On Nov 23, 5:38 am, wrote:
Max Power wrote:
US TV Series that omit the existence of SW broadcasting or skywave MW radio
listening: "Jericho" (currently running)...For those of use who went through CD training, Jericho is an "example
of what not to do".
The only thing this show has going is the human drama. Everything else
is too bogus
for words.

My friends and I watch it, take notes and compare the gaffs we have
seen. Way too many
to list here. The alt.survival and misc.survival groups have ongoing
threads about Jericho, but even they are way to uncritical.

The show reminds me of "Father Knows Best" or "Leave it to Beaver"
meets "Mad Max",
or Chris Carters "X-Files".

- US parachutes, dropped by Chineese aircraft with Chineese supplies?

I the post Jet Age - I liked the Drone of Prop-Engines
that the Planes made all the way from Main Land China
to Middle America ;-) - jmtcw ~ RHF

More like Supermans Bizaro world then any variaiton
on reality
that I can dream up. Of course I don't smoke dope, so maybe that would
make
the show more "real".

Any group of people so uniformed as to try to lay an "ambush" against
men with military
weapons in such a clownish manor would be worm food. See U-tube for
last weeks "exciting" show. Or the week before in Rogue River with the
RavenWood, er Blackwater
mercs letting or heros get away is just too funny.

EMP isn't going to stop your Rolex.

And given the lack of running water, everyone looks a damn site cleaner
then I would
expect.

So Watch the show, and enjoy the fun. It is the funniest thing since
"Voyage to the
bottom of the Sea".

Terry

D Peter Maus wrote:

"Geoffrey S. Mendelson" wrote:

wrote:
EMP isn't going to stop your Rolex.
Of course it will.


'
Actually, no it won't. Rolex uses a self winding mechanical movement.

Not all Rolex use the self winding movement, some have to be wound every few
days.

Even the good fakes use automatic movements.

I've never seen one like that. Those I have come across over the years had
quartz movements.



Only the cheaper fakes would be harmed by EMP. And that's
questionable, given the steel case sheilding.

"D Peter Maus" wrote in message
...


'
Actually, no it won't. Rolex uses a self winding mechanical movement.

Even the good fakes use automatic movements.

Only the cheaper fakes would be harmed by EMP. And that's
questionable, given the steel case sheilding.




I wasn't aware of the show but I gather it's about what happens in a small
town after some sort of super-duper EMP pulse, more intense than the
Starfish prime test which couldn't even manage to burn out mass quantities
of early 60s germanium transistor radios.

Wow. An EMP pulse strong enough to destroy everything with a circuit board,
yet has no effect on everyone with a central nervous system.

I think I'll stick with domestic shortwave radio for doomsday info. It's
every bit as misinformative as TV, but far more entertaining.

Frank Dresser

Frank Dresser wrote:
"D Peter Maus" wrote in message
...

'
Actually, no it won't. Rolex uses a self winding mechanical movement.

Even the good fakes use automatic movements.

Only the cheaper fakes would be harmed by EMP. And that's
questionable, given the steel case sheilding.




I wasn't aware of the show but I gather it's about what happens in a small
town after some sort of super-duper EMP pulse, more intense than the
Starfish prime test which couldn't even manage to burn out mass quantities
of early 60s germanium transistor radios.

Wow. An EMP pulse strong enough to destroy everything with a circuit board,
yet has no effect on everyone with a central nervous system.

I think I'll stick with domestic shortwave radio for doomsday info. It's
every bit as misinformative as TV, but far more entertaining.



Can't argue with you, there, Frank.


p

Bart Bailey wrote:
In
posted on Fri, 24 Nov 2006 13:42:50 GMT, Frank Dresser wrote: Begin

"D Peter Maus" wrote in message
...

'
Actually, no it won't. Rolex uses a self winding mechanical movement.

Even the good fakes use automatic movements.

Only the cheaper fakes would be harmed by EMP. And that's
questionable, given the steel case sheilding.



I wasn't aware of the show but I gather it's about what happens in a small
town after some sort of super-duper EMP pulse, more intense than the
Starfish prime test which couldn't even manage to burn out mass quantities
of early 60s germanium transistor radios.

Wow. An EMP pulse strong enough to destroy everything with a circuit board,
yet has no effect on everyone with a central nervous system.

I think I'll stick with domestic shortwave radio for doomsday info. It's
every bit as misinformative as TV, but far more entertaining.

Frank Dresser



There's money to be made exploiting the scientific naivete of the
public, just ask Art Bell.



Or Al Gore.

dxAce wrote:

D Peter Maus wrote:

"Geoffrey S. Mendelson" wrote:

wrote:
EMP isn't going to stop your Rolex.
Of course it will.
'
Actually, no it won't. Rolex uses a self winding mechanical movement.

Not all Rolex use the self winding movement, some have to be wound every few
days.

Even the good fakes use automatic movements.

I've never seen one like that. Those I have come across over the years had
quartz movements.


It wasn't until recently that I encountered an automatic movement in
a fake. I've seen several since. It takes a good eye to spot one.
Watchmakers are on the lookout for them, now.

You can find a decent knockoff Rolex with an automatic movement, the
correct markings, correct weight...for about $250. You'll probably get
ads for them this holiday season in your mailbox.

D Peter Maus wrote:

dxAce wrote:

D Peter Maus wrote:

"Geoffrey S. Mendelson" wrote:

wrote:
EMP isn't going to stop your Rolex.
Of course it will.
'
Actually, no it won't. Rolex uses a self winding mechanical movement.

Not all Rolex use the self winding movement, some have to be wound every few
days.

Even the good fakes use automatic movements.

I've never seen one like that. Those I have come across over the years had
quartz movements.


It wasn't until recently that I encountered an automatic movement in
a fake. I've seen several since. It takes a good eye to spot one.
Watchmakers are on the lookout for them, now.

You can find a decent knockoff Rolex with an automatic movement, the
correct markings, correct weight...for about $250. You'll probably get
ads for them this holiday season in your mailbox.

Thanks, but I'll stick with the real McCoy!

dxAce
Michigan
USA

"Frank Dresser" wrote:

I think I'll stick with domestic shortwave radio for doomsday info. It's
every bit as misinformative as TV, but far more entertaining.

You owe me a new keyboard -- this one has coffee in it. Your fault!

--
Eric F. Richards

"Nature abhors a vacuum tube." -- Myron Glass,
often attributed to J. R. Pierce, Bell Labs, c. 1940

The Hatfields and the McCoys.About $230.00 is what I paid for my real
McCoy Rolex stainless steel Oyster Perpetual wris****ch with the date
thingy on it at the U.S.Navy Fleet Store in Hong Kong,China in 1964 when
I went on my R&R.Back in those those days in Vietnam,if you wasen't
wearing a Rolex on your wrist,you wasen't HIP.Nowdays I don't wear any
wris****ches at all.A few years ago,I bought a new nice looking
wris****ch at the Wal Mart store,it was marked down to about $4.87.That
cheap piece of junk won't keep time worth a flip.
I get those spam scam emails about them fake Rolex and other fake
wris****ches.But I don't want any fakes.
cuhulin,the Real McCoy

Some guy in the antenna group, sounds exactly like you, is selling
beads.

???

bob
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