improvised faraday cage

[Sunna]

in my back garden i have a sewer pipe access hatch cast iron half in thick with a thick brickwall sides and is about 5ft deep would this work ?

or should i just put my phone in and see if it works ?

[Skean Dhude]

Sunna,

The emp will just go through the earth and fry your electronics. You need at least 8 ft of earth all around.

[Highlander]

(30 August 2013, 21:51)Skean Dhude Wrote: Sunna,

The emp will just go through the earth and fry your electronics. You need at least 8 ft of earth all around.

Thats interesting, I had no idea it was that much

[Madgirl151]

I was just going to put my stuff in the microwave in a shoe box, i tried my phone in there and it didnt ring so i thought it would be ok???

[BFG Central]

i know some people use a microwave as a faraday cage.
If you had nothing else to hand and we got the heads up that an EMP from the sun was coming then most people have excess to a microwave in the home.
I dont know if an EMP could travel down the cable into the microwave.

[Hex]

well ive just tried out a tinfoil faraday cage and it actually worked

put my phone in a empty malteasers box and wrapped it twice in tinfoil. no calls made it through

[Mortblanc]

OK you protected your phone.

Did anyone remember to place the cell phone tower inside a card board box and wrap it with tin foil?

[Highlander]

(31 August 2013, 19:37)Mortblanc Wrote: OK you protected your phone.

Did anyone remember to place the cell phone tower inside a card board box and wrap it with tin foil?

I think using the phone is done as a test,.........

[Madgirl151]

its more for the info carried on the fone than being able to make fone calls for me!!!

[Sunna]

just put my phone in my micro / rang