Posted on 07/07/2012 9:28:51 PM PDT by Sleeping Freeper
/johnny
It's kind of a formality really, most of them said the Exec Branch could also commandeer your car, your house, radio station, railroad, what-ever-— in a national emergency.
“The moment the internet is shut down, is when the world financial system crashes”
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While I am sure much of that may now be carried on the “Internet”, there are obviously international computer circuits that were established long before the Internet.
If you think about it, the Internet is not very old.
I was reading technical articles about it when it was just starting, and that was in the mid 80s.
I just wonder how dependent the rest of the world is on US backbones, and how much would stay up if American circuits were shut off.
ping for future reference
"(b) supporting the continuous operation and restoration of critical communications systems and services by assisting the Secretary of Homeland Security with infrastructure damage assessment and restoration, and by providing the Secretary of Homeland Security with information collected by the Federal Communications Commission on communications infrastructure, service outages, and restoration, as appropriate."
I may not be reading this correctly, but your excerpt and mine read like a takeover of existing forms of communication, and replacing it with the government.
You need to read all of 5.6.
He will, effectively, repeal and replace current forms of communications.
IOW, they will decide who gets to be on the ‘net...or anywhere else, for that matter.
Field Day's that I've enjoyed have been in Minnesota.
One of them we flew a kite antenna. Nice.
Haven't been active the last few years, I've been contracting in Afghanistan.
However, this cycle back, I plan on exploring my options.
I live in a townhouse and I have to come up with a good/easy combination so that I can erect an antenna and take it down when I'm done after each CW session.
This is the part where the government breaks in on the internet, like the EBS system for TV. By implication, it gives them the power to completely stop all other traffic.
EOs have existed for a very long time, but I don’t remember an administration who governed tyrannically through them as this one does.
“You need to read all of 5.6.”
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Thanks, but the link returned “The page you’re looking for is currently unavailable to view”
My main concern is how a US shutdown will affect international circuits.
"Sec. 5.3 (e) develop, maintain, and publish policies, plans, and procedures for the management and use of radio frequency assignments, including the authority to amend, modify, or revoke such assignments, in those parts of the electromagnetic spectrum assigned to the Federal Government; and..."
Hellooooo Rush, et al!
Maybe I'm being an Eeyore. I'm not an attorney, so some of this stuff doesn't make sense to me. However, I would put nothing past this administration.
Depending on frequency you plan to work at (and when during the day), there are some good stealth antennas using 4lb fishing line and very fine copper wire out to a tree.
There are also great foil tape folded dipoles for use with near vertical incidence skywave propogation.
I've got a 2 meter/440 j-pole built on an old broken tip fishing rod with brazing rod that has served me well for a few years.
I love field expedient antenna problems.
Yeah... I know. Weird for a cook, but we all have hobbies.
/johnny
Posted just upthread by thouworm. My thanks for posting it!
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2904011/posts?page=80#80
That’s odd. When I went to the link at whitehouse.gov just a few minutes ago, it was there.
Now, it’s gone.
“Interoperability” in this case means the capability of stations in one radio service to talk to stations in another radio service like, say, private land mobile service operators talking to the military. There’s a document called the National Interoperability Field Operations Guide (NIFOG) that has lots of interesting information on this topic, including frequencies and CTCSS tones. NIFOG is located here:
http://www.dhs.gov/files/publications/gc_1297699887997.shtm
It’s probably not time to start slitting our wrists quite yet. This doesn’t sound like the government is going to knock down our doors and take away our radios.
Lightweight conducting metal spines on a kite, instead of plastic or balsa wood. If you want, paint any exposed tips white. I really don’t know much about it, but if you need to I guess find a way to attach really fine wire to the top side of it.
Oh, thank you! I’m a button pusher, so it’s a comfort that I can turn the ‘net on and off at will. ;o)
It’s still on the website:
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