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Now today the 19th of May, year zero slash 2009. It has been a very busy day. I'll tell you what, we have had troops moving, we have had A lot of hardware and equipment in place. I did not expect to get certain gifts dropped off or made available. We have been sorting and picking and picking and picking and picking and sorting, which is a good thing. It's a lot of physical work, but the stuff that we've accomplished I'm very satisfied with. I want to say thank you to our friends for donating the material and equipment. We have three transports that are going to be armored up the rest of the way because of certain donations. This is a plus plus, I want to say thank you there. And the modifications to the vehicles will bring them up to spec with other equipment we have in our militia mechanized formations. That's going to continue and has continued to grow, so it's fantastic. You heard at the end of the hour, we had Radio Randy Perry up. Radio Randy is how he's known by a lot of people in Patriot circles. If you're going to call the hospital, we'll remind everybody again that you need to ask for James Randy Perry. That's his full name and that's how they know him in the hospital. James Randy Perry. and the phone number is 478-633-3660 again that's 478-633-3660 I'm looking at the 6's and compressing so that's 478-633-3660 and you'll be asking for, or if you call, it's James Randy Perry, also known as Radio Randy, to a lot of our friends. His wife Tammy has been by to visit, but also you might say hi and just mention that you're thinking about the whole family there. If you'd like to write, it's in a package this morning as soon as we had the information on this. Randy had a stroke slash heart attack that he is recovering from. Talking to him this last hour, actually, he has good connective memory there and he was able to put his speech pattern pretty well in order, but what I could hear. So the big thing there is just making sure that he rests and then recovers and repairs. And then of course he has to retrain his body a little bit. There are certain parts that just went into zero switch and they're going to have to be plugged back in. That's how it works when you have a stroke. But I think with everybody pitching in and with him being able to be involved in his favorite activities, which is really the key there, guys, having had experience with therapy with individuals under these conditions before many times. What's great is seeing the response, seeing people plug things in. It is time consuming to a degree. It is frustrating sometimes, but remember that that's part of the whole process of life. So you've got to get used to it. We have to work sometimes to get ourselves back up to full spec. and we need your help to make that happen. Let Randy know that we're thinking about him. You can give him a call. Not too late. I will say that before we go too far. By the way, it is already 609. We don't be calling at midnight, okay? He might be a night owl, but we need to make sure that he rests. So don't call around midnight. But right now, for instance, and through the evening, I'm sure until 9 o'clock, shouldn't be a problem. You're late a little later. Give him a call. 7-4, I'm free. 478-6333660. And the address is Randy and Tammy Perry. So Randy Perry, 622 Henderson Road, Macon, Georgia 31217. Again, that's Randy Perry 622 Henderson Road Macon, Georgia 31217. And that is the zip code, of course, along with the regular address, Randy Perry 622 Henderson Road Macon, Georgia. That's Macon, M-A-C-O-N. Georgia, 3-1-2-1-7. That'll get everything squared away there. Now, other stuff happening. Mark. I forgot to mention that way up north. Mark, can you hear me? Uh oh, we got Ed on the line. What do we got Ed? Yeah, we're planning to have another fundraiser here, aren't we? A garage sale coming up. Do we have a date set for that yet? Oh, probably it'll be this next weekend, but I think we're going to start putting things in place during the week. It depends on how the weather holds up. We've got tables and everything and additional or supplemental material coming in. But we'll have everything from boots and gear to radio equipment and all kinds of other stuff, extra furniture. So we'll have that coming up the end of the week. People might want to stop in. We'll remind everybody about that. There is also going to be a neighborhood garage sale just down the street from us at the West Ridge subdivision. Always a good sale with lots of things. In fact, we'll probably be collecting more stuff from there too as far as things we need because microphones, headsets, things like that we accumulate from the art sales guys. In many cases, we're getting state of the art from 20 years ago. They don't build it the way they used to. And so you're getting better equipment in many cases by getting used but not heavily used. Most of the stuff that we use in our one editing room is all stuff that's hand-me-downs and it's stuff that back when it was being built it was cutting edge state-of-the-art and you couldn't afford it. Now we can because people oh they need the latest widget which is fine by me we don't have a problem with that please keep needing the next latest widget that won't bother us at all. Anyway, we do have that coming up. It will be this weekend, probably Friday and Saturday. This is the off weekend. We have a meeting, or we have a Patriot meeting in the Midland area coming up. We'll give you more information on date, time, and place for that in the middle of Michigan. Way up north, I shouldn't say way up north, but north of us, the Nagahitcham Range, 1200 yard. Got further information on that today while we were over visiting one of our allies. Apparently, the moving target system worked exceptionally well, created a challenge for the shooters. A variable geometry range configuration that I designed about a year ago and then kind of worked a little more on this last month as far as some of the little supplemental things that could be done to it while they plugged them in and built the range to spec. And for all of our long range belly gunners with 50 calibers especially, they were reaching out to 1200 yards. This is an emplaced shooting