Internet Collapses in Venezuela with 80% Offline; Twitter, YouTube, SoundCloud Blocked

pjmedia.com ^ | 3/20/2019 | Paula Bolyard

[bert]

When it is learned that Guido can not actually solve the problems, he will be turned on and killed too

[Texas Fossil]

I’m impressed. It was the standard that 4 W ERP was the max. Now, that is designed to reduce in town interference. Neither the Island nor I have that issue. smile.

Mine is within the power limit. Primarily because I used the old router I had. And only a 6db collinear antenna. Now there is an issue of bidirectional power. Some WIFI receivers vary a lot on sensitivity. I think both of mine have Orinoco cards. At the time they were pretty good. With higher gain on the feedhorn antenna at the laptop, it balanced pretty well.

I hope to pick up an large dish antenna. Have my eye on some, not yet ready to make an offer on them. Have a friend in OK who had a 28 ft. dish in his front yard. He was avid EME type. I did some of his tower work when I lived there. Saved some very big antennas for him when the wind blew over the christmas tree on top his tower. He and I did it and did not damage a single antenna. I did the tower work he was the ground crew. Not sure now if he had other help, that was a long time ago.

[Calamari]

Amateur Radio can be very useful during emergencies in support of emergency operations providing auxiliary communications or even primary communications for those agencies involved in those operations. Those agencies are assumed to be friendly and not hostile. Most amateur radio equipment will run on 12 volts DC or using adapters for those that run on 9,5,or 3 volts DC. Think car battery and solar panel charger. Lots of car batteries laying around in abandoned cars.

But

You need to be very careful if you are going to use Amateur Radio in an insurrection against any modern military. Stay on the air too long and the military's radio direction finding (RDF) equipment will have the transmitter's location pin-pointed in short order and artillery, anti-radiation missile or unfriendly patrol will soon silence that transmitter.

[Texas Fossil]

Yes, I know.

Hams are almost all patriotic. Very few are Lefties.

I hold an Extra and GROL, spent many years with some of the most technical hams in the country.

You need not explain the equipment or the threat.

The ComDems (should the day ever come) will not be able to enlist the support of the military. (Active or retired) They may get some high ranking military hacks like Weasley Clark, but no one holding any respect.

[Calamari]

Hold an Advanced license.

Packet radio, APRS, HF PACTOR and of course voice comms.

QTH someplace northwest of San Antonio.

73.

[Texas Fossil]

I’m an old fashioned rag chewer.

Have done a lot of building, am 71 now, but still pretty technically competent.

It has been some time since I spent a lot of time with a soldering iron in my hand.

Too much computer crap.

smile.

73

[PA Engineer]

For your reference. Things are unwinding in Venezuela as predicted in WROL and post-SHTF. I don't see the grid coming back up for a long time.

A very long twitter thread in English from the beginning. Just a snapshot.

Venezuela Collapse

Ignore all the crap about the grid being brought down by foreign powers. This was unimaginable negligence.

[sparklite2]

Ignore all the crap about the grid being brought down by foreign powers.
This was unimaginable inevitable negligence.

FIFY

[TChad]

If you need antenna design help,

No, I was just curious about what was possible.

At the time it was built, there were 3 like it working in the state. I loved those days.

It sounds like work you could be proud of, and a lot of fun.

Thanks.

[null and void]

I just got back from a full week of no-internet Hell.

I really feel for these guys!