Best Survival Ham Radios for Preppers: My Top 5 PicksThere are hundreds of handheld Ham radios on the market. A quick search on Google or on Amazon returns a huge number of brands, many with what are obviously of Chinese origin. There are a few caveats about buying these radios....
There are many software-defined radios on the market today and it’s not easy to pick one. We’ve tested SDRs, analyzed many confusing specifications and simplified the selection process to present you with our recommendations. After extensively researching Software-defined Radios (SDR), we have ...
Despite being one of the slimmest radios on the market today, this Galaxy offers you a full range of features. It incorporates the single-sideband capability on both the LSB and USB modes. It also presents you with RF Gain function that excellently blocks the statics and interferences for cri...
Instead of offering up a list of field radios on the market, and reviewing each one—and, to be fair, there aresomany these days—I’ll share with you a series of questions you might ask yourself before making a radio purchase, and follow up with a few bits of advice based on my o...
This CB radio also differentiates itself from others on the market with sweet features like built-in Bluetooth which means that you can use your smartphone to answer, place and terminate phone calls at the touch of a button while staying focused on the road. ...
This radio is considered to be one of the best two-way radios on the market. On top of being able to tune FM and NOAA stations, you have the ability to tune VHF and UHF frequencies as well. Being able to transmit on many different bands during a survival scenario could get you rescue...
While HAM radios also provide another means of communication, satellite phones are the creme of the crop that is mostly immune to earthbound disasters. Sure, an EMP, CME, or other disaster could take them out of the picture- but these disasters are less likely. ...
Two-way radios fall into one of three types: Citizens’ Band (a.k.a. CBs), General Mobile Radio Service (GMRS), or ham. They all operate on different frequencies and have varying wattage outputs and ranges. We’ve broken down the differences in greater depth below before our reviews of...
When we think of the Raspberry Pi operating system we instantly think of the giant raspberry wallpaper that is prominently placed on the Raspbian desktop. But is Raspbian still the best distro for the Pi? Well we put Raspbian up against two new distros for the Raspberry Pi, but these are...
The PetLibro Polar automatic wet food feeder has a big footprint; however, we loved that it has built-in refrigeration. There aren’t many wet food feeders with built-in refrigeration on the market, but we found this appliance superior to using ice packs like we had to do...