How to use mobile phones in combat

The key difference between modern warfare took place from still some 50-70 years ago - in the mobile presence at civilians. The smartphone will not save you from a stray bullet or fragment, you do not send an SMS within 5 minutes to the shelling of the address nearest bomb shelter, and, being next to the wounded man, the last thing you decide to do - run the application with instructions for first help. But your relatives and friends will be the first to learn about all the new destruction and exacerbation before journalists, and you, in turn, will become a regular visitor to news sites.

1. All the sisters on earrings

Get a SIM cards of all existing operators in your area. A situation where the base stations of a single operator will be destroyed or de-energized for a week or a month, - the usual story. And it is much easier to just the right moment to change SIM cards, you try to buy a new one in a deserted city.

Refill balance and select the package without the mandatory subscription fee. This is your backup communication channel, not more.

2. an old friend is better than two new ones

An old Nokia phone or push Samsung as the reserve tube is needed for several reasons.

Firstly, these phones hold a charge for much longer, and if they include a couple of times per day (electricity some areas of the fighting is not for months, in very severe cases - years), then you have enough charge on 1-2 weeks.

The main thing is to buy a new battery if the phone for a long time gather dust in the attic.

Second, arrange leapfrog with SIM cards easier on older phones than smartphones. Do not forget to duplicate your contacts by copying the key numbers in the address book, spare tube, and on the SIM card.

Third, the use of touch-tone phone in the rain, in the dust and dirt is much more convenient and practical than crawl around the screen with your finger from the black soot.

3. Highly sit, look away

The absence of electricity in the city is a serious communication problem. A city on the front line are without light and often very long. In these cases, operators do not send special mobile base stations not connected petrol generators, and are just waiting for the restoration of power supply, writing off everything in the war.

All that remains to expect at such times common people (but complex too), - the signal from the closest living BS. The easiest way to catch it on rooftops, attics, or simply climbing up a tree. But not particularly zealous: Snipers - is not an invention of the games and movies, so do not disturb the people once again up in arms, walking on the roof of the phone.

In addition to the high points, there is also a place on earth, where the signal is caught as well. Experiment, search or wait a week: word of mouth will spread information about such places.

4. Love in our village battery

Phone, no matter how you save power, sooner or later discharged. You will encounter the urgent need of alternative energy sources. About a spare tube, we have already mentioned, and no harm will external batteryWhich, in addition to the charge, and be able to perform the role of a lantern.

Solar panels in the period of active hostilities - the solution is quite dubious. Just one loved the arrival of the 82nd mines (close - this means that the walls crumbled plaster, shut or open windows and doors, windows cracked or flew), and the fruits of labor of Chinese engineers can be sent to scrap.

Do not rush to buy and own generator. Fuel, especially the first time, will be at a premium. But to charge the phone for a nominal fee or even free of charge from the generator in the shop - it is a true story.

5. Chatterbox - a godsend for the basement

The sooner you realize the seriousness of what is happening around, the better for you.

It is not necessary to talk on the phone with family and friends all that you see and hear, no matter how wild, crazy and scary however this "cinema".

Leave these stories for a personal meeting. All the same, you can not help neither relatives nor friends, but you can get by telephone reports from the hot spot only problems with the authorities.

Do not tell, who, where and when to shoot and that which arrives. Try to be limited to the specific (proven, that is the one that you can personally attest to) and neutral information as possible during phone calls.

6. Photo for memory

Forget selfie and video blogs. Include the brain (and head and spinal cord), before something to take a picture or shoot a video.

Never remove the men in uniform, position roadblocks and the area nearby. Even if your journalistic attempts will not notice right away, it can backfire when checking your phone. It will be extremely difficult to explain to people in arms, comrades who regularly really die (living people differ from game characters, this is not a partner for Call of Duty), that you shot the way to positions just because of the beautiful landscape.

Shooting video with comments or other people think and what you say.

A bad joke, a sharp comment or rating - all this can lead to very unfortunate consequences.

If you see bloggers from YouTube on the front - then the war ended.

7. store up content

Use the moments when there is a good internet connection and electricity, to stock up on content. Swing your favorite podcasts, fill books and audiobooks, download the map of the region where you are. All this, in everyday civilian life takes on a different taste and weight during the war. At the same time, and discounting to dust of the road condition and suffused with bright flavors and colors.

You will live peacefully, without the new seasons of your favorite TV series, games and holivarov in social networks, but in winter, when it gets dark early, good audioknizhka help distract from the disturbing situation outside. And lying in the hot tub and listen to the podcast with a bottle of beer and chips on hand after a month without water, electricity and proper communication - it is a tangible essence of civilization.

8. accessories

Your phone will fall. Just accept the idea. No matter how brave and clever you may be in peace, sooner or later the phone shmyaknetsya in the best case on the floor. You'll have to quickly fall to the ground, when there will begin land shells. You will drop or smack it off the table, to fall under the rain for hours to get wet on the roads and in queues.

So be sure to stick the protective glass and put at least a simple case.

Good headphones, charger and carrying-tee - all it is better to buy in advance. When will the fighting, the price of popular accessories soar ten times at markedly sagging diversify.

9. Do not use the SMS

Perhaps, in the comments will be specialists who will angrily argue the opposite thesis, arguing your opinion technically. But the reality is that in unstable communication SMS - the most useless way of communication. Your messages can be delayed by 2-3 weeks or even disappear in the depths of the operator's tripe. Use only voice communications.

10. sessions

In periods of particularly unstable due arrange with relatives of the time to phone, so that they do not knowingly recruited you around the clock in an attempt to to call on the handset is turned off, and you did not call in vain, balancing on a tree branch or the ridge of the roof, listening to the busy tone busy line.

Called up at a certain time tentatively picked up the least busy hours. Usually the hardest to get through the morning and evening when people are trying to connect with loved ones after work. Be prepared for the fact that you have to dial 30-40 times before you can get.

11. Lies and rumors

Media are late, lie and confuse the facts. Take it as a given. In the segment a couple of hours you can watch in real time how deformed the facts of the event, with roaming site to site, acquiring sick imagination of journalists, rumors and facts entirely different tails events. As a result of a grenade explosion in the area A is converted into fire "Grad" B city, whose inhabitants fiercely kipishat in social networks, trying to learn from each other, but when was the mythical fire, which no one I heard.

The main source of information - this is a group in social networks, which is enough to read the GPRS-Internet. They are the fastest and most reliable.

Avoid bloggers aggregators. Especially such things sin tviteryane, spamyaschie endless stream repost groups and news sites, distorting information each in their own way.

Do not use the groups that are oversaturated entertainment content - "Our city - a hero! Laykni, if you love it! "- and unnecessarily politicized. You only need information about your city, and what is happening around him. The rest - this information garbage, which is better to receive news sites or even to abstract from it.

When will the truce, you know it yourself, without journalists. Just in the city will quietly stop firing guns, tear shells and whistling bullets. And the silence would be extremely, extremely loud. So loud that not once will hear the laughter of children, the barking of dogs and the rustle of tires.

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At the end I would like to make two trivial thoughts that even somehow awkward to call life hacking.

First, do not cling to the civilization, if it does not exist. It is not necessary to stare sadly at the window, when he sat down mobile, laptop and tablet, and no internet. Go back to the old-fashioned leisure formats: books, football (on the football field, not the screen), fishing, board games and hobby from childhood.

Second, help the elderly. Top up your account, change the sim card, call children or grandchildren on Skype, charge your phone and find relatives in social networks, ready to take them to him. Maybe tomorrow as someone to help your parents.