Firearms

This will be for those folks, heading North, to make their Home in the Alaskan Bush, or to just visit. The basic information presented here, is mostly universal, and can be used throughout the USA, and may even be available, in some form, to folks in other countries, except where The Alaskan Specifics are noted.

I will break this topic into Close Neighborhood, (close = 10 Sq Miles) Neighborhood, (100 Sq Miles) State, National, and Worldwide Comms. We will also talk about non-Licensed, and Licensed Comms, as well as breaking the Comm types up by Frequency Bands, and Tx power levels. Some of these systems you may have heard of, and some are Alaska Specific.

We can start out by setting a few Definitions, so that everyone is on the same Page.

Above we have setup the first Five, which are for "Area of Operations" (AoO)
1. Close Neighborhood = 10 Sq Miles around your site
2. Neighborhood = 100 Sq. Miles around your site
3. State = State of Alaska (which is a Darn BIG PLACE, and up...