Hello Gil and the rest of the Fellows -
I'm new to Gil's forum, a long time ham - going on forty years on the air now. I've done a lot of backwoods radio, both in the US and outside of the country and even aboard a sailboat for a few years. Having worked communications under some pretty dire field conditions and also played a lot in the mountain west with my QRP rigs, CW is absolutely my favorite and most dependable mode.
These days, I'm looking more at how to make our little home more self sufficient, communications being the strong point, followed by 'mini-farming' and etc. It's clear that we're in trouble as a nation. In my past, I worked a lot with refugees from the communist bloc. Virtually all of them said of their over-run homelands: "we never thought that it would happen here". At least they had an America to escape to. I think that learning to communicate withOUT commercial infrastructure would be very helpful, even if nothing drastic ever happens. If - God forbid - it should happen, then at least we have some options and sources of raw information outside of the controlled media.
73 de Ray
W7ASA ..._ ._
I'm new to Gil's forum, a long time ham - going on forty years on the air now. I've done a lot of backwoods radio, both in the US and outside of the country and even aboard a sailboat for a few years. Having worked communications under some pretty dire field conditions and also played a lot in the mountain west with my QRP rigs, CW is absolutely my favorite and most dependable mode.
These days, I'm looking more at how to make our little home more self sufficient, communications being the strong point, followed by 'mini-farming' and etc. It's clear that we're in trouble as a nation. In my past, I worked a lot with refugees from the communist bloc. Virtually all of them said of their over-run homelands: "we never thought that it would happen here". At least they had an America to escape to. I think that learning to communicate withOUT commercial infrastructure would be very helpful, even if nothing drastic ever happens. If - God forbid - it should happen, then at least we have some options and sources of raw information outside of the controlled media.
73 de Ray
W7ASA ..._ ._