Posted on 08/29/2009 3:54:17 PM PDT by oldfart
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Jeez, I’d almost forgotten about this thread.
The pigeon thing works just fine except the pigeons have to be going home to their roost. So someone has to physically cary them away from home to whatever place you need to send a message from.
Hand signals can be pretty efficient, especially if you are able to use semaphore code.
Last night my wife read something about possible EMP attack. She asked me what we could do about it. I told her that all we could do is roll with the punch and keep a battery-powered am-fm radio on hand. Unless the pulse originates very close by, most unconnected electronics will survive quite well. Anything that is plugged into a wall socket and thus to the array of powerlines between the generating facility and you will be fried. There will be a few radio facilities that survive an EMP attack. They will be the primary source of information. They will also be heavily controlled by the government, so it’s up to the individual to sort out real news from propaganda.
Nice setup.. I have both a genny and solar power for backup. Runs my ham rigs perfectly for days on end.. no gas required for the solar stuff.
My IC-718 can be switched over to solar power with the flick of a switch as well as the 2 other dual band 2 meter 440 rigs.
Equipment that’s not powered up SHOULD survive an EMP. But anything that’s not TEMPEST-certified and shielded is toast.
Bttt.
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Many years ago (damn, I seem to start a lot of posts that way) I worked for the Stste of California. The State furnished radios for us to communicate with but in those days the used massive numbers of “D” cells for power and then didn’t do a very good job of cutting through the electronic noise around us.
We had a guy come to work who had been a signalman in the navy. He had used semaphore for several years before his retirement and undertook to teach us too. As surveyors, we had powerful telescopes to see each other at long distances and with them and a couple of flags we were able to “talk” to each other quite well.
I believe semaphore is still covered in the Boy Scouts Manual.
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