In a message on Thursday 09-20-16 Mike Luther said to Holger Granholm:   
      
   GM Mike,   
      
   JA> I meant the Winlink operates at 9600.   
      
    HG> Against what, when the providers are down ??   
      
   ML> Yes 'they' are talking about EMP pulse and humans whoping humans   
   ML> with nasty radiation dis and dat..  But in what we both know isn't   
   ML> 'human' sourced from the solar flares, they can be FAR WORSE for us   
      
   I was talking about ANY disasters, like ice storms, cyclones or anything   
   that takes down communications.   
      
   ML> I think we both know about the Carrington Event back when   
   ML> there was only telegraph lines for data dis and dat.  Monster solar   
   ML> flare event that burned up all the telegraph railroad lines and so   
   ML> on and killed a pile full of poor humans that were sending Morse   
   ML> Code at the time!   
      
   Yes, we do remember that, and it can still happen, even though many   
   safety measures have been implemented. In the case of an EMP pulse, most   
   of todays semiconductor appliances will go up in smoke.   
      
   Remember: Electronics work with smoke. If the smoke gets out, equipmment   
   will stop working.   
      
   What may be left, are the old appliances, as radio sets with tubes.   
      
   ML> These massive solar flares do occur over and over again every say a   
   ML> bit less than 200 years or so.  Every day I look at the website   
   ML> www.spaceweather.com as it and some others as well monitor all this   
      
   So do I, and I have researced solar cycles from 1600 until today.   
   That includes the Maunder minimum 1645-1715, and the Dalton minimum   
   1790-1830, and compared the smoothed sunspot numbers (SSN) for the   
   period. That includes the Schwabe 11 years, Hale 22 years, and Gleissberg   
   44 years cycles, as well as the 200 year cycle.   
      
   They all point to a renewed new very deep minimum, as does this report   
   published in the german ham radio magazine CQ DL 7/2016:   
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   Clip from the german Deutsche Amateurfunk Magazin, CQ DL 7/2016,   
   UKW-Rundschau, p. 52   
      
   "What are the expectations for the coming years? Does the Professor of   
   Physics Harald Lesch, known from german TV, prove to be right, there   
   will not in the next four to six decades be anymore sunspot maxima.   
   The 'Small ice age' of the 1800s, the Dalton Minimum, will be repeated.   
   It may have had other causes *), but the fact remains, that our grand-   
   or maybe grandgrand children will not be able to fully utilize the bands   
   above 14 MHz. That would above all be tragic for the 6m band."   
      
   Translation by Holger "Sam" Granholm, OH0NC   
      
   *) Added by the translator: The trend of the past sunspot cycles show   
      the same behaviour as the cycles preceeding the "Small ice age".   
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   I'm old enough to probably not be around when that happens, but I have   
   warned all my relatives, and many others of the impending disaster.   
   Mostly I have been met with disbelief, and thoughts of a crazy oldie ;o)   
      
   ML> stuff all the time.  As best I also understand, likely some time   
   ML> between now and the end of this year or next year our whole galaxy   
   ML> and is going through a complete reversal of the magnetic polarity of   
      
   Right now the sun changes its polarity regularly, so a complete reversal   
   may happen any time.   
      
   ML> ................  In the last nearly three years the magnetic   
   ML> polarity of our Earth has already moved over 120 miles!  The current   
   ML> North Pole is just at the north tip of Russia.  The current South   
   ML> Pole is at the tip of Brazil.  Do the research.   
      
   This is a regular shift of the magnetic polarity that all navigators are   
   taught in all schools for seamen, airline and sea pilots and others that   
   have/want to know how to navigate. I have passed such an examination.   
      
   ML> of our Earth is now jiggling at time over 400 miles a night back and   
   ML> forth!  AHA!  Now you know why all the earthquakes are roaring off   
   ML> in the Ring Of Fire and all the volcano eruptions and so on are   
   ML> ramping up everywhere.  Plus the ocean monster wave eruptions and so   
   ML> on.   
      
   Earthquakes and volcano eruptions are the result of the earth crust   
   moving at the cracks, that were created when the crust split into the   
   different continents, we have today.   
      
   ML> Look up the effects of the old volcano Krakatoa back in the late   
   ML> 1800's on Google.  When it blew up it tossed ashes and so on that   
   ML> were all over the Earth's atmosphere for more than a year!   
      
   We have a much younger volcano eruption to recall, the one at Iceland.   
   It certainly didn't have the strength of Krakatoa, but it tossed up   
   enough ashes, to have the intercontinental airlines to find new routes.   
      
   ML> OK hams.  If all the whole wired and IT operations plus the cloud   
   ML> vanish in a few seconds or so for us all, who do we have to even   
   ML> help us save all of what we can for us all?  Well if protected from   
   ML> the EMP surge by a simple shielding of our ham shack stuff and even   
   ML> battery powered, us ham radio folks might be the best way, with   
   ML> underground wire power lines and phone lines plus fiber optic cable,   
   ML> to save all humanity.   
      
   Well, I haven't shielded my ham shack, but all my equipment is battery   
   powered, both HF, VHF, UHF and SHF. I'm also trying to get back the   
   Drake TR-4 that I once owned. I still have the mobile power supply and   
   the RV-4 remote VFO.   
      
   The TR-7 that sits on my desk, probably won't stand an EMP attack, but   
   chances are that the TR-4 may survive.   
      
   The power and phone companies have done what they can, to protect us by   
   burying all lines, so we don't have that spider web seen in other places   
      
   ML> No, I don't know exactly the time for what has been carefully   
   ML> predicted for a long time.   
      
   We can just pray that it won't happen while we are alive.   
      
   TNX fer ur msg   
      
   73 es GL de Sam OH0NC SK   
      
   aka Holger   
      
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