Long range commo? after SHTF

I am new here and have a question that I apologize in advance if it is redundant to
prior post. I live in NH and my brother lives in NM. If the grid goes down and obviously cells and land lines will likely not be operational; what are our options for communicating over that far a distance? Do HAM radios work that far? Please do not suggest homing pigeons! lol
however my late Uncle was a grand champion many times back inthe 50's and 60's in Indiana.

Thanks for any input. I suspect we're out of luck unless we were able to invest major$$

Cheers

SY

 

and within 10 minutes a new monkey get his answer.
This truly is a great place!

 

Outstanding! I am interested in this since it looks like the entry point is within a reasonable budget $. This is something we would probably only use in emergency situations and like many of the "monkeys" here I am probably in good company with the little "hope" and confidence I have in the current administration of our republic. any resources you can point me to BTPost would be well appreciated!

Thanks for the speedy reply!

sy

 

Thanks guys! My brother has a vigorous and sometimes violent rejection of all things computer! lol so I will have to spoon feed him the info he needs. He is very mobile right now(on purpose) and is bug out ready. I am more nailed down but I am about an hour away from Manchester and can look for some operators in the area. I grew up in the 70s-80's and spent 4 yrs in the Army Rangers.(3rd batt and Camp Merrill-Rgr School) and I have not seen things this tense ever before. Even during the height of the cold war and the "survivalists and militia" craziness of the 70's there was not this level of anxiety about the future. I see unpleasantries aplenty on the horizon and commo is about my only weakness at this point. My wife thinks I'm nuts but good planning is never wasted. My bro is set up real nice with a tow-camper and about 2years of food, gas, wind and solar generators, self protection devices of various means etc. And he and his wife have the skills and knowledge to live well and not be found. He has several spots in the Kingman,AZ and Northern NM area dialed in if he needs to be isolated from the dregs if need be. I am fortunate to live in a fairly rural area of Sunapee, NH and we have a pretty solid population. However we are close to several welfare towns that could be problematic for some of the less willing and able locals. My place is not one the undesirables would want to visit. I find it fun to think about being able to use a radio to talk to someone half way across the country! Pretty cool stuff.

 

Excellent information. I've been lurking for awhile and registered today to post.
I'm also new into the comm world. Bought a pair of Baofeng uv-5r during black Friday. I'm interested in learning how to use these effectively during a SHTF event.

 

You can build a 2 meter beam very inexpensively.

http://www.oocities.org/w9bci/VHF-YAGI.pdf

A quad: 2 Meter 3 Element Quad Antenna Project - Direct Feed!

Another is adapting an old TV antenna: http://www.arrl.org/files/file/Technology/tis/info/pdf/9611034.pdf

I've built one out of brazing rod and a PT 2x4. It isn't that difficult.

Usually VHF and higher are for local or line of sight. However when condx (conditions) are "right;" tropospheric ducting and sporadic E propagation are possible and EME or moon bounce for the well funded.

As it is a very poor time to learn, don't wait for the big emergency.

 

You're in the county's real estate database already, don't give up a hobby you like out of paranoia.

 

You can get your name out of the database by creating a trust or other fictitious 'Person' (llc, inc.) and have the property held in it's name. That way, you personally are not on the list.

Maybe not entirely out of the database especially if someone has previous years data from the taxation units of their AO.

 

@ghrit, what county are you in. I'll check to see if they recently joined into the federal program to convert parcel, meets and bounds to digital with all the pretty accurate lat/lon boundary data.

As part of the stimulus programs in late bush throughout obummer, the feds coughed up coin for the county tax assesors to modernize. Right now the database has 100's of millions of parcels in it. Getting bigger every quarter!

PM me the county if you are interested, don't post it in the open forum.

 

Hi guys. first post here. I managed to pick up a Kenwood TS-520 from my local Craigslist for under $200. This is a hybrid tube and txister set with great functionality on all HF bands. It is NOT restricted to local repeaters. I am building the antenna for it.
Right now, I'm not too worried about a license as I'm just getting started and if SHTF, I will surely not worry about a license.