@nickl3872 The antenna set up is a farm of stuff. Triple stack yagi, inverted V, slopers, verticals, sattlelight tracking. They have it all I think.

@@LiveFree-pk8ej beautiful, hope we make contact soon. Im just getting started

The 40m band ends at 7.300mhz so if you transmit on it your signal will go out of band. 7.297 is as high as you can legally transmit in my country. 14.200 is the North American distress calling and emergancy frequency for disasters. Long range frequency monitoring is not going to give you local intel for a local emergency like flooding, fire, power out due to heavy snow and that's sort of thing. Now if your talking wide spread war or nation wide civil unrest.... That's beyond the scope of my video's. Thanks for watching hope you enjoyed.

Thank you for watching hope you enjoyed

I would not put any radio on air until the full effect of the EMP or high solar flair is over. There is no reason to take any risks. And after you may need it to call help for a community member that is injured. Thanks for watching hope you enjoyed.

That is true you can be located fast. We do it all the time. Call it a fox hunt. But for civil disaster or weather related operations, there is no one trying to get you anymore than right now. If the government is out to get you, your cell phone knows right where you are. There is no situation where my government is coming to get me. Too many other people of concern to them to even think of me. Just saying I'm not an important target.

Got that right. If the Feds actively come after me, they are Damm desperate and I have been dead for awhile.

Not true, if you’re even listening with power on, not even transmitting with an antenna connected I can find you. Every superheterodyne receiver has a local oscillator that is tracking the transmitter frequency, It is low level but with good receivers it can/will be received. Another point, every human’s voice has a unique fingerprint. Once that biometric fingerprint is correlated with a face then you, the individual will be instantly identified regards what ever means you try to change your voice. Ever wonder why Anonymous use’s a computer generated voice? This is why….

@judd_s5643 as well every transmitter has 2 built in ID codes. They are programmed by the chips build and can not be changed. You would need to replace the chip set. But only a few branches of government have the ability to receive the signal and decode it. But in all honesty if those branches of government are looking for you, Your screwed. Just saying Behave

Most power out events will be too small for governments to bother with amature radio restrictions. For all out war, they might but will be too busy to enforce it, and there will be too many people using it anyway. The radio's I have can monitor from 0.500.00mhz to 29.999.99 mhz and from 100.000.00 mhz to 520.000.00 mhz. So, as far as monitoring rf for Intel purposes goes, I'm doing no too bad. For all emergency situations, you want to refrain from transmitting to keep airways clear for emergency radio traffic. I would only transmit if needed. All other times I'll just receive. Thanks for watching hope you enjoyed.

I'm on Murs. Now

The best advice I can possibly give is to, Google your town, city or county followed by ham radio club. There you will find an inviting community to help you learn ham radio. It's cheap as it gets and the knowledge you'll get is worth gold. If you look at some of my other videos on solar or comms. The knowledge is all from ham radio course. I know nothing about it before becoming a ham radio operator. Thanks for watching hope you enjoyed.

You can prep all you want, but if the civil war ever comes you guys are going to lose the same way you did the first time. There are plenty of people out there like me who make you look like wannabes. You can't beat stem no matter how much you try no matter how much you train the bottom line is where the people who are training you We are the people who develop the training. without us your weapons your radios and training would not exist. The student cannot defeat the master. I have degrees in organic chemistry, I'm a retired aerospace engineer and live on a ranch with my own shooting range. The best advice I have is to stay as far away from people like me as you can. I can render your RF communications dead as a doornail with a flick of a switch. I wonder how many of you preppers can build an initial guidance system in the garage ? If you don't know what that means, it means I can take you out and you'd never even know what happened. Oh and for the record, inertial guidance systems don't require a GPS signal yet they arrival GPS for positional accuracy. The Bible says that the meek show inherit the Earth, We also know that Darwinism means that the most adaptable will survive. see the uneducated think that survival of the fittest means survival of the physically strongest and the most well-trained, it does not, it means those who are best educated and adaptable.

@@dannelson8556seems to make sense, but I still wish you had proofread more, because some of it have typos so, unclear exactly what you are saying. But I get that because you are smarter and better technologically trained and prepared, you will survive and I will not. Good to know that, because I wish you the best and hopefully whatever good you are doing now (such as giving the rest of us peons fair warning), you will continue to do when the SHTF. So thank you.

Correct the higher amps the thicker the wire needs to be. And the more loss you will have. BUT with a pwm charge controllers they don't covert the high voltage to amps so a parallel connection is better.

If you have solar panels far away and you want to avoid losing electricity, it is good if you connect solar panels close to the charging station, ok more cable will be used.

The G90 is connected straight to the battery. The video shows interference from the inverter. The batteries are lifepo4. All inverters give off some QRM this video was ment to show that. Thanks for watching.

@@LiveFree-pk8ej thx! i didn't get that from the vid.

Yes I commonly only use 1 watt. Untill I can't be heard then I'll put on the amp and use all 100 watts. Thanks for watching hope you enjoyed.

I keep spares in a shielded fared cage

​@@michaeljoyce4415"Faraday cage"

The issue I have with meshtastic is that it has a short range. You need units to extend, but that would depend on having a group in the community. If your 4 or 5 people working together in a small area, it becomes more viable. There are ham radios that have encryption, and in a total grid down situation, no one will be looking for you or trying to enforce radio rules anyway. They will be too busy doing important things.

Best bang for the buck so far. I'm looking at the x6200

Thanks for watching hope you enjoyed. I use a G90 radio and I am quite happy with it.

