Yes you and I do know a bit about being bit by pulse!   
      
      
    HG> If the cell net goes down, so does the ISP's. In a disaster, usually all   
    HG> providers, be they cell- or inter-net, go down.   
      
    HG> A ham repeater may work some time, if it has a battery back-up, but once   
    HG> that is depleted, it will also go down.   
      
    HG> Still, without an Internet Service Provider (ISP), to connect to, even   
    HG> Winlink is dead.   
      
    JA> course BBS's have small enough data footprints that you COULD work   
    JA> them at 9600 baud if you needed to...   
      
    HG> Yes, as long as you still have a POTS line and a modem in your   
    HG> computer.   
      
   JA> I meant the Winlink operates at 9600.   
      
    HG> Against what, when the providers are down ??   
      
      
    HG> Have a nice day,   
      
    HG> Holger   
      
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   Yes 'they' are talking about EMP pulse and humans whoping humans with nasty   
   radiation dis and dat..  But in what we both know isn't 'human' sourced from   
   the solar flares, they can be FAR WORSE for us all.  I think we both know   
   about the Carrington Event back when there was only telegraph lines for data   
   dis and dat.  Monster solar flare event that burned up all the telegraph   
   railroad lines and so on and killed a pile full of poor humans that were   
   sending Morse Code at the time!   
      
   Well folks here do need to do the research if they have not already.  These   
   massive solar flares do occur over and over again every say a bit less than   
   200 years or so.  Every day I look at the website www.spaceweather.com as it   
   and some others as well monitor all this stuff all the time.  As best I also   
   understand, likely some time between now and the end of this year or next year   
   our whole galaxy and is going through a complete reversal of the magnetic   
   polarity of the whole universe.  The jigger is already very evident if you are   
   watching things.  In the last nearly three years the magnetic polarity of our   
   Earth has already moved over 120 miles!  The current North Pole is just at the   
   north tip of Russia.  The current South Pole is at the tip of Brazil.  Do the   
   research.  The internal magna of our Earth is now jiggling at time over 400   
   miles a night back and forth!  AHA!  Now you know why all the earthquakes are   
   roaring off in the Ring Of Fire and all the volcano eruptions and so on are   
   ramping up everywhere.  Plus the ocean monster wave eruptions and so on.   
      
   Look up the effects of the old volcano Krakatoa back in the late 1800's on   
   Google.  When it blew up it tossed ashes and so on that were all over the   
   Earth's atmosphere for more than a year!  Cough, cough humanity...  But did   
   you know that the Yellowstone volcano is about ten times the size of that mess   
   of Krakatoa?  Plus that the earthquakes under it have already split the earth   
   so that it can easily erupt in any jiggle?   
      
   OK hams.  If all the whole wired and IT operations plus the cloud vanish in a   
   few seconds or so for us all, who do we have to even help us save all of what   
   we can for us all?  Well if protected from the EMP surge by a simple shielding   
   of our ham shack stuff and even battery powered, us ham radio folks might be   
   the best way, with underground wire power lines and phone lines plus fiber   
   optic cable, to save all humanity.   
      
   No, I don't know exactly the time for what has been carefully predicted for a   
   long time.  But even after I put together the original EOC for all of the   
   Texas A&M College area back decades ago so that we could even work with Morse   
   Code to Australia if we were whopped with an ABomb from Russia, and ahve the   
   thank you letter from the ARRL, this is why it is so important for all you   
   folks here to look upward and pray.  I even proved that one watt of RF Morse   
   Code could work Perth Australia from W5WQN at the right time on 40CW one day   
   from my little boy ham shack here where this message is still being typed.   
      
   Mike Luther as W5WQN as NC117 at 1:117/100   
      
      
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