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…
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Ham Radio For Emergencies – A Few Tips And Tricks
Many preppers turn to ham radio for grid down communications and for good reason. So long as you can generate power, you can create radio waves. There is no infrastructure to depend on although 2 meter and 70 cm repeaters may continue to work for a few days until their backup power systems run dry….
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Morse Code – Advantages and Learning – Guest Post by Prepper Radios Canada
Morse code, or CW as it’s known to hams is no longer required to get your license. You can however, get a certification for it once you have passed your basic exam. Invented by Samuel Morse, CW took the messenger industry to task by being able to send messages instantly over a wire. Until then,…
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Ham Radio for Preppers – Why Get Certified
There’s no question that communications is an important part of any preparedness plan. Amateur radio can provide you with both local and long distance communications. You may need to be able to talk with family members throughout the homestead, or security patrols running the perimeter of your retreat. Alternately, you may want to be able…
