I think it's pretty easy for modern triangulation equipment.

Another issue is the license. If you get a license then you are automatically on the list of people that they will want to suppress if the shutdown is intentional. Of course that's the same with a license to carry firearms but there are a lot more of those - and, by definition, those people are armed. :)

I think I would rather learn ham radio and get some equipment. But no license. Of course i would never use it without a license unless it were an extreme emergency. Never ever. :)

Depends on a few things, the most important being if direction finding equipment is available when they are transmitting. Second being time on air, third, frequency or frequencies used.

Ideally 3 or more widely dispersed DF sets plot a bearing and their positions and bearings are plotted on a map. Where the bearing lines cross is the transmitter location. That's the old school way.

Given today's satellites and what not, it is probably far easier.

Committees of Correspondence. In these 13 colonies. To undermine the tyrannies of King George. :)

I vote for Heliographs

Maybe post this in the Going Gulch category?

How easy is it to locate where a ham signal originates?

Jan

This is a fascinating piece, but I see two flaws in assuming Ham Radio would be a viable medium.

First, a disaster might take the form of a Solar Flare that could fry most radios and generators.

Second, if Civil Authorities determined that Terrorists might use the HAM Band to set off bombs during a crisis, they could reasonably be expected to immediately suspend or terminate all Radio Licenses making the use of radio communication illegal.

In short, if things were to get *really* dark you'd have to fall back to some form of Sneaker Net and rely on networks of physical, in person, human curriers or carrier pigeons to relay messages over long distances.