GMRS Family Kit Builder and Repeater-Ready Checklist

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Add radios for everyone on your license. Totals, fit checks and a share link update as you go.

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Kit Total$0Maker list prices

Per Person–Radios plus license

Include the $35 FCC license
10 years, no exam, covers your immediate family (how to apply)

Prices are each maker's list price as recorded in our database; radios without a sourced price count as $0 and are flagged. Your kit stays on this device.

Repeater-Ready Checklist

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Get your GMRS license
$35 to the FCC, good for 10 years. Steps
Check every radio can reach a repeater
It needs 467 MHz main channels on its FCC grant. The kit checks above show which ones do.
Find a repeater near you
Community directories such as myGMRS list output frequency, tones and access rules.
Ask the owner for permission
Private repeaters need the owner's OK. What the rules say
Program the channel
Transmit on 467 MHz, listen on 462 MHz, set the input tone. Program with CHIRP · Tones explained
Practise your call sign
At the end of a conversation and every 15 minutes (§95.1751). Station ID
Make a short test call
Key up, identify, and listen for the repeater's tail or a reply.

Where the Numbers Come From

Power is the highest filed figure on the 462 MHz main channels of each radio’s FCC grant, marked ERP or conducted as filed. See how to read filed power.
Repeater means the grant includes the 467 MHz main channels that repeaters listen on. A radio without them can still hear a repeater but can’t talk through it.
Prices are the maker’s list price recorded in radios.yaml; they change often, so check before you buy.
License: one $35 GMRS license covers your immediate family for 10 years (license steps).

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What Changed

The latest additions and re-checks across the database.