point that is virtually built into the side of a hill, actually a fairly large hill, but it's underground, which is really neat. And also silenced. We experimented with some of these things before. They followed through on using the tire system like a big silencer. Instead of laying the tires flat, you lay them sideways. And the individual tires actually work as baffles. to dampen just like a silencer does. When the blast goes left and right and expands out from the firing line, the baffles, the individual steps of the tires inside when they're bolted together actually direct the sound wave and the noise to the point where they break it up, counter strike and counter strike. It's actually backwash and it's neutralizing itself. So very, very cool. The only mistake they made is they had a And this is not my problem, but this is something that where it was you know It was something that was designed into the structure whereby they had a little bit of an internal leak They had to do some excavating recast some cement fortunately their cement's free because they get hand-me-down stuff from excess load excess from loads of cement for a local company and But they did have to get all the physical work ready prep it and that was finished in time for this last weekend Master Shooter Sarns, Master Shooter Sarns, congratulations. He's a Master Shooter now because out of 93 shooters, Master Sergeant Sarns was now the Master Shooter of 93. He topped out in the ratings and was very satisfied with the performance of the Zussman Ackerman B6 semi-auto rifle that he is using, but he is also using a B4, that's a B-4A, bolt-action Zussman Ackerman 50 caliber kit rifle. And in both cases the weapons perform flawlessly. Of course he has no one to blame but himself because these are based on the same concept as building the Mahdi-Griffin 50 calibers. Zussman Ackerman, the doctor, was here in Michigan this weekend, the man who helped to make this happen with the whole family of 50s. In addition to that, he also brought one of his sons with him who was adept at his following in dad's footsteps. A good time was had by all, but also they were pretty intense. They did a lot of PM, actually did little armory dressing work on some of the rifles that were there, some of the auto rifles especially. The B6 rifle, the design is a chain fed 50 caliber semi-auto and use a standard M2 50 caliber links, machine gun links. So you're talking about an endless speed semi-automatic 50 caliber rifle. and perform flawlessly, but what they're doing is showing some of the tune-up techniques that the doctor has developed, and everybody was very satisfied with that. Also, the basic rules about gunsmithing with regard to doing maintenance on the weapon is patience. You can't do anything fast. You take your time, you figure out what's with it. If there's a problem, if there's something that can be fixed or can be tweaked, you become even more useful or desirable in performance. Then that's what you do. And good time was had by all, most important. I think the big thing here is we had a lot of the young shooters out there to see how the 50 calibers work. And the team shoots that took place this weekend, Colonial Marines did very well, but they got outshot by one of the Wolverine detachments, and they were outshot by an independent team of three. very young, 50 caliber shooters and one of them was a girl. Well, we'll say young lady, I can't say a girl. But congratulations there. The Colonial Marines, everybody did very well anyway. I mean, they were, in many cases, they were neck and neck. And this is what we expect because of consistent training and performance, guys. So, keep up the good work there and congratulations. Also, again, for Alfie Omega and his crew out there when they were in Arizona visiting, go to arizonamalicia.com. That's arizonamalicia.com or go to alphiomegatraining.com. That's alphiomegatraining.com. You can see the write-ups and the information on the meetup that took place there. Iowa, I understand the same thing. So overall you guys did well. The other thing that was most critical about this, this weekend, probably more so than, and this is true, of any other weekend we have had ever that I can remember, we had probably one of the most successful communications, connection meetings as far as with everybody tuning up their equipment, all the rigs in place, everybody doing their part, but we didn't have to go anywhere guys. The equipment that you guys are running is what made the whole event happen. Again, the Liberty Net, I was just talking with Captain Monahan here, who actually was just behind me a little bit ago, I think he's taking care of some other work right now. I understand that the Liberty Net did a fine job of plugging into their standard frequency with all of you and many people responding. A lot of people checked in that were new. But also a reminder that you may have to change or they may be changing frequencies if they are on a frequency where at a given point there is a commercial broadcaster that will be taking over that block of airspace. This does happen when they use a certain frequency. There may be a change. And we'll remind everybody, we're going to have a little class on this on the air very soon. to let everybody know about certain key phrases that are used that flag and identify certain actions when you're operating in a ham radio. This is very important because as somebody monitoring you can pick up all of the jargon, technical jargon, and if you wish to transmit, remember you duplicate and perform just as natives do. Use the terminology appropriately and you won't have any problems broadcasting or retransmitting on shortwave. Now this is something that needs to be done so all of you are going to have to pay attention. Now one more time Saturday night, 10 o'clock until the wee hours in the morning can be up till dawn depending on propagation on the left coast. But the frequency is 3950 if that frequency is taken. If it is obvious that there is not a Patriot speaker on 3950 shortwave. Then you go up to 3960 shortwave. Okay, that's 3960 shortwave. And then scan the dial a little bit just in case you still don't see anybody there. I hear noise, we might have a caller. Who do we have? Do