Posted on 10/11/2019 6:36:35 AM PDT by AU72
“That is a big red flag. Ham radio is the last line of defense for comms in SHTF event”
It still will be for local & long distance.
And if a SHTF requires local area communications, Amazon
has a 5 pack of BaoFeng 5 watt UV-5UV-5RR UHF VHF Dual Band Two Way Radio Walkie Talkies for $129.00.
FCC license is required for operation now. But, not for purchase.
This is wrong an every level. When the time comes to make these wrong-headed leftists pay for their crimes against the people; it won’t be pretty but it will be just.
Californian Idiots. When the poop hits the fan and those little iPhones dont work, they will understand the benefit of short wave comms. A lost state to the disease of the left. Hopefully they stay there and contain the contagin.
I know I am going to get yelled at by the hammers for saying this, but this elite organization and the FCC should consider opening up a few of the “long range” frequencies for general public use. It’s time, the public being limited to just a couple short range frequencies like CB and FRS and having all the long range frequencies restricted to a good old boys club is not quite fair to the general public.
Good to know.
A long ago boss from TV was big on ham radio. I never got into it.
One of the few songs that mentions Ham Radio
Steely Dan - King of the World
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8Dwzi2_-Bc
Well then, when the long forecast catastrophic earthquake hits, the local officials can just do without our communications expertise.
Sure, just bootleg it. No prob.
The good news is, in CA those little Bottles of Shampoo you see in Hotel Rooms will be Illegal starting in 2023.
Seriously...
Have you ever been triangulated by the local club yet? They take this very seriously and make a competition out of finding an illegal transmitter operator within hours after they start transmitting. They are OUTRAGEOUSLY GOOD and SERIOUS about doing this policing! lol
Tofurkey Radio
We do not need the federal government to nationalize anything whatsoever!
I noticed a few weeks ago that our DOD has begun to back away from HF Radio support.
The organization that led to the Military Auxiliary Radio System was called the Auxiliary Amateur Radio System (AARS). AARS was created in November 1925 by a few dedicated pioneers in the United States Army Signal Corps led by Captain Thomas C. Rives.
The AARS functioned as such until the creation of the Military Affiliate Radio System in November 1948 with the establishment of separate Army and Air Force MARS programs, reflecting the creation of the Air Force as a separate service. The program's name was changed to the Military Affiliate Radio System on 2 September 1952, in recognition of the organization's changing nature with the growing number of civilian volunteer members. Eventually, the Navy-Marine Corps MARS program was established officially on 17 August 1962, and began operations on 1 January 1963. This followed the Cuban Missile Crisis and President Kennedy's concern for viable and extended communications capabilities.
The program's name was changed again to the current Military Auxiliary Radio System on 23 December 2009.
[Civilians are no longer considered Affiliates, they just augment the military.]
MARS continues to be active today. Its primary mission is to provide contingency communications to the Department of Defense and Military Services. MARS is also available to provide communications for Defense Support to Civil Authorities (DSCA) such as FEMA and the Department of Homeland Security. Under DSCA, MARS may also available to assist state and local emergency response agencies.
The combined two-service MARS programs (Army, and Air Force), volunteer force of over 3,000 dedicated and skilled amateur radio operators provide the backbone of the MARS program.
The United States Navy-Marine program has been closed.
Morale and welfare messages are no longer the largest activity in MARS due to the increased use of the Internet and e-mail by deployed military personnel. MARS had an increased role in providing interoperability communications between Army National Guard and Air National Guard forces and civilian state agencies. However, this service providing interoperability communications was terminated as of May 2015 based on a decision by USAF and ARMY MARS.
Diversity gets rid of all ham.
This really makes me want to get a ham radio and a license, and learn how to use it.
Peach
Muhammad Meets the Black Hebrew Israelites (Muhammad’s Boom-Boom Room)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-qQA4zYguw
Caliph-ornia says ham is forbidden.
/sarc
> shortwave is the province of white ... militia-types
So?
Wow that almost sounds like a Civilian MIJI investigation.
When I was in the USAF, way back when, I loved HF, except when the frequency bottomed out and all the crypto dropped set.
Thank you for posting this. Saw it on Twitter and coupled with power cutoffs, and this, some people think this is a precursor to some false flag incident in California.
What I found interesting- that there was a level of this paranoia “something’s up” among liberals, and conservatives alike.
“Seems that California just cant stop proving just how incompetent and arrogant they can truly be. “
California is a test bed. There are forces working to enslave all of us and our government is right in the middle of it. I wonder what they promise the bureaucrats to get them to go along? Something big is coming and they are getting desperate.
When billionaires start building bunkers something is up.
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