Live 365 Is this still the land of the free? hmm liberty tree radio dot four m g dot com p b m dot four m g dot com and we are live three sixty five and go to liberty tree radio also on em and f m micro stations cb base stations and ultra net technologies both east and west of the mississippi along with southern and central alaska from homework network and eastern seaboard top of main The black bears are roaming around with their little girly bears now. They rolled in that fish fry perfume and I'll tell you, it gets the girly bears every time. That's right, getting ready for hibernation season there, but beforehand, they're going to do a midweek date there for the bike bears. And all the way down to the bottom of Florida where we have the fiddler crabs contemplating their belly buttons on the beach, even as we speak, if fiddler crabs had belly buttons. Wait a minute. Then across the arc of the Gulf of Mexico, all the way over to Texaco, from Texaco all the way up to to Nebraska, the nuclear fields, cows, glowing in the dark corn, glowing in the dark and that's right nuclear ordinance under the ground. Across over to the 3rd of Wyoming, our friends in Montana, the Dakotas and all the rest of the plain states want to say hi and also to our farmer programming across the whole of Iowa. We're covering ranches that are thousands of square acres in size and hopefully talking to the guys out there in the tractors clearly with some of the new micros we help to build. So, say hi to the crews out there, be careful in your machinery. We know that's the most dangerous job in the country. Farm industrial machinery guys. So if you have a jam up, stop the machine. Don't panic, don't get frustrated, I know it's easy to do. And I can just unjam it and I won't think. No, it goes out of gear, it gets stopped, and then you make a point of clearing the machine. That way they won't find you with a bloody stump and your arm flopping around in a machine you can't shut off, because you cleared it, but your arm didn't. Yeah, I've seen that before guys, close up in firsthand, so let's not see that happen again. Back over to Mississippi and then too with the Golden Spike project across the Blue Ridge of the Smokies, all the way up to... Pennsylvania, New York and other places too numerous to mention. Hi to our Ma Bell grandmas over there in Cleveland area. They're heading towards Parma! That's right, hey, froggy, Parma, Parma, Parma, Ohio. Everybody know where Parma is? That's right, the home of the ghoul, by the way. I'm gonna remember the ghoul. Old ghoulie from way back in, yeah, yeah, way back in the old days. Anyway, it is the beautiful blue sky sunny day all day today. We didn't get any of that bad stuff from up north yet. I'm sure it'll get to us tonight. But it's cleared right up, blue skies. Horizon to Horizon, it is the 12th of October, second year of Fabian Socialist and Soviet Socialist occupation of America with a K. Oh my goodness, and it just gets worse. No, it doesn't, actually. It's been pretty good. We've been getting a lot accomplished. I want to say thank you to all of our friends for pitching in. And we need to see you continue to focus on communications. And that just as a reminder, remember guys, when you hear the tone, That means your rig is up and online. So for all of you out there that are listening, let's make a point of making sure that our equipment is plugged in. We know how it works and we know how it functions and operates. Well, flawlessly if you do it right. Now, this weekend coming up, we have, as is typically the case, a series of exercises that always go on to include Both the Liberty Net and the Possum Net this weekend. So expect that. It's coming up here guys. Hell, it's already Tuesday. No way. Yeah, it's already Tuesday guys. So the clock, it is a ticking. It's not a matter if. It is just a matter of when things are going to kick in. So if you're out there and you're wandering around, you got your rig in place. Shortwave. For the Liberty Net it's 10 PM to 2 AM, that's 10 PM Saturday night to 2 AM plus on Sunday, 3950 plus or minus regular shortwave and if your 3950 frequency appears to be locked in with something else, go up to 3960 regular shortwave for the Liberty Net. Then at about 2 AM, overlapping with the Liberty Net, is the Possum Net. That's right, like the O Possum. That's right, but a Possum Net And that's from 2 to 5 a.m. plus on Sunday morning. It depends on obviously weather conditions and propagation. 3840 plus or minus, that's 3840 plus or minus. Use your variable rheostat to tune in. So Liberty Net, 10 p.m. to 2 a.m. 10 p.m. Saturday night, 2 a.m. Sunday morning, 3950 plus or minus. And 3960 is the alternate freak. Then pop some of that, 2 to 5am plus, 3, 8, 4, 0 and that's Sunday mornings. Yes, that's wee hours of Sunday mornings. Duh! Yeah, we know that's early. That's roughly early. Yeah, no, actually it's pretty late depending on how you look at it. So anyway, let's make a point of dusting off your equipment, running those wires, plug the technology in guys. It's very, very critical that we get everybody where they need to be with their communication systems. Why? Well, emergency warning systems. and also because we're not going into the stone age i'm sorry uh... that for the boots who don't have a clue about technology and uh... basically are the ones you see in the sci-fi movies you want to avoid kinda like you know being in jericho where you know the treat the crazy guy that have to shortwave radio like he's crazy but wait a minute he's not crazy if he's the only one that has something that can listen to the world not only that but uh... you'd be amazed what all you might find you know the the way these characters made it your course called but the way they manage things it's like Well, that's why people were starving and freezing to death. You know what I mean? Higher proper planning prevents piss poor performance, the P principle, but also common sense application once things are in place, which is a big problem with people who aren't used to applying common sense principles. So rule number one, tools, tools and more tools. And when you're done, pick up more tools. Now some tools you're going to run into, by the way, I know it's Communication Tuesday, but this is critical, you may not think you need For instance, well, you know, you need a hammer for your radio kit. Everybody goes, what? You need a hammer in your radio kit, in your radio toolkit, right? For your field operations especially, you