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The FCC accepts updates, changes, and renewals online via their ULS License Manager System. Licensees may file for renewal at 90 days or less before your license will expire, or up to two years after expiration. After the two year grace period, the license is no longer valid or renewable.

If you are using a walkie-talkie labeled FRS/GMRS or one labeled GMRS then yes, you do need an FCC license. FRS, or Family Radio Service, channels, are free to use, but GMRS (General Mobile Radio Service) operation does require a license.

Before operating a GMRS radio, a consumer must have a valid license. Any radio using the shared FRS/GMRS frequencies that is able to transmit above 2 Watts of power was reclassified as GMRS only after the recent FCC Changes in September 2017. GMRS radios can be handhelds or in-unit mobile radios.

An applicant for an Aircraft, Ship, Restricted Radiotelephone, Restricted Radiotelephone-Limited Use, and GMRS Radio Service may operate for 90 days under temporary authority evidenced by a properly executed certification made on FCC Form 605.

In instances where an Applicant files electronically and needs to include an exhibit(s) with the application and cannot transmit that exhibit(s) to the FCC electronically, the Applicant may mail exhibits to the following address: Federal Communications Commission, Application Exhibit, 1270 Fairfield Road, Gettysburg,

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Although the max power has been increased to 2 watts on these "bubble-pack" radios for GMRS channels(per FCC 2017), IT IS STILL ILLEGAL to transmit on GMRS channels WITHOUT a license. THE FINE IS 20K FOR EACH TRANMISSION ON A GMRS CHANNEL.