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<blockquote data-quote="Jd Smith1" data-source="post: 8126308" data-attributes="member: 6998052">So the situation is this: prepping for my group's next campaign.It will be a modern-day early-stage zombie apocalypse. The backdrop is a&nbsp; handful of heroes (not the PCs) struggling to get a collection of complex truths told while an evil and powerful NGO works very hard to protect a simple lie. The question is: how would the heroes get get the information out? They need a means to broadcast information across a wide area for months while the regular infrastructure fails, and in the face of a violent organization working to stop them. It needs to be a real-world option.AM or FM radio was my first thought, because it lends itself to mobility, however it is a rather bulky mobile option unless cargo aircraft is used.HAM radio? CB radio is too short-ranged.The Net would be ideal, using something like Loon LLC*, but I wonder if the Evil NGO couldn't track down the balloons. Or perhaps that would be part of the struggle: the heroes building new hardware and sending it aloft while the NGO knocks them down. Does anyone know how long it would take to track down the location of such a balloon?Or are there other methods by which limited Net service could be provided?Any other methods to disseminate data to groups of people, many mobile, scattered across hundreds of miles?*&nbsp; =&nbsp;&nbsp; <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loon_LLC" target="_blank">Loon LLC - Wikipedia</a></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Jd Smith1, post: 8126308, member: 6998052"] So the situation is this: prepping for my group's next campaign. It will be a modern-day early-stage zombie apocalypse. The backdrop is a handful of heroes (not the PCs) struggling to get a collection of complex truths told while an evil and powerful NGO works very hard to protect a simple lie. The question is: how would the heroes get get the information out? They need a means to broadcast information across a wide area for months while the regular infrastructure fails, and in the face of a violent organization working to stop them. It needs to be a real-world option. AM or FM radio was my first thought, because it lends itself to mobility, however it is a rather bulky mobile option unless cargo aircraft is used. HAM radio? CB radio is too short-ranged. The Net would be ideal, using something like Loon LLC*, but I wonder if the Evil NGO couldn't track down the balloons. Or perhaps that would be part of the struggle: the heroes building new hardware and sending it aloft while the NGO knocks them down. Does anyone know how long it would take to track down the location of such a balloon? Or are there other methods by which limited Net service could be provided? Any other methods to disseminate data to groups of people, many mobile, scattered across hundreds of miles? * = [URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loon_LLC"]Loon LLC - Wikipedia[/URL] [/QUOTE]

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