I have off grid capability due to my involvement in Air Force MARS. Solar, battery, generator, some tricks that Nicola Tesla used, and what I learned thru the MARS program. My truck has an extra 13 VDC generator to operate my equipment when the mains fail. As far as frequency coverage is concerned, I have all modes DC to 1Gig coverages. 40 years a Ham has taught me that Amateur Radio is not 2 meters only.
It's funny when I got ham certified I thought I new radio. Then I got started on the path of the ham and found out there's so much more than meets the eye. I've never used ac power for my radio's it's always been solar battery. So the last time the power went out at my house I did not know until my son said the internet was down. Thanks for watching hope you enjoyed.
@@LiveFree-pk8ej I did this during 911, I was in my vehicle 150 miles from home working in southern Illinois. Hearin the air traffic and reroutes told me right away something big was possible.
@@MountainMan7.62x39 Yes, it is, buddy BUT....GMRS is a difference services from the ham uhf/vhf. AKA you can't use them if you only have your ham license. Thanks you for playing. Next time read a book before you post your nonsense, son. P.S. Good luck with that round.
If we were to face an EMP from a solar flare or a worse catastrophic event, it would be prudent to scan frequencies below 30 MHz after provided you had a radio that had been stored in a protective container. The higher frequency bands could experience significant disruption until the effects of the EMP dissipate.
I would not put any radio on air until the full effect of the EMP or high solar flair is over. There is no reason to take any risks. And after you may need it to call help for a community member that is injured. Thanks for watching hope you enjoyed.
I subscribed. I’ve prepped my ass off over the last 20 years including buying a farm in the woods and arming up. I even was a member of our Sheriffs SAR unit for 15 years. However I have totally neglected radio communications. I’m a Veteran so I’ve used radio but it was always set up by a radioman. I’ll keep watching your channel maybe some kind soul could give me a clue.
The best advice I can possibly give is to, Google your town, city or county followed by ham radio club. There you will find an inviting community to help you learn ham radio. It's cheap as it gets and the knowledge you'll get is worth gold. If you look at some of my other videos on solar or comms. The knowledge is all from ham radio course. I know nothing about it before becoming a ham radio operator. Thanks for watching hope you enjoyed.
You can prep all you want, but if the civil war ever comes you guys are going to lose the same way you did the first time. There are plenty of people out there like me who make you look like wannabes. You can't beat stem no matter how much you try no matter how much you train the bottom line is where the people who are training you We are the people who develop the training. without us your weapons your radios and training would not exist. The student cannot defeat the master. I have degrees in organic chemistry, I'm a retired aerospace engineer and live on a ranch with my own shooting range. The best advice I have is to stay as far away from people like me as you can. I can render your RF communications dead as a doornail with a flick of a switch. I wonder how many of you preppers can build an initial guidance system in the garage ? If you don't know what that means, it means I can take you out and you'd never even know what happened. Oh and for the record, inertial guidance systems don't require a GPS signal yet they arrival GPS for positional accuracy. The Bible says that the meek show inherit the Earth, We also know that Darwinism means that the most adaptable will survive. see the uneducated think that survival of the fittest means survival of the physically strongest and the most well-trained, it does not, it means those who are best educated and adaptable.
@@dannelson8556seems to make sense, but I still wish you had proofread more, because some of it have typos so, unclear exactly what you are saying. But I get that because you are smarter and better technologically trained and prepared, you will survive and I will not. Good to know that, because I wish you the best and hopefully whatever good you are doing now (such as giving the rest of us peons fair warning), you will continue to do when the SHTF. So thank you.
