Having been in a survival situation, I can tell you that none of than happened. Mostly just selfishness and nightly gun fire. Better advice: Canned food, bottled water, battery powered lanterns, radio and good book. if you can afford it, some way to solar charge the lantern and radio and cellphone. Generators are really noisy and attract attention. I didn’t have power for 2 weeks and the roads were blocked with fallen trees.
Slightly unrelated but a good place to plug my recent hobby. Meshtastic. set up a node and coordinate with friends to connect the whole area.
Not only it is a secure clandestine chat network. it will work when the networks are down, allowing you to coordinate with everyone. Give them a battery/solar and they will work no matter what, electric grid down, you can still coordinate.
I am currently working with local action groups to get the whole city connected
Maybe I am overoptimistic, but I would love if hobbyist and action groups manage to get the whole nation connected. then you would not need a data plan or a carrier to be able to communicate.
helltec v3 kits are about 20$ very few hobbies are this cheap to get in.
Although I have gotten out of control I am keeping things cheap so far.
Using some boom extensions that were about 30$ each and a couple of long range antennas for another 50$each and a few boards I am trying to test a connection between me and a friend.
If it works well I will make a proposition in my DSA to connect the whole city as I am getting near the point where I can’t really afford to expand the grid by myself and continue with other action groups and mutual aid obligations I have.
About connecting the whole nation, I am not sure if Meshtastic has a technical size limit, but without a doubt, if the grid gets popular enough that said limit is an issue, it will be updated or fixed.
Having been in a survival situation, I can tell you that none of than happened. Mostly just selfishness and nightly gun fire. Better advice: Canned food, bottled water, battery powered lanterns, radio and good book. if you can afford it, some way to solar charge the lantern and radio and cellphone. Generators are really noisy and attract attention. I didn’t have power for 2 weeks and the roads were blocked with fallen trees.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Super_Outbreak
Slightly unrelated but a good place to plug my recent hobby. Meshtastic. set up a node and coordinate with friends to connect the whole area.
Not only it is a secure clandestine chat network. it will work when the networks are down, allowing you to coordinate with everyone. Give them a battery/solar and they will work no matter what, electric grid down, you can still coordinate.
I am currently working with local action groups to get the whole city connected
That looks pretty cool. I’m going to look into it.
Maybe I am overoptimistic, but I would love if hobbyist and action groups manage to get the whole nation connected. then you would not need a data plan or a carrier to be able to communicate.
That was my thought as well, and it seems like the parts are relatively inexpensive.
helltec v3 kits are about 20$ very few hobbies are this cheap to get in.
Although I have gotten out of control I am keeping things cheap so far.
Using some boom extensions that were about 30$ each and a couple of long range antennas for another 50$each and a few boards I am trying to test a connection between me and a friend.
If it works well I will make a proposition in my DSA to connect the whole city as I am getting near the point where I can’t really afford to expand the grid by myself and continue with other action groups and mutual aid obligations I have.
About connecting the whole nation, I am not sure if Meshtastic has a technical size limit, but without a doubt, if the grid gets popular enough that said limit is an issue, it will be updated or fixed.