need a small little sledgehammer, a handheld, one pound, two pounds fine, or a ball peen hammer, good size, it would work, but a little sledgehammer would really come in handy. Now there's a reason for this, because if you're gonna do any mobile work and you're gonna set up any masts or any radio rigs at all and they're set up any improvised antennas, You're going to want to drive stakes to hold things up. You're going to want to run guy wires. You're going to perhaps just want to run the line itself. And you want to perhaps, say, stick a quick nail in something so you can wrap your extension line to pull that wire out and taunt so that you have something to hook to. The harsh language of the stone looks cool, I guess. And it's a great way to say that you can improvise. But why are you doing that when you can go to the dollar store and get a dollar hammer? or go to big lots or one of these other China sport, let's see what's the other one, oh they're, well whatever their names are they vary from one part of the country to the next, that's all that China junk coming in. Because most people are going to say, I can't afford a such hammer, they cost a fell in the blank. Well this isn't going to be used all the time and the time it's going to be used, well as long as you're careful, you'll find you're not flattening too many thumbs but you will hit the stakes just fine and it'll drive everything where it needs to. So, Again, cheap is the idea. Solutions so you can have lots of. Extras of. And then know how to fix whatever it is you do have. Okay, that's how it works. But hammers. A couple of different size hammers. By the way, a flat bar. For the very same reason. Mark has been using so many screws, nails, and whatever and had to abandon them that he doesn't have them anymore. So a flat Stanley bar and another little wrecking bar would come in awfully handy if I have to cannibalize stuff off other Abandon buildings, wrecks, and debris. Wouldn't it be kind of nice to have the right tools? It would be very straightforward and simple and easy to deal with. Okay guys, so if you have the right tools, then you're not having to improvise and adapt and overcome. You do that if you have to abandon the toolbox. Otherwise, the toolbox is so you can improvise, adapt, and overcome. See how that works. Very straightforward and simple. Anyway, ideas, not just lamenting about the problems. Now another thing about your radio rigs, wire. You know we've been mentioning this, but guys you are going to have a problem and you better be collecting wire now. If you're out there in the boondocks, like your little micro radio stations out there, anything that you see that somebody else is foolish enough to get rid of that's in a scrap bin, Grab it. If you're farmers, you're probably doing this already. The more remote the farm, the more intelligent the farmer about having stuff on hand. Just driving that 60 miles to the store that might have it gets to be expensive after a while. So accumulating and building up your own workshops and having junk on hand isn't really junk, fools of the trade. Wire is spending. Nobody is truly appreciating. But let me point this out. Have some fun. Go to a construction site and look at the junk that they are installing now. I'm not even going to give it the benefit of calling it wire. Look at the junk that they are installing now. We don't do things to corporation spec people. We don't sink that low. Everything that you should be doing should be beyond, above, superior to what is considered to be, haha, gooberman's standard, which is almost always low end junk. especially once the Shasters get involved. The same is true with all these construction operations. If you take a look at a lot of the stuff that they're letting slide now, take a look at the quality of the equipment that's being pulled out because, oh, it's old and obsolete. Take a look at the junk that is replacing it. And that's because most of it came from a China. And so it is a junk. It was brought over in a big version of a junk, you know, a cargo ship, cargo container ship. See how that works? So anyway, wire of all types, any type, no matter what it is, and small pieces, large pieces, girls, you're at a workshop where you can get hold of stuff like that. Some places collect all the copper because they recycle it too, but others, or construction sites when you pass through them, it's like I don't know how many miles of different wire I've picked up, and the stuff that's lighter duty that they're putting in that's supposed to be standard duty, I'll use it for something else. Probably won't use it for what they intended it for, but I will use it for something. And again, any wire in a storm, depending on the situation, provided it's the right gauge. It's in the right gauge spec. There we go. So that's another issue. But again, collecting resources like this. In your toolkit, remember something we talked about this morning a little bit. We touched on it. Insulators. You can run any insulators in all kinds of places. Resale shops, industrial resale shops, there will be a pile of plastic, the latest ones are plastic like bobbin type insulators for running your wire like when you do shock wire and such. But if you see any kind, the old telegraph insulators, man those are priceless. Ceramic slash glass insulators, they are priceless. Those things are, now they're coming in from China so they've been cheaper for a little bit but they're creeping back up in price. Because now that the Chinese got rid of all the American and others out there, they can now demand the price they want and they know the American dollar is devaluing. So guess what? They're demanding whatever price they choose on the market now that they have control of the market. Oh, that's how it works. You know, Americans were stupid and let that go. Another thing here real quick, batteries, batteries, more batteries and charging systems. Now you know we've talked about charging systems extensively, but one of the companies that was mentioned by one of our friends here earlier in the day, and I think we need to really remind everybody that FreePlayEnergy.com, FreePlayEnergy.com, FreePlayEnergy.com, FreePlayEnergy.com, FreePlayEnergy.com. Did I say FreePlayEnergy.com? I'll bet you I did. Anyway, Free Play, we've got a couple of the radios here because we've got the first models. And I will say this, that even though they're the first model that was out, Mars is still running just like it did when we got it nigh on a