VIP membership is radio with benefits. Oh yeah! Your favorite music from around the world right at your fingertips. Exclusive content, unlimited commercial free access. Try it risk free. That's free for five days at Live365.com slash VIP. Live 365. chemical suits, military surplus items, and much more. You own a firearm. MainMilitary.com has a large selection of pistols and rifles suited for your needs. Are your local stores sold out of ammunition? Call or visit them today for prices on hard to find ammo and bulk ammo orders. You don't need to worry about having a military surplus store in your area because MainMilitary.com is the only store you'll ever need, all from the comfort of your computer. Visit them online today at mainmilitary.com. That's main, like the state, military.com. I had a dream the other night that, well, I didn't understand. A figure walked in through the mist with a flintlock in his hand. His clothes were torn and dirty as he stood there by my bed. He took off his three-cornered hat and speaking low to me, he said, We've fought a revolution to secure our liberty. We wrote the Constitution as a shield from tyranny. For future generations, this legacy we gave. In this, the land of the free and home of the brave. The freedoms we secured for you, we hoped you'd always keep. The tyrants labored endlessly while your parents were asleep. Your freedom's gone, your courage lost. You're no more than a slave. In this, the land of the free and home of the brave. You buy permits to travel and permits to own a gun. permits to start a business or to build a place for one. On land that you believe you own, you pay a yearly rent. Although you have no voice in saying how the money's spent, your children must attend a school that doesn't educate, and your Christian values can't be taught according to the state. You read about the current news in a regulated press, and you pay a tax you do not owe to please the IRS. Your money is no longer made of silver nor of gold. You trade your wealth for paper, so your life can be controlled. You pay for crimes that make our nation turn from God and shame. You've taken Satan's number and you've traded in your name. You've given government control to those who do you harm, so they could burn down churches and seize the family farm. and keep our country deep in debt. Put men of God in jail. Harash your fellow countrymen while corrupted courts prevail. Your public servants don't uphold the solemn oaths they've sworn. And your daughters visit doctors so their children will be with you. Your leaders send artillery and guns to foreign shores and send your sons to slaughter fighting other people's wars. Can you regain the freedoms for which we fought and died? Or don't you have the courage or the faith to stand with pride? And are there no more values for what you will fight to save? Or do you wish your children to live in fear and be a slave? O sons of the Republic, arise, take a stand, defend the Constitution, the Supreme Law of the land, preserve our great Republic and each God given right. And pray to God, keep the torture freedom burning bright. As Iooke vanished in the mist for whence he came. His words were true, we are free, but we have ourselves to blame. For even now as tyrants trample each God given right, we only watch and tremble, too afraid to stand and fight. If he stood by your bedside to dream while you were asleep and wondered what remains of the freedoms he'd fought to keep, what would be your answer if he called out from the grave, is to distill the land of the free? think one of our guys had Henry Kissinger right in front of him years ago and if he just pulled out a pistol and shot him right there, that would have settled a whole lot of problems real quick, wouldn't it? Well, it's that fluke in history thing, you just never know. And he actually was right there in his front yard on top of everything else, just so the happenstance. It's whether in California and he was in Bakersfield. Isn't it amazing? You thought, man if I've been smart there are only two guys walking along with him. The limo broke down, traffic was terrible around the corner and all I had to do was just grab the shotgun and boom, boom, boom and settled the whole problem right there. I remember having a conversation years ago with a lot of different people who were in the right place at the right time and they just taken the pencil and stuck it in the guy's head. It would have saved the world a lot of trouble. Yeah, anyway just things to think about as you pass through life there guys. Good afternoon ladies and gentlemen. This is the second hour of the afternoon Intelligence Report. I'm our krunky. One day closer to victory for all of our brothers and sisters both on and behind the lines in occupied territories west, southeast, east, and northwest. Ladies and gentlemen, you're listening to us on Liberty Tree Radio dot 4mg dot com. I'm running an FMI crustacean CB Bay station and alternate technologies east and west of the Mississippi along with Alaska. Where