Multi-Use Radio Service

Now, here's one that very few people know about, but we've used several times over the past.

MURS.

It's the Mutual Use Radio

System.

Is that kind of a similar type of thing? No, no.

This is simply think of the radio mounted in your car.

You pick it up, and instead of talking on ham radio, you're talking on MURS.

Okay, okay.

So that's my, uh, use case for GMRS.

And we also have woods on the property, and I like using Icom's, uh, V10 MR, uh, MURS radios too.

That's point to point, v- uh, VHF in the 150 megahertz range.

So, uh, license-free and, uh, does good on, through the trees, uh, more so than the higher frequencies, but they also work, especially with the antenna being up.

Yeah.

[laughs]

So now that you've got the MURS and the GMRS and the mesh going, and I know you were on a, uh, you were on a VHF or UHF net a moment ago, when are you gonna put some wire in the air?

Yeah, I-

Got out, uh, got involved in some, uh, in the prepping community with some networks of families.

It occurred to me that there's no standardized communications plan, so w- uh, I developed one, and of course, nobody was l- licensed in this network, so we went with just channel three of, uh, the CB, FRS, and MURS radio systems, which are all the non-licensed bands.

And, uh, everyone had some kind of a mix, one or the other or a mix of those, so, uh, we developed our plan with that.

So when I started the Radio Free Redoubt podcast 15 years ago, shortly after that that I took the same concept and bring- brought it forward saying, "Hey, you know, uh, patriots, we don't have a standardized communications plan.

Uh, j- one good thing that I, uh, uh, one thing that I recommend for people that are tryi- they're excited about comms, they wanna share it, right? They wanna spread the gospel.

[laughs] So, uh, I would say put on something like a free emergency communications, uh, presentation at your local library or your church or something, and, uh, invite people to, uh, to sit in and ex- you know, share with them the things that are av- available.

There's CB, FRS, MURS.

Mm.