Here is a link to the Department of Homeland Security website about natural disaster preparation.
www.ready.gov
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What have you done today to be prepared?
- Thread starter Rabbid Possum
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Prep all you like but the End is coming for Everyone & Everything. Death is not something to Fear if you have made your arrangements for the Next Life. You can't beat death of the body. I'm putting my efforts & energy on the next life. People are stressing over this one & the stress is only Killing them sooner than if they would just Relax & plan ahead of this life. Someone will enjoy what you have stored when you go but it will not save them either just prolong the same ending.
Well I dunno about prep but I bought this as a midlife crisis. Its far from new has dents scrapes etc but to be ridden not garage queened. Lol
Nice bike!! Yes Sir, I'm not sure if you would call it prepping, but damn, I'd sure love to ride off on that whenever the SHTF. 
All that, and the bike ain't too bad neither hehehe
So there's a guy at church on the Security team that showed me his Rapid Radio.
He said if the cell phone towers go down him and his wife could still communicate.
From my understanding it's a big joke they do use cell phone towers.
He said if the cell phone towers go down him and his wife could still communicate.
From my understanding it's a big joke they do use cell phone towers.
Yes, they still don't understand, there claim to fame is that they use ' multiple cell services' to find a signal, not just one carrier.
That magically somehow jumps around all the systems to find one that's operating great if more that one provider is available......
And you still have a monthly or yearly fee.
They still depend on cellular companies to work and if they are down you are still screwed.
I can drive up to the Merced River canyon today and nothing cellular works past Railroad flat, there are just no towers up there.
Just like In the back country of Yosemite or the Sierra there are many places we're there is no cell service, none, zero.
If you need reliable communication when cellular is down or not available, better start looking to buy a sat phone and whip out the debit card......
73
Jeff
The advertising on these is so misleading, it basically amounts to a a scam...
Boy that really misleading isn't it unbelievable what they're feeding people. Thanks
Here is a reply from rapid radios when questioned about how they work when cellular towers are down......
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They are LTE/4G based (1920-1980 MHz). Unlike a cell phone, we utilize ALL the major US carriers - every single one, so there is built-in redundancy and 99.9% coverage. Not just 1 carrier. This is also different technology than a "phone call" with instant communications, great quality, and NO monthly fees or subscriptions ever. We utilize LTE and also 4G technology. We have relationships with ALL the carriers to have data at an omnibus level, allowing us to not charge you any monthly fees.
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Next pointed out to them that billing for a years worth of service, compared to a monthly charge is still getting billed, and it's not free, you still have to pay after you purchase the radio.
Also stated that they really did not answer the question, and asked again, will the radios work if "all" the towers are down.
They have now gone silent and won't answer anymore.....
Bahaha
73
Jeff
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They are LTE/4G based (1920-1980 MHz). Unlike a cell phone, we utilize ALL the major US carriers - every single one, so there is built-in redundancy and 99.9% coverage. Not just 1 carrier. This is also different technology than a "phone call" with instant communications, great quality, and NO monthly fees or subscriptions ever. We utilize LTE and also 4G technology. We have relationships with ALL the carriers to have data at an omnibus level, allowing us to not charge you any monthly fees.
""""
Next pointed out to them that billing for a years worth of service, compared to a monthly charge is still getting billed, and it's not free, you still have to pay after you purchase the radio.
Also stated that they really did not answer the question, and asked again, will the radios work if "all" the towers are down.
They have now gone silent and won't answer anymore.....
Bahaha
73
Jeff
they should have partnered with starlink instead of the cellular towers.
I know, probably wouldn't work without the phased array to follow the sats.
I know, probably wouldn't work without the phased array to follow the sats.
Some people don't care how it works, just that it does, and that's the hook. Thats all it takes, just a few regular users. Pretty soon, it will be convenient (like facebook) to get the radio to be able to communicate with those that already have one, and before you know it, that convenience will become the norm. The end result (in a decade) will be 90% of casual radio comms being routed through a third party that records them without your consent.
I may be going too far down Conspiracy Lane here, but I think the government is subsidizing these LTE walkie-talkies. Its next to impossible to monitor all communications at once, something we know they love doing. It would take too many ground stations to do that for VHF+, and satellites would need directional arrays and only have the ability to monitor limited areas simultaneously for a limited time window (assuming they could isolate the conversations). I think this is a push to get everyday conversations through a third party, not for reliability or convenience of communication, but for ease of surveillance using already-established infrastructure. Whenever a service is provided by a big company and a monthly fee is not involved, the government surely has an interest in the result.
I know for a 100% fact that there are at least 3 warehouses full of nothing but data servers for recording cellular data (calls and texts) permanently (knew a guy building them), so why wouldn't they try to get radio comms tied into the same system? Why not make consumer products so RFI non-compliant that local receiving sucks so bad you buy something digital like this?
I may be going too far down Conspiracy Lane here, but I think the government is subsidizing these LTE walkie-talkies. Its next to impossible to monitor all communications at once, something we know they love doing. It would take too many ground stations to do that for VHF+, and satellites would need directional arrays and only have the ability to monitor limited areas simultaneously for a limited time window (assuming they could isolate the conversations). I think this is a push to get everyday conversations through a third party, not for reliability or convenience of communication, but for ease of surveillance using already-established infrastructure. Whenever a service is provided by a big company and a monthly fee is not involved, the government surely has an interest in the result.
I know for a 100% fact that there are at least 3 warehouses full of nothing but data servers for recording cellular data (calls and texts) permanently (knew a guy building them), so why wouldn't they try to get radio comms tied into the same system? Why not make consumer products so RFI non-compliant that local receiving sucks so bad you buy something digital like this?