When a distant repeater is transmitting on GMRS and a person on simplex transmits is that considered interference?
No. Portable radios and mobile radios may not hear what a base station hears. A licensee gets to know the GMRS in his/her area and knows how far away the users of distant repeaters are. We do this because we want to share the resource effectively. We are also aware of the “capture effect.” Simplex transmissions many miles from the user of a repeater are not going to cause interference. Repeater DX’ing is not part of the GMRS so there is NO expectation that licensees are going to be repeater hopping looking for conversations.
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