Posted on 08/29/2009 3:54:17 PM PDT by oldfart
One of the nice things about internet bulletin boards is the anonymity of each poster. Of course it isn’t perfect since the board owner has enough information to positively identify everyone and TPTB can (and probably will) demand that data whenever they choose. In the meantime there is one way our paranoia can be used against us.
We all swear that our “line in the sand” is the confiscation of our guns. We say that if and when it happens we will get the word out on the internet and thus mobilize thousands of patriots.
Good idea. But what if there is no internet? What if the President decides to use his power to turn off private access to the net before the confiscation begins? How will we notify others of what is happening?
One thing this administration has taught me is to never assume they’re doing anything abstractly… they always have a good reason for what they do and when they do it. After years in the Illinois legislature furthering gun control Obama has spent eight months in the Presidency without even so much as trying to push a gun control bill. But in the last week we’ve heard that at least one Federal judge (from Chicago, I believe)believes gun registration is Constitutional and now we see a bill introduced to give the President new powers to control the internet in the event of some ill-defined “cyber emergency.” Where other Presidents have – when once elected – generally ignored the organizations that helped them get elected, this President is advertising for “recruits” to continue working for the “change” he espoused.
I wonder what color their shirts will be, brown?
So suppose TPTB discover (or manufacture) some sort of ‘cyber emergency,’ shut down servers all over the country and then begin kicking in doors. How do we get the word out? We’ll still have computers but they’ll be severely handicapped. We used to be able to simply call up the other guy’s computer and converse back and forth. But we had the “other guy’s” phone number then too – and his name! Now, in our paranoia, we’ve hidden behind screen names that usually don’t even describe us very well. One name that I see on several boards is “LYCAN.” How would I contact him without the internet? What if he were the first one to be raided? How would any of us know in time to be ready for our own “knock on the door?”
We need some sort of phone tree where each of us has two or more numbers to contact if the balloon goes up. Perhaps there’s some way we could utilize those cheap throwaway phones I see at the supermarket checkout line. Comments?
I live in interior Alaska. The net is the only way I get news other than NPR and that’s not even an option as far as I’m concerned. There is no cell service and all phone service is over a satellite. I do have my own sat phone in addition to the commercial service.
But for years many of us have used high frequency radio. The one I have have now cost me less than $700 and has a tremendous range both in distance and frequencies available. I could even buy a modem for it if I chose to. It is a reliable means of both voice and code communication and email if that was still working. No ham license required, range is over 100 miles.
The other possiblity is marine band radio. Cheaper but more restricted in distance and terrain features.
Important point: how many PCs have phone modems any more?
Biden caught on tape unawares - remember...
“Within 6 months...We're gonna have an international crisis...We're gonna hafta make some tough decisions...It's not going to be apparent that we're right...if they work...gird your loins” -
Some years ago I worked with a distance-measuring machine called a ‘Tellurometer’ that utilized microwave technology. It was big and cumbersome but it had the added capability of voice communication with the “slave” station. Since then I seem to remember reading on the internet about a way to convert an ordinary kitchen microwave for communications. I didn’t pursue it since the S was nowhere close to the Fan... then! Anybody know anything about such a project? It would provide line-of-sight, narrow beam communications over fairly long distances and everybody has a microwave or two plus there is hardly a house anymore that doesn’t have a microwave “dish” on the roof.
Maybe Jim has some ideas on this. Would he defy a court order via 0bama Brown Shirts with orders to expose us?
I do agree that there should be some sort of way we could get in touch with each other when the SHTF.
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Target rich environment.
He shuts down anything it will be an act of War Period, between America and Communism it is long past time for this to happen.
I don’t know how to smoke signal. :)
It worked for the Founding Fathers.
Obama's BLUE - ;o)
If our government runs true to form some of those smoke signals will be from our houses.
Local cells, ham radio, FMRS.
Up until the “cyber emergency”, darknets. By invitation only.
I would say we’d know it was time to “lock and load” when communications are shut down.
Thanks for the link!
On to the research... I found the rules and the Technician question pool.
Tune into 3840 kHz (3.840 MHz) LSB in the mornings, from 7:30 AM CDT ‘til about 9AM every morning ...
Woo Hoo! 14.4K dialup. Somebody set up a bulletin board and give us a phone number to call. No video posts, PLEASE.
Ping. Haven’t you worked in the realm of telecommunications?
in the realm of telecommunicationsThat's a mighty big field, and includes legacy switching and transmission 'systems' (like copper incl POTS thru to modern fiber control by SS7 protocol) as well as cellular (several varieties of technology in the US now incl GSM, GPRS, WCDMA, CDMA200) and now TCP/IP networks.
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