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All these survival library threads, a reasonably busy ham radio sub board, and the lightly used tech board all strung out across the forum.
We need a better technology section. Night vision, GPS, mobile phone apps, solar power, etc, none have a good home and tossed in wherever else we think we can make the round peg fit the square holes.
The tech board right now kind of limps along because, I believe, it isn't an On-Topic board.
I'm thinking a board in the upper section would be better.
I believe we could do it without stretching the index page out even more.
NBC really deserves to be a sub board of the Natural and Manmade Disaster board.
That takes away one slot on the main index page, making room for a dedicated On Topic area Technology board. We can fold the comms in as a sub board and we could have more if we wanted without adding front page real estate. We'd also get to dump the old tech board in the off topic area. So we'd actually lose two slots on the front page without losing any content.
I think we are overdue for this. Few preppers plan to go all 1900's if SHTF. We expect to lose the widespread available tech and connectivity we have today, but you can bet there will be preppers still charging their Iphone batteries when the cell towers quit because of the apps we have. We'll still try to light the night with lower power lighting. We will still try to charge up our power tool batteries and run electric motors to turn the pulleys on our wheat grinders. And all across the US at dark there will be guys walking their fenceline with NVGs.
I think this is like what the old food and water talks were like before we had the dedicated board put in. Lots of disorganized discussions without building an easy to find knowledge base.
Our survival tech nerds need a home to play in.
What say the rest of you?
We need a better technology section. Night vision, GPS, mobile phone apps, solar power, etc, none have a good home and tossed in wherever else we think we can make the round peg fit the square holes.
The tech board right now kind of limps along because, I believe, it isn't an On-Topic board.
I'm thinking a board in the upper section would be better.
I believe we could do it without stretching the index page out even more.
NBC really deserves to be a sub board of the Natural and Manmade Disaster board.
That takes away one slot on the main index page, making room for a dedicated On Topic area Technology board. We can fold the comms in as a sub board and we could have more if we wanted without adding front page real estate. We'd also get to dump the old tech board in the off topic area. So we'd actually lose two slots on the front page without losing any content.
I think we are overdue for this. Few preppers plan to go all 1900's if SHTF. We expect to lose the widespread available tech and connectivity we have today, but you can bet there will be preppers still charging their Iphone batteries when the cell towers quit because of the apps we have. We'll still try to light the night with lower power lighting. We will still try to charge up our power tool batteries and run electric motors to turn the pulleys on our wheat grinders. And all across the US at dark there will be guys walking their fenceline with NVGs.
I think this is like what the old food and water talks were like before we had the dedicated board put in. Lots of disorganized discussions without building an easy to find knowledge base.
Our survival tech nerds need a home to play in.
What say the rest of you?
