Posted on 01/16/2021 5:09:19 AM PST by shoff
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Site no workey. “Page does not exist 404”.
Share your contact information on a Facebook spreadsheet?
It IS from 2011
Landlines. Not too many of those around.
You need to read post #1.
I didn’t think you needed a license for certain types of ham radios (smaller ones). Couldn’t govt jam your transmissions anyway?
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I still have a push button landline phone! Can’t tell you the times it’s saved the day when the power goes off in a storm!
That is incorrect. If you are using an amateur band, you need a license. But if you think you are getting more than five miles on a hand held unit without knowing what you are doing, you are going to be disappointed. It’s one of those things you need to practice.
“Step 8. Have a basic radio on hand so that you can still listen to news.”
When power was out after Hurricane Sandy; this served no purpose - just told us how sh!tty it was elsewhere (no useful info). I suspect it is worse now, since the left controls the airwaves: “Donald Trump’s hatred of the planet has shut down your power by attracting high tides to NJ. Turn in your vehicles immediately to rectify the situation”.
If the government starts jamming HAM radio freqs, the situation has gone way beyond the point of needing to communicate via HAM. Unless there is overt tyranny oropen warfare, the gov isn’t going to worry about a bunch of Elmers trading info. Not only would it not be cost effective, I doubt the gov has the smarts to do it in any meaningful way, other than just pissing off a bunch of people that would great assets for any armed opposition to it.
All the radio weather reports seem to come from one place (weather.com), they are not local enough.
I still have a landline ‘cause my mom is 99 and can’t handle cell phones. Hmmm...glad we still have it!
A weather radio is great. I think it does emergency broadcasts, too. Have not heard many of the latter.
“Couldn’t govt jam your transmissions anyway?”
Any form of electronic communication be it by wire or wireless can be cut off, jammed or monitored.
It has been scrubbed. You can only find it on the wayback machine.
Us, too, but does not work well. We kept it for emergencies.
No license needed for CB or VHF radios. However, don’t count on being able to get out. Long ago there was a channel (9) designated for emergency use only, but many people disregarded it and used it all day long. Not the government necessarily, but other people will ‘jam’ you.
When some guy had a heart attack (we were in the woods with the nearest town over 10 miles away over dirt roads), there was this woman on the emergency channel who refused to shut up so we could call an ambulance or get some help - he died. We called her up after and told her what she had done. She didn’t answer, but later came up again on the same channel and began her monologue.
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