You are an “establishment” emergency preparedness type who likes to network with others like you..
I am an isolated self-sufficient type; very few social contacts of any kind other than a couple forums.
I do happen to live next to a sensitive government installation and this area would be very heavily patrolled in the event of even a non-catastrophic societal breakdown.
When the power comes back on, which it will in D.C., they’ll come and confiscate your communications gear via the database.
Once again, any HAM who does not answer an emergency call due to licensing issues had better be prepared for legal and, in my case, personal consequences when I get back.
Good luck with that.
We're talking past each other because you're being inconsistent in your argument.
In post 16 you said: "...I am taking the advice of another FReeper to not be on any FCC license list if TSHTF...," but now you're arguing about "establishment" and "suing" in your post-SHTF world.
So, which is it? Is there an establishment to "get back" to as you allude to in this post, or is it "SHTF" as you allude to in post 16?
Oh, and a "power outage" is not SHTF, except maybe to DC types.
-PJ
ROFL! Whatcha plan on doing there junior, suing all the hams that live around you for NOT hearing you? Good luck with that empty threat.
As for you, you'd be wise to shut your pie hole about your bootlegging on the amateur radio bands lest YOU suffer some "personal consequences" for transmitting without a license there, bootlegger.
If that happens they are welcome to confiscate my crystal receiver because that's all I have left. All my other radios, even I had them (which they can't prove - no registration required,) had been irretrievably lost in an unfortunate UFO accident.
Aside from that, if "they" are going to come to you for any reason whatsoever you should be already on the way to the hills with your bug-out bag in hand. This is simply because you shouldn't expect anything good out of that visit. You will have plenty of warning, and the visitors will not be searching every nook and cranny of your home anyway; they have thousands of residences to cover, and they don't really want to do any of it (they'd rather be in the hills themselves.)
Once again, any HAM who does not answer an emergency call due to licensing issues had better be prepared for legal and, in my case, personal consequences
That's why every net that ever was on begins with the net coordinator asking if there is an emergency traffic and then giving enough time to respond. After that pause the coordinator explains how to break in if an emergency occurs later on.
However improbable it might sound, I witnessed one such emergency break-in on a local repeater. An area ham was reporting a road emergency (a pedestrian in danger) and was asking to call the police about that. It was done. So it's not just a tradition. This thing works. And if an unlicensed child breaks in and reports an auto accident where her daddy, a ham, is injured, nobody will be berating the child for an unidentified transmission.