little under 20 years ago now. It's actually almost been that long. But the neat part about it is that the radio keeps right on ticking. It is a crank, clockwork type generator system. What's neat is you crank it up, it's called an African ghetto blaster is what they used to jokingly call them, but it is. It's got phenomenal sound, I mean it'll carry. It has good volume, good reception, very robust, designed to get beat on, designed to get dropped, and continues to function. You wind it up, it's good for a half an hour of play. So, yep, at the bottom of the hour break you've got to at the half hour point you've got to crank or back up again and start up the whole process. but a half hour worth of for the price of the calories it takes to crank up the thing that is a priceless machine well back years ago i said hey guys uh... uses a great idea but why don't you just make something that could be used to charge or run stuff like this with plug-ins long behold the free play company did that they came up a little generator unit they just figured people want radio so it was a great way to get into the market anyway so they get stuff produced Well, the next one they came up with is a little generator unit. It actually runs 12-volt or different variable output wall wart systems. If you've got something like a cell phone needs to be recharged, you want to run a little lighting system, whatever you want to do. And the neat thing is you crank it up, it's good for half an hour, it doesn't really make that much noise. But when it first starts up, you get that spring cranked up all the way and she's winding, you know, you've got a real wingy kind of noise, you'll notice it initially, but only lasts for about one cycle, one full turn. and the tension is off the spring. Why? Well I like to take it right up to the max because I want to make sure I get the most out of it for the cranking. Once I've been cranking that thing up I just want to let it sit and play. Pretty cool systems and a solution so that if you're looking for something in addition to solar, in addition to wind, which I do believe we should be using both, We've been into that for as long as it actually has existed in one form or another, and right now I've been working on a little alternator project that we're going to be showing everybody just to demonstrate how simple and economical building a throwaway wind generator is. In other words, they're somewhere. They're in the dark. I don't know what to do. The whole world's in the dark. Everybody went to Kent County Brain Fart, right? Well, guess what? A few parts out of the cars, a few other trinkets, not only could you have power, but you could be powering up and doing anything you wanted. Generating more heat, generating light for growing plants. You know, they said, oh, they lost all the light and the plants were all down. Okay, well, I see fluorescent tubes by the billions. I see alternators and generator packs by the hundreds of thousands, if not millions. Let's see, boy, let's join one with the other and lots and lots of glass from skyscrapers who are just laying around and doing nothing. And buildings, and houses, and glass grocery storefronts. And hey, if all these people are gone, there's a lot of room there. Oh, that's what I'm not supposed to think about that though, you see. So anyway, common sense, we're going to do something. We're going to do the road only the way it should be. One of the other things that we've been kind and mowing back and forth, and I really think we need to do this, it's anti-gerico for the same reason. My favorite still was I thought, okay, this series has promise, and there's some neat things they threw in there, and the plot was kind of, you know, it was of course neat. But then there's this one scene where they're trying to get the water on, because they're having a fire, and they're losing the hospital and the library, the school, because of lack of power. and a lack of water because they got a fire at the library. One of the kids are trapped in and one of the main characters gets trapped in a place where the fire is in the library and blah blah blah blah. So the other main character runs over with his buddy and they go over to the, they know where the manual switch point is for the water supply. And they're trying to tug at it and it's stuck and it's stuck and it's a big old wheel about two and a half feet in diameter, right? And it's like, oh, oh, and he goes, wait a minute, I know what to do and you're thinking, oh he's going to turn and grab that big steel bar that's on the wall there that's designed for prying. Oh no no no no no, he runs up to his truck, grabs his, looks like a Model 70 or a Model 700, couldn't get a clear look at it. Big ol' scope on it. And he takes that fine rifle and he uses it for a crowbar. And he starts talking on that wheel to get that water going for that fire. To stop that fire because it needs to be for the fire department because all the electronic controls are shut down. And it's like, oh, okay, yeah, yeah, there we go. There's an example of why when you watch these things you have to turn your brain off. Industrial location, lots of industrial junk laying around, but we gotta go take a precision rifle with a scope and turn it into a shoot-around-corner's gun. Yeah, and I'm a Chinese jet pilot named Lao-Z2, okay? So, Lao-Z2, that's a T-O-O. Anyway, my point is, we need to do a series that's just a reverse. And in fact, we'll even snidely mention this, like, yeah, this ain't Jericho, we do things right. and just do that out of the blue. Yeah, this ain't Jericho, we do things right. Nah, nah, this ain't Jericho, we do things right. Just as a tongue in cheek thing. This series was cool, had some really neat ideas, but it just fell flat on its face in so many areas, and most of them being for political correctness reasons. Because after all, we're just so stupid we just couldn't handle life in general, don't you know? Well, many of the others out there, they're gonna football and beer. Yeah, probably the case. Anyway, I mean, if that's under the universe, then they're screwed. No more beer, black and white televisions are dead. So I didn't want you to get a chance to resort to black and white guys. Once the color TVs are out, they're gone. No TV. No fruit ball. No superior to worship. Anyway, I just want to bring it up there that solutions come in a number of different ways, especially with the toolbox. Now this gets into something else. about communications. And this