Survival Radio & Emergency Communications Ukraine

“With ham radio suspended in Ukraine, we take a broader look at emergency survival radio preps & top strategies for decentralized communications. Disaster preparedness and prepping for a civilian emergency response should include group communications, tactical radio communications, your backup radios, strategies for radio monitoring & observation using an SDR (software defined radio), strategies for radio intelligence gathering, Data Comms like JS8Call, Winlink & VarAC. Finally, and most often forgotten, getting critical news and information with emergency shortwave radio broadcasts to the people.

Our emergency communications plan should also cover HF, CB, VHF, UHF, business band and other bands taking advantage of the benefits, each one offers over the other. Russias war in Ukraine as unfortunate as it is, has shown us the importance of our emergency communication preps. Normally we prepare for some sort of weather event. The conflict in Ukraine lets us with study the best doomsday strategies for the prepper interested in using comms for our ultimate survival under such conditions.”

Antenna

NVIS: Near Vertical Incidence Skywave [ PodCast ]

November 09, 2017 No comments

 Sometimes the best direction to send your signal is straight up! Near vertical incidence skywave, or NVIS, is a skywave radio-wave propagation path... Read more

Eagle One Antenna – What Is it?

June 07, 2022 No comments

Thanks to Tristan and Jason for talking to me about the Eagle One Antenna. There seems to be some confusion about this antenna what it is and what it... Read more

Alpine Mobile Antenna Model 100S

December 10, 2014 No comments

  Alpine Mobile Antenna Model 100S Basic model is unpainted silver with a neopreen cover.  All models are: 500 Watts 6-80 Meters Motorized 12 volt 39... Read more

Why dipole antennas are a half wave long ?

January 13, 2015 No comments

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I Found & Eliminated My QRM / RFI (Radio Frequency Interference)!

January 11, 2021 No comments

This is the third in a series of videos following my efforts to track down a source of local QRM / Radio Interference. Following the build of a succes... Read more

Review

Introduction to the IC-9700 VHF/UHF/1200 by ICOM VIDEOS

January 15, 2019 No comments

Direct Sampling Brought to the VHF/UHF World Icom strives to be first, to be innovative, and to continue to refine our radios for a balance of cutting... Read more

ICOM IC- 705 [ New Videos ]

July 07, 2020 No comments

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AM and Single Sideband Signal Spectra

May 27, 2020 No comments

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New Foldable Solar Panel, Ham Radio Go-Kit, Portable Power

March 02, 2020 No comments

Incorporating solid state thin-film Power-FLEX TM solar cells, the Global Solar 62 Watt Desert Camo Foldable Solar Panel (P3-62) provides an excellent... Read more

ADALM PLUTO Full Duplex Software Defined Radio

April 28, 2020 No comments

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Equipment

RigExpert TI-3000 transceiver interface

February 20, 2020 No comments

RigExpert TI-3000 is a new and powerful USB transceiver interface based on high-quality stereo codec IC, for operating phone, CW and digital modes usi... Read more

RM Italy BLA-600 Review with Martin Lynch

June 26, 2019 No comments

The BLA 600 is a wideband compact, fully automatic 500W wideband linear amplifier for the HF bands and 6m, from 1.8 to 54 MHz. Totally ideal for runni... Read more

The One Person Antenna Raiser by KL7JR

January 30, 2015 No comments

  The One Person Antenna Raiser Like to operate portable? Do you have trouble finding help for antenna raising at your QTH? This may just be the... Read more

Newly released pictures of the new FTDX10 SDR

November 14, 2020 No comments

Newly released pictures of the new FTDX10 SDR Read more

Heil Pro 7

December 22, 2014 No comments

The Heil Pro 7 offers a feature set that compliments the Heil Sound standard for headset design. Unlike copies of various aviation type headsets, the... Read more