Govt daft idea of the day (turning off FM radio)

[Steve]

Many years of gunfire and fast motorcycles have taken the edge off my hearing, however I find that DAB is good.

With regard to FM services for preppers, it's a fairly trivial task to add additional amplification to a commonly available FM transmitter, the type used to transmit audio from your MP3 player to your car radio - available for £20 and tuneable over the whole commercial FM range. However, these frequencies have a limited range and are likely to be crowded purely because of the ease of building transmitters.

In a serious SHTF situation I'm not sure that preppers would want to be broadcasting from home, so perhaps an automated, self-sustaining system could be placed somewhere high.

Which brings me to the question of what you would actually want to transmit to people you don't know. I'm thinking that a loop of useful survival information would be good - water purification, hygiene, gardening etc., etc. You might want to organize a meeting, where you could attend as a sheeple and sus out potential allies ( ie the other people who were there pretending to be sheeple ).

This could be an interesting subject, perhaps some of the board heavyweights could run with it.