G90 is a great HF radio, on 10m I was able to talk to a guy 2 miles away 😂 basically acts like a CB at close range and not to mention it’s a DX monster , hits all over the world
I agree the G90 punches well above its price point. The only complaining I can think to do is wine that it dose not cover 2m and 79cm. So I have no complaint at all really. Thanks for watching glad you enjoyed
Thanks my whole town lost power with storm this month i am vol F,/R . My first call coulnt get to station lines and trees over the road. Had to detour from another town. Thanks to your video i am setting up a ham shack with tv on antenna am fm SW , cb , 2 meter 70 and HF . Have standby gen and portable solar power generator .And of course one is none. Have my dept radio but want more coverage. Also adding some mobile . Thanks for the channels where to listen.
Keep in mind that frequency changes with location. Research the frequencies in your location. 146.520 is the northAmerican calling frequency. For your hf rig, the G90 is inexpensive and punches far above its price point. Thanks for watching hope you enjoyed.
Just wondering this as I have built a large faraday box inside a shipping container. Does anyone on here not prepare for the possibility of a HEMP? I have put radios, computers, solar panels, wind turbines and all batteries and electronics I will need to be off grid in a time of need. I did this as I knew about the use of nuclear weapons to cause an electro magnetic pulse that will fry electronics and destroy the power grid. I know everything I don’t have protected will be unusable after an EMP, but has anyone else thought of this and the possible outcome? Or prepared for this outcome? Great video and lots of information. Thanks 🙏
To test your Faraday cage, put your cellphone in it then call the phone. If it shows a missed call the signal got through. Most preppers that rely on a Faraday cage never test them, they just assume it will work. Thanks for watching hope you enjoyed
extra radios in alum wrap metal cabinet and metal trash cans. But when to pull them out? I think when I would need one as an extra to replace my primary.
The daily Aurora Net on 7100khz LSB covers from Ontario to BC. That would be a great net to check in daily and see what's going on during a national emergency.
I agree. For Emergancy, disaster and about all other power or civil disruption. Being able to run on solar is a good enhancement to the overall capability. And checking in to the net and other nets is great practice when there is no Emergancy at all.
@wdsracer no not in Canada. In my band plan 40 meters is 7.000.00 to 7.300.00, 7.000 to 7.550 is cw and digital and ssb from 7.550.00 up. But cw and digital can go higher than 7.55 if they would like. Mostly they stay under 7.150. Thanks for watching and commenting. Hope you enjoyed.
One thing you didn’t mention and one that some folks may not know is that if you transmit you can be located. Depending on the situation that may not be desired.
That is true you can be located fast. We do it all the time. Call it a fox hunt. But for civil disaster or weather related operations, there is no one trying to get you anymore than right now. If the government is out to get you, your cell phone knows right where you are. There is no situation where my government is coming to get me. Too many other people of concern to them to even think of me. Just saying I'm not an important target.
Not true, if you’re even listening with power on, not even transmitting with an antenna connected I can find you. Every superheterodyne receiver has a local oscillator that is tracking the transmitter frequency, It is low level but with good receivers it can/will be received. Another point, every human’s voice has a unique fingerprint. Once that biometric fingerprint is correlated with a face then you, the individual will be instantly identified regards what ever means you try to change your voice. Ever wonder why Anonymous use’s a computer generated voice? This is why….
@judd_s5643 as well every transmitter has 2 built in ID codes. They are programmed by the chips build and can not be changed. You would need to replace the chip set. But only a few branches of government have the ability to receive the signal and decode it. But in all honesty if those branches of government are looking for you, Your screwed. Just saying Behave
My kit is all mobile solar. They can find what direction I was while transmitting. But not where I'll be by the time they get there... Never use the same TX sight twice. One and done. Thanks for your comment and watching. I hope you enjoyed.
The 40m band ends at 7.300mhz so if you transmit on it your signal will go out of band. 7.297 is as high as you can legally transmit in my country. 14.200 is the North American distress calling and emergancy frequency for disasters. Long range frequency monitoring is not going to give you local intel for a local emergency like flooding, fire, power out due to heavy snow and that's sort of thing. Now if your talking wide spread war or nation wide civil unrest.... That's beyond the scope of my video's. Thanks for watching hope you enjoyed.