2 meter and 70cm is where most of the assistance traffic in a disaster is done. If your part of the help effort you'll use it alot. If your not part of the team then just listen.

Wouldn’t you WANT to be on a band where most folk are relaying all the important info? Also it’s “too crowded too dangerous”

It's not just for emergencies. I use it every week and every camping trip. But in an emergency I have lots of options to get the traffic sent.

Some have battery back up. But there is always simplex or radio to radio communications. My brother lives 17.5 KM away and we can communicate on simplex the whole way. My 2 meter antenna is up 30 ft and I live at a high elevation. Thanks for watching and commenting. I hope you enjoyed

Or just a good emergency with 3 day long power outages. Thanks for watching hope you enjoyed.

Been to the West or East coaast? Plenty of Zombies all ready :D

@@thecoffeez they are everywhere these days

Indeed, a video I have not made yet is on that subject. I'll take a battery with my 20amp and 40amp epever charge controller and show both working at the same time. Thanks for watching hope you enjoyed.

Nice work sir. I use 12v led lights instead of the fluorescent, you'll use less materials and energy using 12v lighting I think

Keep in mind that frequency changes with location. Research the frequencies in your location. 146.520 is the northAmerican calling frequency. For your hf rig, the G90 is inexpensive and punches far above its price point. Thanks for watching hope you enjoyed.

To test your Faraday cage, put your cellphone in it then call the phone. If it shows a missed call the signal got through. Most preppers that rely on a Faraday cage never test them, they just assume it will work. Thanks for watching hope you enjoyed

extra radios in alum wrap metal cabinet and metal trash cans. But when to pull them out? I think when I would need one as an extra to replace my primary.

It's funny when I got ham certified I thought I new radio. Then I got started on the path of the ham and found out there's so much more than meets the eye. I've never used ac power for my radio's it's always been solar battery. So the last time the power went out at my house I did not know until my son said the internet was down. Thanks for watching hope you enjoyed.

Hey brother you wouldn’t be in southern Oregon would you?lomgshorts3

@lonewolf2364 NO sir I'm in Canada. (Behing occupied lines). Just so you know the handle Lonewolf was what I used on CB in the 90's. Cool

someone who doesn't know the difference between new and knew Is going to need a lot more than ham radio to survive the apocalypse lol

​@@dannelson8556 Don't let auto correct deceive you. Google gets me every time

Yes, sir, vetting the gear has saved me many times. Thanks for watching Hope you enjoyed

My kit is all mobile solar. They can find what direction I was while transmitting. But not where I'll be by the time they get there... Never use the same TX sight twice. One and done. Thanks for your comment and watching. I hope you enjoyed.

Bring it!

Very hard to find a radio operator, you need a van full of equipment

@isawit9722 Well, there is a radio that does it all. It's knowing how to really use it that is the trick. Thanks for watching hope you enjoyed

Thanks for watching hope you enjoyed

I agree. I don't live in an HOA. It's just another unofficial branch of idiots acting like government to tell you how to live your life. All the while drinking bottle after bottle of vine trying to convince you they don't have a drinking problem or an unhappy marriage. But that's just my take on HOA's. Thanks for watching hope you enjoyed.

@@LiveFree-pk8ej I moved off the grid a few months ago and I found your channel a couple weeks ago 👍🇨🇦🤠. I spend nearly all my downtime watching KZbin videos about solar and the like, and that's how I came across you. We're subbed 🐶🐶🤠

I would listen to air traffic first. If the air port is landing planes as fast as they can you know the event is big.

Yep, I live in a million plus county….uhf/vhf is alway dead. GMRS is always rocking.

@@LiveFree-pk8ej I did this during 911, I was in my vehicle 150 miles from home working in southern Illinois. Hearin the air traffic and reroutes told me right away something big was possible.

@@plusorminusandtime GMRS is UHF

@@MountainMan7.62x39 Yes, it is, buddy BUT....GMRS is a difference services from the ham uhf/vhf. AKA you can't use them if you only have your ham license. Thanks you for playing. Next time read a book before you post your nonsense, son. P.S. Good luck with that round.

I have one... I'm only listening because the government apparently owns the air too....

No I've not noticed anything. I have the controller in 20,40 and 100 amp no ringing at all. But you are the second person to have this issue that I'm aware of. Thanks for watching hope you enjoyed

@@LiveFree-pk8ej I've also found others saying they heard a ring in the 20 and 40. It's a shame because it seems nice and seems to work well, but I just can't stand that ringing noise 😂

I am convinced there is no clean way to wire. But I'll keep trying anyway. Thanks for watching hope you enjoyed.

@@LiveFree-pk8ej I don't cut and shorten my wires either, mainly because i'm always upgrading and rearranging the layout. So the excess wire always looks confusing and messy. "Completed systems" can be wired clean, but you and i are not there yet.

That's the same thing I do. Just leave the wire long for future upgrades. Funny thing about hobby solar is your never done. Just a purchase away from the next evaluation of the system. Case in point my second 320ah battery has arrived yesterday and is now all hooked up. I'll do a video showing that and talking about how I messed up getting 4 foot 1/0 cables and not the 6 foot I thought I was getting (didn't read fine print, again).

Thanks for your comment. And half the fun is finding good inverters. Most are cheaply made and claim to be 3000 watt it's 300 if. Or pure sine wave and it's really poor modified. So far the new one I just got is doing good but I also rant and preach about testing and vetting your gear. Nothing like needing it to work and finding out it won't. Thanks for watching I hope you enjoyed.

Size matters, lol