malewithatail
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Post by malewithatail on Feb 14, 2023 16:53:20 GMT 10
Try this out. Either as a thought experiment, or really do it.
Turn off the internet, your phone and any satellite TV/Radio you may have.
Now, you want news, do you have a suitable radio that covers the normal AM/FM bands and can pick up the local ABC stations ? OK, now turn it off. What means do you have now for finding out information. Do you have and know how to use, a short wave radio receiver ? And do you know where the major international broadcasters are on the bands ? Hint, there is not many of them left now that broadcast in English.
OK, turn that off, as well, now where do you go for information ? Have you a Ham license and appropriate equipment and the knowledge to use it ?
Does your backup radio work ? Assume that an EMP has fried all your Boefang UHF CB radios and repeaters. Now what ? How do you contact your people ?
Even though we have backup comms that are EMP/CME proof, will there be anyone left to communicate with ?
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The way to tell if a politician is lying is to watch their lips. if they move, they are lying.
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Post by frostbite on Feb 14, 2023 17:26:44 GMT 10
My retreat. No tv, no landline phone, no mobile phone, no internet. An FM radio we listen to for music only, not fake news or news designed to manipulate us. A 27meg radio I very rarely turn on, and then only for $hits and giggles.
This is my reality, every day I am there. I don’t need an umbilical cord to the outside world. I’m a big boy.
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Post by Joey on Feb 14, 2023 18:50:39 GMT 10
Getting a base station radio setup has been on my list long before I thought about prepping, but I've always been inhibited by the setup cost, even for a basic 177Mhz base station. I've got plenty of UHF radios lying around and one fitted in the car, but where I am there's nothing to listen in on besides a few wide-load trucks getting escorted on the nearby Hwy. I've got a multi band Baofeng handheld, but I never pick anything up on the VHF when set to scan, and around my area a lot of the VHF that you would pickup is P25 digital from the mines rather than proper radio guys
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Post by malewithatail on Feb 15, 2023 7:24:53 GMT 10
Most of your intel gathering WTSHTF will be listening anyway to other peoples plights and complaints. Everyone here is equipped with a UHF radio and all know how to use it. Again, 99% of time on air will be listening for intel on short wave, or the ham bands. Obviously, there will be info we have to share with others, but time on air should be limited for OPSPEC reasons.
As most international short wave broadcasters seem to have left the air to pod cast, the short waves are quite clear. This also means that deliberate jamming of international transmissions as has been carried out by both sides for many years, has all but stopped, leaving the ham bands reasonably open. Ham comms will be the method for information dissemination after the collapse.
The wide load escorts are a good method for checking the gear is still working.
WTSHTF all members of our group will carry a radio at all times, especially when outside working in the paddocks, just in case of intrusion. Rifle in one hand, garden fork in the other type of awareness.
I hope that this heightened state of awareness will only need to be kept up for a few weeks until the great die off has happened.
“They all clearly said what they are going to do! ‘Build Back Better’ – so it has to be destroyed first.
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Post by Stealth on Feb 15, 2023 21:33:47 GMT 10
I've always been a fan of the bush telegraph. Might take a bit for news to get to you sometimes but bad news always travels fast so *shrug*. I'd like to have a radio set up, but I have other things that are higher on my priority list that must come first.
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Post by malewithatail on Feb 16, 2023 6:51:23 GMT 10
Another one.
Led lights are good, low power consumption, even light output and available in many different colors, but........they are after all semi conductors.
Some time ago I realized we were getting to reliant on new technology of led lighting. I now have several bulb type rechargeable torches, (from the tip and reconditioned with new battery packs), and also a 160 watt, battery operated hi power spot/flood light that is portable (internal battery that will operate it for about 20 mins on full power) and can light up an entire paddock in one go.
After an EMP, all our fancy red/green laser sights, house lights, torches etc will be useless, hence the drive to get some old technology illumination. I also have the original incandescent down light bulbs from when I changed the lights over in the house to led down-lights.
I now have a bulb type torch that will fit the piccanninny rail on the rifle for nite use.
Backup plans are always a good idea.
U gets what u pay for. If you want first quality oats, well, they cost, but oats that have already been through the horse, they are a bit cheaper.
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Post by malewithatail on Feb 18, 2023 16:37:33 GMT 10
From Quora.
If I turned my computer off for 100 years without touching it at all and protecting it in perfect condition would it work afterwards? If not, why?
No.
As other people have said, corrosion, capacitor failure, and battery failure will likely destroy the computer. But there’s an additional factor as well.
Modern computers have SSDs instead of spinning rust hard drives, and the firmware is stored in flash memory.
Flash memory has a limited lifespan. It exploits a subtle quantum mechanics phenomenon called “electron tunneling” to record information as charges on floating gates in floating gate transistors. The same principles of quantum mechanics that allow flash memory to work, also guarantee that over time, the electrons will tunnel out of the gates and the information will be lost.
If you put flash memory on a shelf and forget about it, within five years enough tunneling will happen that the special error correction circuitry built into flash memory controllers needs to do significant work to recover the data. Within thirty years, the flash memory is effectively blank.
The firmware in your computer will evaporate.
This is not just a problem for desktop or laptop computers. I foresee it becoming a serious problem in ways a lot of folks aren’t yet thinking about. Like cars.
Car companies are starting to use flash memory in the computers that control the engine. Put a flash-equipped car in a garage for 20 or 30 years and no matter how good the car’s condition is mechanically, it won’t run.
I think the last comment is interesting in the light of today's reliance on technology. After the fall, give it 30 years and nothing based on solid state memories will work.
I have a flash disk that is over 10 years old, and has some music MP3's on it. All of them are corrupted to some extent, with dropouts where the music stops, only to pick up after a second or two, effectively rendering the disk useless for long term storage. On the other hand, I have some recordings from the 1900's, over 120 years ago that are still playable, albeit with some surface noise, and on equipment that doesn't need electricity to operate, just wind it up and away it goes. Progress ?
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