If your rig is attached to outside power lines or an antenna it will likely get fried in case of a big EMP event. http://www.survivalblog.com/2006/09/letter_re_expedient_faraday_ca_1.html Here is a link on making Faraday cages from ammo cans and is pretty informative on the subject. A great deal of what would happen depends on the type of EMP detonation(how high above the earth and thus how large the footprint) and a thousand other factors and the experts are not even sure about all of the effects and I do not pretend to be an expert. My studies do seem to indicate that being tied to outside power lines would be by far the greatest risk. If you are worried about EMP then power your radios from large batteries that are charged by a few solar panels and store radios that are not in use in an old micro-wave oven that has been WELL grounded.The Faraday principle is what keeps the energy inside of a micro-wave so they are in effect perfect Faraday cages. You could also use one of the shielded ammo boxes described in the link above. There is a lot of bad information out there on the subject and I am still trying to learn. On a recent tour of the TennTec factory I studied their in house Faraday cage used to set up some of their most sensitive government agency receivers and it is not complicated. The cage has to be surrounded by metal,in this case a fine mesh hardware cloth over a 2x4 structure and a HUGE ground wire. Completly surrounded my ELECTRICALY connected metal on all six sides and grounded by the shortest path with the largest possible wire seems to be the cure for our EMP worries.73's BallGroundBoy