CB radio is alive and well across the country and around the world! It takes next to nothing to establish a station. Interested? Study into antennas, ground plane and Standing Wave Ratio (SWR). Any creativity that aims at these three goals will skip across the country with a well-functioning, old-school stock mobile radio on both AM and SSB. And you might even be pleasantly surprised to discover a local CB community, right in front of your face! If not, start one. What is Freedom without talk around the Water Cooler?
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CB Radio is so quiet now, I only hear anyone on it when travelling. I have been looking into getting my HAM license, talked to a guy in town the other day I know that is a HAM, and he said even HAM around here is pretty quiet compared to 20 years ago.
I bought my boys 8w portable HAM radios for Christmas. Trying to get them to get their license. Never know how important this could become.
No expertise on this, but I recently heard that in emergencies you are not required to have a license to operate a HAM radio. War time qualifies as a bit of an emergency, eh? Internet down would def be an emergency.
Definitely, if an emergency: Katy bar the door and no holds barred. Green dots light up the sky and walkies will be the way to communicate