Originally Posted by
canklecat
Heh! That was my first thought too. Sometimes I'll tote a portable shortwave where I can get away from the usual city RFI and listen to shortwave without all the static. Planning to do that this Halloween, a busy night for shortwave radio pirate stations (technically it'll be October 30, since shortwave radio buffs use Universal Coordinated Time -- but some pirates will broadcast both nights).
If I was a ham op I'd try mobile comms from the bike, but I'm just a DXer.
I stream audio from my radios over the internet, so if I want to I can run shortwave or scanner audio online and listen to it on my phone as I ride. I am a ham and can take a little Baofeng HT along on my bike, but there's not a lot of VHF/UHF ham activity around here any more.
I've got to get my wire antenna back up since it came down in the storm so I can listen to pirates, but most likely I'll be taking the kiddos out trick-or-treating.