was a question asked this morning by one of our listeners. Why is it that going to the newer manuals, the wire antenna information is completely missing? Well, there's a reason, because wire antennas actually are quite economical, easy to string, not just outside. Let me give you a little hint. Guys, if you don't want anybody to see that you've got an antenna for broadcasting, you know you can string it in your attic. Now, the cool thing is this. Because of the major effort to get rid of all the metals so they can use spy satellites on you, whatever, the cool thing is this. Because less and less of the metals and interfering materials are in all the construction materials so they can spy in, this also means that pretty much all of the materials that would interfere with your outboard signals with hidden antenna mass, antenna arrays, are gone. Which means, cool! Now you have the ability to hide a long wire, your choice of configuration, in the attic, depending on what size your house is. Ranch house with a big old long, second floor attic would be really cool. You've got lots of space and you can reconfigure and actually readjust it. If you want to kind of tweak the antenna array, and nobody would see what you're doing, it won't be an eyesore. On the other hand, you can also string the wire so that it just blends in with the environment. One of the things that we've done is randomly we go out to a certain number of miles or a certain distance and we run wire with the insulators, hook it up from one point to the other. A lot of places here we have old abandoned telephone poles or telephone pole lines. Most people don't know that. For instance, old train lines that have been abandoned here in the area and the telephone poles were left up. So this means that there are a lot of places where you have perfectly aligned set given distance towers, oh I'm sorry, old telegraph and telephone poles that are already deployed where you need them out in the middle of nowhere. All you do is, you know, shimmy up, you know, get your old lineman's boots on there and get your lineman hooks on, go up, or take a ladder with you, that works just as well, and what you do is set up your insulators, screw them in, run your wire, tighten it up, Run your leads going down, station them so they're actually secured and camouflaged on the pole. And when the time comes, guys, you just walk along with your radio, backpack radios, for instance, we do this with our military rigs, walk up, pull the wire, hook it up, broadcast for a little bit there, shut down, get on down the road. See how that works? Good practice, by the way, for the real thing. Now, we're not going to be just using your radios for cell phones anyway. That's not how it works. So remember, your radios are, you know, in combat situation are used in a very, very limited way. If you're going to broadcast specific information to general, you know, receivers, then it's nice to be able to go to one of a thousand places where the technology is already there, even if there's weather damage. Let me point this out. Somebody goes, well, you put an antenna up eight years ago and you come back and it's down. Yeah, okay, well the wires still there and the one insulator still hooked to the one tree pole or to the telephone pole But the other one's laying on the ground still hooked to the other end of the wire If the wire is disjointed, guess what? We're going to reconnect it. We're going to loosen up the tensor at the other end. We're going to screw it back into place, nail it back into place, or tie it with zip ties at a certain height. Oh, that's another cheaty trick there, isn't it? What you do is run the zip tie through the insulator, take the zip ties, the multiples if need be. If you have small ones, run them together. Daisy chain them. and what you do is wrap them around the pole then tighten them up, snug them up and you've got a tensor again so that your line is where it should be. Go over to the other end and adjust. Using the other end that's still fixed here to attach, that's what you do to adjust and tighten up the line so it's not flopping around. That way you don't have any kind of additional background noise or interference or variations in reception or transmission because that will happen if the line is flopping. You want to try and keep it taught. You don't have to play it like a violin or guitar, but you need to make sure that it's stabilized so that it's not going to move, if at all possible. The more stable the antenna, the clearer the signal. It's that simple. Now, another neat thing is, for instance, hiding your material and equipment in places where you're really isolated. And most people who are not attentive, and even if they are looking, will never notice. Let me give you an example. We have a lot of abandoned train tracks all over Michigan here and all over the United States. They have almost always left the train trestles intact, haven't they guys? Oh yeah, even if there are short bridges, you know, the ones that are just because they get over like a drainage canal or a channel or a small creek or a river, typically they leave the bridges in place. Well guess what? You can run your lines along those bridges and leave them there permanently. You can make them out of extra heavy wire. so that they're going to be good for a long, long time. You want to be smart? Well, if it's an old, for instance, black beam, maybe, or with creosote, you know, in driven pilings, wouldn't it be a good idea to camouflage your line to blacken and brown it so that it looks like the surface area that you're hiding it up under? And you don't put it out in the front, out in the open. Tuck it up underneath the bridge. Make it run the length of the bridge. When the time comes, there are all kinds of neat tricks you can do by the way guys. You can put a couple of little extra masts out there made out of PVC, make them out of iron pipe, whatever you want to. And when you want to string your line, you hook your connectors and you have a couple of holes drilled in the pilings. and you stick your pole in the ground. The other pole is, forgive me, in the piling hole. The other one in the other piling hole, the pipe is 10 feet long. It puts it 10 feet in the air. The bridge is over water, so you actually have a reflective plane on top of everything else. And you have yourself a really cool solution for being able to bounce the signal out real fast. When you're done, disconnect everything, put it all back where it belongs. You