry Canada is so laid back it doesn't even a demand a license for GMRS! I think cell phones messaging and Zello have pretty much punched a stake through the hearts of these radio zealots.

A true Sooperstah! Nice shirt dude!

GMRS Needs a yearly contest . Like field day!!!

i'm into the 3 way CB, Gmrs, and a Happy Ham.

Oh, that was GOOD! Really enjoyed it. Laugh for a bit.

Good videos as always.

Let NOT your heart be troubled

My picture was on that grinder shot!!!!!!!

Nice shirt dude!

Thank you queen of Gmrs Love your videos they are informative and funny

To sum it up gmrs is a workhorse. Ham is a hobby but could be a workhorse if segments of it were allowed to operate similar to gmrs especially on VHF. I know there is business VHF, but there should be a gmrs segment of VHF. I know, HF is so variable that it doesn't fit with that model but they make the general and especially extra class tests so unnecessarily difficult that it seems designed to keep newcomers out. It's like asking a Private pilot to become an airline transport pilot just because they are interested in flying. The two aren't very related

I love you brother.I am a ham and your the man.

This is your best work yet, solid gold genius! I'm predicting many, many more pins! Posibly a pinning record!

Randy…the TOP G-mrs!

Oh, my gosh - I'm so glad I wasn't drinking anything while viewing the last 30 seconds of this video, else I would have a terrible mess all over my desk and keyboard! That comparison was Gold, my friend! 🤣

Randy has his ham license as of 2 weeks ago. Closet ham.

I'm just here for the Roger Beeps

Happy ham here. This video is great.

Thank you, the grinder route definitely saved me some time and aggravation in lieu of a license.

If I wasn't already subscribed I would subscribe just for the thumbnail alone.

I’m here for the humor!

The world could be crumbling around me and Randy’s videos would still bring a smile to my face........ oh wait........ 😳

I felt a squack in the force, had to come and read the pinned comment... Alpha Sierra Alpha Papa... Never dissappoints

The same FCC page you referred to for GMRS info seemed to equate it with the CB radio hobby. 🤔

To funny Randy! Keep it coming. Upset them some people.

Just give them a wedgeee and let's go out to the playground for lunch. Love how you give them a hint for following up n their other hobbies at Grinder.

As neither a Sad Ham, nor a Sad GMRS I can say in my experience as "everyone else" I could care less about any of this. great video by the way, love your content.

Such a funny video! Question: I just got a Baofeng AR-5rm, can I utilize that to communicate via GMRS without a ham license?? Thanks!

The difference? Happy "G's" versus Sad Hams.

i like them both. no license required

Good explaining. No longer defukulated.

CB is the way to go. It was originally intended to serve the same purpose as GMRS is today. But they used the wrong frequencies for that. Unlike the UHF frequencies used for GMRS, which are line of sight only, and very limited in range, CB frequencies are in the HF band. You can talk around the world with CB, or 11 meters as it is commonly known among hobbyists. It's hit or miss, but that is part of the fun. In fact, CB, or 11 meters, is right smack dab in between the 10 meter and 12 meter ham bands. So, if you have a CB, or 11 meter, radio with an RF output of at least 100 watts, and a good antenna, you can do a lot of what hams can do, and you can do it without a license, or a call sign, or following any rules. No, you don't have access to the crazy amount of frequencies and bands that hams have, but the one band you do have is in a really good spot, frequency wise. HF frequencies are not line of sight. They bounce off the ionosphere, and can come back down hundreds or thousands of miles away, depending on conditions. I live in the southwestern U.S., and I have made hundreds of contacts across the Pacific, from New Zealand to Japan, and everywhere in between. I have had a technician class ham license since 1988, and a general class ham license since 2009. But I have gotten tired of all the formalities and rules and regulations that go with ham radio. I do still use it once in a while, but I have gotten more enjoyment out of 11 meters (CB) and made just as many contacts as I did on the ham bands. I'm talking about SSB here, not AM or FM. GMRS would be more like the UHF and VHF 2 meter and 70cm FM ham bands, which really only work for short distances unless you use a repeater. But, unlike GMRS, ham repeaters CAN be linked together. I have access to a ham repeater network that allows me to talk across most of three states. But of course, you have to use your call sign and follow the rules. And no, I am not a troublemaker on the radio. I just like having a bit more anonymity.

I remember when you were just some RU-vid hobo. You have come many fars, have helped many people, and have even pissed off "some people".

That was f'kn awesome!

Good source.

Question: What is the use of the programmed frequencies on a new BF-17H Pro GPS?? I have deleted mine and loaded GMRS channels.

I just got a gmrs handheld and still haven't heard anyone on the regular channels save for NOAA channel and my local airport.

GMRS RISE UP!

The best part of the old hams? As they kick off, I buy their gear for pennies on the dollar. Let em continue moaning and complaining. I'll be at their house .. consoling the sad. And TAKING THAT GEAR!

Excellent video.

You, Sir, are my hero!

This is gold Randall.

This has to be your best video !

All I know is the 2 UV-50X2s, the UV-25X4 and 90% of the Baofengs I bought the last few months all work on HAM and GMRS frequencies. God Bless America! I got my GMRS permission slip but after listening to HAM clubs take roll twice a week for an hour I don't know. I probably will anyway.

Grinder is on 146.69?

I'm dying here😂 Thank you for the entertainment and laughter

My computer keyboard is now totally constickulated with a mixture of tea and sugar. Your fault.