Some have battery back up. But there is always simplex or radio to radio communications. My brother lives 17.5 KM away and we can communicate on simplex the whole way. My 2 meter antenna is up 30 ft and I live at a high elevation. Thanks for watching and commenting. I hope you enjoyed
Most power out events will be too small for governments to bother with amature radio restrictions. For all out war, they might but will be too busy to enforce it, and there will be too many people using it anyway. The radio's I have can monitor from 0.500.00mhz to 29.999.99 mhz and from 100.000.00 mhz to 520.000.00 mhz. So, as far as monitoring rf for Intel purposes goes, I'm doing no too bad. For all emergency situations, you want to refrain from transmitting to keep airways clear for emergency radio traffic. I would only transmit if needed. All other times I'll just receive. Thanks for watching hope you enjoyed.
I have off grid capability due to my involvement in Air Force MARS. Solar, battery, generator, some tricks that Nicola Tesla used, and what I learned thru the MARS program. My truck has an extra 13 VDC generator to operate my equipment when the mains fail. As far as frequency coverage is concerned, I have all modes DC to 1Gig coverages. 40 years a Ham has taught me that Amateur Radio is not 2 meters only.
It's funny when I got ham certified I thought I new radio.
Then I got started on the path of the ham and found out there's so much more than meets the eye.
I've never used ac power for my radio's it's always been solar battery.
So the last time the power went out at my house I did not know until my son said the internet was down.
Thanks for watching hope you enjoyed.
Hey brother you wouldn’t be in southern Oregon would you?lomgshorts3
@lonewolf2364 NO sir I'm in Canada. (Behing occupied lines).
Just so you know the handle Lonewolf was what I used on CB in the 90's.
Cool
someone who doesn't know the difference between new and knew Is going to need a lot more than ham radio to survive the apocalypse lol
@@dannelson8556 Don't let auto correct deceive you.
Google gets me every time
Thanks for the great video, keep it up!
Great video. Great info
I would suggest that people LISTEN to FRS and GMRS frequencies, If there is a mass panic it might show on these frequencies first.
I would listen to air traffic first.
If the air port is landing planes as fast as they can you know the event is big.
Yep, I live in a million plus county….uhf/vhf is alway dead. GMRS is always rocking.
@@LiveFree-pk8ej I did this during 911, I was in my vehicle 150 miles from home working in southern Illinois. Hearin the air traffic and reroutes told me right away something big was possible.
@@plusorminusandtime GMRS is UHF
@@MountainMan7.62x39 Yes, it is, buddy BUT....GMRS is a difference services from the ham uhf/vhf. AKA you can't use them if you only have your ham license. Thanks you for playing. Next time read a book before you post your nonsense, son.
P.S. Good luck with that round.
If we were to face an EMP from a solar flare or a worse catastrophic event, it would be prudent to scan frequencies below 30 MHz after provided you had a radio that had been stored in a protective container. The higher frequency bands could experience significant disruption until the effects of the EMP dissipate.
I would not put any radio on air until the full effect of the EMP or high solar flair is over.
There is no reason to take any risks. And after you may need it to call help for a community member that is injured.
Thanks for watching hope you enjoyed.
Great information, thanks for a concise look from a prepper's view!
Thanks for watching hope you enjoyed
I subscribed. I’ve prepped my ass off over the last 20 years including buying a farm in the woods and arming up. I even was a member of our Sheriffs SAR unit for 15 years. However I have totally neglected radio communications. I’m a Veteran so I’ve used radio but it was always set up by a radioman. I’ll keep watching your channel maybe some kind soul could give me a clue.
The best advice I can possibly give is to, Google your town, city or county followed by ham radio club.
There you will find an inviting community to help you learn ham radio.
It's cheap as it gets and the knowledge you'll get is worth gold.
If you look at some of my other videos on solar or comms. The knowledge is all from ham radio course.
I know nothing about it before becoming a ham radio operator.
Thanks for watching hope you enjoyed.
