>>416626

That would require a shortwave (HF) "net" be established. HF communications requires a General Class Amateur Radio license, which is the second license in the the three license sequence. If you have taken high school physics and covered basic circuits, it should take a weekend to study and then take the test.

A 100W transceiver can be purchased new for $500-1000. It will really take about 600W to cover the CONUS with voice ("phone"). That will add $800-1000. A wire antenna that will handle that power will cost $200-300. The placement and alignment of the antenna can make your 600W seem like 1200W or 6W, so you will need an antenna tuner and analyzer for about $200.

So, you are talking about investing $2000-2500 to reliably get on the air.

You would probably like to add a PC and some digital text freeware so you could "text" or "email", but it would readout much like a news wire and not be searchable, unless you left it receiving all of the time.

Pick a few frequencies that have good propagation for the time of day. Go to www.qrz.com to find out what frequencies are best that day. (we are in a sunspot minimum, so coverage is not great)

Now, most people DO NOT NEED TO TRANSMIT. In that case, you can spend much less and get a Software Defined Radio for about $200-600 and attach it to your PC and a lightweight wire antenna. There is great freeware to decode radio teletype (RTTY) or Morse Code (CW).

Believe it or not, I have found that during USA emergencies and political upheaval, the most objective sources of news are the giant national propaganda shortwave stations from the former USSR, the BBC and Central/South America. In many ways, they do not know the details of the politics to slant things consistently and they have to explain things to a world audience.

I am very old. During the Nixon impeachment hearings, the most objective coverage was from Radio Moscow and Radio Kiev, because they could not contemplate an open and peaceful change of power, so they studied it like Jane Goodall studying gorillas in the mist.

>>417118

Radio hobbyist here.

I had a nightmare last night that woke me up.

Somebody asked me to design a system to put RF energy into someone's skull at 4-30 Hz.

I decided to use a cell phone and to modulate the power lever of the the general transmission. This is like changing the "bars" of power 4-30 times a second. The proximity of the transmitter to the skull was only an inch or two, so the coupling was very efficient. Since I was modulating the power, and not touching the signal, it was nearly undetectable.

It worked great.

Everytime someone made a cell call, there was a 4-30 HZ message being sent to their brain.

Folks, this is easy.

And scary.

>>417271

I am caffeinated now.

It is still easy if I am designing or programming a cell phone with access to the low level operation system functions.

The base station sends a file to the phone. The phone's opsys then executes this file to modulate the power when a call is being placed. I could even suppress the bar display, so the toggling is not noticeable.

I have no idea if this V2K stuff works, but I can design a system to make cell phones push undetectable signals. I do know that after a long cell call, my head hurts and I am stuffy on the side of my face where the cell phone was.

Over the course of 10 years, if this was a central plan, the entire cell phone population would be so equipped.

I am buying a hard wire ear bud/microphone set today with an extension cable.