GMRS licenses now issue for 10 years Sept. '20: GMRS License Fee MD Docket 20-270 Comments by P. Randall Knowles Dec. 23, 2020: FCC to cut GMRS License Fee in half Report & Order Reducing GMRS Fee April 19, 2022: New $35 Fee for GMRS Licenses Effective Is using the Internet for ...
With the new license fee schedule making GMRS licenses $35 for a family unit, it's really just easier to have everyone that you want to communicate with get the license and get out from under the FRS equipment limitations. You still have some limitations with GMRS, like max of 50 watts...
GMRS can get more than a mile. It can cover an entire city. If you were on my repeater and causing interference and I paid money for that license, oh you bet your ass we would find you. Especially if it belong to a rescue squad or some such group. A GMRS repeater owner would prob...