His license covers his family and allows them to operate GMRS
equipment. The repeater can be used by other GMRS Licensees if the
repeater owner chooses to allow them.
Sec. 95.33 Cooperative use of radio stations in the GMRS.
(a) Licensees (a licensee is the entity to which the license is
issued) of radio stations in the GMRS may share the use of their
stations with other entities eligible in the GMRS, subject to the
following conditions and limitations.
(1) The station to be shared must be individually owned by the
licensee, jointly owned by the participants and the licensee, leased
individually by the licensee, or leased jointly by the participants
and
the licensee.
(2) The licensee must maintain access to and control over all
stations authorized under its license.
(3) A station may be shared only:
(i) Without charge;
(ii) On a non-profit basis, with contributions to capital and
operating expenses including the cost of mobile stations and paging
receivers prorated equitably among all participants; or
(iii) On a reciprocal basis, i.e., use of one licensee's
stations
for the use of another licensee's stations without charge for either
capital or operating expenses.
(4) All sharing arrangements must be conducted in accordance
with a
written agreement to be kept as part of the station records.
(b) [Reserved] </b>
Head over to the GMRS forum at Popular wireless (link below), there
are many good knowledgable GMRS licensees over there who can answer
all your questions.
http://www.popularwireless.com./cgi-bin/Ultimate.cgi
DougD
Cumberland GMRS Repeater Group
www.cgrg.webhop.net
--- In [email protected], Johnny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
> Joe,
> The Lakes Area GMRS Repeater Group has a lot of good GMRS
information on
> their website. Go to: http://eebie38.tripod.com/gmrs/
> Hope this helps.
> Johnny
>
> Joe wrote:
>
> > I have a spare UHF repeater and duplexer for the project and he
has a 65
> > foot tower on the property, so putting a repeater on the air
would not be
> > difficult. His wife could then use an HT around the house to
keep in
> > contact with him.
> >
> > I guess my confusion is that the license requirements state that
it is for
> > family, but the repeater would be for many other people. What
are the
> > legalities?
> >
> > Joe
> >
> > At 05:26 PM 11/28/2005 +0000, you wrote:
> >
> >>Hi Joe
> >>
> >>I have 4 GMRS repeaters set up in my area. If all he wants to
do is
> >>to talk over his 50 acres, wouldn't a base with a decently high
> >>antenna and quality hand held suit the need? Course a repeater
> >>would be nice for them for trips to town or whatever if he has
the
> >>space for equipment and a place for a decent antenna
site...assuming
> >>the town isn't 100 miles away.
> >>
> >>Biggest thing is for them go get licensed and then see about what
> >>type of system would work best.
> >>
> >>just my .02
> >>Bob, GMRS WPVV845, Amateur KG4WAD, LMRS WPXC892
> >>
> >>
> >>--- In [email protected], Joe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> >>
> >>> Interesting. I have a friend who was just asking me about a
GMRS
> >>
> >>repeater for he and his wife. He has aprox. 50 acres of woods
that
> >>he likes to walk around in and is in his 70's. His wife is
> >>concerned about him needing to contact her, so I got them a pair
of
> >>Midland GMRS radios. They don't quite do the job because of a
> >>little terrain blockage due to a hill. I was thinking of
> >>recrystalling a Repco repeater that I have and set up a GMRS
> >>repeater, but don't know the details about how feasible this
would
> >>be. Any suggestions from the group?
> >>
> >>>Joe
> >>>
> >>>---- "Doug D." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>>John,
> >>>>
> >>>>GMRS License (new) $80 for 5 years. License available for
> >>>>individuals (does cover just about entire family though) only.
> >>
> >>No
> >>
> >>>>Groups or Businesses. Here is a description from the FCC GMRS
> >>>>webpage.
> >>>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
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> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>Yahoo! Groups Links
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> > Yahoo! Groups Links
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>
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