Survival Radio Musts, Shoulds, Coulds

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(31 July 2012, 11:01)NorthernRaider Wrote:

(31 July 2012, 10:57)Skean Dhude Wrote: Be careful about boosting everything to full power. It makes them burn out quicker and any SW reflections are amplified. Do what you need only.

Apparently this H520 is supposed to be 4 watts anyway for much of the world, Poland , Russia etc, I'm not cuttiung any wires for now but I do like the way this 80 channel CB can become a 400 channel CB / 11 meter radio just by cutting one wire !!!

Dunno about where you chaps live but around here its so bloody hilly a .5 watt radio is hard pushed to get to the end of the village.

NR,

400 channels are great, but that just makes 399 places to search to find anyone. KISS and stick to regular channels and use the exotic ones for semi private coms.

Re 1/2 watt and hills......turn the hills to your advantage, either get up on top and your half watt will go a LONG way. Have you tried this yet? Try the biggest hill that you can see the top of from home and regularly go up there and listen out for activity. Also check that signal reachs home. If that's all succesful I would then consider rigging up my own private uplinked repeater with solar charger and secreting it in a waterproof container up on that hill in times of crisis. See earlier thread about low tech repeaters and remote transmission.

LS