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HAM radios can communicate across countries. However you will need license. Not entirely sure if license will be a problem during apocalypse.
Like the FCC won't find away to harass someone even in the event of a collapse/disaster. The gubmint likes their fines.
No, don't worry about a license (I'm sure the HAMS here will be pissed) when it's an emergency. When not IF the SHTF this will be a primary carrier of information in real time. Disinformation can be crushed quickly because reporting is in real time and there are no MODS. You can get a HAM / Shortwave set at a good price right now. A Baofeng UV-5R VHF UHF Dual-Band FM Ham 5W Portable Two-way Radio Walkie Talkie is like $25.00!! Get one and buy a better antenna for it, learn how to use it and how to utilize local repeaters. It's a cheap and effective radio that will at least get you information.
That's far cheaper than I thought.
A lot of options, look up the baofeng radios, they're cheap, not the greatest, they never match that output Watts they say they have, but in an emergency they're good.
Ah, things have changed indeed. When I was doing this stuff, long long ago, in high school, the monitoring station was 3 blocks from my home. I remember feeling this vague sense of nervousness every time I passed by it. There were stories of them raiding illegal transceivers and making people pay fines etc. They were more feared than the CIA these days, lol. Not sure if these were just urban legends but we were quite terrified of them!
Do you just make up a callsign?
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Across the world in some cases.
nice nice, I never reached off world ever, but I did catch some crazy sounding signals - I always thought it was my wonky coil, but who knows it might have been from of world!
There used to be a project called SETI. search for extraterrestrial life. There was so much data (radio signals) to analize that they croudsourced. You could download a packet of data to your mac and it would analize it for days then send back. I did it for over a year. It was fun. They cancelled it though.
They cancelled it? Why, were they getting messages?
Talk all over with cb too, shooting the skip.. needed for ham radio also. diff freqs go farther than others.