One note on the article, it says QRP is 15-20 watts. QRP is actually 5 watts or less. Otherwise, a nice piece on what amateur radio can do when SHTF.
To: markomalley
Morse gets though where voice doesn't.
God bless those that help with communications.
/johnny
To: Art Bell
3 posted on
04/29/2015 10:24:16 AM PDT by
Theoria
(I should never have surrendered. I should have fought until I was the last man alive)
To: markomalley
What bands are getting the most traffic? QRP will only really reach out down below 40m. I’ll fire up the rig and see what I can pick up, being on the west coast I should get something.
4 posted on
04/29/2015 10:28:00 AM PDT by
factoryrat
(We are the producers, the creators. Grow it, mine it, build it.)
To: VR-21
5 posted on
04/29/2015 10:32:35 AM PDT by
VR-21
To: markomalley
“Otherwise, a nice piece on what amateur radio can do when SHTF.”
It’s too bad that Ham Radio is dying, and fast.
Someday, we are really going to need it.
9 posted on
04/29/2015 10:36:51 AM PDT by
tcrlaf
(They told me it could never happen in America. And then it did....)
To: markomalley
If you’ve been there, you understand how unlikely it is that anyone anywhere has electricity at any point in time.
Can ham radios operate on pedal power?
11 posted on
04/29/2015 10:46:09 AM PDT by
Uncle Miltie
(we also gave those who wished to destroy space to do that - Baltimore's Democrat Mayor)
To: markomalley
Please add me to your Ham radio ping list, if you have one.
14 posted on
04/29/2015 10:49:22 AM PDT by
LadyBuck
(Strangeways, here we come....)
To: markomalley
Ham radio??? LOL!
Just open up Skype or Snapchat on Wi-Fi if you cant get a phone signal. Like who is going to use that old clunky crap?
LOL!!!! Bwahahahaha!!!
To: markomalley
Wire in a tree, car battery. Don’t need no steenking IP.
22 posted on
04/29/2015 11:16:27 AM PDT by
bigbob
(The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly. Abraham Lincoln)
To: markomalley
Hams are always the ultimate backup for comms in an emergency.
28 posted on
04/29/2015 12:02:39 PM PDT by
zeugma
( The Clintons Could Find a Loophole in a Stop Sign)
To: mylife
Thought this would be an interest of yours.
37 posted on
04/29/2015 12:46:32 PM PDT by
StoneWall Brigade
(And I will send fire on Magog- Ezkiel 39:6)
To: markomalley
You know that feeling when you can’t find a cell?? The very first thing to go down in a natural or Man made disaster is the cell phone. Been in emergency coms for 35 years. Even a 5 watts CW transmitter and a piece of wire in the tree at 30’ can make global communications possible. Can do that on solar power if necessary. Remember that when you bitch about your neighbors tower. de .— ...— -.-. ..-. via QRZ
58 posted on
04/29/2015 5:42:40 PM PDT by
halfright
(FAST & FURIOUS! DON'T ALLOW THEM TO DIVERT YOUR ATTENTION.)
To: markomalley
I listened to some old boy in Galveston broadcast through hurricane Ike on a deep cycle marine battery and a longwire.
67 posted on
04/29/2015 7:27:48 PM PDT by
mylife
("The roar of the masses could be farts")
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