"Family Radio Service" (FRS) is the frequency bandwidth available in North America for short range two-way radio communications. FRS radios can usually communicate over a distance of 2 miles in line of sight. FRS radios let users communicate by pressing a "talk" button, speaking, then releasing it to wait for a reply from another user. FRS two way radio are meant for free communications during leisure activities such as a walk in a park or a visit to a shopping center.
Family Radio Service (FRS) is one of the Citizens Band Radio Services. It is used by family, friends and associates to communicate within a neighborhood and while on group outings and has a communications range of less than one mile. You can not make a telephone call with an FRS unit. You may use your FRS unit for business-related communications.
License documents are neither needed nor issued. You are provided authority to operate a FRS unit in places where the FCC regulates radio communications as long as you use only an unmodified FCC certified FRS unit. An FCC certified FRS unit has an identifying label placed on it by the manufacturer. There is no age or citizenship requirement.
You may operate your FRS unit within the territorial limits of the fifty United States, the District of Columbia, and the Caribbean and Pacific Insular areas ("U.S."). You may also operate your FRS unit on or over any other area of the world, except within the territorial limits of areas where radio- communications are regulated by another agency of the U.S. or within the territorial limits of any foreign government.
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