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S.H.T.F. Emergency Communications, In the Event of Catastrophic Disaster,
SHTF Communications are techniques for talking or sending messages during failure of normal electronic communication infrastructure.
Why Prepare for SHTF Communications?
Let’s take a look at a list of plausible scenarios that could lead to the need for SHTF Communications…
SHTF Communications Scenario List
1. SHTF. Acronym for **** Hits The Fan.
2. Normal communications may fail for unpredictable duration.
3. Electronic communications infrastructure disaster.
4. Massive computer virus or attacks render damage to the internet.
5. Systematic failure of internet service, nodes, lines, or relays.
6. Normal emergency safety-of-life communications to first responders fail.
7. Failure of electrical grid causes eventual failure of electronic communications infrastructure.
8. Adverse weather, geologic, or natural disaster causes infrastructure failure.
9. Human-caused disaster or unrest brings partial or widespread infrastructure failure.
10. Regional infrastructure blackouts or brownouts.
11. Local infrastructure blackouts or brownouts.
12. Restrictions or adverse consequences on the use of the normal communications infrastructure.
13. Any of the above in combination may lead to a domino-theory of unpredictable chaos events for communications infrastructure failure.
Survivalist Communicator 3-3-3 Radio Plan
This is the “When, Where, and How” to make radio contact with each other for SHTF. The 333 Radio Plan was designed for SHTF communications. Versions of it are used by survivalist prepper and emergency communications groups. It is based on the easy-to-remember “Survival Rule of Three”. It is often called…
…a Radio Schedule, or a SKED. It is like the communications equivalent of a Rally Point or Disaster Meet-Up Plan.
ABOUT THE 3-3-3 RADIO PLAN
Here’s how the 3-3-3 Radio Plan works:
Turn on your radio. Every 3 hours. For at least 3 minutes. Channel 3.
WHEN: EVERY 3 HOURS
Always use your Local Time for local area communications with the 3-3-3 Radio Plan. At the “top of the hour”, each 3 hours:
Noon, 3pm, 6pm, 9pm.
Midnight, 3am, 6am, 9am.
HOW LONG: AT LEAST 3 MINUTES
At the top of every 3rd hour, turn on your radio. Even if you don’t need to make a call yourself, always turn on your radio and listen for calls for at least 3 minutes. If you have sufficient battery power, or if you have not connected up for a while, then you should listen for 15 minutes. You never know if someone may be trying to reach you, or may need help. If you need to check in, make a short transmission at this time. Say “This is me, just checking in.”
ACCURATE TIME KEEPING
Synchronize your watch with other radio operators whenever possible. If you doubt your watch accuracy, compensate by keeping your radio turned on for a longer duration, before and after every 3rd hour. If you don’t have a watch, try listening to an AM broadcast radio station, they always identify their call letters at the top of each hour.
WHERE: CHANNEL 3
Channel 3 is CB-3, FRS-3, or MURS-3.
CB, FRS, and MURS are the most common types of radios used by survivalists and preppers.
If your organized group has a different designated SHTF channel or Prepper SHTF HAM frequency, you should use it as your 3-3-3 channel. For example: 146.520 FM Simplex US / 145.550 FM Simplex UK/EU, or PMR446-CH3 or GMRS-3. & FREENET-3 KDR-3
FEATURES OF THE 3-3-3 RADIO PLAN
1. Easy for everyone to remember the “Rule of Three”.
2. Conserves precious battery life for walkie talkies.
3. Gets everyone on the air at the same time.
4. Sets a schedule of 8 times per day to call each other.
5. Avoids impractical hourly schedules that can be a burden in real-life scenarios.
6. Enables the use of short transmissions for optimum success and security.
7. Three hours between contacts is enough time to rest in a survival situation.
8. A person can walk 8 miles in 3 hours, the practical distance limit of handheld radios over average terrain.
9. 3-3-3 is fully interoperable and compatible with the 1-2-3 plan.
HAM RADIO 3-3-3 RADIO PLAN
Ham radios don’t have channel numbers. They have frequencies instead. A channel is really just a specific frequency that has a purpose.
Most hams use 146.520 MHz FM Simplex (No PL) as their 3-3-3 channel.
Some organized Prepper Ham groups use 146.420 FM Simplex.
