RadioBanter - View Single Post - is an STA needed to transmit data on CB channel 40?

June 20th 06, 04:45 AM posted to rec.radio.amateur.homebrew

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And just where do you get this CD-ROM in a deserted, destroyed building
after the catastrophe?

Clearly you are only skimming my posts rather than reading them.A

Actually, I was reading them and comparing them against my real world
experiences with combat boots in the dirt.

Starting at the beginning:

1) Squad leader carries a mini-CDROM in his/her pocket. That's the
nucleus
for everything else. With luck, nothing else need be carried into
the field.A

A military force that goes into the field depending on luck is doomed
to failure.

It doesn't matter if it is a combat situation in foreign land or a
simple training exercise within sight of a major US city.

If you don't have everything you need going in, or at least a supply
chain that can get it to you quickly, someone is going to be hurt.

This comes from bitter experience.

2) The CDROM would contain schematics and part numbers of everything
necessary
to forage to create a datalink.

You are going to supply an up to date CDROM containing all the info for
all the CB radios in the US?

Yeah, that's going to happen

3) SSB CB Radios (funny, my RS always carries the SSB CB radio as the
high end
model) would be one of several pieces of RF equipment
that could be foraged off the street (i.e. Radio Shack stores,
truck stops, etc).

Assuming there were such stores in the first place and they aren't
flattened/flooded by whatever the catastrophe was.

4) Most new laptops carry 12V power input. Older ones don't. There
are plenty
of sources to forage a laptop from: Target, Walmart, and K-mart
come to mind
as well as Radio Shack.

Getting a laptop is a minor problem. Getting a 12V DC connector and
someone that knows how to wire to a field expediate power source
correctly is a major problem.

5) The laptop, radio, and car are all at street level. People can
take plain old copper
wire and make a dipole or inverted Vee with it, hanging it from the
roof top. The only actual ground to antenna connnection comes
between the radio and the center of the dipole or inverted Vee.

Where does the antenna feed cable come from? The collapsed/flooded
store?

Where do you get the person that knows how to wire up an antenna
and feed cable?

Where do you get the person that knows how to cut a dipole or
inverted-vee, or even what those terms mean?

Most troops are really good at what they are trained for. Few troops
have been trained in anything to do with electronics or even electricty.

Special Forces troops are probably the most veratile of troops (and
the smallest in number), but without the training they would be
useless.

You want them to parachute in during the dark of night, take and
hold a tactical position, no problem.

You want them to cut and connect a diplole, big problem

Upon what do I base these statements?

Years spent teaching such subjects to troops.

Caught up now?

I never was behind.

You, however, have no concept of what it is like to have boots in
the dirt.

--
Jim Pennino

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