I think we can go without internet for a week or two. For entertainment, I'll just take videos of by neighbors wandering aimlessly on the street. It will make great footage for The REAL Walking Dead documentary, and I'll post once Starlink kicks in.
As someone who's worked in cybersecurity for over 15 years, I will say that no internet would be more catastrophic than anticipated. Medical records, business transactions including stocks and contracts, military info including classified+, would all be unable to read.
It's more than just no Netflix or Facebook. I don't remember if our bunker I worked in even had fax, and this was over a decade ago. Hopefully there is redundancy in place for long form and constant communications.
My effort feels a bit anemic with only 30-40 days. Cash is exhausted as I have been out of work for 2.5 years and I am still dragging a mortgage through this shit normie fest.
I no longer think we need a year so i think Patriot you are well supplied. Let's see if MAGA Pubs in House can stop Debt Ceiling and we will be on our way
Sometimes I think the Amish got it right (the no tech aspect at least). They're already self sufficient and will have less issues stemming from supply chain interruptions than the regular population.
Yes, indeed, they are extremely self sufficient, and I am grateful to have learned much from them over the past 9 years. 10 years ago I never dreamed that I would one day be simplifying my life - growing a garden; canning; returning to church services; being no longer interested in "keeping up with the Jones-es;" learning their PA German language; and, above all, having them enter into my life. My so-called "good friends" disappeared. CoVID was the major factor, but they could never handle even hearing anything about the Amish.
I remember a 50 mile biking event in Amish country we went to. We were at a rest stop, all decked out in our riding gear (helmets, jerseys, riding shorts, clip-ins, etc), Canondales everywhere and a bunch of Amish kids rode by barefoot on old bikes with innertubes slung over their shoulders - I guess heading for the river. Girls in frocks and boys in pants. The extremes of techno-folk versus simple-life made me chuckle.
As much as it would be nice I think that's when they would try and roll out their plan since Noone can talk to each other in real time to prepare for activities
Get cb radio. Full disclaimer I have two star links. Make sure you have the home version. It gets first priority. I also have the rv version it gets deprioritized.
We paid money down to get on waitlist (it would go towards the final payment). After about six months we got our money back. Don’t know when it’s available here. It would be worth the extra money to get a decent connection. In rural NC we are paying for ten speed and barely get eight. My dad is next door with twenty speed. They say it’s not available and can’t look at his account. I get that because privacy is important. What ticks me off is twenty speed is available but they won’t give it. Only reason we got internet about fifteen (apx) years ago is we live beside a school. That’s with Centurylink now Brightspeed. My family has a house at the coast and Spectrum internet is 250 speed. Like everything else money talks. More homes and businesses at the coast.
I’d borrow someone’s Starlink to see if it works on your property. If it does I would then order one usi my someone’s address who is in area that can be ordered but make sure it’s rv version so that they allow you to use it anywher you go other than the address it was ordered at.
ham radio, get your license and the exams will teach you what you might not know. Yes, if things go to hell a license won't matter, but if you get your license you will use it and practice with the radio and gain confidence. You don't open the wrapper on emergency gear and try to figure it out when the emergency hits, you practice and get familiar with it, so when the emergency hits, you have confidence in the tools. Same goes for shooting, first aid, emergency food cooking(which a lot haven't done), starting a fire, vehicle repair, etc.
There are also satellite phones. My family has been looking into a 'pay as you go' system. It would be for SHTF only. No choice made yet. Something like the link below:
I agree. They are more awake than most think. The problem is that they have no context to our world. They grew up with things and took things for granted that we did not have. This is a good thing as we will be the baseline moving forward. When you boil it down to conciseness and spirituality, they are closer to us than you would think. My issue is that I have to peel the layers of disinfo from them to get there, but it is there and when I connect it almost feels priceless. Then I remember this is an information war... Strange times, indeed.
My wife teaches high school. The kids can't read or write cursive. She has made it a point to teach them. She says, "If you can't read cursive, how can you read the Constitution?", "How can you have your own signature?". She has a set of cursive lettering that goes up above the chalkboard from her elementary school teaching days because her kids all want to learn it.
I’m sure they had this in mind when they stopped teaching cursive. Also in NC a child can’t be held back more than twice. I’ll have my first grandchild soon. I’ve already said my grandkids will know how to write cursive. I feel like their parents would teach them but just in case they don’t I’ll teach them.