Non-aligned Survivalist Hams use 146.550 Simplex as the Bug Out Channel (BOC) and 3-3-3.
The most commonly used local ham frequency could become a 3-3-3 channel for your area. But it probably should not be a repeater channel, because repeaters may cease to function when SHTF! Instead, hams could use Simplex FM on the output frequency of the repeater.
The 3-3-3 Radio Plan
Feel free to copy, print, and distribute the 3-3-3 Radio Plan for your fellow preppers and survivalists.
The 3-3-3 Survival Rule is a well known principle in survivalist training. It commits fundamental skills or procedures to memory. The 3-3-3 Radio Plan builds upon the Survival Rule of 3, otherwise known as the Rule of Threes.
Europe Survivalist Channels VHF FreeNet PMR446 Canal-E KDR444 UHF CB
Are you living or travelling in Europe? Are you prepared for a disaster or emergency? Turn your VHF/UHF HT walkie talkie into a super SHTF survival radio with all the PMR, FREENET, KDR, CANAL-E, and UHF-CB channels. The secret is in the frequency programming. When disaster hits, you won’t need to worry about which radio is best for emergency communications, because you can talk to anyone! Emergency prepping is essential for radio communications.
In an emergency, you may need to communicate with others who are using various types of radios, on many different channels. Are they using a PMR 446 radio? UHF CB? Or is it FreeNet or KDR 444? In the Alps on Canal-E? Don’t let a lack of preparation prevent your emergency communication needs. Whatever it is, wherever you are in Europe, prepare for it now by programming all those channels in your Baofeng or other type of VHF UHF radio. When disaster hits, just dial them up and talk, in any emergency situation. Are you prepared?
This frequency list is for programming VHF-UHF transceivers (VHF-UHF HT). Turn your FM HT into a wonderful PMR/FREENET/KDR/CANAL-E radio for Europe Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Communications.
PMR 446
PMR radios are by far the most popular license-free UHF HT walkie talkies in Europe, Mid-East, and Africa. They are also known as Personal Mobile Radio, UHF-CB, or European Bubble-Pack Radios. All the PMR channels are simplex. There are several different modes in use, including standard FM (NFM) and various types of Digital Voice modes. The most common is NFM (Narrow FM) Simplex. There are 8 official FM channels, and another 8 to 16 channels which are mainly in use for Digital Voice. However, many UHF-CB freeband operators use FM on the the PMR Digital Voice channels (dPMR). The Digital Voice mode (4FSK) is not compatible with FM. Here we list only the FM channels, for best interoperability with most VHF/UHF HT walkie talkies.
PMR 466 CHANNEL FREQUENCY LIST (UHF-CB FM)
(CHANNEL) FREQUENCY MODE
(PMR 1) 446.006250 MHz NFM Simplex TX Family/Prepper
(PMR 2) 446.018750 MHz NFM Simplex TX
(PMR 3) 446.031250 MHz NFM Simplex TX Survivalist/SHTF
(PMR 4) 446.043750 MHz NFM Simplex TX
(PMR 5) 446.056250 MHz NFM Simplex TX
(PMR 6) 446.068750 MHz NFM Simplex TX
(PMR 7) 446.081250 MHz NFM Simplex TX
(PMR 8) 446.093750 MHz NFM Simplex TX Calling
PMR 466 UHF-CB FM FREEBAND AND DIGITAL VOICE
(CHANNEL) FREQUENCY MODE
(PMR 9) 446.106250 MHz NFM Simplex TX
(PMR 10) 446.118750 MHz NFM Simplex TX
(PMR 11) 446.131250 MHz NFM Simplex TX
(PMR 12) 446.143750 MHz NFM Simplex TX
(PMR 13) 446.156250 MHz NFM Simplex TX Survivalist/SHTF
(PMR 14) 446.168750 MHz NFM Simplex TX
(PMR 15) 446.181250 MHz NFM Simplex TX
(PMR 16) 446.193750 MHz NFM Simplex TX
*** In some areas, users have built cross-band repeaters between FreeNet and 11 metre FM CB channels or PMR446 channels. Also, some internet-VOIP networks provide remote links similar to repeaters.
FREENET
FREENET is a set of European license-free VHF radio channels. Freenet started in Germany and has recently spread to other European countries. It is like VHF CB. The potential distance range is generally more than PMR 446 or UHF CB.
