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Message:: [QUOTE="Night Stalker10, post: 11452826, member: 200038"]The repeater itself generally doesn't reach hundreds of miles. Especially on UHF. Of course you could talk that great distance if you link several repeaters together.  But that's takes a lot more $$$$'s to build and maintain the repeater system. That's why gmrs isn't going to be much better than a CB radio out in the open areas of the country, if you want to talk long distance. You will probably have to wait many miles to get to a big city where the repeaters are. Now what about MURS?  I think they are limited to 15 watts, but I'm not sure. I don't think there are any repeaters involved. But it is 150mhz vhf service, which sometimes allows you to talk great distances when the band conditions are up. Just like skip conditions on 11 meters. That alone should interest some truck drivers. Plus no expensive license fees either.[/QUOTE]