Hi Bill,
Wow. You just brought me back to my young adult life when everybody had a CB radio! It's when I learned the phonetic alphabet.
I would imagine that a CB radio would be sufficient for communication in the event of any major world disaster as speaking to somebody on the oter side of a screwed up world would not be very useful. No British Airways to fly you there.
Of course there would be the problem of radio inteception by unwanted ears and tracking.
I suppose that all those old 'straight 40s' will be taken out of mothballs and put back on the market.
So although my reply may well be tongue in cheek I would advise that long distance radio communication in that context would not be ver useful and that short distance 'good buddy' truckers type radios would be the way to go to start up smaller communities.
After a while, if there would be a need to expand the survivors would figure out how to broaden their scope.
Best regards,
Steve
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Originally Posted by Bill Ryan
We're in close touch with Henry Deacon about Amateur Radio and intend to post much more about this on Avalon in due course. There's already an introductory section about Amateur Radio here.
We're wondering if any other visitors are radio 'hams'. Many people (including us) want to learn. Some may be a little daunted.
What's needed is NOT technical expertise, but patience and an ability to teach and communicate with people who are starting from zero and wno may not be technically minded.
What might be very useful is a whole section of this forum devoted to an Amateur Radio Q+A. Henry Deacon would contribute, but is not in a position to lead or organize this.
Anyone out there? |