Ham Radio / Off-grid communication

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I'm old enough to remember Wave 1 of people selling ham gear to preppers, the 80s 'Survivalist' wave. But then, guys making portable HF rigs seemed way more practical than deploying LTE nodes. The fuck's that going to do for you? It's one of the spammiest, most LOOK AT ME I AM A CELL TOWER modes you could use. Like, by design.

Also I never got the impression that there were actually more than a handful of those guys back then.
 
Mikoyan said:
I'm old enough to remember Wave 1 of people selling ham gear to preppers, the 80s 'Survivalist' wave. But then, guys making portable HF rigs seemed way more practical than deploying LTE nodes. The fuck's that going to do for you? It's one of the spammiest, most LOOK AT ME I AM A CELL TOWER modes you could use. Like, by design.

Also I never got the impression that there were actually more than a handful of those guys back then.
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The age of the internet really does allow for for the whackadoos to find each other and these ideas to spread. They generally arent as bad as the hardcore survivalist militia’y types but good one for reminding me where they came from.

I recall hearing about them back in the day, being similarly old 😆
 
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