A walkie talkie tuned in on our favourite number, maybe, so we can keep each other around us updated. Keep it in a Faraday Box methinks with something to manually charge it.
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Here are some choices:
Good Quality CB Radio, preferably one with SSB; Make a wire dipole antenna fed with good quality coaxial cable.
FRS Walkie-Talkies (at least 2, depending upon family numbers and nearby neighbors. These are inexpensive in sets of two;
Amateur radio Service (HAM Radio); good quality High Frequency SSB transceiver - Icom IC-718 is one of the popular go-to radios for Preppers and can be easily modified for CB "11 Meter Band"; It covers all of the HAM frequencies and will receive from the bottom of the AM Broadcast band all the way up to the 30 mHz are used by military long-range comms. Use a multi-band wire antenna such as the G5RV design with coax.
Make sure you have a spool of strong cordage to hang antennas from trees -- You can find spools of 1000 feet of "parachute riser line" pretty cheap.
Keep all items in a Faraday Cage which can be a 55 gallon metal trash can with close fitting lid. The wire antennas roll up easily. Good idea is to include other electronic devices which you have as spares for SHTF-times in the can also.
You can search the net for Prepper and "CB Freeband" information which list frequencies and protocols.
Learn about these means of communications so you are not fumbling around in the dark on an adrenaline rush after killing the feral nogs who just tried to break in your doors. You can get all the information you need out of a couple of books published by the American Radio Relay League (ARRL) -- except for disposing of feral nogs which you had to use those Ten Gauge 00 buckshot rounds on.
Never, ever, reveal what you have -- think OPSEC.
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Good idea plus two of them (base station units) can be wired together to make an ad hoc repeater. Solar battery powered up on a hilltop.
This guy on youtube is a good start
https://www.youtube.com/c/HamRadioCrashCourse/featured. There is a lot to this, license is easy to get with a bit of study, and it will help. Also try this place to get started with equipment, https://www.bridgecomsystems.com/
I would caution about the Bridgecom Systems radios. They offer good quality equipment, but they also offer radios which use "DMR" which is a digital system. To use that system is complex and users must register their "Radio ID", which doxxes you. Of course a HAM license and FCC issued call sign is public information. I'm just saying that if you expect anonymity and wish to practice strong OPSEC, think about what you do before doing it. YMMV & JMHO