[CW] Zen and the Art of Radiotelegraphy, English Edition !

[DANNY DOUGLAS]

Yeah,. I understand that Hans, but not only we, but the enemy are going to 
be in the same shape, as far as satellite communications is concerned.  Im 
looking at this as a setback to communications, and in fact is the big one 
hits (solar storm - EMPs) even so-called hardened equipment is going to be 
mostly useless- because you will have little if any long range propagation. 
This is not a likely event, but is possible.  At that point, I believe hf 
propagation would be the first to return, but we best have the hardened 
equipment to work with it then, and CW is likely to be the best mode, at the 
first.  Ive been off the clock for almost 12 years now, so havent kept up 
with the most modern equipment/facilities/modes, but in my experience with 
the nuclear testing back in the 60s-70s and observations of the hf bands 
then, I cant see that anything else will be able to do that command job. 
Something as simple as PSK just might work, but I see it dropping in and out 
under even todays propagaion conditions.   At that point, all the surface 
mounted data collectors/streams would probably be out anyway.

Danny Douglas
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Radio K0HB" <kzerohb at gmail.com>
To: "CW Reflector" <cw at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Thursday, January 21, 2010 11:32 AM
Subject: Re: [CW] Zen and the Art of Radiotelegraphy, English Edition !


>
>> Its still messages, about movement and targeting.  Just more of it.  Same
>> users, in the long run - the commanders.
>
> Not actually, Dan.
>
> Yes, of course, there are still messages drafted by humans and read by 
> human
> eyes, but human-readable traffic comprises only a minor share of the
> communications load.
>
> Most of the "activity" on modern Navy communications channels is data
> streams between "machines" --- google "Aegis"  --- then imagine that 
> system
> integrated across an entire battle group where several ships (and their
> aircraft) share all threat, targeting, countermeasures, and weapon 
> response
> data in real time, untouched by human "operators".
>
> 73, de Hans, K0HB
>
>
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