VHF, SSB, HAM and other pure radio transmissions are immensely important to continue to use. When the power goes out on all 'GRID' communications it will be the only way to reach out other than just making loud noises. Radio can't be shut down or break down. Events of God, war, insurrection and a polethera of other factors can shut all grid communication down and your only communication will be radio waves.

To believe that pure radio is a thing of the past is very flawed logic.

We had a simple 11 hour power failure locally a few months ago and started our 2K gen to keep the frig and cable tv (for communication) running. 6 hours into the outage the cable went out. 9 hours into the outage T-Mobile went out. Here we are only 9 hours into a power outage and the only communications were our handheld VHF and the car radio. The next day I switched from cable to satellite tv. At least with satellite tv you won't loose communications with a local outage.

We have a great infrastructure communications system with the ability to grab a polethera of information but if it goes out all they'll be is radio waves.

Don't ever get the notion that radio is an out of date communication system. At least that's my take on the radio issue.