What’s the Max Distance my Ham Radio Will Work?

[Watchman]

As preppers, maintaining your own self-contained methods of long-distance communication is a great idea. When things get really bad, you probably won’t be able to depend on landlines and cell phones, to say nothing of the internet, especially in an emergency situation.

However, you will be able to depend on the radio so long as you can power it. But for those of us who don’t have much experience in the world of amateur, or ham radio, it is difficult to make heads or tails of what kind of performance and range we can expect.

Will a ham radio set let you communicate with someone a couple of miles away? 10 miles away? 100 miles away? What is the maximum distance a ham radio will work? READ FULL ARTICLE HERE