Most preparedness communication plans collapse under a simple reality: distance. Short-range radios work—until they don’t. A handheld might serve you well within a property or even across a small town, but once you start trying to reach people 50, 100, or 300 kilometers away, everything begins to break down. Terrain gets in the way. Forest…
Verified Frequencies, How They’re Used, and What They Reveal During Real Emergencies As Canadian emergency services have transitioned almost entirely to encrypted digital communications, the era of casually monitoring police or EMS traffic with a scanner is effectively over. What has not disappeared is the parallel communications layer that has quietly carried Canadian emergencies for…
When cellular networks fail and repeaters go silent, HF radio often becomes the only remaining way to communicate beyond line of sight. Unlike modern communications systems, HF does not depend on intact infrastructure. It depends on propagation, basic physics, and an antenna that is properly deployed. For Canadian preppers, wire antennas remain the most reliable…
When emergencies strike in Canada, communications infrastructure is often one of the first systems to degrade—and one of the last to fully recover. Ice storms overload power lines, wildfires destroy towers, floods isolate communities, and even routine winter weather can sever connectivity across large regions. Preparedness is not about hoping your phone keeps working. It…
This morning brought another round of solar activity, with forecasters noting elevated geomagnetic disturbances capable of disrupting radio signals across North America. While these storms rarely affect daily life for most people, they can dramatically impact the very communications preppers rely on during a crisis. HF radio users have already reported noisy and unstable bands…
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