They still hold kids back in NC? Most places won't do it at all. Where I am, they will never do it, even if the parents beg for it. That's actually the one and only thing the school board won't bend for the parents.
I don’t have a school age child. A friend was telling me about a child she knows in elementary school. His parents don’t care and wasn’t taking him to school. He’s been held back twice and that’s the limit. When my child was in middle school, early 2000’s, there was a kid at school that was at least 17.
It would almost be worth going to a city and filming all the people walking around holding their phones up high trying to get a signal. But no - I'll stay away.
Space Force assumed responsibility for all military space communications. That's all there is. NSA monitors all the other communications. There is nothing left to "circumvent." But military comm systems are not designed to broadcast to the internet. We may have means of neutralizing civilian communication satellites, but that would be like pulling the plug on the telephone system: you are hurt more than you can hurt.
Antenna is about 12” x 20”. Comes with a short 4 legged stand. Needs a view of the north sky. To test I screwed or to my side deck to Kermit from blowing over. Connected the cable from the antenna to the router. Plugged the router to power.
It starts automatically, acquires satellites. And in about 20 min we were set to connect.
The antenna moves to track the satellites. Has a heater to melt snow off. Crazy simple.
Speeds are fantastic compared to Hughesnet. We can stream pretty much anything with no glitches. We’ve had heavy snow with no noticeable degradation of service.
It can be roof or pole mounted. I’m going to keep it on the deck until I need to move it.
We had a big snow storm, snow on the antenna for awhile till it meted with the built in heater, thick clouds, etc. no noticible issues. No problem with clouds.
I'm gonna be on Starlink the moment it is available in my area. I still have no idea if Elon is a WH or BH, but he seems to be interest in fact ... that's all I care about myself and I know the facts will show that we've been right all along. I won't mind paying him for his service at all. Verizon, Comcast, and all of those other degenerate internet service provider companies are part of the problem, not the solution.
Have you tried ordering it anyway? Mine said not avail in area I ordered it and it worked. Worst case scenario get the “rv version” it’ll work if you operate it in an area that is supported
I'm good if it does happen kek. Have a home plex server and I've been, ahem, sailing the seas if you know what I mean, and been getting a lot of movies and shows. So I have a whole month of entertainment if need be.
I'm so old I remember when we had party line telephones attached to the wall and the news actually had news. Yes,the internet down would cause chaos, but that is what thedeepsyate wants.The question I see is which side is gonna prevail after?
I had a boss who got Starlink and he would regularly get a stutter in his connection during the morning company Zoom call. Apparently a satellite handoff that time of day.
Also, they would be hamstringing themselves on multiple levels if they ever did, them trying to nuke all socials to limit spread of information and keeping news from coming out however, that they aren't only liable to try but highly likely to.
Rather a lot things they don't want people to know and socials are the obvious and fasted way of disseminating information, but as any forum-monkey knows, what's thought of as socials are just the main roads.
The back-roads are too numerous to even contemplate with old roads dying and new roads cropping up on a constant basis, you can still get where you need to go by way of country roads, there are just fewer people that can use them to get to their destination as quickly as most can on the main roads(doesn't mean that many of us can't though...)
Remember the movie with Bruce Willis as a cop who could slip into his avatar to work? He had this , I dont know the word for it, sleeve? that made him all buff with the energy too, and about 25 years younger? His wife was always in virtual reality, when the system went down all these people were staggering out of their homes in Boston, real expensive neighborhoods, in their bathrobes and pajamas becuase they were on line all the time? Anyway, I forget the name of it. I have Starlink, I guess I can chat with Elon.
I'm trying to find these articles so I can PRINT THEM OUT, and not finding anything using "cyber shutdown" or "catastrophic cyber shutdown". i even looked on the world evil forum of faggots website and didn't find it but I get a bad taste from that website so I didn't stay long
I don't really understand - during 10 days communication blackout, what will go out? 1. My ability to access the internet, or, 2. Actual internet (servers en masse transmitting info) itself. If '2', then Starlink won't help anything. Someone on here said the social media sites would probably be the target b/c mass chaos would occur if the total works went down 10 days. Main life-sustaining systems would just fail to operate (water departments, electricity plants, etc.) Think of all the people who have life-critical info relying on internet connectivity with their 'providers'.
