Quick Q about radio signals in current climate

[Highlander]

[NorthernRaider]

We must have in plce comms systems utterly divorced from technology as technology is the weak link, set aside my bias towars two way radios because IMHO they are woefully inadequate there are other issues that could make them useless or dangerous, Crap weather ( common in the UK) limits range and effectiveness, EMP could toast them, Atmospheric interference, winter storms, JAMMING by a twat with a bigger transmitter, being triangulated by bad guys etc etc.

Radios do most certainly have a very useful role to play in comms after TSHTF mainly on a very local basis, but I think it would be the height of folly to rely on radios.

I think couriers, dead letter drops, regular rendezvous, frequent group meetings, perhaps even pigeon messengers should be the failsafe comms systems for us after TSHTF.

Homing Ferrets anyone?

[Tarrel]

Slightly off-topic, but did anyone hear about the WW2 carrier pigeon message found recently? It was tied to the leg of a dead pigeon found in someone's chimney. Had a coded message in it that the folks at GCHQ have been unable to crack! ;-)

[Highlander]

Yes I heard about that,... just goes to show how quickly we forget our own codes

[Skean Dhude]

It is not we forget our own codes but the fact is we don't share them with anyone. So it could be a one time pad with something important on. Maybe a warning about socialism.