Maybe for you, but not for me.
I hope it never happens and at my age, there is little sense in preparing
.
The two most important needs when society melts down whether caused by a
CME, or a disaster whether natural, or man made are food and staying
alive, unnoticed. Neither are simple, whether in place, or Bug-Out. I
know several and that's what they preach. If lucky, they'll only be back
to 19th century living.
A direct hit from a CME and the electrical grid will be down fore many
months, if not a year or two.. It happened in the 1800s and the
telegraph lines were hot. Fortunately they didn't depend on electricity
to stay alive.
Eventually, after it becomes somewhat safe to be noticed, it will
become a time for QRP and CW. IOW, basic communications. A time to know
enough electronics to build a simple SS CW transmitter. Receivers?
You won't be putting out a signal except maybe right at first, then it
will be wait until you are no longer worried about being found. No
repeater, no telephones, no electricity from the power co, no water, and
no gas for the house or car.
Off the grid and off the RADAR.
73, Roger (K8RI)
On 1/14/2017 10:20 PM, Thomas Noel wrote:
Hard to buy the Prepper theory. Preppers don’t base their survival
plans on an ephemeral resource such as available grid electricity, and
the amount of power needed is well beyond solar or wind generation
capacity.
Thomas W Noel
KF7RSF
On Jan 14, 2017, at 6:31 PM, Roger (K8RI) on TT
<K8RI-on-TowerTalk@tm.net <mailto:K8RI-on-TowerTalk@tm.net>> wrote:
One word...Preppers! Before long, they may outnumber the weed growers.
They want lots of fresh vegetables year round. Doing it indoors "up
here" would give three crops per year. In GA my son gets two crops
per year outdoors, but he usually has to cover the second crop a few
times
If our home was larger, I'd use the newer methods of growing without
soil. Here? We don't have a garden, indoors or out.
Growing up on the farm, we rarely needed to go to town. My mother had
a large garden and a fruit cellar.
A indoor garden, even with the extra cost pretty much removes the
worries about food in case of winter storms, or possible disasters.
73, Roger (K8RI)
On 1/13/2017 8:31 PM, StellarCAT wrote:
Why would anyone spend so much more for electricity to 'save' on
vegetables from an indoor garden?!
Seems, to me, at least likely, only one reason why it is there...
Gary
-----Original Message----- From: jimlux
Sent: Friday, January 13, 2017 2:07 PM
To: towertalk@contesting.com <mailto:towertalk@contesting.com>
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] noise profiles...
On 1/13/17 8:47 AM, GALE STEWARD via TowerTalk wrote:
I'm not 100% sure that it's from illegal activity. I used to start
A LOT of my garden plants for the spring planting by using grow
lights. I used to have powered up for 12 hours a day. I never
started them this early in the year however (SE PA).
or to get mares fertile earlier - you want that January foal so it's
three months older than all the other horses of the same "horsey age"
(which rolls over at New Years) (and equine gods forbid your mare starts
to deliver on 31 Dec... You'll have a 150 lb "one year old" on your
hands)
. or to fake your horse into shedding out their winter coat early.
Of course, you don't need "big bright lights" for that function...
Lots of legitimate reasons to drive photoperiod.
Not a lot of legitimate reasons to radiate RFI
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