Hey PEDES... quick tip... I work in the Hospitality industry. PLAN ON HOTELS CANCELING RESERVATIONS!!! PLAN ON FLIGHTS BEING CANCELED!!! PLAN ON RENTAL CARS BEING UNAVAILABLE OR CRAZY EXPENSIVE!!! PLAN ON ROOMS AND FLIGHTS BEING OVERBOOKED!!!
Also, PLAN ON YOUR CELL SERVICE BEING UNAVAILABLE!! MINE WAS AT TIMES DURING MillionMAGAmarch!! GET CB RADIOS!! (Even if they’re Walmart. You can always return them)
Finally, Know what’s at your disposal (Mini rally’s, fan groups). KNOW WHERE YOU ARE! WHERE YOU’RE GOING!! HOW TO GET BACK (to determined location) And HAVE AN EMERGENCY PLAN/MEETING POINT!!!
Remember, the dems have Soros and big tech money behind them!!! They will do whatever they can to inconvenience us!! PLAN PLAN PLAN!!! AND HAVE A BACK UP PLAN!!!
I agree with OP. They are going to pull out all the stops on this. Expect the Mayor of DC to demand that all Hotels and Restaurants close due to covid. Expect airlines to cancel flights. Expect roads to be blocked.
Go early. Make reservations outside the city. Have a plan to get to the city.
Good point with the road closures... didn’t even think about that!! Yea mayor Bowser is a cunt and expect the Police to be on hyper alert against non liberals (ie. They’ll try to fuck with you over any little thing)... remember, crime is decriminalized only for Liberals
They will do everything they can to stop this. It wont be easy!
DO NOT GET CB RADIOS.
Regular blister pack walkie talkies are FRS/GMRS and if you haven’t prepared then they’ll be your best bet.
I agree with the rest of this, and it was probably just a careless misuse of the term by OP.
/nerd
Good choice....and that's coming from a licencesd Amateur Radio dork for the past 35 years. FRS/GMRS is very underutilized and was left dormant due to the popularity of cell phones. I have an old pair of Radio Shack FRS/GMRS walkie-talkies with speech inversion scrambling. They give you an extra layer of private point-to-point communications and royally piss off the FCC.
Speech inversion??? That’s old school cool!
Thanks for the kudos. You can definitely catch some distance on a CB, but who wants to pack an 11m yagi? Lol.
Any recommendations on which radios to purchase? Brand, make, model?
Not really? I’d think just check the specs to make sure it’s 2w fm on the (iirc) FRS band. I forget which is which, but one band allows unlicensed operation at 2w, the other at 0.5. Again IIRC, The law used to say 0.5 for both so maybe some older radios would be limited.
Now that I think about it- If you’ve got time to prepare and you have a group you’re not interested in talking outside of, MURS is another band you can use without a license. I’ve only ever seen one in a Microcenter once, but the internet is always your friend. MURS used to be for businesses, and some have grandfathered licenses which take precedent, so if there’s like a Walmart around you’re technically in the wrong if you interrupt their operations.
Lastly, the Baofeng Uv-5r or bf-f8hp are both capable of listening and transmitting on amateur, FRS, GMRS and MURS frequencies. talking on the amateur bands without a license, or on the other freqs with a baofeng is illegal, though they’d have a hard time proving it was you and enforcement is the job of the FCC. Listening on any band is not illegal.
How dare me!!! And I’m a tech nerd too... 🤦🏼♂️🤦🏼♂️ Yes, CB broadcasts publicly, can’t have that
I mean they all transmit in the open..
CB just wasn’t built for a walkie talkie form factor. The cheap ones are 4w AM at the antenna jack (thanks FCC..) and half that power is being used for the carrier, and at 27mhz the ideal quarter wave antenna is like 105” so if you buy one with an 8” antenna you’re getting like 0.2w radiated power (that’s wrong but you get the idea) which makes for a nice hand warmer but won’t get you far beyond line of sight.
FRS/GMRS is up to 2w FM radiated power. FM has its own issues in a setting like that but will generally be easier to use for short range point to point contacts.
Don’t get me wrong, the absolute glut of glorious democracy is going to overwhelm DC’s infrastructure regardless :)
Move to encrypted communication channels when you do have a signal
They'll do everything possible to disrupt this.
LOOK OUT FOR ONE ANOTHER.
Help out patriots in need of anything: food, drink, a place to crash, warm clothing.. the four basic human needs... no surprise there.
Great, practical advice
I agree... but you won’t see it stickied 😉
Ya, still cringing at that "Daddy says.." top stickied post 😬
Use mesh network apps on your cell for comms.
Freeze dried ice cream doesn’t taste THAT bad so maybe stock up on some
Buy the airline ticket... shit, if they cancel it, they’ll give you a refund and you may be able to squeeze some vouchers out of them (ya know for Jan 20th) for the inconvenience. I’ve slept at airports myself. Don’t like it but it’s doable.
I forgot to mention, expect food stores and shops to be either closed or sold out... and expect excessive wait times for Uber Eats or any other small take out places. Fast food and other shit chains may be able to handle the traffic as they’re probably preparing for it in advance
Or fly into Richmond or something then rent/take the train? Or fly into another nearby airport? shrugs
look to fly into DCA (obviously) or BWI, IAD, RIC