Over the last few years I've been a bit of a prepper, mostly for the tornadic and other storm emergencies , flooding etc.. Most of my supplies are common sense stuff, with meals got for 25 years and canned goods, both will outlive me by a long shot.

I plan to hopefully shelter in place, with it's own set of problems, but the long and the short of it, except for a potential war with some of earths neighbors that dream about such a thing, most sheltering in place would be a natural disaster and waiting for a couple of weeks or so or until FEMA finds me.

The question here is that I want a 2 way ham hand held radio. They seem to hover in price from around 150 to 200 bucks. Problem is that I don't know squat about them. Can someone give me a short schooling on the hand held models, what does what better, etc..etc...

Thanks ahead,
FT