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Cell Phone Alternatives During
Emergencies
When it comes to an
emergency: your cell phone probably won't work.
Yes, those networks have
backup generators... but that doesn't matter.
See, the first thing
people do in a big emergency (and that could be a power outage, wildfires, a
flood or hurricane, or just about anything that affects a large area) is call their loved
ones.
Almost nobody owns
a land line any more, so that means all those people are calling on the
wireless telephone grid at once... and that crashes the grid faster than you can say "Can you hear me
now?"
Now, even though people
forget about the cell phone grid going down in a disaster, this isn't the "commo" mistake I mentioned - it's
just the cause.
The mistake is actually
something a lot of us make when trying to gear up to solve
the problem!
Avoiding The Survival
"Commo" Mistake
When I was in the
military (where I was a "forward observer", among other things),
"commo" was a term for communications equipment.
Soldiers have to be able
to talk to each other and their commanders to be effective on the battlefield,
where communication is life.
And you and I have to be
able to talk to each other to coordinate our survival and prepping activities
if we're in the same group (or trying to get help from other groups)... right?
Well, there are three different areas of communications you should have covered for survival:
1. 2-Way Radios
A lot of preppers carry
GMRS/FRS radios.
These two-way "walkie
talkies" are great for
communications among members of your family or group.
They work even if the
cellphone grid is down because they don't depend on an outside tower and, while
they're "public" to anyone else on your channel, there are a lot of channels.
Having a set of these so
that members of your party can talk to each other when in close proximity just
makes sense.
But just know that they're not very strong,
so they don't have much range.
2. Police Scanner
When an emergency
happens, first responders, police, fire, and other EMS services are going to be
very active.
If you can listen in on
what they're doing, you can get advance notice of important events and threats.
(This will give you the
advantage when it comes to bugging out, and allow you to make better survival
decisions.)
Many police scanners are
"base stations", which means they're meant to sit on a desk, so
you'll want to make sure you pick up portable model instead.
There's another portable
solution, though - "outlaw" programmable Chinese radios, like
the "Baofeng" radios, that are... well, pretty much illegal.
In a real widespread
disaster, one of these programmable radios might be just what you need to stay
in touch with members of your family or survival group... while doing double
duty as a scanner for your local police and EMS frequencies.
They give you a lot of
options and, depending on the antenna and battery pack you choose, a lot of
power.
Right now, you can still
buy them, but you need a special license to use them if you don't want to get
in trouble.
That's because, while
they let you listen to lots of frequencies, they also transmit on frequencies
that you and I aren't supposed to be on.
(Some of these can even "step on" emergency services
calls, which is very much not good!)
3. AM/FM Radio
The third thing you have
to have to keep survival covered is an AM/FM radio.
You need to have some
way to learn about what's going on in the outside world.
Even in a widespread
power outage or other disaster, your local AM/FM stations have backup
generators and will be broadcasting important alerts.
The Emergency
Broadcast System will be transmitting through them, too.
But that brings me to 1
simple mistake a lot of people make when gearing up for survival
communications, and it really comes down to your choice of AM/FM
radio.
Lots of people already
know they need one... but they go too big when they buy it, because so many of the survival radios on
the market are freaking HUGE.
Especially if you have
to bug out and take your stuff with you, space and weight are really going to
matter.
If your survival radio
is too big, in other words, it isn't convenient for moving around,
and it uses up space in your pack that could be devoted to other, critical
gear.
That's why, for survival
and bugging out, you want an AM/FM radio that's as small as possible.
Yours for a
Socialist-Free America!
Bruce ‘the Poor Man’
USEFUL STUFF…
The self-proclaimed socialist who honeymooned
in the Soviet Union.
Why is he so dangerous?
Let’s take a look at . . .
Where
Bernie Sanders Stands on the Issues:
First, he is the creator of the
“Medicare-for-All” bill. This plan is estimated to cost about $3.3 trillion a
year and would basically make all private health insurance in the U.S. illegal.
This includes any insurance you currently get
through your employer.
So where would you go for insurance?
To the government . . . a single payer system.
He also is proposing a $16 trillion climate
change plan as part of the Green New Deal he co-sponsored with AOC.
This plan would ban all fracking and sets 2050
as the deadline for the U.S. to reach net-zero carbon emissions.
It would also impose new stricter regulations
on energy, driving up the price of oil and gas you pay at the pump.
He also proposes to roll back President
Trump’s tax cuts and increase corporate tax rates back to 35% from the current
rate of 21%.
When you do the math, you can see that amounts
to a 40% hit to corporate profits . . . and a likely 40% DROP in the
stock market and your 401(k).
Why You Should Never Charge Your Phone in Rental Cars
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Cowboys had it good when they were in camp, and they had
easy access to everything they needed on the Chuck Wagon, but when they headed
out on the trail, it was a different story.
On the trail, it was just them and
what they could carry on their horse. A lot of the survival items they carried
would be considered old school today, but if there’s one lesson we’ve learned
from history it’s that the old ways endure.
Let’s take a look at what a cowboy
took out on the trail. In the following video, Sensible Prepper talks about 10
items cowboys took with them on the trail. Here they are...
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3 comments:
I got one of your charging solar radios-great for emergencies! When are you going to restock the other chargers?
After looking around locally for a small transistor radio, I gave up-no one carries them. I did order one from your site though!
Interesting-good resources.
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