we have a caller? Maybe not. Well, that happens every once in a while. We got a lot of people who do visit and listen. Now, another thing real quick. I want to say thank you. I missed this today but let the guys caught it. I'm going to read right off the page here because there we go. www.gunowners.org apparently an amendment to repeal the National Park Service NPS gun ban. Let's see, the ban passed overwhelmingly in the Senate by a vote of 67-27 as part of the credit card reform bill. Is that a little confusing? I thought it was a positive or is that a negative? Let's see, the ban or was it an overturning of the ban? Uh oh, I'm going to have to have clarification on that one, guys. Anyway, I'm pretty sure it's a rescinding the ban is what they were doing. But I'm going to have to double check on that one, too. Anyway, it appears that they were doing something. In fact, even in the comment, oh, there it is. It may be that they were doing something right. Now, it's possible that they were. We'll find out more about that as we go. And hopefully, we will get more information on that shortly. But if it is true, and again, Gun Owners of America is where you want to go to find out more. We're going to have Larry Pradip pretty soon. And before I forget, we are also going to have John Burke with the .50 Caliber Shooters Association Policy Center on 5 p.m. tomorrow, which will be Weapons Wednesday. So again, we'll have John Burke, 5 p.m. tomorrow during Weapons Wednesday. He's with the .50 Caliber Policy Center. And that should be pretty good because he'll bring everybody up to speed on what we've got on the horizon there, what they have that they're trying to do to mess with the .50 Caliber shooters. If it's still there, before I forget this because this is something I've touched on a couple times this last few days and this weekend, 50 caliber Browning M2 ball, available from Amovan.com for about $2 a round for South American and it will be 1973 to 1976 for the cheaper ammunition in ball. and then I think $3.50 for AP, M2AP or M2AP ball, for about $3.50 around. It's a bardin prime for both. Let's assume possibly corrosive, rather than just saying we're figuring it's non-corrosive. I wouldn't look at it that way because South America would be a toss of the coin. But still, $0.50 for $2.00 to $3.50 is like shooting about a year and a half, two years ago. They are all brass case, so first of all we don't throw brass cases away. It's bredam primed which doesn't make any difference because bredam can be replaced with boxer and there are some simple solutions for dealing with that one way or another. We will bring those up later. But anyway, amoman.com, amoman.com, that's amoman.com and then get hold of the site. and check to see what else they have, which is little or nothing. Oh, did I say that? Yes, it's so embarrassing. But they do have some 50 calories for the moment, in theory. Now, who knows? They might have already sold out in the time it took for me to last spot check on them. And that's as likely as not, guys, with the situation with ammo the way it is. But continue to do what you can to spread the word, because the M250 calibers, we need to keep them up and online and ready to go. OK? Also, let's see. Before I forget, this is communications Tuesday, but speaking of communications, but from another direction, we have the NBC equipment and training videos. It's a 2 DVD. They are complete. They are ready to ship. We just sent the latest wave out. In fact, I've got another 6 envelopes ready to go out today. They came in with the mail, we're going to send them out immediately, everybody should be happy. But if you would like a copy of the two-disc set, NBC equipment and training, then if you would take the time, send a check or money order to PBN PO Box 194, Dexter, Michigan 48130, that's PBN, PO Box 194, Dexter, Michigan 48130, and you will be sending a $20 check or money order or you can send FRNs, that's cash as we call it, to, we'll make it out to Nancy, last name K-O-E-R-N-K-E, that's Nancy, K-O-E-R-N-K-E, and make sure that you share the information, what you're gonna find there is going to be priceless. and uh... i think you all understand why it is that uh... once you've got it in hand you know what a copy it the nbc equipment uh... tape you know it's training equipment uh... is jam-packed with virtually material on all nbc defense system you could run into there's very few of any that are not covered there so this is a priceless training aid that we uh... want to try and get everybody's hands so again You send a gift to us, we send a gift to you. This helps bottom line, this helps keep the lights on, keeps computers running, keeps everything in motion, and allows us to continue to do the work that we're doing. And it's a way that we can provide something to you as a tool, a resource tool, to get the job done and that you can use to share with other people. Consistent training is critical. Anyway, PBN PO Box 194, Dexter, Michigan, 48130. That's a $20 checker, my year or two, Nancy, last name, K-O-E-R-N-K-E. Then, away we go back to, well, let's see, you can also use our PayPal account. Before we forget about that, go to LibertyTreeRadio.4mg.com and click in the section that is to the right where it says PayPal. There's a little tag there. that and that will take you over to what's going on with the troops that are involved with operations from that direction. And the PayPal tag, of course, gives you all the information on manuals, equipment, the videos we're talking about and a whole lot more. It will help you also to connect with the database that you need so your people get consistent training and so you can connect when you connect with others if you aren't already. Then you'll be able to share information with them to make sure that they're on the same page you are. And this is critical to overall operations. The more we're able to interlink with everybody and we can take one group and work them with another without any flaws or failures, the quicker we're going to demonstrate to the enemy that their actions are futile. And that really is our goal. Anyway, what else? Let's see. There's been so much happening. And we can turn in another direction. Signal Communications