BF-888s family net

[WHB]

Mortblanc,
Personally in the SHTF scenario I don't care what comms my family use, hell I'll even hand out some of my 2 meter rigs if need be.
Re-read the OP and you will see that I want comms as near to the legal half Watt for my family pre-SHTF and as a thing for my grandson, basically to get him into the science of radio and maths therein.
With this radio on 1 Watt and changing the antenna to the stock antenna from one of my UV-5Rs he/they will be able to hit my antenna easily from their locations.
Now if I want to get the lad feeling like he, at 7 years old, has a massively important job in the family prepping circle I could also be slightly naughty and make him a 70cms dipole and tell him he is in charge of his house's emergency comms., again a tad naughty.
CB where I am is dead and to be honest the users, where they do pop up, are a filthy mouthed bunch of morons that I would not want my grandkids to be hearing.
I am fortunate that I am 67 meters ASL so my location will easily act as the hub/relay for our family group in any situation where the phone is down.
I don't get CB really, I think 2 meter is better than CB range-wise, I've hit a repeater 100 miles away with 5 Watts but there again I have a very efficient home-brew dipole for 2 meter.
HF is deffo a better creature for world-wide usage and as I am the comms hub for my family then I guess a radio like in the OP is good enough for them.

Hope that cleared up my thinking,

WHB