(CHANNEL) FREQUENCY MODE
(FREENET 1) 149.025000 MHz NFM Simplex Family/Prepper
(FREENET 2) 149.037500 MHz NFM Simplex Repeater/Remote
(FREENET 3) 149.050000 MHz NFM Simplex Survivalist/SHTF
(FREENET 4) 149.087500 MHz NFM Simplex
(FREENET 5) 149.100000 MHz NFM Simplex
(FREENET 6) 149.112500 MHz NFM Simplex Repeater/Remote
*** In some areas, users have built cross-band repeaters between FreeNet and 11 metre FM CB channels or PMR446 channels. Also, some internet-VOIP networks provide remote links similar to repeaters.
ALPS CHANNEL E (Canal E)
Alps Channel-E is an Emergency Search and Rescue (SAR) radio channel only used in the Alps mountain border region around Switzerland and France, where Mountain SAR and ski patrols monitor this channel.
(CHANNEL) FREQUENCY MODE
(ALPS CANAL E) 161.300000 MHz FM Simplex PL=123Hz Survival
Note: Always transmit PL =123 Hz tone on Channel E.
KDR 444 (SRBR 444)
KDR 444 is a license-free set of UHF radio channels mainly active in Sweden and Norway. KDR is similar to FRS, PMR 446, or UHF CB and the potential distance range is about the same. KDR 444 also known as SRBR 444.
(CHANNEL) FREQUENCY MODE
(KDR 1) 444.600000 MHz FM Simplex
(KDR 2) 444.650000 MHz FM Simplex
(KDR 3) 444.800000 MHz FM Simplex Survivalist / SHTF
(KDR 4) 444.825000 MHz FM Simplex
(KDR 5) 444.850000 MHz FM Simplex
(KDR 6) 444.875000 MHz FM Simplex
(KDR 7) 444.925000 MHz FM Simplex
(KDR 8) 444.975000 MHz FM Simplex
*** In some areas, users have built cross-band repeaters between FreeNet and 11 metre FM CB channels or PMR446 channels. Also, some internet-VOIP networks provide remote links similar to repeaters.
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S.H.T.F. Emergency Communications, In the Event of Catastrophic Disaster,
SHTF Communications are techniques for talking or sending messages during failure of normal electronic communication infrastructure.
Why Prepare for SHTF Communications?
Let’s take a look at a list of plausible scenarios that could lead to the need for SHTF Communications…
SHTF Communications Scenario List
1. SHTF. Acronym for **** Hits The Fan.
2. Normal communications may fail for unpredictable duration.
3. Electronic communications infrastructure disaster.
4. Massive computer virus or attacks render damage to the internet.
5. Systematic failure of internet service, nodes, lines, or relays.
6. Normal emergency safety-of-life communications to first responders fail.
7. Failure of electrical grid causes eventual failure of electronic communications infrastructure.
8. Adverse weather, geologic, or natural disaster causes infrastructure failure.
9. Human-caused disaster or unrest brings partial or widespread infrastructure failure.
10. Regional infrastructure blackouts or brownouts.
11. Local infrastructure blackouts or brownouts.
12. Restrictions or adverse consequences on the use of the normal communications infrastructure.
13. Any of the above in combination may lead to a domino-theory of unpredictable chaos events for communications infrastructure failure.
Survivalist Communicator 3-3-3 Radio Plan
This is the “When, Where, and How” to make radio contact with each other for SHTF. The 333 Radio Plan was designed for SHTF communications. Versions of it are used by survivalist prepper and emergency communications groups. It is based on the easy-to-remember “Survival Rule of Three”. It is often called…
…a Radio Schedule, or a SKED. It is like the communications equivalent of a Rally Point or Disaster Meet-Up Plan.
ABOUT THE 3-3-3 RADIO PLAN
Here’s how the 3-3-3 Radio Plan works:
Turn on your radio. Every 3 hours. For at least 3 minutes. Channel 3.
WHEN: EVERY 3 HOURS
Always use your Local Time for local area communications with the 3-3-3 Radio Plan. At the “top of the hour”, each 3 hours:
Noon, 3pm, 6pm, 9pm.
Midnight, 3am, 6am, 9am.
