Connunications update following Polls:

[NorthernRaider]

(9 July 2012, 10:26)Bug_out_Bag Wrote: I am supposing apathy is the reason that NR has had problems in pushing this forward over the last ten years in the prepper community which is a great disappointment and shame

NO, I think my failure to do anything good, positive or worthwhile in the UK survivalist / prepper community is because I have pissed off or hurt, or annoyed or exasperated so many good people with my pushy attitude. Instead of encouraging, or helping people I have tried wrong to cajole, nag, push people and doing so I have often completely disrespected their own values and view points. ( EG Lil and her love for felines) I screwed up big time I think, I've hurt or offended good people because I did not stop and think much more about what THEY wanted, THEY needed. I think I have produced some good articles but I have not listen to others views enough, and have not respected their views enough.

Its amazing what being laid up immobile and vulnerable, loaded to the gills on pain killers can do to ones karma. plenty of time to think, revisit my writing for the last ten years and to understand full well i have probably done a lot of damage to the community because I did not listen.

If and when I get better and can get on with my life, I will continue with my plans to withdraw from the online community because it and I are getting less compatable as evey day goes by. AND if I'm not around to piuss people off and offend them then my one real dream of a unified prepper community may come to pass. I would love to see cooperation and commonality tween SUK.NET, P2S, UKP, Ludlow etc but I get thefeeling that there are to many strong personalities around who wont respond if I am involved. and I dont blaim them one bit.

Reet the ambulance bus is pulling up so I'm going home now, speak again in about an hour.

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Forgive my tardyness please LS, I'm so doped up this AM so they can shove me through the scanner I cannot think straight, Apologies.
NR

(9 July 2012, 11:07)Lightspeed Wrote: NR

Your comment on adding a burner to a CB set tells me that I am not getting my message cross properly.

Power is going to be a difficult to source commodity in a grid down world. Burners, quite literally burn energy and that rules them out for me. In fact I tend to favour solutions that consume absolute minimal power to get the job done. The extra groundwave range you will get by increasing power will be extremely poor, most likely you'll just end up talking to some poor Spaniar or Italian, if he's got similar power capability that is..... your signals will be luiterally over the heads of UK based preppers who will not be able to hear them at all. Trust me on this, its reality.

Each of us needs to assess who we want to hear transmitting, who we want to transmit to ( and importantly who we do not want to transmit to), over what area do we want our transmissions heard?

I predict the needs will overlay pretty neatly with SD's comms needs list. These will be close range, medium range and national. Personally I have a need for International comms as well, but I recognse that I am an exception to the rule.