the homework never stopped. I mean, bottom of Florida. Bottom of Florida across the ark of the Gulf of Mexico, Louisiana, Mississippi, Texas, Oklahoma, Big Choke, Nebraska, Oklahoma, July, Wyoming doing glue both fifth, third, fifth, the seven sisters and our friends in Colorado waiting to left coast where the puke stained, the stench, the sputum. the disgusting ilk of Feinsteinism of the day, per stain of brown, bring you the California Soviet Socialist democracy, the demise of the western part of the United States, through betrayal by the International League against America. Turning back to the East, we sweep across the plains, leap over the burgeoning banks of the Mississippi and land of the Smokies, slash the Blue Ridge where the restaurant crews, grandma teams, OK teams, and the Bob L. Grammar Consortium bring us the Golden Spike. Many hands make for light work, A million pedico junctions, the ability to continue to function when everything else is offline. And have you put your CB radio in yet? Just a quick request on that. If you do install the CB radio, as we've said many times, make sure the antenna, no matter what radio rig it is, doesn't mean there was CB 2 meter, 6 meter, ham operating equipment of any kind. I don't care what it is, make sure the antenna is connected, number one. In fact, I would do it in this order. Make sure the antenna is connected first. The microphone is the right type, the right format, and is properly connected. And then last, we put the power to the wall. How's that sound for pecking order? That's probably the safest way that we can ensure that nothing strange happens. You make sure that step one, go slow. Don't cross thread anything. You make sure it's properly plugged if it uses a push plug system. However you do it, make sure that everything is connected properly so that the feed goes out, the power goes out to somewhere. This keeps it from staying in the little box on the table or the big box on the table and going... And you hear some popping and snapping sometimes and a little bit of smoke, not much. Little bit... smells like carbon. That's not good. It doesn't have to be very much either. A very small amount. Diodes don't make a whole lot of nasty mess, but they make a little crap pop for a moment as the glass fractures and they release a little bit of carbon because that little bit of element finally goes, and that's all she wrote. The rest is history, as they say. Transistors are no different for you, though, except transistors are so stinking expensive depending on when they were made and how big they are. Oh, that usually determines how long that machine is going to be in service. If you can't afford to replace the transistors, she sits on the shelf. So you can maybe cannibalize off something else or you find somebody who is doing the same thing and they've offered something on the market. Just something to think about there. By the way, a lot of transistors on certain pieces of newer equipment that we're seeing where we didn't see transistors before. I want to point that out. compare older and newer motherboards. Now, I will point something else out. Transistors are normally for radio reception and transmission. There are a certain number of transistors that are in other technologies, so to speak, but they're minimal. And computers especially, well, all of a sudden in the more recent units We're seeing a lot of the higher end transistors. Needless to say, I'm sure this has to do with wireless technology, but it also has to do probably with the spyware too. The spy hardware to go along with the spy software. Just something to think about there. A lot more calories and heat under the dash in the computers too. Don't think that's new. With radios we've had the same problem and for years there are certain boxes that if you get into them, even in CBs guys, in the heyday, the high rise of CB radio in its civilian mode, the civilian CB radio network where everybody did the hey, 10-4 good buddy, played with the car radio. At the heyday of those, there were hot running units that were out there. Now, it's why you need to do a little bit of research even when you're working with CB base stations because it's not that they're bad units. In fact, just the reverse. They were in demand because they were very powerful radios. But they also were hot to key. In other words, you could run, monitor, and listen and just make sure, don't pile up any manuals, books, don't put anything next to the rig, make sure it's got lots of ventilation and air. The little fan which was the older style, you know, minimal capacity fans that were out there would do something but it wouldn't necessarily do that much. However, when you key up, the transmit circuit was hot and the longer you talk, the more calories you built up and then after a while you get a little interference because some of the comp... would over heating. Oh no, the rig is overheating. Yeah, that's why it couldn't be long winded with some of these units. However, with the advent of cheaper