and the rest of your teammates know where you've put the antenna fixture and you're out of there. You're gone. Goodbye. Now, any number of different locations can be used like this, but ideally remote and isolated or places that are out of the way, large or tall hills or obstructions that are natural, that are in the middle of say back 40s. Not many people bother to walk the back 40. We have wild pigs here in Michigan again because people have been so apprehensive or so, you know, affixed to their computer screens or to their boob tubes and their television and their, uh, slash, you know, football, spheroid slash, you know, beer, beer, uh, holidays on Saturday that, uh, they have no clue what's, uh, even 100 yards behind the house, 90% of the time or of almost a high, well, 99.9% of the time. Far the back you go, less populous and less likely there's going to be any contact. Wild pigs are now an open season issue in Michigan for that reason. Nobody's going out and hunting them like they should or clearing them out. Coyotes are in the same situation there, so that's one of the other critters out there roaming around you better be expecting to run into. But... Remember that high topographic features you can prep. You do not want to have these things very obvious, so much like doing a cache or any other cairn for storing equipment. You want to make sure that you camouflage it to the best of your ability. You go out, you don't do a lot of trails to the site, you pick a location that's quite obscure. But what you're doing here is, same again, you're picking a location where you have some access to an open area or semi-open area. Height is always good. Landmass can compensate for not being able to put a hundred foot mast up, guys. Think about it. The topographic feature will do the job. And this gives you the ability to broadcast to a greater distance. Now you can set up YAGI antennas. Even long wire antenna arrays can be directional arrays. And this is another thing you need to do a little research on with regard to antenna theory. You can actually make the signal move in a very narrow and specific direction by depending upon the configuration of the antenna array that you construct. Now this is kind of nice because that way if you know you're going to shoot on a certain azimuth, in other words take your compass, you have a certain direction from where you're sitting, out to a certain village, town or say other radio receiver that can be as remote as yours, then you can narrow the signal and eliminate 99% of whatever intercept capability the enemy has. unless they're right in line with your signal, either in front of, you know, there's outbound shoot towards that azimuth that you've designated, and or in the exact opposite direction, 180 degrees, the opposite direction. That's the line of transmit signal right there. That's how it's going to work. And a majority of the energy off that signal is headed towards the primary target you've designated. The backwash or the back feed is not going to be as powerful, but If by some happen chance somebody all just goes across that line and happens to be on the exact frequency that you were running, which is not very likely, then they would pick up a blurb, but only for as long as they're in line with that signal. And if they're passing it perpendicular, how would that be? Would that be? Would they hear? See how that works? That's all they hear. That would be it. So then of course they might get curious, but if you keep the transmission minimal and remember, If you use packet type radio or modems, older modems, which is why we've told you to save them, you can build point to point high speed packet radio utilizing a YAGI antenna system or a beam system. That's what we used to call them with AMCB radio guys, beams. That's a YAGI antenna, but it's big because of the size of the wave and the configuration that has to be built to match it. to be who we have now from michigan no way go ahead bob jump in their shirt yeah hey uh... i did remember that the goal what is it cool with the boom boom that's right people will come by a lot of like women are a and what was the sidekick or remember the side you got me out there with the obvious get the snobby out of it probably you have a meeting and stuff on their very well that's right on the division it probably got beat worse than mister bill or it was a That's right, you got it right. It was the ghoul. And you know what's weird about that is, you know if you watch that, that was like absolutely a B to C grade program, right? Oh, easy. Now, do you know that that was syndicated in hundreds of stations around the United States? Somehow, I believe that. Yeah, I was out in Seattle, Washington at 3 in the morning once and I was like, wait a minute, I was barely awake and I was looking, I was like, stop, I hear this voice, it's like, oh, that's a weird dream, I'm hearing the ghoul. and I opened my eye and it's like that is the goal. It's real. And then wait a minute, where the hell am I? Oh, I'm in Seattle, Washington. And it found out that it was like the 260th or 258th affiliate. And they had some special... You don't want to say hi to Seattle, Washington. And he was talking live to him from, you know, Parma, you know, slash, you know, Cleveland, South County. Hey, I do have one addition, enjoying all your ideas here. And what I've done in the past, Get yourself a little bit of TV mask from Radio Shack, lots of clothesline and tent stakes. And then with that, you use a TV twin lead and a zip cord, wire, anything. I mean, go to your anywhere. Get yourself some stranded wires, solid wire doesn't, they're cheap as good. And then there's several really great tuners, but I do have to plug this one. The MFJ949E, it will literally tune the window screen, the bed springs, whatever you got. And that's how you do that. And that's probably one of the most popular tuners out there. And it's not just for the amateur radio bands, it is continuous. By the way, bed springs, I'll tell you what, one of the best, weird, neat antennas are the old metal bed springs, which are few and far between now. But those suckers, I'll tell you what, you can talk about an interesting array. When you broadcast from that, the kind of signal that you get off it, depending upon what you're using, And pretty much anything will ring off it by the way too. That's what's really neat. Fox hunting, we of course do that, but we did it just because, man, that would be rather interesting looking at the squiggle