You can prep all you want, but if the civil war ever comes you guys are going to lose the same way you did the first time.
There are plenty of people out there like me who make you look like wannabes.
You can't beat stem no matter how much you try no matter how much you train the bottom line is where the people who are training you We are the people who develop the training.
without us your weapons your radios and training would not exist. The student cannot defeat the master.
I have degrees in organic chemistry, I'm a retired aerospace engineer and live on a ranch with my own shooting range.
The best advice I have is to stay as far away from people like me as you can. I can render your RF communications dead as a doornail with a flick of a switch.
I wonder how many of you preppers can build an initial guidance system in the garage ?
If you don't know what that means, it means I can take you out and you'd never even know what happened.
Oh and for the record, inertial guidance systems don't require a GPS signal yet they arrival GPS for positional accuracy.
The Bible says that the meek show inherit the Earth, We also know that Darwinism means that the most adaptable will survive.
see the uneducated think that survival of the fittest means survival of the physically strongest and the most well-trained, it does not, it means those who are best educated and adaptable.
@@dannelson8556seems to make sense, but I still wish you had proofread more, because some of it have typos so, unclear exactly what you are saying. But I get that because you are smarter and better technologically trained and prepared, you will survive and I will not. Good to know that, because I wish you the best and hopefully whatever good you are doing now (such as giving the rest of us peons fair warning), you will continue to do when the SHTF. So thank you.
Thank you
G90 is a great HF radio, on 10m I was able to talk to a guy 2 miles away 😂 basically acts like a CB at close range and not to mention it’s a DX monster , hits all over the world
I agree the G90 punches well above its price point.
The only complaining I can think to do is wine that it dose not cover 2m and 79cm.
So I have no complaint at all really.
Thanks for watching glad you enjoyed
Oh man if it did uhf/vhf it would be gold!!!
🤡🤡 I talk all over the world in 10 meters and 11 meters in 5 watts or pull out a 2k amplifier
Thanks my whole town lost power with storm this month i am vol F,/R . My first call coulnt get to station lines and trees over the road. Had to detour from another town. Thanks to your video i am setting up a ham shack with tv on antenna am fm SW , cb , 2 meter 70 and HF . Have standby gen and portable solar power generator .And of course one is none. Have my dept radio but want more coverage. Also adding some mobile . Thanks for the channels where to listen.
Keep in mind that frequency changes with location.
Research the frequencies in your location.
146.520 is the northAmerican calling frequency.
For your hf rig, the G90 is inexpensive and punches far above its price point.
Thanks for watching hope you enjoyed.
Just wondering this as I have built a large faraday box inside a shipping container. Does anyone on here not prepare for the possibility of a HEMP? I have put radios, computers, solar panels, wind turbines and all batteries and electronics I will need to be off grid in a time of need. I did this as I knew about the use of nuclear weapons to cause an electro magnetic pulse that will fry electronics and destroy the power grid. I know everything I don’t have protected will be unusable after an EMP, but has anyone else thought of this and the possible outcome? Or prepared for this outcome?
Great video and lots of information. Thanks 🙏
To test your Faraday cage, put your cellphone in it then call the phone. If it shows a missed call the signal got through.
Most preppers that rely on a Faraday cage never test them, they just assume it will work.
Thanks for watching hope you enjoyed
extra radios in alum wrap metal cabinet and metal trash cans. But when to pull them out? I think when I would need one as an extra to replace my primary.
The daily Aurora Net on 7100khz LSB covers from Ontario to BC. That would be a great net to check in daily and see what's going on during a national emergency.
I agree.
For Emergancy, disaster and about all other power or civil disruption.
Being able to run on solar is a good enhancement to the overall capability.
And checking in to the net and other nets is great practice when there is no Emergancy at all.
Is 7100 below the ham band like free band area?
@wdsracer no not in Canada.
In my band plan 40 meters is 7.000.00 to 7.300.00, 7.000 to 7.550 is cw and digital and ssb from 7.550.00 up.
