The Prepper Broadcasting Network - TIP: Test A Faraday Gage

Episode Date: September 27, 2024

BPN Family, it's time for the prepper tip of the day. at the Jones Homestead very, very early. Some reason I woke up an hour and a half early. Could not sleep, so I'm getting ready to go to school. And I thought I'd do a proper tip of the day. The other day I did how to detect fallout without a radiac meter, okay? There is also plans online that you can build a, like a dosimeter out of a mason jar.

It's from back in the 1950s, but it still works. Physics hasn't changed, so if you want to Google that, you can Google that. And it detects ionizing radiation, which is exactly what a dosimeter detects. ionizing radiation, which is exactly what a dosimeter detects. So you can, I don't think you'll be able to detect how much radiation, but you'll be able to detect if you're getting radiation. So that's not the tip though. I get off on too many tips here. You're getting

extra tips today. The tip today is what to put in your Faraday cage. Okay? In my presentations, I tell you how to build a Faraday cage out of a garbage can, a galvanized steel garbage can. So a Faraday cage has to be a conductive material and inside, insulating material. Okay, so a galvanized steel can with foam rubber on the inside. Okay.

And then sealed up with metal duct tape. You know, the metal duct tape, three or four inches, so you get a good overlap over the seals inside and out. And the tip, well, here's a tip. How do you test your Faraday cage? How do you test it? How do you know if it's going to work?

Take an AM radio. Tune it to a talk radio station. Put it in the can. Seal it up like you would if all your stuff was in there. And if it goes to static, you know that it's not picking up a signal. Now that is a rough way to test your Faraday cage without getting thousands of dollars worth of equipment, but it will work. So, there you go. I mean, know that a radio is designed to pick up a specific frequency, and they're broadcasting constant and steady at a certain wattage in your area. So it will

protect against an EMP. So that's how you know if you've got a good Faraday cage. There's no holes and that's my tip. That's my tip. I'll do another tip on what to put in because this tip is getting too long. It's three and a half minutes already. I like to try and keep them around two minutes, but that is the tip on how to test your Faraday cage. Take care and prep on.