Rob Painless
Active Member
No question, there's always room for improvement. But, sometimes, the 'lowest common denominator'.....is good enough.
Communications should be considered the third leg on the prepping stool with Sustenance and Security being the other 2.
Using the absolute lowest end of comms gear is exactly the same as buying cheap Chinese tools and hoping they hold together. You don't buy the cheapest food, the cheapest guns, the cheapest ammo do you?
Being deaf isn't a handicap until you come up against someone who can hear. Handicapping yourself deliberately is insane
Getting licensed, and a HAM moved a lot further down my list, but still not losing sight of how important this part of prepping is. If nothing else, would be just one more service we could offer to be valuable to others....(i.e. more valuable as an ally vs. an adversary).
Communications in general are important.
Solid post. We don't have a HAM at the BOL, but my thinking is the same as yours. Unfortunately, if anyone is going to get a license, its going to have to be me, lol. One more thing.
Do you guys have any moon beam antennas? To bounce off that big reflector to minimize triangulation?I have 4 hams in our bug out group I'm the main go to guy then the rest. We all have the cheap Chinese baofeng radios for regular use and extras to hand out to others if need be. We also have better radios that are better built and more water resistant. Yaesu and icom are the two main ones. Then I also have vehicle and base stations with towers as well. And to round off I have many miles of comms wire with crank style field phones we can use as lp/op locations that won't give away our location with rf transmissions.
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