I can make this thread really good if we talk about storing propane under your house in a unapproved cylinder. I will bring the hotdogs.
No. I know exactly what he went through.
But I took his post, edited down the relevant portion, and replied to it because I honestly don't know how useful it really would be to be a HAM operator in a SHTF situation.
I look at having a ham licence (and more importantly the skills to operate) as another tool in my arsenal (heh I said arse).
If you look at shows like Walking Dead most of the time they're using CB radios or old police radios. These folks are just button pushers. They don't know how to operate anything aside from a push to talk switch.
If they had an HF radio or even something a little more fancy than a walkie talkie they could probably organise something bigger than just a rag tag bunch of folks.
I would say you don't NEED ham radio skills in a SHTF scenario (zombies, nuclear war, solar flare etc.) but for something smaller like extreme weather events, large fires etc. they come in real useful for information gathering (knowledge is power) and organising help/escape.
EDIT: If "we" were more organised as a society with more MSGs, you would have a couple/few skilled radio operators in each one and be able to maintain contact with other groups.
If there was a SHTF scenario where there was still some society operating (ie: red cross reception centres etc) you could have HF comms between the different ones in various counties.
Right now I think it's all too spread out and not organised enough.
Be careful on the borman. Men impersonating cops pull over, rob woman on Borman
I am very shocked about these two idiots have not got caught yet . That is one of the most heavily patrolled areas by state police. Every time I go back and forth through there during the day and night you at least see four or five cops through there between I 65 and the state line. It shouldn't be to long to catch these idiots.
I use 80/94 a lot lately between US41 and Ripley in LS, and only cops I've ever seen are the unmarked ones in their Chargers. Maybe I've been lucky.
My radar detector pings a lot but I heard that SP use LIDAR more than RADAR.
What are you doing over on ripley in my hood?
Be careful on the borman. Men impersonating cops pull over, rob woman on Borman
And for those of us "south of 30 people" who are spread out then I think it will come down to neighbor helping neighbor.EDIT: If "we" were more organised as a society with more MSGs, you would have a couple/few skilled radio operators in each one and be able to maintain contact with other groups.
If there was a SHTF scenario where there was still some society operating (ie: red cross reception centres etc) you could have HF comms between the different ones in various counties.
Right now I think it's all too spread out and not organised enough.
Covert work for a three letter agency... if I tell you I'd have to kill you.
I forgot to pay you my protection money... I'll have some Bacon for you next week Don Cliff.
And for those of us "south of 30 people" who are spread out then I think it will come down to neighbor helping neighbor.
No matter how much Jedi wants to help me, the reality is that you north of 30 gangsta won't be leaving da hood to run down to the rural areas where we have lots of guns. Leave da hood and your homes will be ransacked because there will be nobody left to defend them from da inner city zombie types.
Those of us with gardens, rivers, and lands, well we'll probably block off our roads and not let you in while we band together.
So not really sure how a Ham radio will work with a wide area MSG. Seems like the MSGs will form out of proximity . . . just like they did in areas when Katrina hit. There were neighbors who blocked off whole neighborhoods and protected them from 'outsiders' and it was all proximity and need based.
Did someone not give melensdad the memo?
We planning on using your house as the rally point while all us NORTH of US-30 leave before the zombies from Chicago arrive. From there we will caravan south to a location that will be be told at a later date.
It's a 3 hour drive so pack all your stuff peeps!
Agree melensdad that I can't possible help you as you are too far south.
HAM Radio for you would be more in line to get info from outside the area.
(ie. TV/radio down after chicago has mushroom cloud)
For us closer together that are indeed within wlaking distance it could form a lifeline for us while we either bunker down or leave again depending on what it is we are dealing with.
I know that lonehoosier will be lighting all his propane before he goes. [/QUOTE
If I die I can't take it with me right
Deja Vu is five letters....Covert work for a three letter agency... if I tell you I'd have to kill you.
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And that is my point.Agree melensdad that I can't possible help you as you are too far
I wouldnt recommend that he gets a job at the vu, or any strip club around here.