Survival Dispatch Insider Vol. 3 Issue 2: Communications, Part 2

The government can switch off cell service, the internet and the landlines in one afternoon. Issue 2 of Volume 3 is 81 pages on what to do with your radio gear once you have it, and how to talk when there is no radio at all.

Inside: antenna basics for a handheld and the decibel math behind range; vertical and horizontal HF antennas; programming your radio, VFO versus memory, tones and external antennas; digital modes, D-STAR, System Fusion and DMR, and what they give you; moving up to the General license and what the exam covers; building a radio go-kit in a hard case or an ammo can, with spare parts and organized information; speaker mics, earpieces and throat mics; field telephones, switchboards and wire circuits for communication that cannot be jammed or heard; buying, repairing and maintaining old military phones; and gear reviewed in this issue, including a radio chest pouch and an 18-inch antenna.

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