I recently set up a link between a small town EOC and a warming shelter using MURS. The distance was about 2.5 miles with some gentle hills and a fair amount of woods between the two locations. I used a pair of Dakota Alert base station MURS radios (1.6 watts) with Ed Fong (ebay) roll up j-pole antennas. Worked perfectly with the antennas at around 10 ft. FRS/GMRS HTs did not work. Licensing would have been impractical as almost anyone could be using the radios.