Handhelds. Watch a couple of the different stores right now. There are a number of not cheap. They were much more expensive. They were middle line handheld radios, VHF, UHF, even FM. And right now there's a little flurry of these things even coming through the truck stops. Now I know the ones in the truck stops are a set or a pair for like $14.88 a set. You might also check Harbor Freight. And of course these are China Sport. Most everything you're going to find would either be China Sport or Japanese made. The minority would be made in the United States if any are made in the United States. Maybe the plastic hull is any outside. Oh man, CQ, CQ. But for the most part it's going to be foreign. Now, these little handheld radios for at least at the present intermediate short range communications will work. One of the advantages is that they are used for speaking very quietly with another party at a very short distance away or boosting up the power output a little bit. You're able to actually communicate with a wider range of individuals, but still you're not talking to the planet. Don't expect these little hand-helds or these little units like this to cover and do everything. They're not supposed to. They're out there for battle frequency operations or combat frequency work. You don't want to have to worry about somebody else discussing grocery shopping or whatever on them when the time comes. So we need to be keeping that in mind with regard to construction and with structure, with regard to militia formations and home defense. Handhill radios otherwise. There are a number of features or things you can get. Earbuds, hands-free mics, which is something that, I don't know why people don't really catch into that. You'll see all kinds of whiz-bang add-ons or trinkets with the higher end stuff, but you don't see a lot of the cool little widgets with the smaller, cheaper pieces of equipment for obvious reasons. However, just because they have all the widgets doesn't necessarily mean they're your first best choice in a handheld radio. Simpler, especially because truck stops are $14.88 for two handheld radios. Longs are both on the same frequency. Let's just hope they didn't pack up two different ones in the same box. You better check that. Don't assume. Actually, take them out. Field test them. Double check the formula. Power supply system is in place properly connected for recharging especially with a lot of this stuff. When you do use them, make sure that the battery packs are up 100%. Run them down intentionally so that they get used to cycling, which is another thing with even the chargers, not even just the batteries. You also got to remember that as things sit down, good old entropy sets in, unless you use it even though it's brand new. The less you use it, the more likely it is to just lock up with age. In other words, oxidation and other problems are an issue when you're looking at microcircuitry. A lot of people don't think about that. Also, I think we have guys heading back out to the candles way over there on the far left side as in back in our neck of the woods. You can see what's going on out there guys. You understand what I'm talking about here? Can you hear the candles lit? Wink, wink, nod, nod, get my drift. Okay, hopefully everybody understands that one. At least those that are supposed to, the rest of you won't. Anyway, when we're using the small handheld radios, I will still have to remind you, and we've got many different types. In fact, I've got five sitting off to my right. I've got two VHS units, VHS, VHF units sitting off to my left, literally within arm's reach, and that's a mated pair right there. But each of these radio sets, people, is not designed as a global communication system. It should only be for local transmission. And even there, you want to limit all of your activity, not so much to speaking as to being able to use signal identifiers for activity. A click. On a microphone can mean one thing and a click, click, click means something else. You get my drift. Now everybody should learn how to use the equipment that they have. Where I have the problem is where some people decide to use it when they're not supposed to and then they try to use the radio as a cell phone. Your radio communications equipment is not a cell phone. Please remember that. It's one of the most important aspects of using radio equipment on the battlefield. And you don't need to talk and tell them because you try to make everybody feel good. We don't need that either. Now if the UFO or the Godzilla monster were coming down the street all by himself and you were the only person there and Godzilla has a tendency to step on a little island to a little island and you have to be on the next little island, that would be really embarrassing, then I can understand. But in this case, with the technologies that we have and the equipment that we have, there's no reason for us not to Well, be able to understand how the equipment works, plug it in, and know how to keep it running. And without drawing too much attention, so to speak. A click click here very subtly can get the job done without all of the other fuss and muss that we would expect under certain conditions. So don't think really, really big when it comes to your unit tactical for close in support. do have, if at all possible, a second radio grid hooked up and a second radio net, which is really where our CB radios can come in. They can either be considered the low-end telephones of your broadcasting pool or they can be the middle-end broadcasting pool, depending on how you want to establish control. And I will remind you that there's a lot of fruit jars out there and containers and such that work quite well assisting with getting the job done. Fruit jars, what do you mean by that? Well, let's put it this way. There's a wide range, a cornucopia, just like when you open fruit cocktail, guys. There's a lot of things that can happen inside those radios with a little tweaking, little modification that are unique. Many of your radios, especially the VHF and even the larger base station radios, have a lot of jumpers in them and such that actually restrict the ability of your radio to work in certain frequencies. By eliminating those