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In addition, Marine Band and/or Aircraft Band Radios should be considered for a little more op-sec.Add: Ham and shortwave, reloading knowledge and materials, small circle of trade partners.
Yep, giving them justification to take over with gov and marshal law. Create the crisis…Shit if camel toe gets in and actually does price controls on food you better have supplies because the shelves will run bare.
Musk is turning up a direct to satellite cell network.In addition, Marine Band and/or Aircraft Band Radios should be considered for a little more op-sec.
Not as many people will have Marine Band Radios outside of Boats on the Water and even fewer will have aviation radios.
If you're thinking of monitoring or even being able to transmit with Government entities, you can pretty well forget it unless you have "trunking" Digital equipment that's expensive...even a scanner is going to be pricey.,
Satellite Phones aren't cheap, but work damn near anywhere in the World, and short of an "Independence Day" alien take over of our Satellites or them getting nuked out of orbit, they'll work when nothing else does.
Pretty cool looking into the nighttime sky and seeing that long bar of "lights" from the Starlink...freaks people out that don't know what it is though.Musk is turning up a direct to satellite cell network.
All the starling satellites he has been launching lately have that capability.
Basically works just like a regular cell network except the towers are all in orbit.
Would use normal cell phones as transceivers. It's intended to compete directly with existing cell providers on price and capability. Which is why they are fighting it in court tooth and nail.
Not as rugged as a good HF transmitter, it does rely on external infrastructure, but it also doesn't need 100 feet of antenna either.
Starlinks are in a very low orbit for a variety or reasons, not the least of which is that they will decay and burn up in just a couple years if they lose control of one.Pretty cool looking into the nighttime sky and seeing that long bar of "lights" from the Starlink...freaks people out that don't know what it is though.
Wonder what's going to happen (if it isn't already) when private companies start salvaging Space debris and defunct craft in orbit?
That's one of the things I like about Elon: his overt "fuck you" to the establishment and elites.
I think it's fair to say the world and country are worse off today than we were last week.
I'm getting shit in order but it's a process. I worry I won't have time to get everything done that I want. I wish I had the gift of foresight and knew what was coming how much time there was.
The term that you use.... zombie apocalypse, it is my go to phrase when talking with others about prepping. Will we ever get them? Probably not, but like you said, if you are ready for them, you are ready for most things.Prep hard y'all. Prep like the zombie apocalypse is inbound. Most will never attain the level of preparedness we hope to achieve. If you get prepped for the apocalypse, lesser events will be just a speed bump to ya. As PJF says do the best you can, where you're at, with what you got. If things go sideways you'll be glad you did, if things don't get as bad your preps should endure over time if things get worse you'll be glad you did.
Reading the thoughts and ideas of many members here over the years has assisted me greatly.
I mentioned this before... I gave up so much leaving NY and moving down here. Moving here was a direct result of what I believe is coming.
We are spending a lot of time and resources to ensure we have all that is needed.
The debt, for us, was the upmost huddle to overcome. We did not have a lot compared to many others, but we had some.That's awesome and very encouraging.
I'm working on some life changes now. Trying to get things in order and paying down debt. We have a plan to pay off all credit card debt, a loan, and a vehicle payment (if nothing major comes up first) in the next ~10-12 months. I know that's not fun or exciting but at that point the only debt to our names will be our mortgage. That's our current short term goal. I am financially prepping to have more freedom.
Once we reach that point we will have more options available to us and moving out of state seems more realistic and feasible if we can pay off debt and put aside a cushion that I'm sure we will need in the process for many many unplanned or under estimated expenses along the way.
I don't know what black swan event is going to happen first but I just hope it's at least 3-5 more years off into the future. Not sure if I have that much time but trying to make responsible decisions now to get affairs in order. I don't want to be financially beholden to others. I want that true freedom feeling. Then we can live within our means wherever.
having a small child in the House, we watch (ok, I'm just present in the Room) a fair number of Movies and I'm very surprised at that number of scores from the 60's-70's-80's in Films, especially the Marvel/Disney stuff..."Kid's" from that era are Grandparents now, and somehow I just don't think we're the target audience.We have the best music.
Today it still works with what the demonrats are up to then and now.