Posted on 02/21/2022 10:18:55 AM PST by BenLurkin
NICE!
That yours?
Just send me a PM when you hear via shortwave, when the internet, she be back up.
Had to be!
Some people have no sense of fun. 😏
(Am I logged on?)
Naa, I’ve been wanting to get into Ham for a while but haven’t done it yet. I did a Ham license search and there’s a guy and his wife about 5 miles away from me that have licenses. She’s Tech and he’s General. Found the house with antenna tower. Have been meaning to stop by some Saturday and introduce myself. His setup is a repeater. We’re in a hilly area but by looking at a terrain map, I think I’m pretty close to line of sight so I could probably get away with a handheld or mobile unit.
I’ve got a couple of CB radios and have listened but I guess no one uses them around here.
The same person that keeps the Rapture ping list.
All your base...loved it then and still do.
However, I prefer “fuhgeddaboudit”
Prior to electronic communications people used couriers or mail. Wanderers in the same vein as the Medieval traveling minstrel would go from town to town delivering information. Recall that all throughout the Renaissance scientists continuously communicated with each other in this fashion. Sometimes they would congregate at various academies. We must not forget public bulletin boards were available for tacking notices.
I clearly remember in the 1960s subscribing to publications of all sorts. A lot of information moved in that manner. The electrostatic copy machine was invented in that time frame; and, certainly boosted the ease of disseminating information.
The telephone modem became a very common method of moving a lot of information around in the 1960s. That was accomplished over dial-up landline communications. With the advent of hobbyist computing came the BBS, or bulletin Board Service: A dial-up center for distribution of information over telephone modems. These centers moved information an software in large quantities. Your computer probably contains a telephone modem.
The FAX machine has been around since the late 1890s.
In the 1980s I helped organize and operate a public UFO Forum. Our information came through BBS services, wandering minstrels, books, magazine subscriptions, and paid lecturers from out of town.
Fear not. It will always be possible to communicate with like minds.
Do you understand that the Internet can be withheld at any time?
Holy Moley! That is a NICE receiver!
I’m thinking we also need a low tech solution.
Maybe do what our Founders did and meet up at local watering holes.
There are usually several different phone numbers you can try in the event it goes down. Just be careful as long distance charges may apply.
I’m definitely with you here. I think we need to start building a low-tech communications network.
Stay away from the Knights Who Say Knee.
Some of them probably smelled bad; and, they typically ate quite a lot.
That inability is called a sarchasm.
You will only be allowed in if you show your mark err... vaccine passport.
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