wire and the way the whole thing is arrayed bank after bank. And it was a very, that could be a very directional antenna too. In fact, like a flat plate, what do they call those? Oh, they used them for the targeting, same thing, it looked like a big, oh come on, wood burning stove toaster, if you ever see those. The phased array radar is one of the variations, but this is a high speed. It's a side to side like a continuous thing like s turns only elongated. Yeah, what's neat about this is again, you get the right idea, the idea is to do this from junk. One of the things I just did, I watched and somebody tosses out. This time of year, all the garden and all of the yard toy stuff is being tossed out. Guys, cheap, already cut, disassembleable, plastic masks that are volleyball nets and you get plastic line and you get, oh that's right, you get tent stakes because you got to have tensors to hold the thing out. Absolutely. All the goodies you're going to need if you're just patient you can put into these throw away or these pre-placeable radio packs, you know radio toolboxes so you can improvise different types of antennas or build a certain antenna that's your favorite and just build it over and over and over and over again. Well and they're really way better than you think they're going to be and the nice thing about it if you're in some temporary place, school, whatever and the neighbor's dog takes it down you know what it's no big heartburn you go back to the hardware store and that's you know bucks and you're back on the air. Exactly. And in fact, you might just take the dog and his chain and use him instead. Where'd my dog go? He's holding the other end up. He's a dead weight over the wall. Well, the big thing is, is on any of these antenna tuners similar to that, what you want is maximum smoke forward and zero smoke back. And when you do that, I'm just going to tell you right there. And just don't make it any harder than it needs to be. And that particular one that I just read off has a little dummy antenna and it's good for 300 watts, which will probably pretty much do anything you want. I mean, unless you get into some kind of a fire and then you need some extra, you know, beefy coils, things like that. But I'll tell you what, 95% of what anybody's going to do, that'll work. A lot of the stuff can be hidden out in the open like we're saying. It's just, you know, don't be obtuse. In other words, You can even leave a line on a fence line. Let me give you an example. Here we have the metro parks and they have an upper guideline that's like a barrier line made out of steel. In reality it can be used as an antenna line all by itself because it is free standing separate from the rest of the fence line. It's already about five feet off the ground. But you could do this in an area and actually install a line and insulate it, which would of course enhance its overall capability to broadcast. And most people, 99.999999% would never notice. And even if somebody did notice, it'd be like, hmm, somebody added a wire to my fence. Oh, that's nice. Whatever. Yeah, exactly. You go to either end and it does nothing. And it'd be like, well, I don't know what it is, but it looks good. And I got free wire. Okay, that's fine. The other thing that is kind of an interesting solution there is you get the flag poles. And a lot of them are PVC or some variation of that. And what you do is you put basically a vertical antenna in there and just put the flag up and then just leave it there. You know, like you say, everybody that just doesn't want an ice, but they're okay with the flag and the flag pole, which they better be. You can tune that. You might have to put some ground radials, but just experiment a little bit. uh... get a few people that you talk to you and this can be on cb this can be you name it actually the one that are coming off production lines now which are really nice six meters down to one sixty buildings different range of different times of day just like you were saying whether their activity of a lot of balance which is a big problem depending upon the solar activity to write writing article you know we went over the this uh... nvis antenna couple months ago but you can use the same uh... matching unit for that, put it real low and anywhere from about 3 megs up to just slightly below 10. It won't go up to 20, it's the dwindle there. So, E75 40 meters in there which are very variable during the day which can be very useful. You put that antenna real low to the ground and it goes straight up and then comes straight back and you get a cone, a very reliable signal cone, two to three hundred miles. that short either but you need just some wire basic antenna tuner and a little bit of imagination and you're in business. Most important here is a lot of people think that well I gotta go out and buy it from a store. No, you can buy the parts from the store. Yep. And in fact another thing PVC, I'm gonna tell you something guys, I collect every piece of P and in fact Nancy knows I got a pile over here right now because we have it because the nice construction sites in the area. But PVC pipe is the most universal utility tool even making the insulators were tight. If you didn't have anything else, you can use half inch, three quarter inch, one inch, one and a quarter inch pipe. You can cut it to length, cut some holes in it, and there's your insulator. You can drill some holes, cut notches, whatever you have to do. It's purely a matter of the tool. But common sense is keep your tools in order and amazingly enough, PVC isn't going to be wearing them out or anything. You can crank out so much of that. We've demonstrated making the buildings with those. A single 10 foot piece of rigid PVC schedule 80 is really nice. I just got an 8 foot piece for free here the other day and another piece today as a matter of fact tonight. The schedule 80 is stronger, tougher, consideration. You take a short piece of whatever you got that was free of schedule 80. Get yourself a reducer. Go to the next size down. And now you put a 10 footer on top of that and you've got yourself a nice mast for little or no money. The reducer is the cost. And you can also make that so it can be disassembled. It does not have to stay assembled. It can be locked in. If you want to get a little fancy, drill a hole through it, run a bolt through it. That makes it so it won't flop out. Because it will get loose after a while because they've been using it. If you assemble and disassemble and