I can advise you sufficiently if you let me know what it is you want to use it for. I've got military communications training and experience and also commercial radio experience so I think I can help you adequately.
Pls give us some basic ham radio necessities. I have ordered the study-books for the test but am in the dark on what to look for in a 'starter' radio. Just looking for emergency-level communications, not looking to talk with people in China.
I think we can go without internet for a week or two. For entertainment, I'll just take videos of by neighbors wandering aimlessly on the street. It will make great footage for The REAL Walking Dead documentary, and I'll post once Starlink kicks in.
kek
As someone who's worked in cybersecurity for over 15 years, I will say that no internet would be more catastrophic than anticipated. Medical records, business transactions including stocks and contracts, military info including classified+, would all be unable to read.
It's more than just no Netflix or Facebook. I don't remember if our bunker I worked in even had fax, and this was over a decade ago. Hopefully there is redundancy in place for long form and constant communications.
NSA better be on the white hats side.
They won't nuke the net as a whole, they would would hurt and hamstring themselves too much by doing so......
Socials however.......
That is the way, unfortunately. I don't see any other way to wake the masses... even if it is just for a week(+/-).
What a great idea, watch people suffer nervous breakdowns over no internet. I will have to admit that I will miss the greatawakening site though.
I have downloaded all important stuff and plan to download all Jan 6. I have 1 year of survivable food....#COMFYAF
1 year ! Nice prepping !
Name checks out.
My effort feels a bit anemic with only 30-40 days. Cash is exhausted as I have been out of work for 2.5 years and I am still dragging a mortgage through this shit normie fest.
I no longer think we need a year so i think Patriot you are well supplied. Let's see if MAGA Pubs in House can stop Debt Ceiling and we will be on our way
Make sure all your important docs saved in the cloud esp and including family pics videos.
never believed in anything cloud ..... old old school
Bingo. I bought a nice big NAS for that reason.
Well I wouldn’t go to that extreme either.
don't forget to rotate out the food.
First in, first out.
I've done all I can for myself and the wife. Extended to my kids families. Now i wait.
I need a cold turkey phone outage. I welcome it.
Sometimes I think the Amish got it right (the no tech aspect at least). They're already self sufficient and will have less issues stemming from supply chain interruptions than the regular population.
That's why the FDA in on them like flies on shit.
Yes, indeed, they are extremely self sufficient, and I am grateful to have learned much from them over the past 9 years. 10 years ago I never dreamed that I would one day be simplifying my life - growing a garden; canning; returning to church services; being no longer interested in "keeping up with the Jones-es;" learning their PA German language; and, above all, having them enter into my life. My so-called "good friends" disappeared. CoVID was the major factor, but they could never handle even hearing anything about the Amish.
I remember a 50 mile biking event in Amish country we went to. We were at a rest stop, all decked out in our riding gear (helmets, jerseys, riding shorts, clip-ins, etc), Canondales everywhere and a bunch of Amish kids rode by barefoot on old bikes with innertubes slung over their shoulders - I guess heading for the river. Girls in frocks and boys in pants. The extremes of techno-folk versus simple-life made me chuckle.
Sometimes the simple things in life, is just that... Life.
If I could, I would live like 1900 AD.
In fact, that's exactly what I want. To live like 1900 AD except with technology. I would be completely self-sufficient, like in the old days.
But I'd have internet, a car, a truck (none electric), and a few other things.
We can combine to create the best of all possible worlds.
Your exactly right fren ! Hey , get a couple chickens and a meat grinder.. You can do it !
As much as it would be nice I think that's when they would try and roll out their plan since Noone can talk to each other in real time to prepare for activities
Get cb radio. Full disclaimer I have two star links. Make sure you have the home version. It gets first priority. I also have the rv version it gets deprioritized.
Wow ... for residential, $110/mo with a one-time hardware cost of $599.
$135/mo with a one-time cost of $599 for portable hardware or $2,500 for in-motion hardware.
Can't afford $600 just to get this.
Oh wow, I had no idea it was a pay per play thing. I thought musk would just activate it if regular net went down.
wtf this is the alternative? either go under or pay this to drain my entire bank account every month??
You don't need it.
