Posted on 10/11/2019 6:36:35 AM PDT by AU72
Yes, it is. They got wind that patriots would use repeaters and are attempting to shut them down through land rent fees.
As a General license holder myself, this is absolutely retarded. There are so many HAMs that take FEMA classes and get certified in case of a disaster in order to save lives that FEMA is too incompetent to save.
Absolutely ridiculous.
I heard the NSA cannot monitor it.
Just imagine if Hillary had won. Many of the crazy proposals we see today would be in place, accelerated, accompanied by even worse ideas, and fully backed by the all branches of government. We’d be driving 100 mph off a cliff.
The Left had it’s game plan. 8 years of Obama to get things ready, then Hillary in the White House to totally gut the country.
They are still trying to execute to that plan. Let’s see how it goes for them.
Art Bell and Wayne Green are both rolling over in their graves...
Obviously they’ve bought their own line of crap that shortwave is the province of white supremacist militia-types.
Therein lies the cause: California has gone full Communist. Much of CA has become another country and an enemy one at that.
They can. In fact, they do. There are a number of satellites that monitor VHF communications.
The left wants to eliminate any type public mass communication that it can't control entirely.
Most cell towers require direct electricity connections with very short backup battery time. Those that have back up generators are constantly having the diesel stolen from their tanks.
IIRC,at one time there was a canyon in Ventura county where the fire department radios didn’t work. A ham would go along to provide comms.
How will deep state coup plotters send emails & messages without being detecTed by NSA? Nellie Ohr is sad.
Another thing Trump needs to nationalize or something. Maybe an EO can help this.
Nellie Ohr (KM4UDZ) thinks ham radio is a viable option for secure communication.
Ham radio is one of the easiest things for the NSA or you to monitor.
All you need is radios that cover the assigned ham radio frequencies and an antenna, and you can monitor it all.
Transmissions are in voice, Morse code and digital, AM and FM and single sideband, etc, so you have to learn a little and invest a little to hear and see it all, but it's doable.
Encryption, to the best of my knowledge, is not allowed.
The clock is ticking
The slinky antenna is cool, But how would you measure it to trim for wave length?
Ping.
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