Grid down, cell phones out, what u gunna do ?

No, not the normal types, but some have net connection for remote configeration etc.

Good Q, not sure, will investigate.

That's why you need multiple sources of information, to cross check one against the other.

Most, probably all, commercial radio stations these days rely on the internet to supply the means to transmit from their transmitter sites, which are away from the studios. Take down the net, take down the information chain for the general public and chaos will ensue. Society would melt down if they couldn't get their latest fix of headbanging music or talk-back.

Back to smoke signals and the pony express !!





WW3, The country won’t be ready, but you can be.

There are a few other things.  I got a small weather station from Bunnings a few years back, the cockatoos destroyed it..  
Got a number of barometers for atmospheric pressure.  Looking at getting a fancy sports watch with Altimeter, Barometer, Thermometer, and compass build in, also shows a graph of change over time. 

We rely so heavily on weather forecasts esp. rain radar - would have no idea if a big storm was coming through post grid down.   My father checked his barometer daily and would record values including rainfall.  

Yes... As weather goes...  By monitoring the barometer, temp, wind direction, season of the year in your location can go a long way in helping plan around weather...   At a time I had 2 of those combination temp, barometer, humidity nice indoor weather wall hanging stations..  One in the house, the other indoors in the shop..  Other than temp they ran roughly the same readings..  If they were vastly different readings combined with a wind change of direction and velocity it was best to  ....look out...  

Of course a hundred or more kilometers away it could be entirely different on that part of the mountains..   

I'm still working on getting a handle on patterns here since my last move..  Like said.. Just being observant and a simple log book can get you a long ways with knowing weather..

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Funny trivia side note..
My grandfather Clay had a crude barometer out of 2 Coca Cola soda bottles glued mouth to mouth with some colored water..  When the height of the water got to a certain point everything stopped and it was time to go fishing..  He was usually right.. 

The pony's let us know its gonna rain, and sometimes we know its gonna be bad when the cows turn up as well in road paddock. It has a large shed arrangement that keeps them all dry. The pony's were there this morning, so rain probably after lunch.

The Electrometer is at present showing a disturbed trace, so the atmosphere is unstable. The trend is still towards fine weather the last time I looked. The trace is positive fine weather, but oscillating around about 300 volts. Its a very high impedance source, so unless its actually storming, there is no danger of a shock from the sensing wire, but the +/- 600 volts DC (1,200 volts total), in the electrometer is another matter ! Ask me how I know !

The instrument can also detect meteor showers as they ionize the atmosphere and create a unique pattern, as well as CME's, as they disturb the earths electric field as well.

Its very old school technology, that I built over 40 years ago, and based on a 6U7 radio pentode valve, running on +/- 600 volts dc, and in a balanced bridge arrangement. If the bridge gets unbalanced then it show as a voltage on the cathode that changes from the zero point, either + or - according to the atmospheric charge. The grid (G1), is connected to a long, well insulated sensing wire about 20 meters long. Grid no's 2 and 3 are tied to the plate, that is connected to one end of the 1,200 volts DC supply. A sensitive micro ammeter is connected to earth from the cathode, and it is connected to the other end of the 1,200 volt dc. The duty is not onerous and the valve is drawing about 1 ma of plate current. The filament is under-run at 5 volts instead of 6.3v to minimize secondary emission, and the valve is in a light tight metal shield to prevent photo electric effects of electrons being knocked from the plate by light photons from interfering with the measurements. Yes, its that sensitive. Its still the original valve and other miscellaneous parts, the only difference is that now I run a 4 channel Dataq data logger and notebook PC instead of a paper chart recorder.

Sensitivity is such that I can out-forecast the weather beuro ! And when I was at yellow Rock, I visited the Darlinhurst Weather beuro severe weather section a few times to discuss the results with a forecaster. The outcome of that was an Australian patient.

Remember that 40 + years ago, high voltage semi conductors were very, very expensive and not reliable, hence the reason for the radio valve. Also, deliberately observing lightning discharges is a very nasty environment to expect equipment, especially home made and designed stuff, to work in. I can differentiate between cloud to cloud and cloud to ground discharges, as well as 'see' the buildup to a storm well before weather radar has anything to 'lock' on to, and sometimes many hours earlier than the Beuro.

The forecasters were pretty impressed with the concept and chart recordings at that time, but radar won out as it was mainstream technology.

Anyway, the gear got me my Engineering Degree thesis, and without a functioning weather beuro after TSHTF, it will be a valuable piece of tech to have. The alarm output from the datalogger is connected to a small buzzer, which chirps when there is a electrostatic discharge, and gives adequate warning of a approaching storm, sometimes hours actually.

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Lied to......again....

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Its in the microwave spectrum, dummos.....

Your microwave oven outputs about 600 watts, (input 1 KW or so, 50% efficient).

Each 5 g cell antenna has an output (and remember, the carrier wave is always transmitted, its just the modulation that varies, how else do you think the phone knows the signal strength ?), of about 600 watts, 3 per mast and that's 1,800 watts total, 1.8 kw. Now, open the door of your microwave oven and stand 50 meters away from it whilst bogeying the safety interlocks and turn it on...... Microwave ovens operate on about 2.45 Ghz, right in the middle of the band.

At that range, a led will light up brightly when connected to a 1/4 wave aerial. (2.45 GHZ is about 122 mm full wavelength, so a 30 mm lead connected to each led lead will work as a 1/4 wave aerial. This is the principle of the handheld microwave tester units that you can buy for a few dollars on e bay). If the led lights up around your house, run !!!!

Our mobile reception is non existent inside our metal framed and clad house, patchy outside as well, so sometimes crook phone reception is a blessing. We have satellite internet.






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Did some work on a Sydney radio station's transmitter site a number of years ago. We didn't need any extra lights for night time work, just held a 4 foot fluro lamp upright and daylight, all on pure RF power from the transmitter. Admittedly I think the output was 50 Kw, but still OHS would have kittens if we did the same today !

The original analogue system just worked, well. I had reliable phone comms over at least 50 km from high spots, but now the distance limit is not the RF power, but the data packets smashing into each other in opposite directions. This limits the ultimate range to 20 km I think, even if you can see the other person.

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