Great advice Boomer - thank you!
Those who are preppers are already doing this but make sure you keep a hand held Ham radio in a Faraday Bag in case we are hit with an EMP. This way you can at least listen and in an emergency call for help or just listen for instructions on what to do. A basic first level Ham license is fairly easy to get if you have an aptitude for computers and electronics at all and they are good for ten years.
The Baofeng UV-5R can be had for as little as $25 through Amazon but there are better ones for those who have more discretionary spending available. Couple it with a taller better antenna and a Faraday Bag or make a Faraday cage out of tin trashcan and some cardboard. There are even roll up antennas you can hang from someplace high up to connect to your little hand held to get much better signals.
This is all fairly uncharted territory for us in the USA. We have never really been hit with anything big in the way of an EMP so we really don’t know what all will be affected for sure and just how much. It may not be near as bad as we think or it may be worse. We just don’t know.
Can you give some more recommendations/options? What would you suggest is next up the ladder on the ham radio? I would like a place to start my research but more than just the bare minimums since i dont know much about all of his
TIA
There was talk about hardening the grid to be able to resist an EMP attack some years ago...unfortunately it didn’t go anything beyond talk, I don’t think.
And how are you re-charging that ham radio after 5 days?
Was your generator in a faraday cage? :-O
Great advice Boomer - thank you!
Just make sure when you get one of those to play around with—you need a low level ham radio license.
It’s not a big deal to get, but if you start playing around without a license...someone will turn you in.
What’s better than the Baofeng UV-5R?