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Situational Awareness is the ability to identify, process, and comprehend the critical elements of information about what is happening in your area with regards to your safety and survival. More simply, it's knowing what is going on around you. Having a compact radio that covers most of the frequencies that are used by law enforcement, and prepper groups will be a great asset.

This is a good listing of frequencys that would be useful for "Monitoring" during any type of a emergency to find out what is taking place.

For a great little hand held radio, that will take care of your SHTF communications at a very low cost, I suggest one of the many Baofeng hand held radios. These are available online everywhere, but for warranty purpose, I would go with Baofeng Tech. To research it, there are a few Baofeng Groups on Facebook that you can do some research on, and also http://www.miklor.com, which has a tremendous amount of information about these radios.

NOAA Weather Radio
162.4000 MHz
162.4250 MHz
162.4500 MHz
162.4750 MHz
162.5000 MHz
162.5250 MHz
162.5500 MHz	

Airband Emergency Frequency
121.5 MHz AM

FRS/GMRS Frequencies

Channel (MHz)

1 FRS/GMRS 462.5625
2 FRS/GMRS 462.5875
3 FRS/GMRS 462.6125 Preppers
4 FRS/GMRS 462.6375
5 FRS/GMRS 462.6625
6 FRS/GMRS 462.6875
7 FRS/GMRS 462.7125
8 FRS 467.5625
9 FRS 467.5875
10 FRS 467.6125
11 FRS 467.6375
12 FRS 467.6625
13 FRS 467.6875
14 FRS 467.7125
15 GMRS 462.5500
16 GMRS 462.5750
17 GMRS 462.6000
18 GMRS 462.6250
19 GMRS 462.6500
20 GMRS 462.6750
21 GMRS 462.7000
22 GMRS 462.7250

MURS

1	151.820 MHz	
2	151.880 MHz	
3	151.940 MHz	
4	154.570 MHz	
5	154.600 MHz	

MARITIME / U.S. VHF CHANNELS

01A	156.050	156.050	Port Operations and Commercial, VTS. 
05A	156.250	156.250	Port Operations or VTS.
06	156.300	156.300	Intership Safety
07A	156.350	156.350	Commercial
08	156.400	156.400	Commercial (Intership only)
09	156.450	156.450	Boater Calling. Commercial and Non-Commercial.
10	156.500	156.500	Commercial
11	156.550	156.550	Commercial. VTS in selected areas.
12	156.600	156.600	Port Operations. VTS in selected areas.
13	156.650	156.650	Intership Navigation Safety (Bridge-to-bridge). 
14	156.700	156.700	Port Operations. VTS in selected areas.
15	--	156.750	Environmental (Receive only). Used by Class C EPIRBs.
16	156.800	156.800	International Distress, Safety and Calling.
17	156.850	156.850	State Control
18A	156.900	156.900	Commercial
19A	156.950	156.950	Commercial
20	157.000	161.600	Port Operations (duplex)
20A	157.000	157.000	Port Operations
21A	157.050	157.050	U.S. Coast Guard only
22A	157.100	157.100	Coast Guard Liaison and Maritime Safety 
23A	157.150	157.150	U.S. Coast Guard only
24	157.200	161.800	Public Correspondence (Marine Operator)
25	157.250	161.850	Public Correspondence (Marine Operator)
26	157.300	161.900	Public Correspondence (Marine Operator)
27	157.350	161.950	Public Correspondence (Marine Operator)
28	157.400	162.000	Public Correspondence (Marine Operator)
63A	156.175	156.175	Port Operations and Commercial, VTS.
65A	156.275	156.275	Port Operations
66A	156.325	156.325	Port Operations
67	156.375	156.375	Commercial. Used for Bridge-to-bridge.
68	156.425	156.425	Non-Commercial
69	156.475 156.475	Non-Commercial
70	156.525	156.525	Digital Selective Calling 
71	156.575	156.575 Non-Commercial
72	156.625	156.625	Non-Commercial (Intership only)
73	156.675	156.675	Port Operations
74	156.725	156.725	Port Operations
77	156.875	156.875	Port Operations (Intership only)
78A	156.925	156.925	Non-Commercial
79A	156.975	156.975	Commercial. Non-Commercial in Great Lakes only
80A	157.025	157.025	Commercial. Non-Commercial in Great Lakes only
81A	157.075	157.075	U.S. Government only 
82A	157.125	157.125	U.S. Government only
83A	157.175	157.175	U.S. Coast Guard only
84	157.225	161.825	Public Correspondence (Marine Operator)
85	157.275	161.875	Public Correspondence (Marine Operator)
86	157.325	161.925	Public Correspondence (Marine Operator)
87	157.375	161.975	Public Correspondence (Marine Operator)
AIS 1	161.975	161.975	Automatic Identification System #1 (AIS) 
88	157.425	162.025	Public Correspondence only near Canadian border.
AIS 2	162.025	162.025	Automatic Identification System #2 (AIS) 
88A	157.425	157.425	Commercial, Intership only.


