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<blockquote data-quote="Blitzfike" data-source="post: 2435095" data-attributes="member: 807"><p>If you are like me Gene, you still have some tube type equipment on the shelf. If we ever have the misfortune to experience an EMP blast, the old tube stuff will probably be the only thing left working. Powering the old tube stuff if the power grid is gone will be a challenge in itself. I have some permanent magnet alternators stashed away to use with wind, water, or steam power if I find myself surviving in that world. I'm an older guy and one of the books and movies that had an impact on me was "On the Beach" by Nevil Shute. a truly post-apocalyptic novel. Scared the stuffin' out of me as a kid, I think I was about 10 years old when it came out. I used to work the field day exercises, have done wind and solar power as well as generators. I still have my portable antennas and masts and can get on the air within an hour if need be. I'm way too old to climb towers and trees anymore, and don't have the upper body strength that I used to either. What's between the ears still works after a fashion and that lets me work around some of the handicaps of age. I have a pretty massive collection of vacuum tubes, mostly of the receive type, but I do still have an assortment of transmitter power tubes that would let me get on the air if needed. I would greatly miss the internet, and would be among the first to try to cobble together a wifi net if there was any solid state stuff still viable after that event. I worked Radar in the USAF, and terrestrial microwave and land mobile in the civilian world. I've built and repaired a lot of radio equipment over the years and it is very difficult to find parts and pieces any more. All the good surplus electronics places have dried up. I still hit Tanner Electronics for small parts when I go to the Dallas area, and hamfests are about the only good source for RF stuff anymore.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Blitzfike, post: 2435095, member: 807"] If you are like me Gene, you still have some tube type equipment on the shelf. If we ever have the misfortune to experience an EMP blast, the old tube stuff will probably be the only thing left working. Powering the old tube stuff if the power grid is gone will be a challenge in itself. I have some permanent magnet alternators stashed away to use with wind, water, or steam power if I find myself surviving in that world. I'm an older guy and one of the books and movies that had an impact on me was "On the Beach" by Nevil Shute. a truly post-apocalyptic novel. Scared the stuffin' out of me as a kid, I think I was about 10 years old when it came out. I used to work the field day exercises, have done wind and solar power as well as generators. I still have my portable antennas and masts and can get on the air within an hour if need be. I'm way too old to climb towers and trees anymore, and don't have the upper body strength that I used to either. What's between the ears still works after a fashion and that lets me work around some of the handicaps of age. I have a pretty massive collection of vacuum tubes, mostly of the receive type, but I do still have an assortment of transmitter power tubes that would let me get on the air if needed. I would greatly miss the internet, and would be among the first to try to cobble together a wifi net if there was any solid state stuff still viable after that event. I worked Radar in the USAF, and terrestrial microwave and land mobile in the civilian world. I've built and repaired a lot of radio equipment over the years and it is very difficult to find parts and pieces any more. All the good surplus electronics places have dried up. I still hit Tanner Electronics for small parts when I go to the Dallas area, and hamfests are about the only good source for RF stuff anymore. [/QUOTE]
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