and China Sport battery powered and energy powered and just standard voltage, either AC or DC powered microfans of many different sizes and types now. We've been able to settle a lot of the cooling issues even for extended transmission. Now you shouldn't be on the radio that long anyway in a battlefield or in a signal communications environment where we have a disaster. That's the first rule. We don't want to be just squawking and talking nonstop. That is not the way things work. we are going to be using the equipment on a regular basis so we need to do is kind of balance this out. We want to make sure that we can continue to keep it in service. We don't see any additional complications with the technology. This is especially critical when we're looking at, you know, again repeat, repeat, repeat messaging going on, a lot of activity. Remember, it doesn't have to be one long broadcast but if you have to keep rebroadcasting or sending signal out or messages to different sources, different targets, then remember that in and of itself can create some other issues with regard to calorie buildup, progressive static calorie build ups. We want to make sure that we prevent that from being an issue. So just things that need to be taken into consideration. Again, do a little research on the different equipment that is out there in service. A lot of the stuff, the tube technology especially, gets a little hot sometimes. and cooling is not an issue now. There's no reason for it to be. Again, as we said before, think outside the box, outside the green box or the gray box or the red box, especially the green boxes. There were a couple of millers that were very uniquely built here in Michigan. We have a bunch of them. They were in service. They were notorious for being cookers. You could actually heat your breakfast up if you were going to be on the CB in the morning. Just put the oatmeal on top of the radio. It would be done. It would be kind of like a microwave process, only in this case just calorie transfer. The water would be cooking and it would be boiling in no time sitting on top of the box and your oatmeal would be done. Just that simple. So we've eliminated a lot of that by going over to cooling fans that are available. We can strip them off old computer systems. You can buy them directly from computer supply or electronic supply houses. There are many of those out there. And the idea is again to upgrade and bring it into the next century. It's basically what we're looking at here. So let's see, next on the issue. I was talking this morning about microphones. One thing to watch for, they may not be as pretty because a lot of them have seen some major use. But I would point out that there are a lot of old police microphones out there. Now what makes it a police mic? Well, typically the really long mobile police mics had really long cords. You've seen it in the movies where the guy would be standing outside the car and he'd be pulling the mic out and hand standing outside the vehicle and talking on the microphone. Well, how do you think he did that if it was a standard factory mic? As a matter of fact, it wasn't a standard factory built. But these comp shop radio rigs, remember the car rigs, the guy didn't have a walkie talkie hooked up to his bat belt or on his shoulder and he didn't have a little press to talk mic, etc. He used the car radio because he was a dispatched radio rig. Again, the advantage of these, well if you have a comm center it's kind of nice to be able to step away and still be listening if you're using a general speaker for reception. If you have to get up, reach over, do something, move around in the room a little bit, that extended mic gives you a lot of versatility and it helps a great deal because Depending upon again, same scenario. You're a radio operator. Somebody else wants to talk. Well, if you have a radio rig that you've set up, a lot of our trailer rigs or camper truck rigs or capper rigs, the way they're set up on the back of pickup trucks, you have a limited amount of space inside the vehicle. It is kind of handy to be able to just toss that mic over to somebody and let them squawk at someone if there was a need for communications and for someone to kick in. I would point out that in emergency services, it's kind of handy because a lot of our emergency rat rigs, the way they're built up, we can actually step in, use our radio to hook up to a phone grid using wireless, using YAGI antennas, any number of different systems that we now have an option to use. But the radio operator can be sitting at the workstation and a person can come in and, I need to talk to my sister who's been trying to get hold of me or I've got to get hold of my sister. I'm okay. Come here ma'am. Hold on just a second. Here, hold the microphone here. You can stretch that outside the vehicle. Person outside the trailer. Person can be standing there out of the back end of your standard cargo trailer. It's now converted like the ones we've converted over to radio rig, you know, in