I would plan on half a dozen solar panels of the 100 Watt size to run this. Set the display to shut down quickly and now you’ve got an economical power situation. The good news is that Wal-Mart also has some screaming deals of tiny (11”) refurb laptops on the cheap. VHF FM receiver for the 137.00 to 138.00 range with a broad IF section.Ī print would be nice, but that’s power, paper, toner or ink…maybe, but that’s up to you.Ĭare and feeding of this rig will take a little doing. Quadrafilar (circularly polarized ) antenna. The greatly simplified recipe to get the home and hopefully bullet proof ground satellite receiver is: Not two-day stuff, but if you can wait a week, an 8GB, 2TB HD, with DVRW and lots of USB ports for $162 including tax and shipping is almost ludicrously cheap.
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Since Wal-Mart is trying to nibble into some of Amazon’s electronics business, they offer free shipping.
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I did precisely this and came up with a refurbed dual core Celeron at 3.0 Ghz with Windows 10 included. The trick is to go to the Wal-Mart website and put in the search words “refurb” and “8gb”.
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I did some serious online shopping this weekend for a low power consumption small form factor PC (SFF is the abbreviation) and I can up with (shockingly) Wal-Mart had some incredible deals. Third thing you need is a cheap computer. Now the next thing you will need is software. You want the right antenna, but these can be built. Satellite radio signals are circularly polarized and compared with a vertical or horizontal antenna, you’re looking at a 3 dB (or greater) loss of signal if you don’t have the right polarization.
The receiver is only one part of the problem, however, because as mentioned recently, there is this quadrafilar antenna problem. (We tend to be hardware agnostic around here.) The first thing you will need is a wide bandwidth FM receiver which can tune in to these frequencies. Nothing is particularly simple, but at least for now it is pretty simple to acquire the basic building blocks to put up a good satellite receiving system at reasonable cost. What seems to be available right now are directly received images from three NOAA Environmental Services satellites. But it also is important for just regular people because they will suddenly be back in a world where people actually did have to dress for the weather. Who would weather have value to? Farmers and ranchers – and the people who have to be out in it, for sure. There is also no more weather forecasting. I mean besides the lack of food, inability to get medicines refilled, no more gasoline than what’s in your tank this morning…and so on.
In such a world, there will be many keys to the recovery but I’m pretty sure that ground-up communications recovery will be one of the important ones. But flash a few EMP devices over America and take down both the backbone of the web along with the systems that move diesel and gasoline around. You know, as long as the power is on, it doesn’t make a damn bite of different this weather forecasting stuff. Set up and operate a NOAA Weather Satellite receiving center. I’ve decided to focus a bit on this – with maybe more as part of an upcoming Peoplenomics report, but this morning I will share one aspect of it: The kind that doesn’t require the internet to operate, it will survive EMP and it will give enough value to the local community that people might be willing to support it. But that is the value-add that we can provide that few others will be able to?Ībout here I got to thinking about a new kind of information industry.
We’re lucky since we have enough land, seeds, tools, and junk around here (*like the tiller and such) that we actually could scratch out a horrible make-shift, get-by, if things turn sour.
Must be present to win, as another old saying holds. It is also true that prepping will get you a long way down the road toward tomorrow. While I don’t expect that to happen in the next five minutes, when you plot the likely trajectory of a $19.5 billion (and climbing) accumulated federal debt, there will have to be some kind of massive reset. You see, a lot of preppers have very little to add (other than the overhead of another mouth to feed) should the crap really hit the fan in ‘Merica. And by the time last night rolled around, little looked any different, but at least there was a Big Plan that was coming into view. So I dutifully started to clean out the UrbanSurvival/Peoplenomics office Saturday. “Devil makes work for idle hands,” it is said.