An EASY Guide to Radios for Preppers

This is the #1 underrated preparedness item. Everyone needs to understand and value how important these tools are, they are absolutely indispensible. The biggest force multiplier in preparedness. They are as important as all of the other gear in your bug out bag, and arguably THE MOST important.

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[compiticny]

Dad was someone who helped set up the communication network in the Pacific during WWII and set my shortwave radio up at our house outside of NYC. He had a few different antennas that we would switch to listen to different stations. My favorite was a station out of South Africa. So even if we couldn't talk to others using that radio we could get news from around the world.

[wintondupree]

Another tip would be to store your radios in some kind of faraday cage to avoid fried circuits

[teresalindsay]

LET THE GAMES BEGIN! I have been begging my husband to get his ham radio license for the last year. I now will need to step in and do it myself. I’ve taken it to a new level with him. I told him if he wants to go on a tropical vacation he needs to beat me in getting his ham radio license first. Bring it on 💪

[FatherFigure]

Perfect timing sir! I’m on quarantine for 10 days. I’m using my time wisely and studying for my ham radio license.

[HYEpower]

My grandfather after the armenian genocide when he was in USA he built a ham radio to find one of his friends. My mother said he was able to find him and talk from USA to armenia. I guess they had agreed on building them and communicating on a specific frequency or something. He must have been a genius to build one back then.. I saw it in my grandmother's attic and it like the size of a medium size jukebox. Sadly they threw it out when my grandmother died and didnt tell me

[mfrederickson]

It is currently 05APR22, and I just saw this video. I've been going nuts trying to figure out SHTF communications. Evidently my research paid off because you just told me EXACTLY what I needed. I can't thank you enough for all the work you do to help us guys out. Thanks.

[turtlehermit]

Thank you for making this interesting and easy to absorb while I'm at work. This info can be so dry.

[privateprivate]

Considering I’m a city girl, transplanted to the suburbs, maybe I was also a lil Prepper girl years back. Because it befuddled me that everyone I knew, man or woman, never thought of having any type of communications radio for if their car breaks down on a highway at least. And I remember breaking down in the fast lane on a local highway and communicating with truckers, who got the police to come. Obviously, this was before cell phones, still, it was weird to me that people were fine living this way.

I bought a nice Uniden CB Radio from Radio Shack years ago, which was sadly stolen. But I also had a couple of FRS radios, just for shopping at the mall as, my mother would often disappear. Might still have those.

[MagicPrepper]

And magically, there's a ham radio rig sitting on my work bench right now.

[robk]

I've had a Ham License since 1992, but had to take an almost 25 year break from the hobby. I did maintain my license, and finally got into HF on my own about 3 months ago. When the SHTF, HF radio will be one of the few ways to get news from around the world.

[truocleb]

I remember DXing in the 70's talking with people from 1000's of miles away with my CB.

[bydk]

Get your Ham Radio license. We need to refill the ranks, and you’ll meet some of the best, like minded people out there.

[anniebranwen]

I don't have a cell phone, just never had anyone to talk to . Maybe this is the answer, but I won't have anyone to talk with this, still looking more interesting, thanks for another great video

[crystalclarity]

My wife — a school teacher — and I bought 12 Motorola 2 watt handheld MURS radios for her school since the school district couldn’t see their way to equip the school with district funds. They operate in the VHF band and are therefore best suited for unobstructed line-of-sight communication (i.e. outdoors). Despite this, the radio waves are able to propagate through the school’s brick/concrete walls and reach similar handheld lMURS transceivers over two miles away; far more effectively than FRS radios. We opted for MURS radios because they don’t require any licensing in the U.S. and if the school district won’t buy radios, they sure as heck won’t pay for radio licensing.

The teachers have dropped the radios onto carpet, tile, concrete and rocks and dirt countless times and the handsets just keep on working five or six years later. Overall, MURS, with all its limitations is a fine upgrade from FRS for on-site communications and there are very few operators utilizing that band.

[joeltangunan]

Ham radio for emergency preparedness communication is the very reason why I took the Ham Radio Operator's exam here in my country and I am licensed for almost 3 now.

[Incindio]

I just passed my Technician level today, I am studying for the General level and hopefully test for that in a week or two.

[stevelinbergbaby]

In a emergency - you can use a Ham radio without a licence - learn this skill, there are 3 levels of Ham radio licenses - I have the first 2 levels, & own my own ID systems👍

[adventureseeker]

I've been a ham, a licensed ham since 1992 and it's been pretty much the coolest hobby ever!
Props to watching a video that finally states how important it is to be legal and get an actual hamradio license!

[wambutu]

Thank you for the video. I'll look into it.

[Dr_snus]

Got into ham radio this year now licensed and in process of building antennas. Its amazing what you can do and how far you can send and receive transmissions on low wattages. Great video to roughly explain the importance of radio communications. 👌