office, mobile office units. Don't have to worry about jamming into the area. Don't have to worry about bumping and beating stuff up. The speakers can be directional, you have an option with a control switch for a second speaker near the back of the vehicle where the individual that's standing there can hear. And they can talk back and forth. They can, again, you link up with a two meter system. The two meter goes to the phone system. And the person can be talking via, from wire to ground line within a matter of moments. It's no different from your cell phones for all practical purposes except ours are free and independent and we have a whole lot of people that can give us the ability to reach the whole country via the 2 meter repeater network so we can already get into the phone system guys. Again, just ideas, things to think about in advance. The idea is that you can have several different options. Backups or spares is another thing to remember too. Microphones get cut, they get damaged, they get rolled over, they might get dropped, they could get pulled on. Any number of things could happen. So it's a real good idea to have at least three mics ready for every rig. That's a lot of mongmars. No it's not. If you go to a ham fest guys, you'll find guys that have boxes, cases. Crates of bins of microphones. You can even usually test them out right there. If you get a chance, there's a couple different tricks here. Somebody might have another rig you can do a quick squawk on. But the idea is to make sure you have the right number of pins, right connector, fixture. No, preferably something that does not require an onboard backup power supply. In other words, a battery and the hand mic. I know there's a lot of booster units out. You've already got If you already got something like that for your CB, I'm not saying get rid of anything, but remember that with a lot of your equipment, more batteries means you have to have spares on hand. So again, simplify it. Learn to use your voice rather than getting the machine to amplify stuff for you. Learn to modulate. Learn to enunciate. and you can get the message the signal through. The big thing is spares because stuff gets busted. If it gets cut, I'm not going to throw the microphone and the cord out. What's going to happen is I can't fix it right there at that instant. And besides, we're in the middle of a critical situation, possibly. So disconnect the mic, put it off to the standby, put it in a Ziploc bag, got bags on hand, typically that's what they're for. Put the damaged piece in there and pull the other unit out of the other bag, plug it in, and you continue to function. No time down. Now if while somebody else is using the rig after you fixed it you have time not to fix that other speaker, forgive me that other microphone, then you fix it right there. Whatever can be done is done immediately. Why? You don't know how many times someone's going to screw up and do the same thing or how many times something like that's going to happen with damage that takes place. Battlefield situations guys. And we need to be prepared automatically for replacement. Prior proper planning prevents piss poor performance. Better to have a few too many than not enough when the time comes. Now I will point out something interesting on that subject. I wish we had the resources for it. We don't. Gov Liquidation, they had several hundred headsets that are coming through. They are actually coming through later. This is typical with government auctions guys. They had a bunch of the handsets. Now these work by the base. They appear, and by what I cross reference, they work with the PRC-25, PRC-77, PRC-90, PRC-91, and with a number of different base rigs to include the A and GRC-125 and newer radios. Now, what am I talking about? Well, one is a handheld mic, military spec. The other one is a handset item. Now the mics all came through in two lots here. A couple, well, 300 in one lot, I think 290 or close to 300 in another lot. You heard me right, 300 microphones. Well, look, what are we going to do with those? Well, that's what I'm saying. You might not have a use, but we'd find a use in an application. We'd eventually get them where they need to go and have the spares on the shelf. But that's where we take advantage of that type of volume purchase and work together. So something we need to be doing more of. That type of mic, even though dual purpose single systems are very common, you've seen these with troops even right now, as we've pointed out, they look to be oversized. Well, they're oversized because they need to be, because it's in a battlefield situation and they've got to be robust. They have to be grossly over-engineered because they're going to take a beating, okay? The headset with the boom mic combination is very common but it's not the only system that's being used and you'll see both types are in service. Now the headphone goes inside or outside the helmet depending upon the design. Most of them can go inside the helmet with the helmet designs they have