Today, on reddit’s /r/amateurradio, a fellow posted:
I recently got a radio for myself and my brother so we could communicate via radio during our airsoft games. From looking online and through some of these posts I see that to transmit we would need a license. I’m not exactly sure which license I would need to get and where to get it (is it via FCC). Thanks for the help.
I replied:
Let me dig out my can opener and open up a can of worms here……
While technically it would be illegal for these guys to use their UV-5Rs on Family Radio Service (FRS) frequencies, would it really be such a terrible thing if they do? They could set their radios to the lowest power setting, and I doubt that they’d interfere with anyone doing so.
I’d call down all the fire and brimstone (what the heck is brimstone, anyway?) I could manage on them if they used amateur radio frequencies, though.
To which, a third fellow responded:
I’d say it’s somewhere between going 10 MPH over the speed limit and not coming to a complete stop at stop signs.
I think that’s pretty much what I was thinking, except that I only go 5 mph over the speed limit. :) What do you think?