HF is expensive and high skill. Probably best reserved for long range needs. City to city or to get out of the country. This will have to be handled by a dedicated comms guy with skills and knowledge. It isn't like becoming a nuclear physicist but don't expect someone to pick it up and go like a blister pack walkie talkie.
Even for HT style Ham radios are usually expensive and always more complicated. Unless you have ham repeaters they are probably an unnecessary barrier to entry.
Blister pack radios in FRS, GMRS, or MURS are much easier because they are channelized and cheaper than all but baofengs or other Chinese ham radios. FRS and GMRS share frequencies which makes them interoperable. A carefully chosen ham HT can talk and listen on all 3 of those.
Most radios for FRS, GMRS, and MURS will say they offer thousands of "privacy" channels using DCS or CTCSS. That is a lie, disable those tones completely. Those settings deafen you to people who aren't running the same code but by turning it off you can hear everyone no matter what code they use.
All of those are broadcast style services that never transmit unless you key the transmitter. You can listen forever and never have your location triangulated.
Even with those you lose the convenience of phones. Carefully planned transmissions of information coded using manual encryption techniques, think numbers stations, is going to offer the best privacy.
At a certain level of insurgent type situation you have to break the modern always connected bidirectionally mindset. People in the know will broadcast limited critical information to many silent listeners after careful planning only.
Threats are everywhere. The question is what is the oppositions skill and dedication to finding you personally. No amount of care will make you invincible. Remember the Israeli icom supply chain attack?
Totally. Thanks for this man, will dig in, look up a bunch of terms, take some notes, then look up some of the more easier to buy devices and see if we can buy around 5 devices for a certain radius of frens and fam to start with.
The Israeli pager attack was so simple it was cruelly genius, typical Mossad - effective with gross disregard for life. Then they also let in smartphones into Gaza while they were starving people, so they could replicate the same with all the phones sent in.
Reading your comment I was reminded of the Episode Metalhead from Black Mirror S4E5. That robo dog that is a smaller, sleeker, more lethal and efficient version of Boston Dynamics 'Spot' dog gave me the shudders then, as it does now. Though the efficiency of that device, with the denoting into trackers and such - insane and genius.
Tough times a-coming. We should all be prepping.
When you get some time, you could write the same info you've added in all the comments here, throw em into an editor LLM and publish a #Nostr note on " #FreedomTech for n00bs - what to do when your Nation State takes down your internet" kinda thing. Would be very helpful!
#TheMoreYouKnow #PrivacyRefuge #TechnofeudalRefuge
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