ten year, for all members of your family GMRS license fee will be dropping from $75 to $35 on April 19, 2021. That is pretty cheap. There is not test, you just pay on FCC website. That said, I would say, from having GMRS for nearly a decade, that 95% of users do no have a license, and probably most of the remaining 5% do not use their call sign as required. I find this is mostly not because of fee cost, but because of privacy, as your name, address etc are publicly available on FCC website associated with your call sign, and private companies also vacuum up data from the FCC site. you never know what might take as an affront something at a campsite, on an offroad trail, or if they hear you using your GMRS while hunting, could be a hunting hater and start stalking you, impersonating you (and they can just say your call sign claiming to be you) etc. So 99% of GMRS traffic does NOT use call signs as required. There is NO enforcement of this. FCC enforcement database of every enforcement they do is public, and there is not a single fine for any individual for not using a call GMRS call sign.
BTW here are the definitions of "family" able to share a single license:
§ 95.179 Individuals who may be station operators.
(a) An individual GMRS system licensee may permit immediate family members to be station operators in his or her GMRS system. Immediate family members are the:
(1) Licensee;
(2) Licensee's spouse;
(3) Licensee's children, grandchildren, stepchildren;
(4) Licensee's parents, grandparents, stepparents;
(5) Licensee's brothers, sisters;
(6) Licensee's aunts, uncles, nieces, nephews; and
(7) Licensee's in-laws.
You can see if you are married and have brothers in law, have aunts and uncles, nieces, grand kids you could have 25 to 100 people using the single license
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By Amazing_Customer on April 10, 2021