Month: February 2023
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Starting point: Off Grid Survival Radio
One of the most asked questions in off grid ham radio for preparedness is “Where to start?” I’ll try to answer that question. Hello Operators.If you are planning to or already earned your ham radio license, you are ahead of the curve. The starting point was deciding to use off-grid ham radio as part of…
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Best HF Ham Radio for Grid Down Survival
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in Education, Emergency Communications, Field Comms, Field Radio, FT-818, Grid Down Communications, Ham Radio, Ham Radio Rapid Deployment Simulation, Icom IC-705, Is it Off Grid Friendly?, Lab599 Siscovery TX-500, Microsoft Surface, Near Vertical Incidence Skywave, Off Center Fed Dipole, oh8stn, Portable Ham Radio, Preparedness, QRP Portable, Survival & Preparedness, Xiegu G90, Xiegu X5105, Xiegu x6100, Yaesu FT-817NDChoosing the best HF Ham Radio for off-grid or grid-down survival communications is challenging. In this blog, we go through key features every HF survival radio should have. We also take a look at 5 of the best low-power, and energy efficient QRP portable ham radios, for off-grid and grid-down preparedness communications. If you have…
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Man Portable Antenna Strategy Part 2
Hello Operators.There’s new video up on YouTube. This time we were talking about ultra portable HF antenna strategies. This post goes along with the blog post from February 2 2003 entitled, “Man-Portable HF Antenna Strategy A Portable Ham Radio HF antenna should be lightweight, easy to carry and easy to deploy. Operating QRP while man-portable…
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Man-Portable HF Antenna strategy
For the off-grid field radio operator with limited weight & carrying capacity, what antenna options do we have? Actually, quite a few! Let’s talk about smaller, lighter, and more efficient antenna options. Hello Operators.For the past few years, I have been guilty of choosing the most rugged antenna options available. At some point, reducing size…
