id highly reccomend getting your gmrs liscense before operatoring on those frequencys. also there are a few gmrs repeaters depending on the radio you bought if its a bubble pack more then likely it cannot do repeater shifts however if its commercial grade you can sign up with the repeaters and use them get your name on the list contact Brian Chapman N9NOC you can look him up on www.qrz.com/callsign/n9noc shoot him a email or whatever he owns most of the gmrs repeaters in town. use of a gmrs repeater will extend ur 1 mile if that range to about 30 miles across the repeaters. a good investment if ham radio is not of intrest to you. -brian ----- Original Message ----- From: Eric & Dayna East To: geocaching@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Saturday, May 22, 2004 12:15 AM Subject: [GeoStL] GMRS licensing? What the heck is this all about? According to my owners manual I can not operate on channels 1 through 7 or 15 through 22 without applying for & recieving an FCC licence & call sign! Eric