VHF/UHF Commercial Grade Dual Band Handheld Transceiver - Compact Design ... Alarm and Quick Home Channel Access for Emergency Signaling - Versatile Scanning Capabilities : Programmed VFO Scan ...

The Hermes-Lite is an HF amateur radio transceiver project that uses an AD9866 cable modem chip as the signal end for its 12-bit SDR transceiver hardware with an FPGA between it and an Ethernet ...

This might seem to be all well and good, except that radios can be vitally important during an emergency — especially if power outages result in lack of access to Wi-Fi or cell phone signals.