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If you're looking for an incredibly full-featured Ham Transceiver, look no
further than the Yaesu-817. 2-meter and 6-meter for local use, and then pretty much everything else for long distance. All you need is a good portable antenna and tuner and you'll never be out of touch. It's a "legal" QSL radio with it's maximum 5watt output and can be set up as a base station (many people have) or slip it into it's case and sling it over your shoulder for true portability. But by the way, you need to get your Ham license before you get one. Reputable Ham dealers will NOT sell you a transceiver unless you furnish your call sign that matches the address you want them to mail it to. MJC "mad amoeba" wrote in message . net... I was affected by the recent blackout in North East. That got me thinking of how would one communicate during such an event. Electricity including phones were out. Cellular phones didn't work either. So the only way of receiving informaiton was by radio. My old Sony wm-gx670 did quite nicely. But what if I would need to communicate with my relatives or even cops to let them know of an emmergency. If telephone/cellular/internet are not available what are my other options? Let's say people I want to communicate with are more than several miles away in an urban area. That makes CB radio useless--right? So then as far as I understand using ham radio is my only option. With that you can either get in touch with your relatives directly, provided they have ham radio as well, or you can call some person in an area without blackout and tell them to call police/ambulance etc if that's what you need. Not knowing much myself about scanners/shortwaves/hams myself I want to ask you guys with more experience if the below piece of equipment is what I need. As far as I understand this is an handheld ham radio which also functions as a scanner and can also receive on a shortwave band. So it will allow me to communicate with people far away even in urban setting, it is portable and it will also allow me to monitor news as well as police/firefighters etc. Am I right? Yaesu VX-2R http://www.universal-radio.com/catalog/ht/0176.html the price is kind of steep but for all-in-one product I would be willing to pay it. |
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