Comms in a Power-Grid Down Sitation

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Good post Jonas,

Here we have only mobile and hand portable transceivers, and sufficient Solar and hand crank generators to power them.

We generally work only on Low power (less than 10w), this gives us practice of operating methods for planned grid-down situations. In particular 2 and 5 w Morse only transceivers have proven very effective.

Very good point about beam antennas, we use them on VHF and UHF but find them too conspicuous on HF. Nearest we get to a beam on HF is a Moxon vertical for 20m, and this is used portable only....and it still draws a lot more attention than a simple end fed or dipole.