Family Radio Service Frequencies Canada

Family radio service is similar to the walkie talkies used many years ago.

Family radio service frequencies canada.

The canadian table of frequency allocations canadian table assigns the electromagnetic spectrum and establishes the frequency allocations available for radio services in canada. Mostly obsolete as of september 28 2017. Industry canada approves sale and use of family radio service devices in canada information bulletin april 3 2000. They worked room to room but for any true distance there was nothing.

I think every child has had a pair of walkie talkies as a toy. There are still no designated hailing calling or emergency channels as of 4 1 06. These frequencies are shared with the general mobile radio service gmrs. While walkie talkies had grown more popular with civilians since world war ii by the.

2 gmrs repeater output. 3 gmrs repeater input only. The fcc agreed and in 1996 created the family radio service frs as one of the citizens band radio services. There are 14 channels designated 1 through 14 representing 14 different frequencies.

Notes 1 shared frs and gmrs simplex. In 1996 the us government authorized the use of frs. Why would i need it. The canadian table is based on the provisions of the final acts resulting from the various world radiocommunication conferences wrc including the 2012 wrc convened by the international telecommunication union itu.

For suggested and unofficial channel usages see the family radio service and general mobile radio service wiki articles. Frs radios with 14 or fewer channels and up to 1 2 watt power output are still manufactured and sold. Sp 462 467 spectrum utilization policy to permit licence exempt devices in the land mobile frequency sub bands 462 467 mhz issue 2 august 2016. Do those little sub channel codes make it so it s transmitting and receiving on a different frequency.

Family radio service frs was developed for consumer use in no small part thanks to radio shack who saw a need to define and preserve special radio frequencies for consumers that were separate from other bandwidths reserved for other types of communication. Also say my frs radio is on channel 19 for example with the little sub channel code thing at 39 does that mean that on my gmrs radio when i type in the frequency is the code no longer for 62 6500. Channels 1 through 7 are shared with the gmrs radios. The family radio service is a license free private two way very short distance voice and data communications service for facilitating family and group activities.