it's mobile. And for the price, wow, if you snap a 3-quarter inch piece of PVC pipe and you have your light mast on top of that, your little army directional antenna, I've got to pay a whopping $6.23 to replace it maybe. And usually it's less than that. But it's just $6.23, $4.60, whatever the latest china junk coming in. That's right. And I've had situations over the years where they said, Oh gee, I'm really sorry and I just, you know, you want to be friendly neighbors, all that stuff. And I just shrugged my shoulders and I said, you know, it's all hardware stuff, don't worry about it. Do you know what, oh, thank you, we talked about this long enough, because one of the things about PVC, most people think it's pretty flexible, which is true, guys, it is if you get Schedule 40. If you can find Schedule 80, it's the gray. It's heavier, it's coarser. It's designed for more industrial application or if you want to put in your house to be the best to buy really get my drift Usually we go cheaper because that's what the corporations inspect everything out to so they can go cheaper and charge you max Well, if you're doing it yourself if you can do it, you only want to do it once schedule it He gives you a lot more strength, but we were there was an interesting discussion this weekend about and we kind of start talking about radio Jeeps And you know, remember how when we originally, guys, everybody sees you got all these masks, long masks on all the radio, on the Jeeps and on the APCs, and then after a while you'll notice that you see masks are pulled down and they were tied to the front, they actually were just tagged to the front bumper, the front fender, remember? Oh yeah. Now, what was interesting about that is everybody found out by accident that they actually got a better broadcast with the mask for directional use. back with using the mass bent over and we had a lot of interest because most people don't realize all you know with this is a it was one of that it was an accidental but intentional thing somebody got lazy and i'm sure here's our work okay uh... you know bob it's raining once you've got lift the mass and we'll just keep the mike would do a radio check no i don't want to go outside It's raining. It's cats and dogs. I gotta put the poncho on you gotta slide it over you're gonna get outside You can bring it back in you're gonna be wet Why don't you just do the radio check and we don't sound good the hell with it and somebody keyed the mic up and it went You know, whoa, whoa. Whoa. What did you do? You know, it was like what in fact, we did less than we normally do Wow, try that again. Hey, come back k44 Niner. You're coming in really strong over and it's like did you do something your rig? You know, what's wrong with your set? Are you close? Did you? and BFE, that's right, and what it comes down to. Now there's a bunch of little tricks there with those masks, by the way, that were all learned through experience. Number one, if you've got the military rigs like that, the dominant spare or replacement that's available is a ceramic base. Now most people don't prefer that, and it's for obvious reasons, because in the field the ceramic is going to break. It's going to get snapped, popped, broken. You know, some point it's going to get hit. Guys didn't like that, so they eventually came up with the resilient plastic fixture to replace it. But in surplus you will find both available. You can buy three of the ceramic for the price of one of the plastic. That first of all, it's a matter of wallet. Think about it. You can buy more of the ceramic ones. Hey, grab the extras and have those on hand anyway. If you're careful and do all the other little tricks of the trade that were developed through the PM manuals that were shared with everybody, then your ceramic fixture is going to be just fine anyway. And you're spending less money there so you can afford an extra handset and all the other fun stuff for your gear. The other thing is to protect the bob on the other end, the end of your whip antenna. So the old trick, which everybody else adopted after a while, of using a tennis ball kind of came into play and only what they did is they used a tennis ball and then we had that wonderful tactical green, you know, 100 mile an hour tape. And that eliminated the problem at the other end with the bob in the bounce and, you know, breaking off the end of the antenna. It also only worked as kind of like a a training mask like with a uh... a training and with a uh... a lamp like for jousting it had to be the bouncing bob off rather than big and then snap which is what would happen if the stuff caught with something uh... the keeper on the end of the jeep uh... they started out with any number of different solutions to include rubber bands uh... eventually guys again uh... a piece of uh... parachute cord already cut to length uh... nodded and and looped so that it was just hanging there when the time comes you just pull the mask down run it over that golf that tennis ball and it just hangs right there under tension so simple it's ridiculous so that gets it out of the tree line so it's not being beat beat the snot when you're going down those secondary lanes where the trees and branches haven't been well let's put this way they were never trimmed for you not at all well that's all I got Mark I appreciate it. And again, ideas guys. It's not that we can't do this. We can come up with the solutions. In fact, radio operators are usually the guys that make all the cool stuff happen and then somebody manufactures it in the factory. Oh. Yeah. In fact, here's another little trick. Remember those real cool military floppy antennas? You know, the jungle man. Jungle man. Now, if you ever, you know, everybody goes, wow, those are really cool. Do you know where those came from? One smart GI out in the middle of nowhere got tired of that mask snapping and breaking and hooking and connecting and he didn't want to have to put the mask on and disconnect the mask because otherwise they had the rigid ones back in the day. But he had a toolbox and in the toolbox he had a tape measure. And so he took the tape measure and he did a little math and he figured out his frequencies and since tape measures have that nice cutoff, you know, that lock point so you can lock it and freeze it, he broke out a drill, a Dremel tool, and he drilled holes at particular inch designations, dependent, and he put little black to taking a Sharpie. He made little markers for each of the frequencies