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I'm gonna pull on this thread. The prepper guys (probably all of us, to some extent) who awaken from their dream of cheap radios and go buy super-hot encrypted sexiness DID NOT (emphases placed out of a personal need to be annoying) walk into a store front and buy with cash. The bank spies on you. Stores spy on you. Every purchase you make is documented. So it doesn't make a lot of sense to build up your high-speed-operator kit at all. When SHTF the PTB will go looking for radios. They suspended ham radio during ww2. They'll suspend the internet as well.* So the el-cheapo throwaway radio is nice to have because you can hide coupla dozen in a hole somewhere. And instead of using encryption algorithms- use one-time pads and call out like a numbers station. Depending on whizbang gofast tech is the opposite of good. Especially when the procurement of said tech is tracked and catalogued**. * Its easier to do than you think. ** If you think you aren't being watched: you're correct. But everything you do is stored away on a server. Every government does this to every connected citizen on the planet.

You can use svxlink on a raspberry pi (if you can find one?) and a behringer UCA222 (for audio) to link two repeaters directly. SVXLink is really really good- but it is not easy to use. The developers recently added svxreflector, so you could build a network. Again, its not easy to setup but its very very powerful. If you go this route let me know- i'm going to be building a linking system for my repeater and will run a reflector. I don't know who i would link with at this point tho.