Amateur (HAM) Radio frequencies below.  These require a license. 
Most of these will be on Single Side Band, SSB

HAM Band Frequency range 
160 Meters	1.800 - 2.0000 MHz	
75/80 Meters	3.5000 - 4.0000 MHz	
60 Meters	(6 channelized frequencies) 5330.5 KHz � 5403.5 KHz	
40 Meters	7.0000 - 7.3000 MHz
20 Meters	14.0000 - 14.3500 MHz	
30 Meters	10.0000 - 10.1500 MHz
15 Meters	21.0000 - 21.44500 MHz	
17 Meters	18.0680 - 18.1680 MHZ
10 Meters	28.0000 - 29.7000 MHz	
12 Meters	24.8900 - 24.9900 MHz
6 Meters	50.1000 - 54.0000 MHz
2 meters	144.0000 - 148.0000 MHz	
1.25 Meters     219.0000 - 225.0000 MHz
70 CM		420.0000 - 450.0000 MHz


Citizens Band Radio (CB)  You will need a old CB radio for these.

CB Channel	Frequency	Frequency Use
Channel 1	26.965 MHz	
Channel 2	26.975 MHz	
Channel 3	26.985 MHz	Prepper CB Network (AM)
Channel 4	27.005 MHz	Used by many 4X4 clubs, Peppers Network.
Channel 5	27.015 MHz	
Channel 6	27.025 MHz	Many operators using illegal linears.
Channel 7	27.035 MHz	
Channel 8	27.055 MHz	
Channel 9	27.065 MHz	Universal C.B. Emergency / REACT Channel.
Channel 10	27.075 MHz	
Channel 11	27.085 MHz	Local calling channel
Channel 12	27.105 MHz	
Channel 13	27.115 MHz	Often used in some areas for RVs, and campers
Channel 14	27.125 MHz FCMA (Federal Motor Coach Assoc) heard here
Channel 15	27.135 MHz	Used by truckers in CA
Channel 16	27.155 MHz Used by many 4X4 clubs.
Channel 17	27.165 MHz	Used by truckers on the east-west roads in CA.
Channel 18	27.175 MHz	
Channel 19	27.185 MHz        Trucker channel
Channel 20	27.205 MHz	
Channel 21	27.215 MHz	Used also by truckers.
Channel 22	27.225 MHz	
Channel 23	27.255 MHz	
Channel 24	27.235 MHz	
Channel 25	27.245 MHz	
Channel 26	27.265 MHz	
Channel 27	27.275 MHz	
Channel 28	27.285 MHz	
Channel 29	27.295 MHz	
Channel 30	27.305 MHz	Channels 30 and up are often used for SSB.
Channel 31	27.315 MHz	
Channel 32	27.325 MHz	
Channel 33	27.335 MHz	
Channel 34	27.345 MHz	
Channel 35	27.355 MHz Australian calling channel
Channel 36	27.365 MHz	Unofficial USB calling channel
Channel 37	27.375 MHz	Prepper 37 (USB)
Channel 38	27.385 MHz	Unofficial LSB calling channel
Channel 39	27.395 MHz	SSB
Channel 40	27.405 MHz	SSB

A lot of people have CB's that have been modified 
for Freeband Operation. Freeband is operating below
 Channel 1 and above Channel 40 on the CB band. In 
 addition, there are frequencies between each CB 
 channel that are utilized in freebanding. Frequency 
 27.555 MHz (USB is the freeband calling channel)

Survivalist and Prepper CB and Freeband Frequencies

Frequency	USE
CB 3(AM) 26.9850MHz	Preppers
CB 36(USB) 27.3650MHz	Survivalist
CB 37(USB) 27.3750MHz	Prepper CB Network(AM)
Freeband(USB) 27.3680MHz Survivalist Network
Freeband(USB) 27.3780MHz Prepper Network
Freeband(USB) 27.4250MHz Survivalist Network

I wanted to get something to keep my 2 way radio, cell phone, flash lights, etc charged, so picked up a Solar Charger that can be mounted to my backpack to charge things on the move, or set on the ground to charge. It has both a 12 volt and a USB 5 volt charging ports. This should work out well.

My SHTF Page

Have a way to Defend Yourself	Planing a Bug Out Bag
Setting up a Bug Out Bag	Radio Gear and Frequencies
Shelter in Place information	Defense Pistol
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