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Thanks for that link - very interesting document.

I would endorse Wulfshead's comment re putting a better antenna on the Baofeng. Any improvement in an antenna is reciprocal for both transmit and receive - i.e. it will improve both whereas increasing transmit power won't do much to improve your ability to receive the other station!

Sorry - that should have been RNLI of course - the lifeboats. That would be for confidential traffic near to shore and in range of land-based mobile phone towers.

As Hamradioop says, the "Blue Light" organIzations currently use the TETRA system on UHF (400MHz) which cannot be monitored with normal scanners. However, just to make life more interesting they will shortly be migrating to use the commercial 4G network - the same as your mobile phone -whi...

Just an idea: http://www.stuffa.co.uk

A tad expensive, but does mean you can WEAR some bug-out kit.

Knowing that some on this site use radios such as the Yaesu FT-817 and similar, you might be interested in the products from this company for man pack portable: Http://www.portablezero.com I have fitted my 817 with the side rails and also have their Sherpa pack. I can now carry the radio, antenna tu...

Thanks for the welcome, everyone. I'll look forward to joining in some discussions. Maybe I can impart some info too, having been in a couple of situations where I had to be self-reliant due to severe weather -both very cold and very hot!
Regards,
Keith

Good evening - I have just joined the discussion board although I have been mildly interested in prepping for a while. My location is - shall we say - north of Watford Gap and just leave it at that! I do have a bug-out bag ready to go, with 3 days' worth of clothing, food, cooking facilities and ute...