RADIO COMMS

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(29 June 2012, 11:13)Skvez Wrote: For a chain to work, every link must work. To relay a message we need everyone in the relay to be available at the same time and have their equipment working. That’s not something that we can rely on today let alone Post-SHTF.
We'd need a lot of people before we'd have a reliable chain across the country. We don't know who all is out there and who all is willing to participate. Person B is jeopardising their OPSEC to relay a message from A to C with no gain to themselves. I suspect many 'B's out there would rather just sit quiet.

We're never going to find a radio that meets everyone's needs. We need to accept this however we can pick a standard and build on it.

Despite it's limitations I think we initially we should standardise on CB (UK FM) everyone who wants radio comms should have one. They are relatively cheep and easy to use. Then the select few who have the time, money and inclination can *also* get Ham or whatever 'better' equipment they want.

Skvez
You've summed it up perfectly. and your suggetion not only gets my vote, I've already started implementing it, along with a couple of prepper friends.

One comment though a network that relies on the integrity of all links is doomed to failure. Inevitably we will suffer predation, sickness and technical failures. Any viable network will need to be cellular, with the ability to healitself round any missing components, just like the US military designed the Internet to do. This is a very complex issue.

I predict that any network is not going to deliver messages with anything like the reliability nor speed that we have come to enjoy. Station Opsec means that messages might get severely delayed befor being re-transmitted.