HOW LONG: AT LEAST 3 MINUTES
At the top of every 3rd hour, turn on your radio. Even if you don’t need to make a call yourself, always turn on your radio and listen for calls for at least 3 minutes. If you have sufficient battery power, or if you have not connected up for a while, then you should listen for 15 minutes. You never know if someone may be trying to reach you, or may need help. If you need to check in, make a short transmission at this time. Say “This is me, just checking in.”
ACCURATE TIME KEEPING
Synchronize your watch with other radio operators whenever possible. If you doubt your watch accuracy, compensate by keeping your radio turned on for a longer duration, before and after every 3rd hour. If you don’t have a watch, try listening to an AM broadcast radio station, they always identify their call letters at the top of each hour.
WHERE: CHANNEL 3
Channel 3 is CB-3, FRS-3, or MURS-3.
CB, FRS, and MURS are the most common types of radios used by survivalists and preppers.
If your organized group has a different designated SHTF channel or Prepper SHTF HAM frequency, you should use it as your 3-3-3 channel. For example: 146.520 FM Simplex US / 145.550 FM Simplex UK/EU, or PMR446-CH3 or GMRS-3. & FREENET-3 KDR-3
FEATURES OF THE 3-3-3 RADIO PLAN
1. Easy for everyone to remember the “Rule of Three”.
2. Conserves precious battery life for walkie talkies.
3. Gets everyone on the air at the same time.
4. Sets a schedule of 8 times per day to call each other.
5. Avoids impractical hourly schedules that can be a burden in real-life scenarios.
6. Enables the use of short transmissions for optimum success and security.
7. Three hours between contacts is enough time to rest in a survival situation.
8. A person can walk 8 miles in 3 hours, the practical distance limit of handheld radios over average terrain.
9. 3-3-3 is fully interoperable and compatible with the 1-2-3 plan.
HAM RADIO 3-3-3 RADIO PLAN
Ham radios don’t have channel numbers. They have frequencies instead. A channel is really just a specific frequency that has a purpose.
Most hams use 146.520 MHz FM Simplex (No PL) as their 3-3-3 channel.
Some organized Prepper Ham groups use 146.420 FM Simplex.
Non-aligned Survivalist Hams use 146.550 Simplex as the Bug Out Channel (BOC) and 3-3-3.
The most commonly used local ham frequency could become a 3-3-3 channel for your area. But it probably should not be a repeater channel, because repeaters may cease to function when SHTF! Instead, hams could use Simplex FM on the output frequency of the repeater.
The 3-3-3 Radio Plan
Feel free to copy, print, and distribute the 3-3-3 Radio Plan for your fellow preppers and survivalists.
The 3-3-3 Survival Rule is a well known principle in survivalist training. It commits fundamental skills or procedures to memory. The 3-3-3 Radio Plan builds upon the Survival Rule of 3, otherwise known as the Rule of Threes.
Europe Survivalist Channels VHF FreeNet PMR446 Canal-E KDR444 UHF CB
Are you living or travelling in Europe? Are you prepared for a disaster or emergency? Turn your VHF/UHF HT walkie talkie into a super SHTF survival radio with all the PMR, FREENET, KDR, CANAL-E, and UHF-CB channels. The secret is in the frequency programming. When disaster hits, you won’t need to worry about which radio is best for emergency communications, because you can talk to anyone! Emergency prepping is essential for radio communications.
In an emergency, you may need to communicate with others who are using various types of radios, on many different channels. Are they using a PMR 446 radio? UHF CB? Or is it FreeNet or KDR 444? In the Alps on Canal-E? Don’t let a lack of preparation prevent your emergency communication needs. Whatever it is, wherever you are in Europe, prepare for it now by programming all those channels in your Baofeng or other type of VHF UHF radio. When disaster hits, just dial them up and talk, in any emergency situation. Are you prepared?
This frequency list is for programming VHF-UHF transceivers (VHF-UHF HT). Turn your FM HT into a wonderful PMR/FREENET/KDR/CANAL-E radio for Europe Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Communications.
