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Executive Order: Assignment of National Security and Emergency Preparedness Communications Functions
White House Press Release ^
| 7/6/12
| White House
Posted on 07/07/2012 9:28:51 PM PDT by Sleeping Freeper
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To: Max in Utah
From your keyboard to God's computer:
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posted on
07/08/2012 11:18:19 AM PDT
by
mkjessup
(Romney is to conservatism what Helen Thomas is to a high fashion model walkway.)
To: JRandomFreeper
Why is a spark transmitter illegal? Too much bandwidth?
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posted on
07/08/2012 11:38:54 AM PDT
by
DBrow
To: upchuck
I doubt actual Iranians will use an actual EMP device.
No Obama probably has some knowledge of a better idea, to create a simulated and partially successful EMP attack, one of a limited area and range, just enough shock needed to whip into a polarizing political firestorm.
Our own military has limited range EMP bombs, we used them in the Iraq war. Now set off a few, blame it on Iran OR blame it on the Tea party.
Obama would do this, he has not an ouce of patriotiem in him.
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posted on
07/08/2012 11:40:37 AM PDT
by
Eye of Unk
(Going mobile, posts will be brief. No spellcheck for the grammar nazis.)
To: DBrow
Yes, they splash all over. Instead of 100 Hz bandwidth for a normal CW signal, think 10kHz.
/johnny
To: Sleeping Freeper
I wonder where amateur radio would fit in all of this?
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posted on
07/08/2012 11:51:17 AM PDT
by
Nowhere Man
(June 28th, 2012, the Day America Jumped The Shark.)
To: JRandomFreeper
I’m on 2 meters myself. I’d love to give 6 and even 10 a try.
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posted on
07/08/2012 11:53:42 AM PDT
by
Nowhere Man
(June 28th, 2012, the Day America Jumped The Shark.)
To: chris37
You know, much as I agree with you and am ready to vote for the RINO...I am really, really starting to wonder if we are ever going to make it to November.
And even if we do, theres 2 more months before he has to leave, which he wont.
I do believe the Devil is in the white house, and no law means anything to him.
Yeah, I'm with ya. Romney was not my first or even second choice but even if he is a RINO, at least he does not hate America like this Kenyan Jugeared Doomsday Machine we have now. I'm worried about making it to November myself. I don't see the Kenyan as The Anti-Christ but an an Anti-Christ, sort of like Satan's, younger, retarded cousin. Even so, he is still quite dangerous.
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posted on
07/08/2012 11:57:16 AM PDT
by
Nowhere Man
(June 28th, 2012, the Day America Jumped The Shark.)
To: Strategerist
Well, the nuclear command and control infrastructure hasnt been well funded for a long time and is in danger of deteriorating (TACAMO, Looking Glass, etc.) so hopefully this is a fix for that.
I remember the days when I picked up Looking Glass on 321.000 and 311.000 Mc in AM mode as well as on HF USB. I also received the old MIR on 143.625 Mc in FM mode.
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posted on
07/08/2012 12:03:24 PM PDT
by
Nowhere Man
(June 28th, 2012, the Day America Jumped The Shark.)
To: Nowhere Man
I have the most fun on 6 meters, when the band is open. It's pretty empty most of the time. It's amazing what you can do with a makeshift cubical quad at 30 ft. connected to a 5 watt handi-talki. ;)
2 meters is ok for RACES operations, I had the receiver on last night to listen for a potential activation. Haven't worked 10 meters in years.
/johnny
To: Myrddin
I had an old Standard crystal controlled HT on 2m with a rubber duck antenna. One evening I managed a chat between San Diego and Santa Barbara (over the water path). The guy in Santa Barbara had a 22 element stacked beam.
I once talked 50 miles across Lake Erie and 20 to 30 miles into Ontario using an HTX-202 with a rubber duckie antenna and using the 1 watt lo-power setting. I brought up a few repeaters over there and participated in a Canadian ham radio net. I picked up Ontario PPD just below 2 meters in the 142 Mc range so I figured that if I could hear them, they can hear me. I was going to hook up the radio into the Explorer and use my 5/8ths Wave on the truck but it turned out, I did not need to.
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posted on
07/08/2012 12:23:04 PM PDT
by
Nowhere Man
(June 28th, 2012, the Day America Jumped The Shark.)
To: PIF
I was debating about 1913, but since that was when my mom was born, I went with 35 and the rise of FDR and the worldwide craze for socialism.