We paid money down to get on waitlist (it would go towards the final payment). After about six months we got our money back. Don’t know when it’s available here. It would be worth the extra money to get a decent connection. In rural NC we are paying for ten speed and barely get eight. My dad is next door with twenty speed. They say it’s not available and can’t look at his account. I get that because privacy is important. What ticks me off is twenty speed is available but they won’t give it. Only reason we got internet about fifteen (apx) years ago is we live beside a school. That’s with Centurylink now Brightspeed. My family has a house at the coast and Spectrum internet is 250 speed. Like everything else money talks. More homes and businesses at the coast.
I’d borrow someone’s Starlink to see if it works on your property. If it does I would then order one usi my someone’s address who is in area that can be ordered but make sure it’s rv version so that they allow you to use it anywher you go other than the address it was ordered at.
Can you elaborate on this? My siblings and I are trying to figure out the best way to communicate if the SHTF.
ham radio, get your license and the exams will teach you what you might not know. Yes, if things go to hell a license won't matter, but if you get your license you will use it and practice with the radio and gain confidence. You don't open the wrapper on emergency gear and try to figure it out when the emergency hits, you practice and get familiar with it, so when the emergency hits, you have confidence in the tools. Same goes for shooting, first aid, emergency food cooking(which a lot haven't done), starting a fire, vehicle repair, etc.
👆👆👆
For residential, $110/mo with a one-time hardware cost of $599.
$135/mo with a one-time cost of $599 for portable hardware or $2,500 for in-motion hardware.
https://www.starlink.com/
There are also satellite phones. My family has been looking into a 'pay as you go' system. It would be for SHTF only. No choice made yet. Something like the link below:
https://satellitephonestore.com/catalog/sale/details/inmarsat-isatphone-2-satellite-phone-kit-322
We also have a designated rally point.
For Starlink RV you can pause service for times you don't need it.
Which part? Cb radio? Or Starlink?
If you live close - CB radio
U.s. mail
I hope we do for old times sake and to wake up the under 30yo crowd. They need a fucking wake up.
I agree. They are more awake than most think. The problem is that they have no context to our world. They grew up with things and took things for granted that we did not have. This is a good thing as we will be the baseline moving forward. When you boil it down to conciseness and spirituality, they are closer to us than you would think. My issue is that I have to peel the layers of disinfo from them to get there, but it is there and when I connect it almost feels priceless. Then I remember this is an information war... Strange times, indeed.
My wife teaches high school. The kids can't read or write cursive. She has made it a point to teach them. She says, "If you can't read cursive, how can you read the Constitution?", "How can you have your own signature?". She has a set of cursive lettering that goes up above the chalkboard from her elementary school teaching days because her kids all want to learn it.
I’m sure they had this in mind when they stopped teaching cursive. Also in NC a child can’t be held back more than twice. I’ll have my first grandchild soon. I’ve already said my grandkids will know how to write cursive. I feel like their parents would teach them but just in case they don’t I’ll teach them.
They still hold kids back in NC? Most places won't do it at all. Where I am, they will never do it, even if the parents beg for it. That's actually the one and only thing the school board won't bend for the parents.
I don’t have a school age child. A friend was telling me about a child she knows in elementary school. His parents don’t care and wasn’t taking him to school. He’s been held back twice and that’s the limit. When my child was in middle school, early 2000’s, there was a kid at school that was at least 17.
That is a recipe for sexual abuse by a minor.
How stupid do you have to be to not be able to read cursive? It's just loopy print
It would almost be worth going to a city and filming all the people walking around holding their phones up high trying to get a signal. But no - I'll stay away.
film? what is filming? /s
I still say video tape and recording 🤣
True!
Good old days
Wow! Elon replied to Dr. Draino
White hats are in the same loop. Some one (wh) might have pointed that tweet out to Musk
He already used DC Draino for one of the Twitter Files drops.
TRUMP + MUSK Starlink = US SPACE FORCE https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=Trump+speech+US+Space+Force#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:1d9b3914,vid:WkTS0jvtPig
(Apologies that it's YT & traitor Pence in the speech)
'...as a matter of Nat'l Security...Space dominance...'
Trump set-up Space Force to circumvent current satellites of the Deep State, Black Ops/CIA...
I agree 100%
Space Force assumed responsibility for all military space communications. That's all there is. NSA monitors all the other communications. There is nothing left to "circumvent." But military comm systems are not designed to broadcast to the internet. We may have means of neutralizing civilian communication satellites, but that would be like pulling the plug on the telephone system: you are hurt more than you can hurt.
