Who Turned Out the Lights? The Coming Mega Sun Storm
Posted by richrobinson 9 years, 9 months ago to The Gulch: General
I have been reading about this for a while. Sounds like something we should prepare for. The affects would be much more devastating than Global Warming which I do not believe in anyway.
Old dino me has no use for anything like Facebook. I try to mind my own business and people can stay out of mine. Nosy Big Brother may also be taking notes.
The ISM bands are also not very regulated, and they are used amazingly efficiently. In a few years over half of smartphone data will be over WiFi in the ISM bands. Many cities and businesses send important data to control water pumps and industrial equipment on links several miles long, on Wi-Fi. Wi-Fi wasn't intended for that, but it's there, it's unlicensed, and people put it to excellent use.
CB is also not regulated and is just place to goof off. You can transmit a Morse code beacon, send data, use foul language in any mode you wand, and pretty much no one cares.
Today, people are getting into channelized communications using FRS and GMRS (those walktie-talkies you can get for $40 at Wal-Mart.
A mobile CB rig is forbidden by law to generate more than 4 Watts on AM or 12 W SSB (PEP) and amplifiers or modifications are strictly illegal. That's enough to get you heard within the radio horizon (line-of-sight + ~15%). Even amateurs top out at 1500 Watts and that only on specific frequencies. If they truly are putting out the kind of power you are mentioning (and operating outside of the bands specified by the FCC), that's a real easy way to get fined and get their equipment seized.
A few years ago we woke up to no power on a Sunday and we were fine. I camp so much we were able to have a nice breakfast, and lunch, then in the middle of the afternoon, two of our friends showed up saying they knew we were fine, can they join us for dinner. So we had a nice meal with company.
On a side note, I said what I thought was a funny comment to the astronomer, something like when do have time to write those predictions for the newspaper? The dood was not happy. No sense of humor.
Hey it's Saturday, get out there or wherever you want to be.
There is certain peace in the house when electricity is absent.
I had food, water, cash and shoes. And like Susanne, a good garden of vegies.
Unless one suffers from sleep apnea and their CPAP will not function.
I just discovered the Gulch a couple of months ago. I would surely miss my daily addiction. However, we've survived them in the past, and even though we have much more in the way of gadgets that will get screwed up, we'll survive.
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and check out the web site at:
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Yes, Alfalfa, this is real!
Peace Through Superior Power! Free Energy!
There are plenty of places on the internet you can go (and no, I'm not advocating the extreme "prepper" mentality) to get info on making your own 72-hr kit. The basics are 2 gallons of water per person per day and some basic foodstuffs and heat. Also a wind-up radio for tuning to the alert system and for public broadcasts.
The other thing I would encourage the readers here to do is to read up on the differences between solar flares and CME's (coronal mass ejections). It is the CME's that endanger earth.