Great radio to get your feet wet in gmrs

Great radio to get your feet wet in gmrs  Read Less

)these also offer the ability to actually scan a channel to find the privacy signals in use, which is handy if your friend has ...  Read More

)these also offer the ability to actually scan a channel to find the privacy signals in use, which is handy if your friend has another brand of radio and can't hear you (and who probably doesn't know much about their radio):just put your radio on the same channel, have your friend hold down their "transmit" (ptt) button, then scan for dcs or ctcss and when you find your friend's transmission you can set your own radio to the same code and they'll work together just fine!  Read Less

" then these radios are for you, especially if you want the higher transmission power of gmrs, and maybe even the extra feature...  Read More

" then these radios are for you, especially if you want the higher transmission power of gmrs, and maybe even the extra features like scanning and repeaters.  Read Less

These radios also offer noaa weather reports, which is nice, but after that, the remaining features are sort of only of interes...  Read More

These radios also offer noaa weather reports, which is nice, but after that, the remaining features are sort of only of interest to real radio geeks (like being able to use gmrs repeaters).  Read Less

For example, instead of "privacy codes", these radios simply provide the actual underlying technologies that frs radios rename ...  Read More

For example, instead of "privacy codes", these radios simply provide the actual underlying technologies that frs radios rename as "privacy codes," which are called ctcss and dcs.  Read Less