Reminds me of this. https://nitter.net/gospaceforce/status/1505907077599969280#m
Link doesn't work for me but it may for others..
Got it about 5 months ago. Had Hughesnet prior which was shit.
Starlink is fantastic. Took 20 minutes to inbox and setup.
So how does it work? Is it a sat dish you install on your roof? Oh, and does inclement weather interfere with your signal?
Antenna is about 12” x 20”. Comes with a short 4 legged stand. Needs a view of the north sky. To test I screwed or to my side deck to Kermit from blowing over. Connected the cable from the antenna to the router. Plugged the router to power.
It starts automatically, acquires satellites. And in about 20 min we were set to connect.
The antenna moves to track the satellites. Has a heater to melt snow off. Crazy simple.
Speeds are fantastic compared to Hughesnet. We can stream pretty much anything with no glitches. We’ve had heavy snow with no noticeable degradation of service.
It can be roof or pole mounted. I’m going to keep it on the deck until I need to move it.
wow thank you so much! Sounds way easier than I envisioned!
I was surprised how slick it was. I’ve installed satellite TV antennas. Needing to move the antenna but by bit to get full power reception.
No aiming needed with this, simply place the antenna with a clear north view, plug it in and it starts automatically.
What about cloudy days, rain storms...how is reception?
We had a big snow storm, snow on the antenna for awhile till it meted with the built in heater, thick clouds, etc. no noticible issues. No problem with clouds.
Here you go, fren: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOMbJAXzGfs
Perfect! Thank you!!
Not familiar with spectrum. Starlink has been very good speeds.
There's a war going on that's so far above my head, on so many levels, I feel honored to be allowed these small windows into it's happenings.
I'm with you and it is fascinating to "see" what is taking place !
I'm gonna be on Starlink the moment it is available in my area. I still have no idea if Elon is a WH or BH, but he seems to be interest in fact ... that's all I care about myself and I know the facts will show that we've been right all along. I won't mind paying him for his service at all. Verizon, Comcast, and all of those other degenerate internet service provider companies are part of the problem, not the solution.
Have you tried ordering it anyway? Mine said not avail in area I ordered it and it worked. Worst case scenario get the “rv version” it’ll work if you operate it in an area that is supported
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aE4UNGlu-Ak
https://twitter.com/DC_Draino/status/1614319454787100673?s=20&t=DKZLy4gxTpB3OWOvmC5QQQ
Collin Rugg @CollinRugg and @DC_Draino 👉Starlink solves this. But just like Elon’s acquisition of Twitter, I’m sure the elites don’t like this👈
I bet the blackout is during moass
I'm good if it does happen kek. Have a home plex server and I've been, ahem, sailing the seas if you know what I mean, and been getting a lot of movies and shows. So I have a whole month of entertainment if need be.
Kek
10 days of darkness.
Not with Starlink and drop the "of" .. will send you exactly what the Q post says..👍
https://qposts.online/post/88
Starlink works great! And I take it on trips to remote places and it works great there too. I can use my phone off of Starlink also.
Elon is still in grey hat territory but many moves are starting to look like white hat moves to protect all from the back hats.
Elon has for sure thought ahead, if we trust his word its for mankind as a whole.
Nobody knows so keep everyone at arms length and use decerment..
I'm so old I remember when we had party line telephones attached to the wall and the news actually had news. Yes,the internet down would cause chaos, but that is what thedeepsyate wants.The question I see is which side is gonna prevail after?
I want a starlink 🐸
No. We have Starlink at home
I had a boss who got Starlink and he would regularly get a stutter in his connection during the morning company Zoom call. Apparently a satellite handoff that time of day.
They won't succeed.
Also, they would be hamstringing themselves on multiple levels if they ever did, them trying to nuke all socials to limit spread of information and keeping news from coming out however, that they aren't only liable to try but highly likely to.
Rather a lot things they don't want people to know and socials are the obvious and fasted way of disseminating information, but as any forum-monkey knows, what's thought of as socials are just the main roads.
The back-roads are too numerous to even contemplate with old roads dying and new roads cropping up on a constant basis, you can still get where you need to go by way of country roads, there are just fewer people that can use them to get to their destination as quickly as most can on the main roads(doesn't mean that many of us can't though...)
