Family Radio Service

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Ch#1 462.5625
Ch#2 462.5875
Ch#3 462.6125
Ch#4 462.6375
Ch#5 462.6625
Ch#6 462.6875
Ch#7 462.7125
Ch#8 467.5625
Ch#9 467.5875
Ch#10 467.6125
Ch#11 467.6375
Ch#12 467.6625
Ch#13 467.6875
Ch#14 467.7125

FRS PL Tones
#1 67.0
#2 71.9
#3 74.4
#4 77.0
#5 79.7
#6 82.5
#7 85.4
#8 88.5
#9 91.5
#10 94.8
#11 97.4
#12 100.0
#13 103.5
#14 107.2
#15 110.9
#16 114.8
#17 118.8
#18 123.0
#19 127.3
#20 131.8
#21 136.5
#22 141.3
#23 146.2
#24 151.4
#25 156.7
#26 162.2
#27 167.9
#28 173.8
#29 179.9
#30 186.2
#31 192.8
#32 203.5
#33 210.7
#34 218.1
#35 225.7
#36 233.6
#37 241.8
#38 250.3
#0 Carrier

Family Radio Service is starting to become a VERY fun scanning activity for me. I have a bank in every one of my radios dedicated to the FRS and sometimes itinerant business frequencies.

What I've actually heard! (add to it as I hear them)
Here you will find everybody from the neighborhood kids playing hide and go seek to the construction team working on the nearby building. I've heard flaggers on the road, travelers on the road trying to find out where to eat, or complaining about the idiot driver that just passed them. I've heard teenagers vandalizing public property using FRS radios to coordinate. I've heard teenagers at a huge bonfire north of town one night at 1am, drunk and trying to find each other in the dark. I've heard school yard duty people talking about little Jimmy's detention or the fight that broke out the other day on the football field. Fishermen talk back and forth between boats on the river, hunters across the field coordinating pheasant hunting. I've heard mothers yelling into the radio for their kid to come home from playing. I've heard mothers yelling for their kids to come home to the campsite as dinner was ready. Climbers on Mt. Lassen and Mt. Shasta work their way to the peak. Neighbors have talked back and forth about their spouses, realizing I guess a phone call isn't free (yet is private!) I've heard business communications ranging from wire pullers, grocery stores, Costco and Target workers. Janitors telling each other which bathroom had the mess in it. Boyfriends and girlfriends conversing about what they're wearing at the givin moment - usually nothing.

All that while just driving around, having the FRS freqs scanned whenever my scanner is on - it is one band of frequencies that is hilarious to listen to and is NEVER boring to monitor. It's never busy enough to keep you from the public safety freqs or other important freqs unless some huge convention is happening in town. So enjoy and maybe start your own log of what you hear - you'd be amazed at some of the radio content. ;)