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Many of the nodes are located on mountain peaks and are solar powered and do not depend on commercial AC power.
Good Hunting... from Varmint Al
Posted on 03/22/2013 12:36:02 PM PDT by Kartographer
http://www.varmintal.com/ahamp.htm#Sunday
Many of the nodes are located on mountain peaks and are solar powered and do not depend on commercial AC power.
Good Hunting... from Varmint Al
I also used a small battery operated radio which had am/fm/shortwave. I did not keep it on all of the time because I only had a few batteries and I sure did not want to go to the few stores which had generators. It was amazing how super nice drivers were at the non-working stop lights. We all took turns at them. My daughter’s company is in another part of town and she said it was freaky driving home with no lights whatsoever. She also said it was dangerous. We learned a lot during that week
Because he’s not an 8-year-old girl?
Eventually, I'll get a couple spare radios and Faraday cage them.
We learned a lot, too.
Anything you say on CB or ham can be picked up by anyone tuning around the band. Still, either one is a good idea.
I have an old time phone that plugs into the wall, just a plain phone. When power went out due to Ike, my phone worked. My son called from England to check on me, and the phone worked. A friend in the Texas hill country also called to make sure I wasn’t dead. The phone worked.
In a really disasterous situation, when even an old type phone doesn’t work, I have zilch to communicate with someone else. I have a Sony Short Wave receiver but no way to talk myself to anyone.
If a cheap walkie talkie would work for a distance of 10 miles, I could give a friend one of the walkie talkies and I coiuld reach her if needed.
The type of gear deployed is rather pointless.
The real trick is that everybody and I mean the whole of the population involved needs to exercise some very serious operational discipline on the comm gear. If not then any system will overload and crash.
If and when you get some air time it will not last so save the crying, kissing and the “I love you honey” for later. Everybody else is trying to do the same. Cell phone, FRS or HAM doesn’t matter. Their is only a limited amount of bandwidth to go around.
Keep it short.
Keep it simple.
Use very simple language and enunciate strongly.
pre-arranged code words and rally points are critical.
If Jack D. Ripper can launch WWIII with POE or was it EOP? you can have a pre-arranged code word or 2 yourself.
The time to talk to the clan about what you gonna do is now not when it happens.
Easiest way to keep messages private. Keep them short and use a BOOK CODE
Do you people know who invented/developed the process to be able to make text messages”? IT WAS ISRAEL.
Do you know who developed the Intel Pentium processor in your computer? IT WAS ISRAEL.
I know a lot of useless information no one cares about.
If a CB works on batteries, and I gave one to my friend here, we could talk to each other via these CBs? Distance of no more than 10 miles - would it work?
Would two walkie talkies work the same way and would work for the maximum of 10 miles to my friend's house?
One reason I don’t care for VoIP at home and recommend to my business customers keeping a POTS for contingencies.
When the electricity goes down you got no internet, no phone, no email, no web, nuttin.
However, Bell engineered a low voltage system that always delivers a charge to even the most distant and remote locations.
Cheap insurance.
If you watched commercials, you would know that only Progresso soup cans work.
Your friend should be well in range of a off the shelve cb and yes there are cb’s available that run off batteries or you could even make a set-up using a car battery.
They also make fantastic hair rollers.
Marine band will be wide open especially if you’re not near navigable water. Might be less likely to be picked up by unfriendly ears.
Good news.
Be sure you have “texting” available on your cell .. that way if the cell tower goes down, you can just text people instead.
The reason is simple .. one is voice the other is data. They operate separately.
I wasn’t going to have texting, until my geek son told me about this clever trick. I rarely use texting .. but in an emergency where I might have no voice access, I can still text.
On the lower end and for shorter range small team operations, Motorola makes a low output digital 900mhz system.
For economical and realistic preparations, I second the other posters who recommend amateur (HAM) radio and CB.
Good idea! Not a lot of navigable water in the High Desert of NM! As far as secure again short and use a BOOK CODE.
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