MillburyAuditorium
Active Member
The Motorola radios noted are potentially even more of a problem as they are FRS/GMRS and GMRS is much more tightly controlled than FRS. GMRS is limited to direct family of the license holder. Yep, have to be FCC licensed to use GMRS radios and while you could conceivably use them in an application like this, that would be possible only by every user being licensed. A license is $85 plus the paperwork, but I also believe that you have to be 18, so probably not an option for your application. You could use those radios without a license but only on low power and only on the 14 FRS channels, and how are you going to enforce that?
Between that, the potential of interference and reliability/durability, using FRS/GMRS radios may not be as practical a solution as it initially seems.
And talk about being a tempting thing to steal, a few years ago our house was broken into while I was on a job site at a theatre being built. They broke the door on our deck right out of the frame and went through every closet, drawer, etc. but the only things stolen were any cash they found, one of my wife's rings and two new FRS/GMRS radios I had just bought. Left the cameras, computers, stereo, TVs, instruments, and all the other jewelry, took the two Kenwood radios.
We need a license? The description says no license required :/
And as I have said before, For the last 15 years we have had NOTHING to communicate with backstage, no radios, no intercom, nothing. So even if there is interference, it will be better than nothing, what we have now. Also it wont be used for cues, as the directors are always backstage.
And on theft again,
As well as being locked in a booth, in a 7 door all locked theatre, completely enclosed within the school, the school has its heavy duty windows and doors, two sets for the main entrance, aswell as fire and security systems, and if it does get stollen, the school will back it up.