📡 Military Radio 🔳🔳🔳 💰 400
An olive-drab field set with a folding whip aerial and a handset on a coiled cord. Heavy, loud, and the only thing on this list that talks back.
Send and receive
Transmits and receives on any frequency you know.
- Reaches across the region — far enough to raise another set several map tiles away, or anyone monitoring the frequency.
- Terrain blocks it. Deep ruins, dense rock, basements, and heavy weather cut the signal. High ground restores it.
- Anyone on the frequency hears you, including whoever you did not mean to talk to.
Limits
- Three slots. It is a pack set, not a pocket set.
- It cannot break encryption. A scrambled channel stays scrambled without the key.
- Transmitting is audible at your end. In an enemy’s line of sight or earshot, it is a loud action and breaks 👥 Hidden status.
Cannot be crafted
The 🔨 industrial-workshop rule puts transmitters out of reach of a field workstation. Found, bought, or taken.
Related
- 📻 Radio — one slot, receive only
- 📼 Holotape Player — plays recordings rather than live broadcasts