MURS radio and the fire department

[bb223]

I was looking to get some MURS radios for emergency communication with nearby friends incase of an emergency but I'm confused about how it's legally used.

I'm mainly asking because I noticed a relatively nearby fire department uses 151.820 for their "Tac 1" channel and no license number is listed on Radio Reference for it.

I was worried that if I get a few of these if I would be legally interfering with the FD by using MURS1 or if the FD are the ones doing something wrong because based on the few articles I read about MURS over at ITS and elsewhere it seems that MURS is meant for everybody and can't be utilized for "official purposes".

Or am I way off here?

Thank you.

[just a scout]

TAC1 is usually an unrepeated foreground operations channel. If no one is working on a scene, it's just dead air. It's also common and shared so different departments responding from different freqs can use it to work and stay off the main dispatching bands.


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[Outlander Systems]

MURS is more trouble than it's worth.

If you're not interested in getting licensed, I would look heavily into GMRS or CB.

[bb223]

Doesn't GMRS require a license or did they change it?

[Outlander Systems]

It does, but it's a matter of, if your money's green, you get a license. There's no knowledge test like there is with ham.

Also, you'd get a much better selection of radios.

What, approximately, is your budget per radio?