[Indie]

The power in my area of Grand Prairie TX went out this morning for 5 hours...needless to say I felt rather impotent not having an alternate way to get news. Not even a battery powered radio. This will change.

I do however have ham radios run off the car battery and I quicky found there was no RACES net up and all the other hams were having routine days.

As far as news from overseas or across the country, ham radio would be the only thing working without electricity...since it requires no wires or generators.

[tmp02]

I bought a frequency scanner for situations that are being discussed...and I would also be up for creating a ham radio net of information if something went wrong. I think that one of the first places that I would try to get info is from this site if something happened...I would try to get to a library...I would also keep the scanner close by...

[thecabal]

I would urge everyone here to get their hands on a battery powered radio that can receive AM/FM/Shortwave. Another good thing to have is one of the hand cranked generator radios, like the Baygen.

As far as news from overseas or across the country, ham radio would be the only thing working without electricity...since it requires no wires or generators.

The main thing is to have an emergency power source. Right now, mine is the alternator and battery in my truck!

Indie, do you have a HF transceiver? Since you are a Tech Plus, you would only have to take the General written test to get access to a lot more HF spectrum.