Radio Communication After a Disaster
What’s your plan for radio communication after a disaster? Most of us are reliant on our cell phones, land line phones, VOIP phones or internet for all of our communication. after every major disaster the towers and phone lines in those areas are JAMMED. You may or may not get calls in our out, at least not reliably.
Radio Communication After a Disaster
If the area you are in goes “Grid Down”, most phone companies only have enough generator fuel for 2 or 3 days.
It’s time to think Radio Communications. Here are the common options:
- CB radios
- FRS / GMRS Radios
- MURS Radios
- HAM Radios
CB Radios: Convenient, readily available, mobile units have a range of 1-2 miles or greater (depending on antenna) and base units with big antenna can reach out really far. I expect these 40 channels will be clogged shortly after any disaster or grid down situation. Better than nothing. I have a cb radio in my car, because you never know.
FRS/GMRS Radios: Convenient, readily available, you probably already have some, Range can be up to 2 miles with line of sight (so I hear, I’ve never gotten that kind of range). These are so common that, while handy, I expect these will also be heavily used, maybe to the point of way to much to be useful.
How common are these? My 3, 5 and 7 year old daughters even have a pair of Hello Kitty FRS/GMRS Radios to play with (not everything prepper related has to be camouflage, have some fun).
MURS Radio: Very convenient, readily available, less common than the other options, Communications range exceeds GMRS/FRS radios and are ideal for outdoor activities. I think these would be your best bet for non-HAM licensed individuals, families or groups.
Another really nice set of features for the MURS band:
- Infrared sensors for vehicle and pedestrian traffic and magnetic probe sensors, for vehicle only detection, can be combined in one system.
- Sensors can be added to the system at any time. Build out your security one piece at a time or add in new zones when you need them. Each sensor has a unique voice alert message so you know which one was tripped.
- Long range allows for the monitoring of remote buildings and areas. External antennas can be added to increase range if needed.
So you can have a MURS security perimeter setup around your home, property, farm, ranch or retreat. Bonus points for amazing!
HAM Radio: Requires licensing via a test, not as common, but has a great following and good community of operators. Probably the most reliable and scalable. Short and Long range communication. This is the sure fire, best bet, go find a local HAM group and make friends, study then take your license tests. I got my HAM technician license last year and it’s opened up a whole new world of communications and friends!
As you probably noticed the list went from least to best. This is the time to make your choices of post TEOTWAWKI communications so you can have reliable Radio Communication After a Disaster. If the Shizzle hits the fan, you may not have another choice.
- My Foray into Budget Ham Radio
- My Foray into Budget Ham Radio – Part 2: The Prequal
- HAM Communications Gear
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Also Tom Toms and smoke signals…
In reality folks.. you wont have much time to play with your toys..
They will round up all stragglers into FEMA camps.. if you get
lucky you may get to watch some DVDs before they take you to the guillotines.
Satan rules this world..his Ministers are now full on winding up this world as He knows his end is VERY near.. and Satan wants as many billions to die with him before Jesus throws him into oblivion.
Dan 2:44, Rev 12:12-14
Your escape hatch is tiny.. its hard too find.. its difficult to enter, it has restrictions and you will endure derision from your family and friends.. but its the ONLY way out.
Just as Noah’s Ark was.. you could not build your own Ark back then, nor could you chose which Ark was the prettiest, the most convenient or had the most glamorous interior.. no there was just ONE Ark, and it was full of dirty smelly animals.. you had to work to he;lp build this Ark if you wanted to get on it.. you had to put up with primitive conditions for over a year on that Ark..and there were only a FEW people.. of the possible population of 2 billion at the time of the Flood.. only 8 people survived.. the Bible says it will be just the same in our day..No there will not be another Flood.. but God is FED UP with this world filled with every kind of violence, crime disease, corruption, wars, .. look the list goes on.. He is waiting only long enough until his Ark of today is finished.. and the people are safely inside.
THEN the end will come.. and what an end it will be..
(Zephaniah 1:14-18) 14 “The great day of Jehovah is near. It is near, and there is a hurrying [of it] very much. The sound of the day of Jehovah is bitter. There a mighty man is letting out a cry. 15 That day is a day of fury, a day of distress and of anguish, a day of storm and of desolation, a day of darkness and of gloominess, a day of clouds and of thick gloom, 16 a day of horn and of alarm signal, against the fortified cities and against the high corner towers. 17 And I will cause distress to mankind, and they will certainly walk like blind men; because it is against Jehovah that they have sinned. And their blood will actually be poured out like dust, and their bowels like the dung. 18 Neither their silver nor their gold will be able to deliver them in the day of Jehovah’s fury; but by the fire of his zeal the whole earth will be devoured, because he will make an extermination, indeed a terrible one, of all the inhabitants of the earth.”
Your escape hatch is tiny.. its hard too find.. its difficult to enter, it has restrictions and you will endure derision from your family and friends.. but its the ONLY way out.
But here is YOUR key.. open the door.. listen to no one who would stop you. investigate dig
this is not a road for wimps.. you need courage of a different kind to walk THIS road..
Courage to stand up against close friends.. family and work mates..
Courage to be clean, moral, upright, honest and faithful to God.
This is the Narrow road to life.. ALL others are on the broad road that look great.. you can do what you want on THAT road.. drugs, sex, lies murder all the above that you just read.. but THAT road goes over the cliff of destruction..
(Matthew 10:34-39) . . .Do not think I came to put peace upon the earth; I came to put, not peace, but a sword. For I came to cause division, with a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a young wife against her mother-in-law. Indeed, a man’s enemies will be persons of his own household. He that has greater affection for father or mother than for me is not worthy of me; and he that has greater affection for son or daughter than for me is not worthy of me. And whoever does not accept his torture stake and follow after me is not worthy of me.
Matthew 7:13-14,13 “Go in through the narrow gate; because broad and spacious is the road leading off into destruction, and many are the ones going in through it; whereas narrow is the gate and cramped the road leading off into life, and few are the ones finding it.
You choose… but hey.. we WILL help you.. you WILL find true friends who have love among themselves and a happy and joyous hope of the New World under Christs Kingdom.
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