Is Family Radio Channel One the national FRS distress channel?
No. The FCC was asked to write such a concept into the rules but it was rejected. We occasionally read about others perpetuating this myth. FRS has no call channel or emergency channel. We believe that it is not in the public interest, convenience, or necessity to create an emergency channel in a radio service where the operational behaviors of the unlicensed users and the physics of short range radio propagation preclude its usefulness in that regard. The idea persists among proponents that do not fully understand the physics of radio and how the service is used today.
