Anyone here a shortwave radio listener?

@Metal-Brain said
Your computer is a tool.

@Cliff-Mashburn said
There won't be anything to listen to, radio stations don't run on batteries. Nothing electronic will work because everything with transistors will be burned out and the power grid will be knocked out. Look up the Carrington Event and Project Fishbowl.

@Metal-Brain said
Dude, that is why you want a shortwave radio in case of an emergency. Shortwaves propagate off of the ionosphere for worldwide reception.

@Cliff-Mashburn said
Listening to broadcasts from Asia or Europe won't help you when nothing in the US works. You'll be without power, cars won't run, food won't be transported, water will stop running, and 90% of the population will be dead withing a few months. Listening to the radio won't do you any good.

@Metal-Brain said
Okay. You don't care what the rest of the world is experiencing. Noted.

@Cliff-Mashburn said
You won't care either, you'll be too busy trying to survive. What's happening 10 thousand miles way will not matter.

@Metal-Brain said
I will at least know what is happening in the southern hemisphere of the world.

@Cliff-Mashburn said
If the thought gives you comfort, go for it. You would be better served by having an emergency generator and enough fire power to keep away the marauders that notice you still have electricity. Or a car made before the mid-60's that will still run.

@Metal-Brain
He is talking about the power grid zapped by nuclear bombs. A nuke in orbit say 1000 milos high would kill most satellites low orbit or geostationary at 30,000 km high.

@sonhouse
He was talking about an emergency generator fool.
Those need to be EMP protected too.

@Metal-Brain
Oh I NEVER would have figured that one out.
But it depends on how close the bomb goes off. I doubt for instance there would be a whole lot of bombs going off in Montana for instance and it would be fallout and such that would be a lot more dangerous than the actual blast which WOULD do damage to any electronics in the reach of the EMP pulse but a 20 megaton bomb going off say in NYC would not effect electronics in Pennsylvania.
EMP pulses would be the last thing we would worry about if that happened.

@sonhouse said
@Metal-Brain
Oh I NEVER would have figured that one out.
But it depends on how close the bomb goes off. I doubt for instance there would be a whole lot of bombs going off in Montana for instance and it would be fallout and such that would be a lot more dangerous than the actual blast which WOULD do damage to any electronics in the reach of the EMP pulse but a 20 megaton bo ...[text shortened]... ctronics in Pennsylvania.
EMP pulses would be the last thing we would worry about if that happened.

@Metal-Brain
You WANT Putin to nuke the US and I guess you forgot the part where we would bomb the crap out of every big city and military base in Russia either.

@sonhouse said
@Metal-Brain
Oh I NEVER would have figured that one out.
But it depends on how close the bomb goes off. I doubt for instance there would be a whole lot of bombs going off in Montana for instance and it would be fallout and such that would be a lot more dangerous than the actual blast which WOULD do damage to any electronics in the reach of the EMP pulse but a 20 megaton bo ...[text shortened]... ctronics in Pennsylvania.
EMP pulses would be the last thing we would worry about if that happened.

@Cliff-Mashburn
And of COURSE there would be no retaliation. You don't think they could track where the launches came from? Ever hear of that little device called RADAR?