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Prepping 101: Radio Silence! – The Mobile Survival HAM Backpack
Via Jeffery
This is my mobile radio backpack for the Yaesu 857D. It is a sub-$1000 radio built for mobile in a vehicle that performs like a full sized base station, and is very highly rated. Other manufacturers like ICOM have similar products. This was just my choice because the 857D is known to be very voltage tolerant when you run it on a straight battery.
If you think about it, communication with the outside world is going to become really important in the weeks and months after a system collapse or major disaster. You may have food and water for months, but you don’t have it for years. And as I explained in my article on seeds, growing your own food just isn’t that easy. But as several commenters pointed out on the first radio article in this series, there is a strong argument to maintain radio silence. Any experienced radio operator can triangulate your position as soon as you press the send key, and in any survival situation, and you can bet that there will be hostiles out there listening for where they can steal some supplies. Radio silence has to be weighed against the benefits of reaching out to the world outside.
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Source: http://freenorthcarolina.blogspot.com/2015/01/prepping-101-radio-silence-mobile.html
