“ure, if you are interested in local communications thru what is called repeaters, you can listen to anything going on in the area, I suspect local ham operators will be talking up a story in a SHTF situation, if you don’t have ham radio repeaters in your area or if they are shut down, then you will be limited to other ham operators with a range of a couple of miles at most.”
Once again, a l little information is dangerous.
What you said is completely wrong. VHF/UHF is only a few miles, but HF is world wide. There are no repeaters involved.
It’s not completely wrong it’s 100% accurate, if you read the person I was responding to, he asked about Baofeng UV-5r, which is a cheap handheld ham radio which operates on VHF/UHF and is limited to a couple of miles maybe without the use of repeaters...
So my response is 100% factual. before accusing people of passing out false information, at least understand the conversation