On Sunday 15 August 2010 02:27:17 ZephyrNYC wrote: > On Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 20:32, Nate Duehr <n...@natetech.com> wrote: > > Very little, typically. Almost all have solid-state components that would > > be utterly dead after an EMP. Tube gear that survives EMP better is > > virtually all gone. And user radios are required for any repeater to be > > useful, and they'd all be totally dead too. > > Nate, your assessment then is that all repeaters within range of an EMP > would be wiped out?
Having talking with some folks who were charged with calculating the effects of EMP, a rough guideline is that anything you want to survive be buried in at least 20 feet underground, and more is better. An EMP is going to seriously screw us up. I think radio communications is farther down the list of problems if we get hit by one. Food, for one is going to be hard to move around. Of course, stuff things in the ground will work, gven the effort, AND not having a second one, say a month after the first, when you've taken items out of storage and are using them. Lately I'll point out that unless a lot of folks prepare in this way, it won't much matter if you've saved some stuff, will it.. > > > <snip> > > "So... the rest of your posting sure sounds like an advertisement for > another list, which is generally bad Netiquette, unless the lists had > something a little bit more in common." > > If an EMP can wipe out all repeaters, I would say that EMP has everything > to do with repeaters. > > > <snip> > > even though your "From" is a pseudonym. > > >> Personally, I find pseudonym-bearers on the Internet usually need this > >> advice: "If you want to be somebody else, change you mind." Seriously. > >> Or at least have the pseudonym match something you are, or something you > >> do. > > My email address is ZephyrNYC. "Zephyr" is the West Wind, and was my first > DJ name. NYC is for the city of my birth. I would say that matches who I > am and something that I do. > > If all repeaters can be wiped out by an EMP, the only way I can think of to > prepare for one then is to store spare repeater components inside a Faraday > cage or similar container and hope that there isn't a successive EMP after > the first one. > > > 73, > > Frank kF2ANK > > > > "Security is mostly a superstition. Avoiding danger is no safer in the > > long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure or > > nothing." ~ Helen Keller <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_keller> > > > > > > - Amateur Radio Portable Operations Group > > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ARPortable/ > > - EMP (Electro-Magnetic Pulse) & Preparedness > > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EMPprepare/ > > - Great Outdoors Radio Club http://groups.yahoo.com/group/gorc/ > > - Ham Radio Help Group > > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HamRadioHelpGroup/ > > - Military and Commercial Portable Radios > > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/milpack/ > > - Survival Communications http://groups.yahoo.com/group/survivalcomm/ -- STeve Andre' wb8wsf en82 Disease Control Warden Dept. of Political Science Michigan State University A day without Windows is like a day without a nuclear incident.