Remember the movie with Bruce Willis as a cop who could slip into his avatar to work? He had this , I dont know the word for it, sleeve? that made him all buff with the energy too, and about 25 years younger? His wife was always in virtual reality, when the system went down all these people were staggering out of their homes in Boston, real expensive neighborhoods, in their bathrobes and pajamas becuase they were on line all the time? Anyway, I forget the name of it. I have Starlink, I guess I can chat with Elon.
Surrogates
Seems about right.
This aligns with everything we expected. Drips turn to flood and internet goes out.
Q drop #720 - 11-Feb-2018 11:04:42 AM CST - https://qposts.online/post/720
Do people believe all recent resignations, plane crashes, plane re_routes, EMS/EBS activations, blackouts, etc are simply a coincidence?
Why did Sessions [at the beginning] emphasize investigations/proceedings are kept confidential?
Think magic.
What you see …….
Do you really believe nothing is being done?
Re_read past crumbs.
Who has the power?
Why was this emphasized in the beginning?
You have more than you know.
Q
Q drop #1440 - 03-Jun-2018 2:58:29 PM CDT - https://qposts.online/post/1440
BOOM.
BOOM.
BOOM.
BOOM.
A WEEK TO REMEMBER.
DARK TO LIGHT.
BLACKOUT NECESSARY.
Q
Q drop #4414 - 04-Jun-2020 6:49:59 PM CDT - https://qposts.online/post/4414
EAM LOYALISTS:
RED1: POTUS twitter removal
RED2: Central communications blackout [continental US]
RED3: CLAS movement PELOSI or PENCE
RED4: Movement of MIL assets [10th Mountain_1st Marine_CPSD_Marine_QVIR] to central locations under guise of citizen riot control.
RED5: NAT MIL COM CEN
RED6: SEC OF DEF _instruct1
USSS
CASTLE_ROCK
Q
Other "Blackout" drops: https://qposts.online/?q=blackout&s=keyword
Drops with "Cyber" : https://qposts.online/?q=cyber&s=keyword
Thanks for the info.. Great information!
Q told us that you were protected by ‘Black EYE’. A question was asked of Q. Note EYE is in capitals.
Q#2615
Dec 12, 2018 6:54:13 PM EST
Q !!mG7VJxZNCI ID: 089200 No. 4280699
Dec 12, 2018 6:52:39 PM EST
Anonymous ID: 5c3172 No. 4280617
Q - Should we be prepping for some kind of shutdown?
No.
Reports of 'power grid' attacks (6 mo prep) should be disregarded.
While attacks do occur, we are safeguarded by a 'Black EYE'.
Q
Correct ! Great reminder .. Always be prepared thou !
Ppl with Starlink, how do you like it?
Can't really afford it unless I give up cable internets.
Can you stream 4k movies etc?
I'm trying to find these articles so I can PRINT THEM OUT, and not finding anything using "cyber shutdown" or "catastrophic cyber shutdown". i even looked on the world evil forum of faggots website and didn't find it but I get a bad taste from that website so I didn't stay long
My impression is it's a hypothetical situation Question and Answer..
Kinda of a "what if" this happened.. 👍
I don't really understand - during 10 days communication blackout, what will go out? 1. My ability to access the internet, or, 2. Actual internet (servers en masse transmitting info) itself. If '2', then Starlink won't help anything. Someone on here said the social media sites would probably be the target b/c mass chaos would occur if the total works went down 10 days. Main life-sustaining systems would just fail to operate (water departments, electricity plants, etc.) Think of all the people who have life-critical info relying on internet connectivity with their 'providers'.
Lots of articles on Yandex. I just searched and haven’t had chance to look.
https://yandex.com/search/touch/?text=cyber+shutdown+2023&lr=102871
yes but not quite what was in the original post
Flip the switch, let's get this party rolling.
they will just explode a nuclear bomb in the atmosphere, no more starlink, there will be collateral damage ofc but the evil knows no boundaries
What is Operation Starfall?
https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/5123/text
Anyone have any recommendations on a radio to buy?
I can advise you sufficiently if you let me know what it is you want to use it for. I've got military communications training and experience and also commercial radio experience so I think I can help you adequately.
Pls give us some basic ham radio necessities. I have ordered the study-books for the test but am in the dark on what to look for in a 'starter' radio. Just looking for emergency-level communications, not looking to talk with people in China.
Yeah I jumped on that bandwagon a while back. Never looking back.
I can't see it becoming free. But I agree that I can't afford it at current price.