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? <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/ > >