jumpers and creating, you know, shall we, well, new routes for the electrons to flow. What happens is you open up the radio so they can actually receive in many other frequencies and other parts of the bandwidth that normally would be impossible to receive. Now these have been done for a number of reasons and not necessarily because they're occupied by any agency so much as something I would have you do when you have a lot of your radio equipment and you have a little bit of time. If you buy a bunch of commercial stuff off the table, off the shelf so the speaker's brand new, Have you ever looked at the back of the casting of some of your equipment? Now, if it's really, really small, a lot of the phones have gone back away from this because it was very obvious. People were actually reading what was on them. But all of your handheld equipment transmitters, I don't care what they are, have a statement on them that this piece of equipment is designed to receive so much interference intentionally. Now everybody goes, wouldn't you want this to be the cleanest transmission possible? Would you want to be able to talk on this like a cell phone? Well, in reality, you could if they had actually done certain things with the system to begin with. But it is intentional. And in fact, in many cases, it has been ordered by the government that these frequencies are actually quite inconvenient to work with. Does that make any sense? Well, it does if you're trying to frustrate people, or if you really, again, you're handing down one of the junk or the low end frequencies while the system occupies certain frequencies that offer best sound quality, offer better imagery, offer less interference. They're attacked, and things are restructured accordingly so that, well, you don't realize that you're getting second best in many cases. Well, that can be fixed, but it means that you have to do a little research. In some cases, all you need to do is find the right radio geek. It's like we had computer geeks, remember, earlier in the day? Well, you got people who are radio specialists who this is all that they do, and they can be very familiar with the threat to their operations. So for all of you listening here, just remember that you have options with the radio equipment that you have in hand. You're just going to have to do a little more research and find out more about them. Even with your CBs, by the way, your finals can be opened up. There's a number of different projects that can be applied that are very simple. Kit projects that can expand the ability of your CB to become, well, just like it is to a degree with people now. They pull everybody or everything out of the back, lock it one place. And they can be used for base stations. They can be used for relay transmitter stations. There's all kinds of stuff that can be done with that equipment. and it's just understanding how it works. So I would ask that you make the effort, take the time and research your equipment. Some of the stuff can also be used as we talked about earlier in the day for electronic countermeasures or for deception technologies. That's another issue that we'll get into. We won't really get on it real deep at this particular point in the hour. But to say that again, think outside the box. How could you bring using radio How could you bring your enemy to bear against something or against a multiple number of targets that say do not exist? That it simply have been talked into existence by your radio transmitters and a number of other signal identifiers slash diversionary resources that are pulling the mind's eye away from the actual battlefield. That's what in some cases your electronic countermeasures slash your radio operator's jobs are. So, be prepared for that people. Just because you don't always use those open frequencies everybody knows about sometimes you may want to switch over to them because you want to make sure the bad guys hear what you're doing and saying in the future. You may want to give them the impression that there's a certain place or certain thing that they want to investigate. There's a number of ways that you can deal with them when they show up. Anyway, ideas, tactical communications. When you are playing with opening up systems, I will remind you again to be very, very careful. You don't want to waste the equipment. You just want to make sure that, again, if it's going to be worked on, understand. Do the research or find the technician that can accomplish the task, and then make the effort to alter the system in whatever way. Other things with regard to base station operations. Now again we have an event that's going to be coming up on the west side of the state. It's another ham fest. It should be in the, well actually closer to Indiana by the time they're done. But if that happens then there's this little pre-warning that we're going to be busy. I would say for most of that event, experimenting with some new equipment actually from right out of the little hand-vention right there when it takes place. So for our friends that are going to be present, you may want to bring your 2-meter radios. You're definitely going to want to bring some of the VHF and a few of the other CB modified systems that we have because we will be there in place and we are going to be expecting other people to participate. Also, remember we've got some filming projects coming up on that note. And I am going to need some assistance from many of you as part of the classroom group that is going to receive a briefing on night defense and night defense for the radio communications limited. Also, we're going to be working on other signal communications processes to include security checkpoints. and also for mobile security operations with a cluster of say administration or office buildings or office complexes, GP medium tents, there's a number of different things. And they actually won't be that far from the site. So there's a bunch of stuff that's scheduled that's going to tie in communications with signal intelligence and how to secure material on a site where it is going to be Left in place and shared. We touched on this with night vision equipment. In fact, I'm going to have Don do this at the 8 o'clock hour again. If you are going