Last night my local internet provider, Spectrum, had a major outage (no phone, internet or cable tv - I don’t own a tv). I don’t have cell coverage at home so my choice was to get on my ham radios and figure out if anything bigger was going on. Nope, just locally failed equipment, restored in four hours.

How would you react to a prolonged internet outage? How would you find out if it is bugout time? How would you know where it is safe to go? Getting a ham license is easy (no morse code requirement) and equipment is cheap. If you look you will find many frens discussing ongoing events…

I’ve been licensed since 1972 and am pretty well prepped for whatever happens.

Plan ahead.