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[edit] GMRS

I think the following should not be on this page. They were listed as business frequencies in the article. This makes the Business Band article factually wrong. In the US, they are really licensed under General Mobile Radio Service Part 95 and Family Radio Service:

White Dot 462.575 Also licensed under GMRS
Black Dot 462.625 Also licensed under GMRS
Orange Dot 462.675 Also licensed under GMRS
J-Dot 467.7625 Often represented as a black dot with a white "J"
K-Dot 467.8125 Often represented as a black dot with a white "K".

David Jordan

[edit] Multiple problems with this page

  • The page should be retitled/merged back to "Business radio service", or expanded to "Industrial radio services in the United States". "Business band" is a marketing term; there is no single business band, but several different bands in different parts of the spectrum.
  • This page should not have a "USA-specific" tag, because it's about a US radio service, with US rules and frequencies. There was a photo of a radio that I think is used in Britain, the commented-out link to the removed image should be removed as well.
  • There's an overemphasis on a certain type of radio that is relatively well-known to the public, that operates on color-coded frequencies. While we should have a section on these, we shouldn't make the whole article about them.
  • In the 1980s, the FCC ... reserved No, The Business radio service was around before that, maybe even the 1930's or 40's.
  • 56 UHF frequencies There are hundreds and hundreds of frequencies. The 56 number probably comes from a series of Motorola radios which offer a somewhat wider selection than the usual "dot-color" channels. But many business radios are "black boxes" that are programmable to thousands of possible frequencies by a professional radio shop.
  • must be registered as a business with the Internal Revenue Service. Can we get a source for this?
  • Common Low Band Business Band Frequencies Some of those low-band frequencies, especially the 27 MHz ones, aren't commonly used at all. 35.02 is pretty popular for fast-food order windows, and 33.40 maybe for wireless language labs in schools, but that's about it.
  • There are three GMRS frequencies that also have dot-color channels ( GMRS used to be available for businesses too, and until recently were often included on business radios ); I wouldn't have any objections to adding them back to a table of dot-color channels as long as they are designated as such.
  • The J and K-dot frequencies mentioned above are business, not GMRS or FRS frequencies. They should be in the table.
  • See also...ISM band Why only the ISM bands? There's also police radio and taxi radio and CB radio. The V/D/E below should cover all the bases.

Squidfryerchef (talk) 15:42, 30 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Comments on above

Yeah, it's just like like Squidfryerchef says. David Jordan

[edit] First cleanup

I just did a bit of cleanup for this article. I didn't really address Squidfryerchef's concerns because I'm not an expert on the subject, but hopefully a little attention will get this article moving in the right direction. --Voidxor (talk) 05:06, 23 May 2008 (UTC)