Something big is on the horizon for terrorist attacks, and it appears that these probing attacks on cyber/communications/emergency infrastructure are test runs for what they have in mind. Having the corrupt child sniffing dementia riddled puppet in the white house leaving the border wide open for 3 years has made this even more likely.

It has prompted me to get the family onboard with emergency comms. I live 20+ miles away on the edge of the suburbs and work near the urban center. For the first time my wife is actually receptive to me leaving a HT out and on a given frequency for a little used 1.25m repeater. If the lines are down, I can keep her up-to date on my whereabouts. I’d imagine 2m repeaters would be jammed with traffic. I also want to test to see how far we can get simplex reception. The new house is on a hill that overlooks much of the city, I suspect if I were to transmit from a hill in the city I’d be able to reach my home.

Time to procrastinate on these plans has passed.