PMR 446
PMR radios are by far the most popular license-free UHF HT walkie talkies in Europe, Mid-East, and Africa. They are also known as Personal Mobile Radio, UHF-CB, or European Bubble-Pack Radios. All the PMR channels are simplex. There are several different modes in use, including standard FM (NFM) and various types of Digital Voice modes. The most common is NFM (Narrow FM) Simplex. There are 8 official FM channels, and another 8 to 16 channels which are mainly in use for Digital Voice. However, many UHF-CB freeband operators use FM on the the PMR Digital Voice channels (dPMR). The Digital Voice mode (4FSK) is not compatible with FM. Here we list only the FM channels, for best interoperability with most VHF/UHF HT walkie talkies.
PMR 466 CHANNEL FREQUENCY LIST (UHF-CB FM)
(CHANNEL) FREQUENCY MODE
(PMR 1) 446.006250 MHz NFM Simplex TX Family/Prepper
(PMR 2) 446.018750 MHz NFM Simplex TX
(PMR 3) 446.031250 MHz NFM Simplex TX Survivalist/SHTF
(PMR 4) 446.043750 MHz NFM Simplex TX
(PMR 5) 446.056250 MHz NFM Simplex TX
(PMR 6) 446.068750 MHz NFM Simplex TX
(PMR 7) 446.081250 MHz NFM Simplex TX
(PMR 8) 446.093750 MHz NFM Simplex TX Calling
PMR 466 UHF-CB FM FREEBAND AND DIGITAL VOICE
(CHANNEL) FREQUENCY MODE
(PMR 9) 446.106250 MHz NFM Simplex TX
(PMR 10) 446.118750 MHz NFM Simplex TX
(PMR 11) 446.131250 MHz NFM Simplex TX
(PMR 12) 446.143750 MHz NFM Simplex TX
(PMR 13) 446.156250 MHz NFM Simplex TX Survivalist/SHTF
(PMR 14) 446.168750 MHz NFM Simplex TX
(PMR 15) 446.181250 MHz NFM Simplex TX
(PMR 16) 446.193750 MHz NFM Simplex TX
*** In some areas, users have built cross-band repeaters between FreeNet and 11 metre FM CB channels or PMR446 channels. Also, some internet-VOIP networks provide remote links similar to repeaters.
FREENET
FREENET is a set of European license-free VHF radio channels. Freenet started in Germany and has recently spread to other European countries. It is like VHF CB. The potential distance range is generally more than PMR 446 or UHF CB.
(CHANNEL) FREQUENCY MODE
(FREENET 1) 149.025000 MHz NFM Simplex Family/Prepper
(FREENET 2) 149.037500 MHz NFM Simplex Repeater/Remote
(FREENET 3) 149.050000 MHz NFM Simplex Survivalist/SHTF
(FREENET 4) 149.087500 MHz NFM Simplex
(FREENET 5) 149.100000 MHz NFM Simplex
(FREENET 6) 149.112500 MHz NFM Simplex Repeater/Remote
*** In some areas, users have built cross-band repeaters between FreeNet and 11 metre FM CB channels or PMR446 channels. Also, some internet-VOIP networks provide remote links similar to repeaters.
ALPS CHANNEL E (Canal E)
Alps Channel-E is an Emergency Search and Rescue (SAR) radio channel only used in the Alps mountain border region around Switzerland and France, where Mountain SAR and ski patrols monitor this channel.
(CHANNEL) FREQUENCY MODE
(ALPS CANAL E) 161.300000 MHz FM Simplex PL=123Hz Survival
Note: Always transmit PL =123 Hz tone on Channel E.
KDR 444 (SRBR 444)
KDR 444 is a license-free set of UHF radio channels mainly active in Sweden and Norway. KDR is similar to FRS, PMR 446, or UHF CB and the potential distance range is about the same. KDR 444 also known as SRBR 444.
(CHANNEL) FREQUENCY MODE
(KDR 1) 444.600000 MHz FM Simplex
(KDR 2) 444.650000 MHz FM Simplex
(KDR 3) 444.800000 MHz FM Simplex Survivalist / SHTF
(KDR 4) 444.825000 MHz FM Simplex
(KDR 5) 444.850000 MHz FM Simplex
(KDR 6) 444.875000 MHz FM Simplex
(KDR 7) 444.925000 MHz FM Simplex
(KDR 8) 444.975000 MHz FM Simplex
*** In some areas, users have built cross-band repeaters between FreeNet and 11 metre FM CB channels or PMR446 channels. Also, some internet-VOIP networks provide remote links similar to repeaters.