to be sharing equipment, remember that if you've mated gear up, especially chargers and things of that nature, mark them. Now you don't have to put big old black magic marker on stuff guys use a simple flag label for the back of everything so if you don't want it to you don't get beat up or you don't want to over gunk anything with markings or whatever if you want to keep it no still pretty factory standard one of the tricks that we've done for years and you can buy this as either electrical tape or you can buy it as different types of adhesive that are semi-permanent, that are almost like shipping tape, or forgive me, not shipping tape, but duct tape. But you can get it in colors. Now there's a reason for this, because if you have a certain piece of equipment, I try to mark it by color to the equipment across the board. If you have, for instance, a wall wart, take a little piece of the colored tape in blue, and put a piece of it on the side of the wall ward itself. Then also at the other end where you have the plug, for instance, and again you're going to be in an environment where you've got a lot of equipment hanging around and stuff can get confused. You might make a mistake. You might jumble stuff up. Well, to make sure you don't make a mistake that can be fatal to your electronic equipment, and we'll explain that in a minute. Take a piece of the same colored tape and turn it into a flag that wraps around, doesn't just not wraps around completely, but comes around as a flap and the two pieces come together and form a connected U whereby the base of the wire becomes the base of the flag and you create a little flag with that little colored tape on either side of the little flag. The advantage of this is that A, if you're at the wall wart plugs and you're looking at your wall warts, a little blue, a little red, a little green, or a little yellow tag on the side of your, in other words, a piece of tape on the side of that wall wart, allows you to identify quickly the piece of equipment you're trying to work on, or maybe extract from a situation, or follow through to see why there's a failure. The little flag at the other end confirms that that is the blue tag that goes with the blue tag radio. Now just take a piece of the same tape, put it on the back of the radio, and that will confirm blue, blue, and wait a minute, blue at the other base end. That way there's no mistake. Either way, however you're working on it, you're going to be able to figure out what you're looking for. Red, red, red for the other radio set, blue and yellow, or say green and blue, whatever combination, or red. yellow, blue, green base colors for each one. You may eventually want to do color combinations and that's actually not a problem. It's just a matter of again, two little wraparounds on the wire, two pieces of tape on the wall ward itself. This is so you don't have to keep looking back. There's another thing to remember. Time is of the essence. If signal communications goes down, you're counting just like an air traffic controller. Seconds and minutes and seconds are like minutes. Minutes are like hours in a battlefield situation where direct and quick response is required while you're on the radio. Also, we don't want to expose ourselves to electronic countermeasures or tracking. So any time that you can spend tracking down either a failure, a mistake, or an error, color coding makes all the difference in the world. And remember, kiss, keep it simple stupid. You don't have to have a whole lot of titles on stuff. But what you do need to do is when you're using or co-sharing equipment, the example is an LPOP, patrolling medical personnel at a medical site or a forward field hospital, you are going to issue them a certain amount of radio equipment, guys. So you need to also establish standard operating procedure, SOP. Standard operating procedure when you're using night vision, I described this earlier today, includes the idea that in your checklist when you do a shift change, that the equipment is inspected and adjusted for your needs. The same will also be said with regard to firefighting equipment or protection equipment for any group of people who are working within activities and operations. All of their gear is respectively marked if it's shared. And there's another reason for this too. Some people may not want to use a certain piece of equipment and it will be quickly identified. If you do maintenance on it, it will be quickly identified. If you find that there has been an incident, perhaps the equipment may be the only way you can actually confirm what's what. Well, the tag, the blue marker, red marker, green chip, whatever, the green chip, will identify the material. If it survives, whatever may happen, then it could be an action of whatever kind. So it's another form of dog tag, too. Anyway, just ideas, mostly it's maintenance, quick turnaround, if you have to do troubleshooting, IDing and flagging your equipment is critical. Now, I don't know if any of you have ever, this also helps with maintenance assembly too, guys. I do this with phone bags and phone kits. Ed's familiar with this and a lot of other people are too. I will actually number and color code the tags that go for each of the individual components for a radio system, a phone system. It's not that complicated, it's not that hard, but it does take a second. But let me point out a place where maybe you've already experienced this. And you guys have been the military, not everybody has been a wrench, a wrench, you know, turner. But if you've had to use a wrench in the military on a, say, a do's and a half. Especially like the GMC deuce and halves from the 50s 60s and into the 70s If you worked on the radio harness guys or the wire harness, did you notice something about them? How difficult is it to actually replace the system? It's not difficult at all. Why? Because they flag number every component just exactly as I described So that it's actually plug and play you have a line wire number one which plugs into station number one You have line number two which hooks up to wire number two You have wire number three ad nauseam exactly way. I'm describing everything is numbered very simply and very clearly and Instead of having to