A lot of people debate when America "Jumped the Shark." Some say with the loss of the South in 1865, others say the 1913/16 period with income tax and the popular election of Senators, some say FDR or even LBJ. Some even say 2008 when we got Baraq. Well, maybe we jumped several times, it could be. All I can say is during the days up to the Supreme Court decision on Commie Care, the sound of the twin Evenrudes was deafening and I saw Fonzie putting on his water skis as we saw the dorsal fin of the shark swimming about. June 28th, 2012, for sure, is our Shark Jumping moment.
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posted on
07/08/2012 12:31:20 PM PDT
by
Nowhere Man
(June 28th, 2012, the Day America Jumped The Shark.)
To: SampleMan
Sure, you can pick up a telephone and use it under normal conditions. But what happens if everyone wants to use the phone at the same time? What happens if the phone company’s local office is destroyed or loses power? What happens if the streets are blocked off and you can’t drive and tell someone? Local infrastructure can be destroyed or disrupted, but there’s no way to destroy the radio spectrum from DC to daylight. That’s where amateur radio operators come through.
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posted on
07/08/2012 1:23:34 PM PDT
by
Tarantulas
( Illegal immigration - the trojan horse that's treated like a sacred cow)
To: JRandomFreeper
Anyway you can point me to how to make a cheap set myself?
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posted on
07/08/2012 1:42:19 PM PDT
by
struggle
(http://killthegovernment.wordpress.com/)
To: struggle
Point your favorite search engine at "field expedient radio"
That and become friends with a local ham radio operator. They can explain/teach the electronics or know someone that can.
/johnny
To: Tarantulas
I can destroy the radio spectrum very easily, especially HF. Just transmit at a higher amplitude. Or better spoof the communicators and transmit false information. You will need code books, etc. That all takes time.
But my point is not to disparage HF operation, it certainly has its place. My point is that HF is not handy for mass communicating in the modern world, because so few people would be taking part.
CB radios would be handy, but few still have them, and of course, they are very limited in range.
The internet and cell phones allow people to communicate information to directly to hundreds/thousands/millions of individual people regardless of distance. That is very powerful to instantly organize. HF doesn’t do that.
For the purposes of
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posted on
07/08/2012 1:56:29 PM PDT
by
SampleMan
(Feral Humans are the refuse of socialism.)
To: SampleMan
Yeah, because
The BBC wouldn't waste money on HF.
Or the VOA
You haven't ever traveled in the third world have you?
/johnny
To: JRandomFreeper
Johny,
I've used HF, UHF, and VHF. And FYI, SATCOM has supplanted HF sets for real wilderness/3rd world travel. You are MISSING THE POINT of this thread.
How many people on your street have HF? How many within 50 miles of you? If I want to rally 50 people or 100,000 people to action (this Wednesday) who I don't even know, how exactly do I do that via HF?
This is a thread concerning the control of communication during a crisis. Believe me, during the Green Revolution in Iran, HF was at the very, very bottom of the government's “gotta control” list.
If aliens attack and take out all of the infrastructure, I'll be thinking of you and your HF. But if Obama declares an emergency and cancels the November elections on Oct. 30th, you aren't on my priority list for fast response.
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posted on
07/08/2012 2:47:47 PM PDT
by
SampleMan
(Feral Humans are the refuse of socialism.)
To: SampleMan
Oh, I'll bet there are enough on my street that have HF.
Some even have the ability to transmit on the commercial AM bands if required.
If you want to rally 50 or 100K people, turn their lights off for 2 weeks. Then let the guys with HF coordinate and diseminate the information.
/johnny
To: JRandomFreeper
Check your calendar. It is 2012.
I direct you back to the thread. The other side won’t be using 1915 technology and they will be mobilized, in place, and done before you get contact 100 people. You are talking about responding in weeks, when the game is played in hours.
No one, least me, is arguing that HF has no use. But to think that it can fill the void of rapid communication is ludicrous. It cannot.
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posted on
07/08/2012 3:06:17 PM PDT
by
SampleMan
(Feral Humans are the refuse of socialism.)
To: JRandomFreeper
Then let the guys with HF coordinate and diseminate the information. Why would you trust the transmissions you get? How do you verify them? If you get 50 conflicting messages, how do you deal with that? Which one do you go with?
Disseminate. OK, how are you going to do that without any other communications? Yelling, flyers, spray paint?
HF works fine if no one is messing with you, but you need structure, codes, and a network of people otherwise. And even then, that network is easily infiltrated. Occupied Europe is a good history of just how difficult and dangerous HF transmission and information dissemination is when the powers that be want to stop it. The one way coded messages of the BBC took years to make work (network problems) and were of limited usefulness and always suspect of having been broken.
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posted on
07/08/2012 3:27:13 PM PDT
by
SampleMan
(Feral Humans are the refuse of socialism.)
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