Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!mx02.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com Newsgroups: uk.radio.amateur,rec.radio.amateur.antenna,comp.misc Subject: Re: EMP Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2015 23:12:12 -0000 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 41 Sender: Jim Pennino Message-ID: References: Injection-Info: mx02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="db4120ef82bbc153014637d4cd15a795"; logging-data="24501"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+jBswPkUP6tTTlyIugbO7N" User-Agent: tin/2.2.1-20140504 ("Tober an Righ") (UNIX) (SunOS/5.10 (i86pc)) Cancel-Lock: sha1:ZogiOw34CWFq6TxNnVEMdbSPNNQ= Xref: csiph.com uk.radio.amateur:253460 rec.radio.amateur.antenna:26274 comp.misc:9554 In rec.radio.amateur.antenna rickman wrote: > On 11/17/2015 5:38 PM, jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com wrote: >> In rec.radio.amateur.antenna rickman wrote: >>> On 11/17/2015 4:56 PM, Wayne wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> "gareth" wrote in message news:n2frkm$b7j$1@dont-email.me... >>>> >>>>> Those who were self-taught to the exclusion of sideband and sidetone >>>>> are no doubt unaware that in the event of a nuclear detonation that an >>>>> EMP >>>>> will melt the RF amps in their RXs because of the amount of power that >>>>> their antennae will pick up? >>>> >>>>> Anyway, in the light of the events in Paris last Friday, and >>>>> previously the attack >>>>> on the World Trade Centre on 11/9 the costly and >>>>> unnecessary nuclear deterrent doesn't seem to be working awfully well, >>>>> does it? >>>> >>>> It is indeed a mess, and I'm doing my own part to be prepared. >>>> >>>> However that includes some options not available to you. Example: a >>>> few semiautomatic rifles, pistols and several thousand rounds. >>> >>> Then what do you do the second day? >> >> Reload. > > John Brown tried that... Nope, John Brown was fighting his own war against the US government; a totally different thing from citizens resisting terrorism. A better analogy would be the local farmers, shopkeepers, and militia that pinned down Brown and his troops in the Harpers Ferry Armory until the Marines arrived. -- Jim Pennino