when obamanation regime attacks computer sites (FP), what can I do to keep in touch?

12/27/10 | self

[born2bfree]

I started traveling for work a little over three years ago. Before Obumer’s election I told my wife that if everything ever fell apart when I was not home and communications became a problem to find the local HAM operators and I would find one to get a message to her. Since then I have studied and taken the two test to become a General Class HAM. I still need to invest in some more equipment for HF frequencies, but I view it as getting ready or the future.

[born2bfree]

Thought this might help.

http://www.arrl.org/find-an-amateur-radio-license-class

Click on the other links on the page for more useful information.

[NTHockey]

>>HAM radio has a much broader reach, but requires a license and studying for exams, not to mention money for equipment and an area to set it up.<<

Not being paranoid; but getting a license puts your name on a government list. Just saying.

[Red Badger]

GMTA!!!!

[Red Badger]

HAM is the way to go?

What if you’re Jewish?................

[Red Badger]

Twelve dozen Phoenician liquor jugs?......

One Phoenician liquor jug on the wall,
One Phoenician liquor jug....
Take one down, pass it around,
143 Phoenician liquor jugs on the wall..................

[Protect the Bill of Rights]

Reminds me:
Note to self: follow up on email from head honcho at the USPIS (US Postal Inspection Service) informing me they are holding an out of country cash card for me worth a gazillion dollars.

[blindsangamon]

Shortwave and ham radio has tremendous ability to travel thousands of miles using simple equipment. However, except for remote areas of Africa, central Asia and the Pacific the internet and cell phones have become the primary communication media.
Some historical perspective: In the last century radio had a much more central role in communications than today. There are numerous stories of clandestine transmitters used by the resistance during WWII, and of shortwave pirates eluding the Soviets during the Cold War. Because of this utility, during both WWI and WWII, amateur radio transmissions were prohibited, with violators promptly hunted down over the likelihood they were spies. For this same reason, ham radio activity was tightly controlled in the USSR.
In the current environment, I can envision of incrementally harsh scenarios. The first is a quiet clampdown on websites perceived to be hostile to the administration, with websites ‘disappearing’, and Google search results being controlled. To some extent, this is already happening.
The next step would be an enhancement of the current Eschelon monitoring of internet, email, and wireless data, and name-gathering, harassment or persecution of those originating content seen as threatening.
The final, and most severe step would be the full-scale shutdown of internet, cell-phone data, and ham radio, but I don’t see it happening until the shooting war starts, because such an act would incite widespread unrest anyway.

In that event I could picture establishment of ‘Radio Free America’ broadcasts from Cuba or Canada.
Domestically, the FCC has radio-direction-finding equipment that could pinpoint a pirate or ham transmission within minutes, unless perhaps the transmitter was operated from a moving vehicle. Nonetheless, with the preferred means of communication (internet) taken offline, its replacement would be quickly devised. At that point having a ham license would be irrelevant, since all transmissions would be illegal anyway. The important thing is to have the skills and equipment to maintain communication.

In the mean time, at a minimum, get a decent, battery-operated shortwave receiver. Find out where your local ham radio club meets, and get your license.

[expatguy]

LOL