Motorola MURS Radios

Multi-Use Radio Service (MURS) Band - No License Required

The MURS VHF frequency band provides the perfect solution for two-way radio communication for business and pleasure outdoors. We can't stress that outdoors bit enough! VHF radios work like a charm outdoors, but indoors or in and out of doors, they're really not the way to go. Buy VHF for exclusively outdoor 2-way radio communications or if you need new walkie-talkies to talk to your old VHF walkie-talkies. UHF or digital will never talk to VHF 2-way radios.

Okay, now that we cleared that up. Let's talk about the big business advantages of using MURS VHF radios outdoors!

First up: No FCC license is required to use the Multi-Use Radio Service (MURS)! If you've ever had to grapple with FCC licensing paperwork, frequency coordination and the like, you'll be breathing a sigh of relief.

Secondly, an FCC licensing fee usually accompanies FCC paperwork. That fee doesn't apply with your MURS walkie-talkies either. At the time of this writing, a business license is $85. Multiply that by the number of handheld radio users in your crew or company and you can count the bonuses MURS radios add to your business' bottom line.

Third and beyond, businesses can deploy a “common” radio configuration across multiple business locations that may have otherwise been assigned different private frequencies due to regional frequency constraints or availability. Standardizing your business walkie-talkie settings across your enterprise can greatly simplify procurement and deployment of your 2-way radio assets.

MURS: The Nuts and Bolts

MURS walkie-talkies operate on 5 shared VHF frequencies: 151.820 MHz, 151.880 MHz, 151.940 MHz, 154.570 MHz, 154.600 MHz. The latter two are also part of the BRS (Business Radio Service) business radio band. These shared frequencies are designed for short distance data and/or voice communications for business or personal activities. As there is no individual stations license and no frequency coordination for the MURS frequencies, the trade-off is you may run into some interference from other 2-way radio users. There's only so much space on the MURS band to go around. The FCC requires MURS radio users to cooperate when selecting or using MURS frequencies to reduce or avoid overcrowding and interference. In other words, be cool and play fair.