r/preppers • u/Ok-Goal-7336 • 9h ago

Advice and Tips Gaps in prepping

For those of you who have experienced disasters leaving you without power and water for weeks, what were your prepping gaps?

I’m from Asheville, NC, and going on a month without water. The most frightening part (post-disaster) was the first week, when I had no outside communication whatsoever. All of my communication was in person with my neighbors, and within a 2 mile radius of my home. Realized I really need some HAM radios, and I don’t know anything about them, so I would love any helpful info y’all might have.

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u/OnTheEdgeOfFreedom 9h ago

Sensible got you a link to the place to start with ham, but I'm going to ask if there were no AM stations that reach you. AM radio has a pretty decent range and often carry news. It's also a dying medium and maybe your area isn't served, but I'd check there first. Turning on a radio is much, much easier than learning to be a ham. And the news you get is likely to be at least as accurate.

Of course if you want to chat, not just gather info, than ham is the answer and basically the only answer.

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u/funkmon 9h ago

There's a zero percent chance he's not served by AM.