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KK4GGL

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Re: Best way to communicate if internet down nation-wide.
« Reply #45 on: November 15, 2022, 12:45:36 PM »



What remains as the best radio methodolgy to communicate with distant parties?  Anyrhing aside from Simplex?

Boefungs don’t like EMP.

What's a Boefung?
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ONAIR

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Re: Best way to communicate if internet down nation-wide.
« Reply #46 on: December 03, 2022, 05:21:09 PM »

CB radios!  At least you can hit the truckers as they go by!  ;)
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K5YDD

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Re: Best way to communicate if internet down nation-wide.
« Reply #47 on: December 03, 2022, 05:44:46 PM »

Packet radio on HF.  It worked well, worldwide, in the 80's and 90's. 
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W7ASA

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Re: Best way to communicate if internet down nation-wide.
« Reply #48 on: February 03, 2023, 05:32:12 PM »

When this conversation comes up, first let's define what we need to communicate and with whom?

1. If I communicate with the ham friends I already have skeds with; nothing changes.  Turn the radio ON at sked time and start communicating.  Of course, if my friends and distant relatives are outside of the impacted area, the radio ops I have skeds with can call my family & friends outside the area, they can relay messages for and from my family. There are times when a 25 word Radiogram is worth it's weight in gold. Morse code works extremely well for my needs.

2. If I want to pass a health and welfare message to friends and family outside of the impacted area (BT&DT) I can use WINLINK.  Another gem is The National Traffic System/RRI using nothing more than Morse , paper and pencil with my QRP rig.
3.  The first thing I want to know is: 'what is the actual 'impacted area?'  Is it my block, my county, my State, half way to Nebraska?  That's all information I have generally gleaned from RADIO during past interruptions. Future trends, weather forecasts, storm centers & tracks etc. Plan and act accordingly.

4.  I have zero personal need to send a 5 MB PowerPoint presentation to some government entity.  YMMV


de Ray  ..._ ._
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K6BRN

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Re: Best way to communicate if internet down nation-wide.
« Reply #49 on: February 04, 2023, 10:05:42 AM »

Any reason why you couldn't just use a satellite phone or terminal?  Iridium. Inmarsat, Starlink, Thuraya ... (there are quite a few).  Very popular among boaters.  But costs $$$.

Unless this is an "end of the world" scenario, where aliens or hostile nations have blown up the satellite infrastructure, too.
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