Civil Unrest – Defense (part 2)

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This is a continuation of the series on civil unrest. While cell phones were previously mentioned you should have another communication plan.  Develop a communications plan and get radios for every member of your family.  Plan that the cell phone system will go down, be overloaded or deliberately blocked.  Have a portable/handheld radio.  Have a plan with your family and other members of your community group.  Use frequencies that are less used, such as the 220mhz ham band (get a ham license).  The BTECH UV-5x3 works on the GMRS and FRS frequencies as well as the VHF and UHF ham bands, including the 220mhz band.  The common FRS and GMRS frequencies should be part of your plan.  Depending on where you live you might consider setting up your own GMRS repeater, their frequencies are not in the ‘off the shelf’ radios.  GMRS repeaters can be found fairly cheaply as commercial users were required to go to narrow banding and there is a lot of surplus equipment that can be re-tuned to GMRS frequencies.  This will provide you communications over a longer distance.  While codes cannot be used on ham or GMRS/FRS frequencies there are ways to phrase something that...