Listen up faggots, general ham radio anon here with a SHTF primer on open air comms.

First, get a radio. You're a poor dirty nigger and you wouldn't know a radio store if you were throwing a rock through its window so let's just buy the cheapest piece of shit you can. It's chyna garbage called baofeng, get the UV-5R.

Next, figure out where hams talk and listen. Remember that this is licensed spectrum and you'd be too fucking dumb to pass the technician exam without a minority exemption even if there was going to be a place to take it after the world ends. With that said, don't fucking transmit, shut the fuck up and listen. If you transmit and don't know the protocol (including use of your callsign,) you'll have elmers fox hunting your signal faster than you can jump over fences. You think mask nazis are bad, just wait until you interrupt two old dudes having a conversation about the weather with an unlicensed transmission.

Now that you know to keep your big fucking nigger lips shut go to repeaterbook.com or get the repeaterbook app on your stolen iphone. It's going to have a list of all the repeaters in your area. You can straight up tune your radio to these, but you won't be able to broadcast through the repeater. These are the frequencies established faggots in the area will congregate around when everything goes tits up. You won't be able to transmit through these repeaters because, again, you're unlicensed nigger trash, but also because you don't know how to program the offset and TSQL tones into your cheap chyna radio. Anyone tuned in on those frequencies will hear you if they're close enough though. Print out your repeater list with all of the columns, even if you don't know what the fuck it's all for.

If you want to actually know what the fuck you're doing, get the ARRL technician license manual, it explains everything you'll need to know for the VHF/UHF bands that you can use cheap chyna radios for.