HAM RADIO and Other Communications

[Yowbarb]

Getting Your HAM Amateur Radio Technicians License  9:04

https://youtu.be/bYEzUbb07Mc

[Yowbarb]

Marshall Masters new book:

Radio Free Earth: Community Preparedness and Two Way Radios

17256231451111

https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1725623145/yoowwobo-20

[R.R. Book]

Listening to Dave Hodges interview Robert Griswold on how we need to change our prepping strategies to meet new conditions, I have learned some things about short-wave radio that I didn't know (and Marshall has likely already addressed this):

*Of the three frequencies (UHF = Ultra-High Frequency, VHF= Very High Frequency and HF= High Frequency), HF does not require repeater towers, which PTB seem intent upon removing in certain areas.

*Short-wave radios have been banned in every conflict.

*Having a short-wave receiver in such a situation, as opposed to a transmitter, allows the user to listen in on vital information without being detected, as it puts out no signal.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-EhtokPDME

(Note: Please ignore partisan comments in the dialogue)

War is 90% information.

~Napoleon Bonaparte (as paraphrased by Griswold)

[MadMax]

HF does not require repeater towers, which PTB seem intent upon removing in certain areas.

I have posted extensively about this in other threads here ..

[R.R. Book]

Thanks for diligence in doing that Max, and for your patience as some of us who are slower to become involved with it get caught up!

[MadMax]

Thanks for diligence in doing that Max, and for your patience as some of us who are slower to become involved with it get caught up!

Here is a great video from “Survival Tech Nord” to get you started ..   

Grid Down Emergency Communications for Preparedness

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=saTV4jpAAvQ

Hello Operators .
Grid Down Emergency Communications from a personal perspective is usually overlooked in the ham radio emergency communications community. It tends to focus on augmenting public service communications, rather than providing practical grid down comms ideas for families, groups or individuals finding themselves in a grid down disaster. This video is intended to be a bridge between Amateur Radio Emergency Service and information about grid down Comms preparedness, which is lacking in the prepper community.

If you're interested in Ham Radio emergency communications for preppers or are generally concerned about practical emergency radio communications, this video is a great introduction and point of discussion.

73
Julian #OH8STN

[R.R. Book]

The film really laid everything out plainly - thanks Max!!

[ilinda]

The video is somewhat mind-boggling!  Yikes.