SURVIVAL TIP: Communications

Communications:
One of the most important elements of survivalism is having a communications network established before things goes south.
In todays modern society that has families spread out geographically across the map, it’s will become necessary for family members to have the ability to communicate with each other during a crisis. One cannot rely on cell-phones or land line telephones. This is evidenced by the fact that within the first five minutes of the earthquake that shook the east coast earlier this year—all the cell-phone services were quickly over loaded. Everybody tried to call home at the same time.

The Alternatives:
Citizen band radios could provide some usefulness, but on the average they are not going to work. The 27 MHz – 29 MHz AM bands are already crowded these days. Even if one could find a clear channel, the fact that these low-powered radios are nearly dependent upon a “line of sight” transmission makes them unsuited for the task.

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