What Is Next..... The Modern Prep Dilemma.

Do you have a 308/7.62 long gun?

 

That's what I keep telling my wife, too...

 

On a more serious note - standardize on rifles and configurations for different types. It will help immensely for training, interchangeability, and repair. Make sure you have armorers tools, spare parts, cleaners, lubricants, patches, etc.. I'd make a cleaning kit for each rifle that travels with it.

 

7.62x51 is not just about long range - it's also about barrier penetration. If I bring the fight to you, a nice light AR-15 is a great choice. If you are bringing the fight to me I want an AR-10...

 

An Yaesu FT-450 ($689) or 857D ($790) I have the 857D
Yaesu FT-450, Yaesu FT-450D Amateur Transceiver, FT450, FT450D
Yaesu FT-857D Amateur Transceiver FT857D

Plus coax, and an antenna. You can buy or build. If you have room for a 260 -ish foot loop (think a square)20 plus feet high you can tune from 6-160 meters

With the 450 it has an internal antenna tuner the 857 does not.

 

Personally, I wouldn't be without my Colt (Manufacturing) LE6920. If there's one thing a survival carbine MUST have on it, it's a collapsible stock! FerFAL taught me that during a national/economic crisis it's always the people who walk around openly displaying a rifle who attract the most unwanted attention; and, ....... let's face it: FerFAL would know!

 

That has been replaced by the Alinco DX-SR8

Alinco DX-SR8T Alinco DX-SR8 Transceiver

If he has the any UHF/VHF radios either of the 450 or the 857 give him those freqs @40-50 watts.

 

Or these portable antennas that Morgan used in the Going Home series of books.(I have it on good authority that Angery American had a great SME for ham radio in his book series )

No tuner needed, light stealthy and very portable. I have a 20 and 40 meter version of these
Par Electronics End-Fed, LNR Precision PAR End-Fedz

 

Here is the 857D, a battery pack and a PAR/LAR antenna on 20 meters from a NJ mountain top. First call into Italy

 

I always wondered about the details of the radio equipment that Sarge gave him... what would someone like Morgan have used for the portable radio that would fit in his get home bag along with everything else?

 

@3M-TA3 The 857D, a battery pack, par end fed antenna and a solar charger. Exactly the same radio and antenna in the video posted above.

 

my question is are you prepping to bug out or hunker down what you take with you would be a lot different then staying put