So I got a little tecsun FM/MW/SW radio, but playing around with it I barely pick up anything from the local area on the MW / SW. Any cheap and light options for a serious SHTF scenario? I'm not bothered by 2 way communication.

I have a baofeng

I can pick up repeaters with the Nagoya antenna

found my baofeng radios

I got a baofeng uv-5rtp recently and was bummed when I realized the local repeater near me is in the 220 band

I was thinking about returning this one and getting a tri-band, but at this point I'm not sure I want to be getting anything from china in the mail

would it be worth it to get a tri-band if only for that local repeater, or can I expect other folks to be on the VHF and UHF bands when the boogaloo happens

I don't think anything *from* China is going to be showing up in your mail anytime soon lmao

kek

lol

you know what I mean, though

I feel like at this point, getting something shipped to me through the mail is a risk

since this thing can survive for up to 5 days on surfaces

Theoretically you could decon with a bleach or alcohol solution in a spray bottle

I'm not a scientist, but I'm pretty sure that's how you decon just about anything else

Yeah, aight. I got it, haha

I'll just spray it down when it comes tomorrow

Tbh I think I'll keep the first one I got too, can't hurt to have a spare radio

Yeah it's never about how many guns *you* have, it's about how spread out they are in your squad.
Two hands are good, four is handtastic.

Depends on how tight you are with your bros

I don't really have a "squad" to speak of

My roommate thinks he's going to be able to get out of town before the roads get fucked--spoiler alert, he won't

bug in not out

internet wont go down

I suppose it's harder for SWAT stacks to get blueprints for homes and then navigate them than it is to move freely innawoods

you can get surrounded innawoods fast and pinpointed by thermals on ghetto birds

there're more chokepoints in your home and it's *your* home, a place familiar to you

I feel like the former has more options for movement than the latter though

oh fuck I forgot about police dogs

entirely

If you're researched you cant really do a lot