TV show, Doomsday Preppers, suggesting preppers use ham/shortwave radio.

[KD8FYI]

Oh crap. You're on to us. Now I've got to move my bunker.

Won't help, they can re-target strategic ballistic missiles!


73's and duck,
Ed.

[WA9SVD]

Well that's going to put a damper on my Christmas spirit!

Ho Ho Ho! Just do your shopping early, in case you DO wake up in a panic on 22 December! (Only two shopping days until Xmas at that point!)

[KD8FYI]

Ho Ho Ho! Just do your shopping early, in case you DO wake up in a panic on 22 December! (Only two shopping days until Xmas at that point!)

Black Saturday?


73,
Ed

[KB4QAA]

Really?

Are you forgetting the ionization from the particulate? Imagine constant thunderstorms, lasting for well into a year...

No, I'm not missing anything. Weather is weather and occurs in the troposphere..very little effect on HF propagation. The fallout particles are below the Ionosphere and therefore don't affect it!

Again, you are arguing the wrong side of facts that were proven 60 years ago in open air tests. Live on-air radio checks showed that HF blackouts typically last a few minutes to less than an hour.

[KB2FCV]

I'm ready. All I have to do is break the glass.

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Nice collection! But where is the yellow Gooney Box?

[KD8FYI]

No, I'm not missing anything. Weather is weather and occurs in the troposphere..very little effect on HF propagation. The fallout particles are below the Ionosphere and therefore don't affect it!

Again, you are arguing the wrong side of facts that were proven 60 years ago in open air tests. Live on-air radio checks showed that HF blackouts typically last a few minutes to less than an hour.

QAA,

I apologize for the snottiness of my original post. A better way of stating it is that I find the point rather academic in that I don't think that to many hams are going to be worried about the ionosphere in the event of WWIII.

73,
Ed

[WY5V]

Nice collection! But where is the yellow Gooney Box?

I don't think they had one. Just the Motorola desktop consoles. That display case is in the City of Dallas Office of Emergency Management. Here is a photo of the other case:

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Some, but not all, of these items were removed from the old Dallas County/City EOC under the old science museum at Dallas Fair Park. There is a fairly good write up on the facility at this web site: http://www.civildefensemuseum.com/

Andy

[KB4QAA]

Look at that! Barrels of dehydrated water. Just add water!

[KB2FCV]

I don't think they had one. Just the Motorola desktop consoles. That display case is in the City of Dallas Office of Emergency Management. Here is a photo of the other case:

It's definitely a neat collection. There are no civil defense related museums that I know of in our area. Very little remains of the Nike Missile base that was a mile or two from where I live except for some concrete slabs and some barbed wire fencing. Also, you can still see the fallout shelter signs around town if you know where to look. Who knows if there are any supplies in the dark corners of the basements of some of these buildings around town. I have a few civil defense things in my basement (some survey meters, a yellow cd 2m gooney box.. you can see that on youtube..). I don't know what it is I find so interesting about the civil defense era.

[K9STH]

Then there are those who "point out" that the Mayan's didn't allow for leap year. Therefore, the "end of the world" has already passed!

Glen, K9STH