worry about color codes like we do with coloring You're right dad and tab a does not go into slap B. You trade you wait a minute you're doing it all wrong You're inserting tab a and slap B. I am NOT hey Wow If you ever watch Space Invaders you would appreciate that. Wow, now this is what planetary seat weapons are all about. So again it's the idea that it's that simple guys. You can also do this with, for instance, radio equivalence being disassembled and then has to be reassembled again. Now I know that that varies and it's another thing that's time consuming but it doesn't take that long if what you do is when you assemble everything lay it all out on the kitchen table with all the mapped out wiring. Now In addition to obviously the advantage of red or black being used to color ID the specific wires and connectors and how they need to be. Red to red, black to black, okay. You also have in your wire harness that certain lines have to go to certain points. Well to make sure there's no confusion and rather than making it super, super complicated, just number each item and don't duplicate the number. Wire 1 goes to plug 1, Wire 2 goes to plug 2, Wire 3 goes to plug 3. See how that works? Wire 4 goes to plug 4. Oops! Go over to the other piece of equipment and number accordingly. Then on the wire harness itself, put those little flags up just like we were talking about and just put the number in place. If it's a simple piece of equipment like the rechargers and a few other items that go on, say the A little hand-held handy talkies that are out there, that's a different story. The idea is just to give you one color code so that, say, the brothers and sisters that match it can quickly be subdivided, and so that you keep the chargers together, the original equipment that's parented to the other equipment in place. It's a very simple process. It will assist you dramatically in overall operation, and you'll be very happy because you will be compressing your setup time. And that is a plus for everybody. The idea is to be able to get it in place, set it up, look at it, do a quick test, confirm that everything works. Do a then final radio test once you're confirming that everything is prepped and clock locked and ready to rock and roll. And then after that, why, guess what? You're ready to broadcast and send, well, either to the world or, in most cases, just down the street, only about a block, which is fine for combat operations, depending upon the situation and how big your formation is. Anyway, we're trying to give you ideas, not just lament about the problems. And single communications assembly isn't that hard either. Once you have everything in place and you know that it works, mark it out and map it out. Now another thing, people go, well, I don't need the instructions. Well, you don't need the Portuguese instructions. You don't need the Chinese instructions. You don't need the French instructions. Although sometimes, in French, it is, of course, very entertaining. It would be handy just in case to have all of the English instructions with you. So two things that you should do, this sounds strange but it really will help you in the long run. If you have directional manuals and they have 15 languages in them, first of all ID by highlighting, not highlighting the letters, just squarely highlight the area that has the English components in it. Remember they'll do like a paragraph and then they'll do the next paragraph and then they'll do it, you know, and they do them with 15 different languages and back to English, and 15 different languages and back to English. Instead, take each of those sections and then enlarge them with a photocopy machine. Bring the print up to it or use the computer and scan it. You can do however you like. But the point is that you expand the image and make the letters bigger. Now why do you want to do that? Well, it's because you're going to be working under limited conditions. And if you have to read those instructions, wouldn't it be nice if you could read them easier because the letters are bigger? And since you got rid of French and Swahili and Cantonese, and don't forget the other 55 other languages they translated it in, the only one that you need is the one that you want to make sure is on the paper. And if you enlarge the image, because you'll have plenty of space because all those other BS languages are gone. Then what you do is once you've formatted everything and you've enlarged the words so that they're easy to read with a quick glance, then you laminate each page and create a laminated paged binder that is usable by anybody and should be kept with the transmitter or with the equipment for initial familiarization. Why should Mark have to repeat all of how the radio works? The first thing you do is to tell the person to sit down and read this. Here's the equipment, there's the rig right there. Here's the instructions right here. Now congratulations, use the old beam to get the stuff done. Then you come back and review everything with the person after they've looked at the basic manual of instruction for operation, and everybody's happy. No errors are made. This is not common sense, but a lot of people have not taken the time to do this with any of their equipment, and they should. It's because you're going to have to speed train a lot of other people in how to use the equipment that you have on the shelf. It's going to happen people. It's not an if, it's just a when. We don't want to lose time and lose people for failure to communicate. That's right. Oh, pardon the pun. Communications Tuesday. That's right. Yeah. In this case, it's simply the written data without even turning the battery on, without even turning the power circuit on, without having to worry about whether the battery is charged up. OK? These are things that can be done, but in the long run they're going to help you. Again, laminate whatever you can. Another thing about that having to do with the transmitters is also laminating or having set up code cards. Now most people would say don't laminate them, but remember either way they can be destroyed. Most important is remember that you're simplest of code cards, either phonetic code or whatever other code system you have set up. In many cases, not so much designed to deflect enemy interest, but rather is designed simply to abbreviate conversation on the radio. Remember also, your batteries are only worth so long, you only have so much time to talk, so much time to actually get material information out. So if you do use it, then you want to make sure that you use the transmitter or, again, transceiver sparingly. And that's where again it's critical to understand the limitations of your equipment. Anyway, we are close to the top of the hour. One more time I'm going to give this information out. Of course, Radio Randy, also known as Randy Perry in the hospital, he's known as James Randy Perry. He is presently in the hospital. He's at a stroke. His address is 622 Henderson Road, Macon, Georgia. Again, that's James Randy Perry, 622 Henderson Road, Macon, Georgia, 31217. Give him a ring, find out what's going on by calling him at 478-633-3660. Again, that's 478. 