How Radio & Antennas Work

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This is a link for anyone wanting to learn and understand radio & antennas. The best way to learn is to join a local amateur radio club and do some training for a Foundation License.

Worried about OPSEC? Do you have a driving licence? A TV licence etc ... then you're already on the radar aren't you?

Still paranoid about your OPSEC? Join your local club, take the Foundation Licence training course and then either just don't sit the exam, purposefully fail the exam! Either way you will gain a basic understanding of how radio works and if you pay attention you will be able to confidently organise your personal / group Comms in a TU world.

Find your local club here:

http://rsgb.org/main/clubs-training/find-a-club/

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Good points about Opsec Bob.

I completely agree with you.

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Links with useful information on Near Vertical Incidence Skywave antennas, which are commonly used here for emergency response and disaster work:

http://www.w0ipl.net/ECom/NVIS/nvis.htm
http://www.w5jck.com/nvis/W5JCK-NVIS-Ant...tation.pdf
https://www.txarmymars.org/downloads/NVI...Design.pdf

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As far as the OPSEC issue, with what we know now, it is apparent that any illusion of privacy at all in our modern world is fantasy. If you have a mobile phone, use a credit card, have a computer connected to the Internet, used social media, etc., Big Brother already has your number. I laugh at the tinfoil hat crowd when I see the look on their face that the data miners know every box of ammunition or package of targets or reloading components they have ever bought with a credit card, or if they have ever had car, a hunting license, etc.

Unless you have lived in a cave and never used credit since 1970, you have no privacy. Life isn't fair.

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Thanks for the links Charles. NVIS is also a preferred emergency Comms MO in the right circumstances for UK RAYNET ( Radio Amateur emergencY Network)

I completely agree with your take on OPSEC with regard to becoming a Radio Amateur or even ordering a take away!!

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