Posted on 07/07/2012 9:28:51 PM PDT by Sleeping Freeper
For Immediate Release July 06, 2012 Executive Order -- Assignment of National Security and Emergency Preparedness Communications Functions EXECUTIVE ORDER
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ASSIGNMENT OF NATIONAL SECURITY AND EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS COMMUNICATIONS FUNCTIONS
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered as follows:
Section 1. Policy. The Federal Government must have the ability to communicate at all times and under all circumstances to carry out its most critical and time sensitive missions. Survivable, resilient, enduring, and effective communications, both domestic and international, are essential to enable the executive branch to communicate within itself and with: the legislative and judicial branches; State, local, territorial, and tribal governments; private sector entities; and the public, allies, and other nations. Such communications must be possible under all circumstances to ensure national security, effectively manage emergencies, and improve national resilience. The views of all levels of government, the private and nonprofit sectors, and the public must inform the development of national security and emergency preparedness (NS/EP) communications policies, programs, and capabilities.
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Why is a spark transmitter illegal? Too much bandwidth?
I doubt actual Iranians will use an actual EMP device.
No Obama probably has some knowledge of a better idea, to create a simulated and partially successful EMP attack, one of a limited area and range, just enough shock needed to whip into a polarizing political firestorm.
Our own military has limited range EMP bombs, we used them in the Iraq war. Now set off a few, blame it on Iran OR blame it on the Tea party.
Obama would do this, he has not an ouce of patriotiem in him.
/johnny
I wonder where amateur radio would fit in all of this?
I’m on 2 meters myself. I’d love to give 6 and even 10 a try.
2 meters is ok for RACES operations, I had the receiver on last night to listen for a potential activation. Haven't worked 10 meters in years.
/johnny
Sure, you can pick up a telephone and use it under normal conditions. But what happens if everyone wants to use the phone at the same time? What happens if the phone company’s local office is destroyed or loses power? What happens if the streets are blocked off and you can’t drive and tell someone? Local infrastructure can be destroyed or disrupted, but there’s no way to destroy the radio spectrum from DC to daylight. That’s where amateur radio operators come through.
Anyway you can point me to how to make a cheap set myself?
That and become friends with a local ham radio operator. They can explain/teach the electronics or know someone that can.
/johnny
I can destroy the radio spectrum very easily, especially HF. Just transmit at a higher amplitude. Or better spoof the communicators and transmit false information. You will need code books, etc. That all takes time.
But my point is not to disparage HF operation, it certainly has its place. My point is that HF is not handy for mass communicating in the modern world, because so few people would be taking part.
CB radios would be handy, but few still have them, and of course, they are very limited in range.
The internet and cell phones allow people to communicate information to directly to hundreds/thousands/millions of individual people regardless of distance. That is very powerful to instantly organize. HF doesn’t do that.
For the purposes of
Or the VOA
You haven't ever traveled in the third world have you?
/johnny
How many people on your street have HF? How many within 50 miles of you? If I want to rally 50 people or 100,000 people to action (this Wednesday) who I don't even know, how exactly do I do that via HF?
This is a thread concerning the control of communication during a crisis. Believe me, during the Green Revolution in Iran, HF was at the very, very bottom of the government's “gotta control” list.
If aliens attack and take out all of the infrastructure, I'll be thinking of you and your HF. But if Obama declares an emergency and cancels the November elections on Oct. 30th, you aren't on my priority list for fast response.
Some even have the ability to transmit on the commercial AM bands if required.
If you want to rally 50 or 100K people, turn their lights off for 2 weeks. Then let the guys with HF coordinate and diseminate the information.
/johnny
Check your calendar. It is 2012.
I direct you back to the thread. The other side won’t be using 1915 technology and they will be mobilized, in place, and done before you get contact 100 people. You are talking about responding in weeks, when the game is played in hours.
No one, least me, is arguing that HF has no use. But to think that it can fill the void of rapid communication is ludicrous. It cannot.
Why would you trust the transmissions you get? How do you verify them? If you get 50 conflicting messages, how do you deal with that? Which one do you go with?
Disseminate. OK, how are you going to do that without any other communications? Yelling, flyers, spray paint?
HF works fine if no one is messing with you, but you need structure, codes, and a network of people otherwise. And even then, that network is easily infiltrated. Occupied Europe is a good history of just how difficult and dangerous HF transmission and information dissemination is when the powers that be want to stop it. The one way coded messages of the BBC took years to make work (network problems) and were of limited usefulness and always suspect of having been broken.
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