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Grid Down Scenario: How Do We Communicate With Loved Ones and Receive Info?

 
Anonymous Coward
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Grid Down Scenario: How Do We Communicate With Loved Ones and Receive Info?
Grid Down Scenario =

Cell Phones - Down
Land Lines - Down
Internet - Down
Cable TV - Down
Antenna TV - Down
Satellite TV - Down

Now what?

Jump in your car and tune the radio for local news broadcasts on the AM and/or FM dial.

Dead air or static...

How many of us are prepared to wake up tomorrow with no phone, no internet, no TV, no nothing!

Practical discussion for life saving communications if they do take the grid down.

It could very well be something we all face in the not so distant future.
Queserasera

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07/22/2021 12:10 AM
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Ham radio?
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07/22/2021 12:11 AM

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Ham radio?
 Quoting: Queserasera


yes but if it is a EMP it will need to be in a faraday cage
SafeandSound

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07/22/2021 12:14 AM

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Walkie talkies?
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07/22/2021 12:15 AM
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With Pigeons, I guess. lol
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Limbic resonance
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07/22/2021 12:17 AM
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smoke signals. lol
Anonymous Coward
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07/22/2021 12:22 AM
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Satelite phones...but everybody in your group has to have one...

I have xplorenet internet...its satelite based and I have backup power...both generators and solar...
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07/22/2021 12:23 AM

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Dixie Cups and kite string.
Anonymous Coward
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07/22/2021 12:26 AM
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Re: Grid Down Scenario: How Do We Communicate With Loved Ones and Receive Info?
Actually, anything with wire in it will fail.

Your cars and houses will burn down.

Carrington event proved that.

When the Sun finally repeats that shot, the entire "1st world" will burn down.

The smoke will blot out the sun for years.
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07/22/2021 12:43 AM
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Ham radio?
 Quoting: Queserasera


That would be my guess. Many hams have created faraday cages to protect their gear. Or have spare transceivers in one.

CQ CQ CQ
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07/22/2021 01:03 AM
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Re: Grid Down Scenario: How Do We Communicate With Loved Ones and Receive Info?
Grid Down Scenario =

Cell Phones - Down
Land Lines - Down
Internet - Down
Cable TV - Down
Antenna TV - Down
Satellite TV - Down

Now what?

Jump in your car and tune the radio for local news broadcasts on the AM and/or FM dial.

Dead air or static...

How many of us are prepared to wake up tomorrow with no phone, no internet, no TV, no nothing!

Practical discussion for life saving communications if they do take the grid down.

It could very well be something we all face in the not so distant future.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 78059915


Grid down meaning no electricity I am assuming. Depends on whether electronics are fried. If electronics are fried, the entire world stops functioning and we start over. For most people, this would be the end.

If electricity is just down for some other reason, terrorism, or something, I'd get on my ham radio using the marine battery, and talk to people around the world and see what's going on.

I would visit my Dad and my mother in law to make sure they're ok. My dad would have visited my brother to make sure he's OK (he's always needed guidance).
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Grid Down Scenario =

Cell Phones - Down
Land Lines - Down
Internet - Down
Cable TV - Down
Antenna TV - Down
Satellite TV - Down

Now what?

Jump in your car and tune the radio for local news broadcasts on the AM and/or FM dial.

Dead air or static...

How many of us are prepared to wake up tomorrow with no phone, no internet, no TV, no nothing!

Practical discussion for life saving communications if they do take the grid down.

It could very well be something we all face in the not so distant future.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 78059915


Ham radio but you have to put some time and investment in upfront to have when TSHTF
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07/22/2021 01:24 AM
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Ham radio?
 Quoting: Queserasera


yes but if it is a EMP it will need to be in a faraday cage
 Quoting: mr dull socks


along with a power supply, repeater and antenna and everyone in your group doing the same.
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07/22/2021 01:31 AM
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Pen, paper, telepathy.
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07/22/2021 01:37 AM
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What if those supposed 1000s miles of cable on the ocean floor give out heheehhe
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07/22/2021 01:40 AM

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Coconut wireless
“If we are peaceful, if we are happy, we can smile and blossom like a flower, and everyone in our family, our entire society, will benefit from our peace.”
Thich Nhat Hanh, Being Peace

"But ask the animals, and they will teach you,
or the birds in the sky, and they will tell you;
or speak to the earth, and it will teach you,
or let the fish in the sea inform you." - Job 12:7,8

"When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro." - Hunter S. Thompson



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Coconut wireless
 Quoting: Rev Woo-Woo


Worked for Gilligan and those Island homos
Rev Woo-Woo

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Coconut wireless
 Quoting: Rev Woo-Woo


Worked for Gilligan and those Island homos
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 80461081




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“If we are peaceful, if we are happy, we can smile and blossom like a flower, and everyone in our family, our entire society, will benefit from our peace.”
Thich Nhat Hanh, Being Peace

"But ask the animals, and they will teach you,
or the birds in the sky, and they will tell you;
or speak to the earth, and it will teach you,
or let the fish in the sea inform you." - Job 12:7,8

"When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro." - Hunter S. Thompson



revstargazer (at) hotmail.com
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Re: Grid Down Scenario: How Do We Communicate With Loved Ones and Receive Info?
Grid Down Scenario =

Cell Phones - Down
Land Lines - Down
Internet - Down
Cable TV - Down
Antenna TV - Down
Satellite TV - Down

Now what?

Jump in your car and tune the radio for local news broadcasts on the AM and/or FM dial.

Dead air or static...

How many of us are prepared to wake up tomorrow with no phone, no internet, no TV, no nothing!

Practical discussion for life saving communications if they do take the grid down.

It could very well be something we all face in the not so distant future.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 78059915


ATM - Down
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HAM and shortwave radio
When you are afraid of losing your life, you have already lost your life.

Don't be afraid.
Giselle22

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Pen, paper, telepathy. ohyeah
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 72225263


Yes, I-N-T-U-I-T-I-V-E, inner sense, perception, not using rational thought.

Practice up N-O-W, before needed. eyebat
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07/22/2021 07:33 PM
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Dixie Cups and kite string.
 Quoting: Remedial_Rebel


I volunteer to be in charge of the DDDixie Cups!!!
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Satelite phones...but everybody in your group has to have one...

I have xplorenet internet...its satelite based and I have backup power...both generators and solar...
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 75555852


noiice
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07/22/2021 07:42 PM
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Think pony express (not kidding).

Pen & paper & sooner or later SOMEBODY will be heading in that direction. Make sure to date your letters because you don't know how long it will take to get there.

It'll be a mostly volunteer network I assume.

Maybe need to add (on the envelope) the closest MAJOR intersection nearest the destination.





GLP