Going Fully Portable For Ham Radio!
The old rig is sold, and the new rig is ordered. Review posts and videos coming soon!
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Communications SOI – Part 1 – Local Comms
There are two pieces of information needed to arrange a conversation. All parties need to know when and where to meet. Local radio communications is limited by line of sight, output power, and obstacles. This means effective comms is limited to a few kilometers, lending itself very well to homestead, prepper retreat, or neighborhood needs….
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Fireside Friday – How to copy Baofeng channels from one radio to another using chirp.
If you own more than one ham radio, you likely want them to all have the same programming. This is done easily with CHIRP, however you may brick your radio if not done properly. Here I show you step by step, how to copy Baofeng programming WITHOUT bricking your radio.
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An Update Regarding Chinese HF Radios…
It’s been almost a year since I wrote about the Chinese built HF amateur radios. These radios are showing some signs of having issues, and there’s a pretty good reason for that.
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Radio Preparedness
Communications needs can ultimately be broken down into three major uses. Those being local, regional, and worldwide. Let’s take a look at radio comms for each of these uses.
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China Breaks Into HF Ham Radio Market!
When Chinese manufacturers came up with the Baofeng UHF/VHF hand held radios, the preparedness community gobbled them up like Potassium Iodide pills after a nuclear melt down. These affordable hand held ham radios gave a much needed boost to the amateur radio community as well, despite many hams denouncing them as garbage. Now, China looks…
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Ham Radio Comms Plan For SHTF – Part III
Now that we’ve been over what frequencies we can listen to for information on a local and long distance basis, let’s try to put together a plan that will work. Since we spent so much time on listening, let’s start there. If at all possible, you should be monitoring local comms on a 24 hour…
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Ham Radio Comms Plan For SHTF – Part II
Last week I spent most of the article discussing listening options. Well, surprise, We’re not done with that topic quite yet, after all we do have two ears and only one mouth right?
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Ham Radio Comms Plan For SHTF – Part I
So now you’ve studied and gotten your license and call sign. Perhaps you have even invested in some gear. Now what? Other than listening to repeaters on VHF/UHF and calling CQ on the HF bands, how does all this knowledge and electronics actually help me when SHTF?
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Ham Radio Basics
I’ve seen a lot of people posting questions about ham radio lately. Most of these questions resemble “what’s the best amateur radio to get for prepping?” or “Are the Baofeng radios good for preppers?”. Most hams will answer that question with a frustrating and uninformative answer…”that depends”. That’s not really an inaccurate answer, but the…