633-3660. It is right now 655 Eastern Time. That means you can give him a call. Now another thing about radio rigs, guys, is if you can find for operations armored radio bags, if not make them, that would be a good idea. Most people I do know are carrying, for instance, like the handheld radio that I have in my hand right now. And I want to say thank you to one of our listeners. This is one that was actually donated for the cause. Do you hear that? So I want to personally know exactly what that is. Hold on here. Now, this particular radio did not come with or doesn't have a standard bag. However, they can be built and a lot of people like to use this particular type and this size of radio and carry it in the existing radio pockets that are located on the left side of a lot of the new assault pests. Well, also, Dad, if you don't have a radio pocket, They'll fit just fine into the magazine pouch. Now mind you, you're taking up a spot that you'd normally have for a magazine, but it's a quick place where you can put it where it's out of the way. It's already going to fit in there. It's just about the right size. We've been showing people alternatives that you can use those mag pouches for. If you don't have magazines to fill them up, it's good to fill them up with something at least, right? That you can use in the field. That reason here again, remember you can also upgrade the armor. There are a number of different types of foams that are in our pad that provide additional or supplemental padding so the radio doesn't get beat down. You can glue those right to the inside of the mag pouch or the inside of the pouch that you find available. You might still want to even add to the inside of your existing radio pouch on your assault vest which is typically again on the left shoulder. That's so that you know the old you always see it was cool in the movies you can just turn and talk right into the into the microphone to the side of your head. You know actually into the pickup mic on the radio itself without the earbud and all of that stuff. Remember that you can actually insert padding in the back, which helps to keep it when it's beating against the body, or actually flexing against the body that you won't have as rigid an impact. Remember, impact, of course, is what loosens up electronic components. It's either flush-based, or you have, again, multiple stations. They're soldered. These solder points can come loose. That's typically what really does happen. There are a number of different places where you have connectors for earbuds or power screws. power cords with every press you're putting pressure on them at some point some fixtures are stronger than others simply because of whether or not somebody had a good or bad hair day at the factory and uh... if it wears out or gets tired uh... then again you're going to be you know from shock and impact and impact absorption you're going to have problems that much sooner so if you can fix it cover it and protect it do what you can to help out with you know to keep the the system up and online We're not going to be able to easily replace these things down the road in the future. Right now there is a glut of technology in the small handhelds, and even a cheapy pair of guys will do just fine. In fact, we'll probably do as well as any of the more expensive radios because I don't want to reach that far. Tactical radios from person to person. are designed for pretty much line of sight where they should be, although there may be some terrain variation. The idea behind this is that you keep your transmitting range minimal so as not to draw too much attention and hopefully not be picked up under certain conditions. Cursory scans of the area may or may not identify that, depending on how much energy the base radio station, maybe the support station for the whole group, you know, generates. Everything else that's handheld will be much, much lighter. especially these little Star Trek communicator sized pieces of equipment. Guys, those radio transmitters are simply weaker because the retransmitters have become more common. If not, the transmitter has to be bigger to reach farther because, again, it doesn't have a bounce point. Now a lot of these other radios, like the one I'm using right here, the one in my hand, does not use a repeater. It's direct communications. for that reason it's not going to have the range which is fine because it fits the niche, it fits the need that I have for tactical communications. So keep that in mind with a lot of this equipment. There are variations in many, many different themes. You can get more bells and whistles but I would think of something right off the bat. As we get smaller these little buttons get harder to use. Mark, we are at the top of the hour. And those little VHF radios do go pretty far, you'd be amazed. Yes, no, no. The problem is the little buttons for my big fingers are a problem sometimes. So remember that we don't want them to go much smaller. Smaller is not necessarily going to be an advantage. You're wearing gloves, you're in a combat situation, time is of the essence. Your ability is more important than anything else. Hardening the equipment and protecting it is something you need to do. We've also talked about the... 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