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I've used CB for emergencies, but in light of the recent AT&T shutdown, I'm picking up a couple more GMRS/FRS HHs for my spouse and adult kids to use for emergency comms if something similar happens to our provider/s.  We fortunately live close enough we will be able to communicate on the FRS channels between our houses.
 

UPDATE:
One new coax later, with the excess coiled by the air cleaner, I'm getting 1:1.02, mounted on the roof rack.

That's what Amateur Radio bands are for. 

It's already round filed.

UPDATE:
One new coax later, with the excess coiled by the air cleaner, I'm getting 1:1.02, mounted on the roof rack.

It's already round filed.

UPDATE:
One new coax later, with the excess coiled by the air cleaner, I'm getting 1:1.02, mounted on the roof rack.

UPDATE:
One new coax later, with the excess coiled by the air cleaner, I'm getting 1:1.02, mounted on the roof rack.

UPDATE:
One new coax later, with the excess coiled by the air cleaner, I'm getting 1:1.02, mounted on the roof rack.

Not planning on doing any super tight winds; I just spent two hours writing up a Quality Assurance report to Engineering on a landing gear harness with excessive bend radius.  As anal as we have to get with the fiddly bits on jets, I see no reason to not take the same precautions on my rig...and we run loads of coax in stacked runs.

Not planning on doing any super tight winds; I just spent two hours writing up a Quality Assurance report to Engineering on a landing gear harness with excessive bend radius.  As anal as we have to get with the fiddly bits on jets, I see no reason to not take the same precautions on my rig...and we run loads of coax in stacked runs.

This isn't a problem in the 400-500 MHz range. Both Randy and I have shared test results for this. Unless you plan on winding the coax to less than an inch in diameter while using some super cheap (unshielded) coax, it won't matter. 
Now, when you start getting down to 50 MHz to about 21 MHz, 8 inch to 25 inch coiled coax just spooled up and tossed aside becomes an issue with SWR.  That's why when we do CB installations, we use either a 9 foot or 18 foot cable and just snake the extra cable around the interior, trying to avoid half or full loops in the cable. The lengths are balanced 1/4 or 1/2 wave.

That's what Amateur Radio bands are for. 

That's what Amateur Radio bands are for. 

That's what Amateur Radio bands are for. 

That's what Amateur Radio bands are for. 

I think your forgetting one important factor:  they were all BELOW GROUND.  The EM burst was strongly attenuated and dissipated by, well, the ground.  That was by design...the NORK government doesn't go out of it's way to piss off it's sole sponsor, the PRC.  Our government  learned from Starfish, and applied those lessons to future testing.
 
Exoatmospheric detonations won't be so attenuated, at least for some distance.  

That's what Amateur Radio bands are for. 

I was loop testing to make sure both the center conductor and the braided shielding weren't broken.  It's a common technique in Aviation to jumper a pair of wires/conductors to verify continuity.

I was loop testing to make sure both the center conductor and the braided shielding weren't broken.  It's a common technique in Aviation to jumper a pair of wires/conductors to verify continuity.