7 watt PMR 446 rigs ( I think) £35

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Agreed CW is a really good skill to develop both to permit long range comms at low power, and also to keep messages harder to interpret by persons without the necessary knowledge. Certainly anyone serious about prepper wireless communications should at least have a copy of the code stored away safely.

Progress will be slow at first, very slow indeed. Strangely CW is easier to send than it is to "hear" it takes a great deal of time an practice to get proficient. But time will be very much onour side. Who is dictating that messages get sent at any particular speed. One character every few minutes may be sufficient to eensure the message gets across.

Sending Morse need not be illegal. What about tapping morse into an audio signal generator (and loudspeaker) and sending the resulting dah dah dit dit dit sound through any license free FM transmitter ( CB or PMR) That way we can practice legally among ourselves???