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Post disaster Prime Base Comminications
In classic MP Prime base get's knocked out by a bio followed by a nuke. The Base computer was programmed to randomly send out wake up codes. This brings up a lot of issues.
Firstly the bad guys know where they popped the nuke. Any radio signals originating from that location would likely have triggered some sort of investigation. The PB crew would have known this was a risk. How would they have dealt with it? One way is to only bounce signals off the Moon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth%..._communication Now this means they would have needed a directional antenna. |
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Not necessarily, the messages were being sent at random times, on random frequencies, then it would be hard for Krell to intercept. My understanding of the Krell time is that they were sent from the Krell centre of power to destroy Prime Base. This would argue for a small team that was not equipped to remain in the area after the nuke went off. Krell would then have to move radio intercept equipment into the region to triangulate any radio transmissions. Would Krell have been able to do this for any amount of time?
One of the short comings of the module is the lack of detail into Prime's communications. Yes, they reference to a communications module, but detail is sorely lacking. I can see a series of omni-directional and directed antennas. Satellite uplink to a Morrow Industries communications satellite, certainly in the realm of possibility, an aero-stat boosting a long antenna, again possible. But only one communications module? Doubtful, I can see several modules scattered over a few hundred kilometres, in LOS of each other, but spreading Prime's commo support over a region, making it more difficult to triangulate....have to look into this deeper!
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Your idea of a distributed group of transmitters would help, but they will still be pretty close to each other and would give a fairly close fix. |
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This is a subject that requires a lot more research!!
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Ultra Low Frequency traveling through bedrock.
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Wikipedia has this to say about ULF range Radio amateurs and electronics hobbyists have used this mode for limited range communications using audio power amplifiers connected to widely spaced electrode pairs hammered into the soil. At the receiving end, the signal is detected as a weak electric current between a further pair of electrodes. Using weak signal reception methods with PC-based DSP filtering with extremely narrow bandwidths, it is possible to receive signals at a range of a few kilometers with a transmitting power of 10-100 W and electrode spacing of around 10–50 m.
You are acommo guy so probably have more information to share |
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The mistake which resulted in the codes being sent at random intervals would increase the exposure, but depending on the coding and frequency of TMP comms, it is questionable how long it would take Krell to even start monitoring the wavelength, much less understand the significance. Regardless, monitoring such a signal operating so erratically would be quite difficult and resource-expensive. Krell might not bother when it is such an infrequent set of such small messages from a facility known to be destroyed - it is easy to dismiss as an intermittent short in some failing system. They would no doubt have a few, but not for this. In the original scheme, they could hardly expect to have a couple of antennas zipping mechanically through a variety of directions, and doing so would have dramatically increased the risk (giving away directions to anyone nearby, any mechanical failure dooming the whole effort, substantially increasing transmit time, etc). It is better to use a dipole or other near-isotropic antenna and rely on the coding and frequency schemes to get the signal out quick and quiet. |
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honestly for secure long range commo micrometeorite burst communications is probably a better bet. assuming you have well maintained gear it is quite viable to bounce narrow band radio communications off of the ionization trail of micrometeorites in the earth's atmosphere. the only problem is while it gives you very secure comms it is somewhat easier to jam.
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