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It’s two years now since I got the license to legally broadcast on the Amateur Radio bands. It takes skill, and knowledge. You can’t just tuck a ham radio into a bug out bag or emergency kit and expect to use it when you need it. I’m still screwing around with UHF/VHF radios. I also use the HF bands, made a few contacts, no international contacts from the US yet. Antennas are not just simple wires in a tree (but the can be if you know what you are doing.)

It’s two years now since I got the license to legally broadcast on the Amateur Radio bands. It takes skill, and knowledge. You can’t just tuck a ham radio into a bug out bag or emergency kit and expect to use it when you need it. I’m still screwing around with UHF/VHF radios. I also use the HF bands, made a few contacts, no international contacts from the US yet. Antennas are not just simple wires in a tree (but the can be if you know what you are doing.)

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You missed my point. You don’t need a license during the situation you described. But, you do need to know how operate your equipment. That takes practice, lots of practice. Get your license now, during the calm and learn emcom while you can. When your neighbors have fled and people are trying to break into your home is not the time to learn which knob is the audio and which one is the gain.

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Why do you need a license? Isn’t radio completely untraceable?

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easy to find you now a days. but you would need to be transmitting awhile and they would need to be looking for you

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Right but how do they know you don’t have a license? Who is even looking for this or enforcing it?

It’s like the quadcopter drone registration/license process, nobody does it and they fly these drones all over.

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What practice does it take, you buy the CB, you find a frequency, you talk.