But cw and digital can go higher than 7.55 if they would like. Mostly they stay under 7.150.
Thanks for watching and commenting. Hope you enjoyed.
One thing you didn’t mention and one that some folks may not know is that if you transmit you can be located. Depending on the situation that may not be desired.
That is true you can be located fast.
We do it all the time. Call it a fox hunt.
But for civil disaster or weather related operations, there is no one trying to get you anymore than right now.
If the government is out to get you, your cell phone knows right where you are.
There is no situation where my government is coming to get me. Too many other people of concern to them to even think of me.
Just saying I'm not an important target.
Got that right. If the Feds actively come after me, they are Damm desperate and I have been dead for awhile.
Not true, if you’re even listening with power on, not even transmitting with an antenna connected I can find you. Every superheterodyne receiver has a local oscillator that is tracking the transmitter frequency, It is low level but with good receivers it can/will be received. Another point, every human’s voice has a unique fingerprint. Once that biometric fingerprint is correlated with a face then you, the individual will be instantly identified regards what ever means you try to change your voice. Ever wonder why Anonymous use’s a computer generated voice? This is why….
@judd_s5643 as well every transmitter has 2 built in ID codes.
They are programmed by the chips build and can not be changed.
You would need to replace the chip set.
But only a few branches of government have the ability to receive the signal and decode it.
But in all honesty if those branches of government are looking for you,
Your screwed.
Just saying
Behave
In a true wide area disaster....don't transmit. Listen. Monitor. If things are really catastrophic, remember that some baddies can find you via DF.
My kit is all mobile solar.
They can find what direction I was while transmitting. But not where I'll be by the time they get there...
Never use the same TX sight twice. One and done.
Thanks for your comment and watching. I hope you enjoyed.
Bring it!
Very hard to find a radio operator, you need a van full of equipment
@isawit9722 Well, there is a radio that does it all.
It's knowing how to really use it that is the trick.
Thanks for watching hope you enjoyed
The actual place to listing freq 14.300 20M or 7.300 40M but thanks for the laugh
The 40m band ends at 7.300mhz so if you transmit on it your signal will go out of band. 7.297 is as high as you can legally transmit in my country.
14.200 is the North American distress calling and emergancy frequency for disasters.
Long range frequency monitoring is not going to give you local intel for a local emergency like flooding, fire, power out due to heavy snow and that's sort of thing.
Now if your talking wide spread war or nation wide civil unrest.... That's beyond the scope of my video's.
Thanks for watching hope you enjoyed.
how do you know the repeaters will be working?
Some have battery back up.
But there is always simplex or radio to radio communications.
My brother lives 17.5 KM away and we can communicate on simplex the whole way.
My 2 meter antenna is up 30 ft and I live at a high elevation.
Thanks for watching and commenting. I hope you enjoyed
What radio are you using for 2m?
Ftm 100 its an older radio.
There are many newer options available.
@@LiveFree-pk8ej thank you for the response
IF THERE IS an event like a E.M.P. that radio and all other is not going to work.
I keep spares in a shielded fared cage
@@michaeljoyce4415"Faraday cage"
That radio is nothing like a uv5r no where near it just saying that all
I have one... I'm only listening because the government apparently owns the air too....
Govmernt requires shut down of all ameature freqs .
I think your better off using obsolete MURas freqs & just talk use CB radio . .
Most power out events will be too small for governments to bother with amature radio restrictions.
For all out war, they might but will be too busy to enforce it, and there will be too many people using it anyway.
The radio's I have can monitor from 0.500.00mhz to 29.999.99 mhz and from 100.000.00 mhz to 520.000.00 mhz.
So, as far as monitoring rf for Intel purposes goes, I'm doing no too bad.
For all emergency situations, you want to refrain from transmitting to keep airways clear for emergency radio traffic.
I would only transmit if needed. All other times I'll just receive.
Thanks for watching hope you enjoyed.
I'm on Murs. Now