Some even have the ability to transmit on the commercial AM bands if required.
If you want to rally 50 or 100K people, turn their lights off for 2 weeks. Then let the guys with HF coordinate and diseminate the information.
/johnny
Check your calendar. It is 2012.
I direct you back to the thread. The other side won’t be using 1915 technology and they will be mobilized, in place, and done before you get contact 100 people. You are talking about responding in weeks, when the game is played in hours.
No one, least me, is arguing that HF has no use. But to think that it can fill the void of rapid communication is ludicrous. It cannot.
Why would you trust the transmissions you get? How do you verify them? If you get 50 conflicting messages, how do you deal with that? Which one do you go with?
Disseminate. OK, how are you going to do that without any other communications? Yelling, flyers, spray paint?
HF works fine if no one is messing with you, but you need structure, codes, and a network of people otherwise. And even then, that network is easily infiltrated. Occupied Europe is a good history of just how difficult and dangerous HF transmission and information dissemination is when the powers that be want to stop it. The one way coded messages of the BBC took years to make work (network problems) and were of limited usefulness and always suspect of having been broken.