That would create lots of quantity, but not much quality.
Not everyone needs to be on ham. I can think of at least one drunkard who pollutes GMRS. He doesn’t talk plainly and brings nothing to the table but groaning and moaning about his health issues, wanting people to feel sorry for him. Those kind still occasionally slip through the cracks into ham, but no need to open the flood gates!
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That was circulated all over the internet as an April Fool’s prank.
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I don’t support dropping Ham testing but I would support the FCC dropping the “GMRS repeaters linking” ban.
Not sure why they did that?? Why would it be illegal to do that? What problem did that law solve? There is no reason GMRS repeaters should not be allowed to link.
There are very few repeater pairs. GMRS was designed for local communications. There was at least on incident where someone reported all 7 repeater pairs were linked into the same exact system! There would be definite opportunity for abuse. No… if you want linked repeaters; get a ham license.
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