Should my local jurisdiction declare a GMRS and FRS emergency channel? Can we tell others not involved in our public service communications to vacate the frequency?
They may not and should not. Only the Federal Communications can grant a Special Temporary Authority or designate a communications emergency (called a temporary state of communication emergency in FCC Pat 97.401) to accomplish this purpose. What a local jurisdiction can do is a create a communications plan for neighborhoods that includes FRS and GMRS channels. This plan may direct that certain neighborhoods meet on specific channels to pass messages and organize their response during a disaster. Likewise a civilian repeater group of GMRS licensees or a grandfathered organization has no right to tell others to leave a frequency.
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