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1. If you haven’t already bugged well before TSHTF you’re dead meat.

2. Intra-team communications on the move in a convoy is relatively simple, with a variety of radio types available (CB, FRS, VHF, etc). Communications between widely separated units OTOH, is a different story. FM is good for line of sight, which may only be a block in an urban area, or 100 miles from a mountaintop. HF radio is better, but highly dependent on your antenna. My mobile HF whip can receive signals from hundreds of miles away, but typically cant transmit more than twenty. Stopping to set up an NVIS takes about a half hour, but improves transmission greatly. So practice, practice, practice.

3. Steve is 100% correct. Wire antennas are the most portable, but you need to measure and cut them ahead of time, and you need a plan to get the antenna up. Don’t think you can wait till there is an emergency to get yourself up to speed. Ask about to speak with amateur radio operators in your area.

4. A group is not the way to proceed. 3 individual families will do the job. Much less footprint.
   Fewer people enables everyone to know each capabilities and to just KNOW

   1. Really History seems to disagree with that statement…

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