and eventually he just, what he did is he didn't, he, with the next lamp, he broke the first one with use, he just marked the distance and then made a little log book and he knew that 11 inches was such and such a frequency, 24 inches was a frequency, 23.2, et cetera, all he had to do was know the numbers. Now the Army looked at that, well then the next step it was, well you know that yellow tape done by Stanley is kind of embarrassing out there in the field. Of course back in the day it was white, not yellow. And so he broke out the OD paint and he slightly tactically colored over just enough so it would wash out the basic white but he could still make out the numbers. The rest is history. And it looked cool. Yeah, now of course it cost you a dollar for something. Wait a minute, you can go to the dollar store now. This has gone full circle. You can go to the dollar store and pick up a cheapy adjustable antenna all day. There you go. Hundreds of them. And then the drill from the other part of the dollar store and then you pick up your electric drill you got from the yard sale for $3. And now you got yourself a portable mask, guys. There we go. Anyway, appreciate it. Thank you, sir. We're almost to the top, by the way, too. It's getting close and a quick reminder here. It is Communications Tuesday. Hopefully we've been giving you some ideas. And again, remember, guys, When you hear that, you know the system's running, but before you do anything to key that mic, and I don't care what it is, if it's a handheld, you check the antenna. We've been talking about antennas all hour, but I'm going to say something real quick. If you don't have the antenna connected and you key up that mic, you're sending a load down range that has nowhere to go in that circuit. Something may decide it doesn't like all that power building up, and you'll either hear a snap, a crack, or sadly enough everything gets really quiet now quiet is nice most of the time but when you're trying to get sound out of an electronic device chances are it means that there's an unhappy component that decided to go pop so remember you do a complete text I do not assume if you are a new radio operator if you are a ship if you have ships on the combat radio no matter how how tired you think you are no matter how lazy you think you want to be There are specific procedures that you need to go through because you're responsible and in fact your life hangs in the balance depending upon that equipment working right. So always check your antennas to make sure that the antenna connectors are in place. Do an eye at the very least do a visual inspection and don't assume. You may want to touch and just confirm that everything is hooked up, that everything is still connected. Do a light tug on it. Now you might be surprised, one day you do a light tug and it comes out your fingers and you realize, man, that thing was barely connected. You hook it back in, you twist it sideways and lock it in. Congratulations, you just saved yourself a whole lot of money that has to be spent to fix something possibly. time wasted resources lost. We don't want to see that happen. And this can happen all the way down to your little handheld radios. Remember sometimes the kids might have gotten hold of them, the munchkins or somebody else that's fiddling with your radio and they might have unscrewed the antenna. You don't know it but it's not really even connected. And then like you key the mic and there's a little bit of a... And then all of a sudden one part of that circuit or another has got a problem and you're going to track it down or you're going to buy a new radio. Oh no, you don't want to do that. So again, common sense, pyro popper planning, prevents piss poor performance. The radio operator's job is to maintain that line. People keep the line open so that when the time comes, the medical support, unit commander, quartermaster, whoever it is that's trying to get through to get what you need or to get to you or so that you can get to them, you got to have the phone open. the radio telephone guys. With regard to spare parts, if somebody's getting rid of a radio or getting rid of electronic equipment, you want to eagle-eye it. Yard sales especially, that one part that otherwise would cost you $110 or $55 or if you could buy it at all, you might have to actually build it and make it from scratch. Well, you find another wreck and everything else is broken on it, but the one part you need is sitting right there. It pays for itself. Always remember that. Another neat trick here, remember the little 5 inch analog televisions guys. They have RCA jacks in the back in most cases. They can be used as individual security monitors. They are cheap like $1, $2, and $3 at the yard sales. You can't go wrong on picking them up. I don't even know that they're offering them for sale. There must be warehouses, those suckers sit in some place right now. And last time I saw them even on sale, they were as little as $10 and $12, or they were trying to move them to get them out before the new high definition stuff came in. Well, for security work, et cetera, you don't care. Okay, analog works just fine. In fact, the cables are going to go to the switcher so you can actually go peel out between depending on the system. You can use that one screen, though preferably when you get them for a dollar a piece, you should have a screen for every camera, especially for perimeter security. And remember that those are a receiver system. You can also do a wireless TV analog transmission from the camera. and it can be miles away and you can tune in your little television and you're all set to go. Anyway, we are at the top of the hour. We've got Spike coming up, driving a nail through the head of the New World Order next. God bless the Republic. Death of the New World Order. We shall prevail, ladies and gentlemen. The Empire is on the run and we're on the march. You all stay focused and remember, don't touch that dial. Live radio right here on LTR. We'll be back at 8. Bye-bye. Where have all the military surplus stores gone? Don't worry, you don't need one! Because everything you need at Military Surplus is at mainmilitary.com! That's M-A-I-N-E military dot com, one of the last surviving true military surplus stores in the country. Go online now to main military dot com and discover a source for hard to find surplus items at true surplus prices. Surplus gun cleaning kits as low as $2.99. 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