US TV Series that omit the existence of SW broadcasting or skywave MW radio
listening: "Jericho" (currently running)...

Max Power wrote:

US TV Series that omit the existence of SW broadcasting or skywave MW radio
listening: "Jericho" (currently running)...

So? It's TV... not necessarily reality.

Get a clue.

dxAce
Michigan
USA

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? 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

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.


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


Oh, like when 'Sparks', using a BC-348, monitored Radio Moscow while
at 200 Fathoms?

In one of the early episodes of 'Jericho,' though, Hawkins WAS taking
CW on HF.

I believe he was using a VHF receiver to do it, though.

wrote:
EMP isn't going to stop your Rolex.

Of course it will. If you were a rich idiot who bought a FAKE one.
I thought it was a great inside joke.

WHat bugged me about that scene was if you could see a high altitude
blast, complete with EMP, you probably got hit with so much raditation,
that the show wold not last the episode.

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

What I find is the problem with it is that the people live like there
will be a truck with food showing up tomorrow. Not very much conservation.
They expect that food will suddenly fall out of the sky. :-)

Geoff.


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"Geoffrey S. Mendelson" wrote:

wrote:
EMP isn't going to stop your Rolex.

Of course it will.

No, it won't.

If you were a rich idiot who bought a FAKE one.

A fake one is not a real one.

dxAce
Michigan
USA

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

IMHO it's very accurate. It depicts a world that has not seen the
Soviet Union in 17 years. While the fall of the Soviet Union was good,
it signaled the end of the awarness that the U.S. might be attacked. Even
9/11 did not bring it back.

So the people of Jericho live in a world were there is no need to prepare
for anything and they did not. Their biggest problem would be a tornado
or freak storm, and everything would be back to normal in a day.

Why would there be shortwave or any other radio for that matter. All
of the battery operated radios would have been wiped out in the EMP,
and the tube ones died when the electricty went out.

There was news and activity on the ham bands, but the one ham in town
did not use his radio, he lent it to the mayor who had someone set it
up who did not want the townspeople to know what happened.

If it was for sinister reasons or just to protect the morale of the
people, we'll probably learn later. The radio itself was destroyed in
the EMP, it was transistorized except for tubes in final part of
the transmiter section.

Notice there is no town or school library? There are some home canned
foods in the storm cellar at the farm, but only peaches and pickles.
No one had a dehydrator, no one canned or pickled, and when the food
started to spoil, they had a great party instead of grabbing every possible
container and canning it.

So it's pretty realistic if you live in a world where things are worthless
if they are not new, food comes from a supermarket, electricity from an outlet,
information comes from the internet, and everything is delivered
"just in time".

I see that here, there are NO canning supplies in the entire country
and there is only one company that sells food dryers. The guy that
imports dryers is trying to get a license to import vacuum sealer machines
for home use, but they will be equivalent to a week's wages for the average
wage earner here.

My advice to you is to watch it as warning.

Geoff.
--
Geoffrey S. Mendelson, Jerusalem, Israel N3OWJ/4X1GM
IL Voice: (07)-7424-1667 Fax ONLY: 972-2-648-1443 U.S. Voice: 1-215-821-1838
Visit my 'blog at http://geoffstechno.livejournal.com/

I don't watch that Jericho crap.I am watching the 80th Macy's
Thangsgiving Day Parade.But at about 11:30 AM,I have to go to my
sister's and brother in laws home for Turkey Day dinner.My little doggy
will get some Turkey Day dinner too when I get back home.That is
reality.
cuhulin

dxAce wrote:
A fake one is not a real one.

And you know it was real how? That was the joke. She bought a very expensive
fake. :-)

Geoff.


--
Geoffrey S. Mendelson, Jerusalem, Israel N3OWJ/4X1GM
IL Voice: (07)-7424-1667 Fax ONLY: 972-2-648-1443 U.S. Voice: 1-215-821-1838
Visit my 'blog at http://geoffstechno.livejournal.com/

D Peter Maus wrote:
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.


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


Oh, like when 'Sparks', using a BC-348, monitored Radio Moscow while
at 200 Fathoms?

In one of the early episodes of 'Jericho,' though, Hawkins WAS taking
CW on HF.

I believe he was using a VHF receiver to do it, though.




FT101. It has been too long, 25+ years, since I last used an FT101, so
there
are too many versions fo me to be sure which version it is.

An early hybrid, transistor receive, vacumm tube TX. Nice beginner ham
HF rig
back then.
http://www.rigpix.com/yaesu/ft101.htm

This show has enough humour that if I ration it correctly it will last
a decade!

Terry