Tag: shtf
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Building a PACE Communications Plan for Grid-Down Scenarios
How to build a PACE (Primary, Alternate, Contingency, Emergency) radio communications plan combining GMRS, ham radio, and non-radio backups.
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Building a Faraday Cage for Your Backup Radios
You don’t need to buy a purpose-built product. Here’s what a Faraday cage actually protects against and how to build one.
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NOAA Weather Radio: The Cheapest, Most Overlooked Piece of a Comms Plan
A NOAA weather radio does a different job than your GMRS or ham gear. Here’s why it still belongs in your kit.
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GMRS Is Great for Family Comms, But It Won’t Save You When SHTF
GMRS gets recommended constantly in prepping and family communication circles, and for good reason. But it’s not a complete emergency communications plan by itself.
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HF Go-Kit Power Budgeting: Matching Battery Capacity to Realistic Operating Time
Nothing ends a POTA activation or a field deployment faster than running out of power halfway through. Guessing at battery capacity is how that happens, actually running the numbers is how you avoid it. Start with your radio’s actual current draw Every radio’s manual lists current draw figures for receive, standby, and transmit at various…
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A Comms Plan Your Non-Ham Family Members Can Actually Use
A simplified emergency comms plan for the family members who will never get licensed and never want a full radio lesson.
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Building a Comms Binder: Manuals, Serial Numbers, and Frequencies in One Place
One binder, not three scattered systems. Here’s what actually belongs in it and why paper still matters.
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A Check-In System for Elderly Parents Living Alone
A phone tree breaks down at exactly the wrong moment. Here’s a simple radio check-in system for an aging parent living alone.