right now. And the hanger mic will sit on the left station shoulder just like the handheld radio is used to. Now it's not very big and it has an umbilical cord. hooked up to the antenna rig which can be in a radio pack in the backpack. It's why they make those radio bags for the MOLLE gear. Have you noticed there's a lot of those out there? Yes, there are. In fact, right now they've got a bunch in the auction that are MarPat. Also they're offering them in the Air Force Tiger Stripe right now. the radio bags. You snap into and lock into the modular MOLLE rigs on the inside or the outside depending on how you want to configure them or directly onto the back of the MOLLE vest. But the way the system is set up, the umbilical cord goes around underneath the armpit for the mic It goes back to the radio bag and hangs on the left quadrant. Now when you want to use it, you just turn your head sideways just like you've seen in cop shows and talk or you can bring the mic right up, disconnect it, hang it up in front of your face, move it in front of your face and talk we've seen with CB operators and ham operators for decades. So that kind of stuff is out there and just because it's a two-piece system does not mean it's obsolete and no longer being used. Just a reverse is the case. It's purely flavor of the day. Microphones are a good choice with regard to operations, because again, you may or may not want to share what somebody is saying. You may want to let somebody talk, but you may not necessarily want everybody to hear what's going on. What's being said by the individual that's being talked to, depending on the situation. Anyway, ideas, by the way I mentioned that gov site govliquidation.com, www.govliquidation.com, that's www.govliquidation.com, I'll do that again for you, www.gov.com, I'll do that again for you, www.gov.com, I'll do that again for you, www.gov.com, I'll do that again for you, www.gov.com, I'll do that again for you, www.gov.com, I'll do that again for you, www.gov.com, I'll do that again for you, www.gov.com, I'll do that again for you, www.gov.com, I'll do that again for you, www.gov.com, I'll do that again for you, www.gov.com, I'll do that again for you, www.gov.com, I'll do that again for you, www.gov.com, I'll do that again for you, www.gov.com, I'll do that dot com just posted in the chat room while I was doing that gov liquidation dot com gov liquidation dot com if you go there I don't know if it's going to be up still guys find out real quick I mentioned this the other day but go to gov liquidation dot com at least it's a wish list kind of thing you go who look at that because you just never know oh now they got a sailboat hey look your government at work there's a sailboat in the gov liquidation sails Well, that's not all that they have out there. By the way, they do have sleds, I mean snowmobiles, and they do have a twin-engine hovercraft for sale out in California right now. Again, apparently that didn't really go through the sales the way they planned the last time, so it's up again for auctions. Like the second time it's been posted. Or they didn't like the bid that they got. I don't know. Anyway, oh, heaven forbid, they got a Corvair, a really nice one too. What the hell are they doing with that? The Department of Defense. Anyway, a couple of the things here to include 5 ton trucks. As we know, we discussed that. There's some really cool vehicles showing up in the auction this next 24, 48 hours. You might want to check that out. Remember guys, if you're looking for 5 ton, deuce and a half, you also are looking for perhaps radio trucks. And radio trucks come through on a regular basis. A lot of the stuff that's being sold right now is from the 90s, so we're not talking 50 year old vehicles, although there's nothing wrong with that if the vehicle's been maintained. But there's a lot, for instance, the radio rigs themselves, complete with everything you need to operate the equipment, everything on board. Probably the best example right here. What you're looking at when you see these radio trucks is what we've built from scratch. We actually just built it up from existing off-the-shelf technology. Captain Monahan built a couple of really nice units here only a short time ago. 1984 Chevrolet M1028 CD3903 Cuck-V pickup truck shelter unit. This is the truck with the shelter box back. Now the cool thing about this is there's more than one up for auction, but these rigs, these are not rat rigs, but this can be used as what we call a rat rig, a radio rig, you know, radio truck. So something to consider, you know, there is, it may already be set up with a box rear end. It may have all the fixtures, spare generator, all the other fun stuff you need. Hey, well there you go, that's a solution. We're not just complaining about the problems. You have all your onboard toolboxes, carriers, and tenafixtures, water tank, and of course, don't forget a pedal mount rear. You can grab a trailer cheap from the same auction, and lo and behold, you'll have a complete system ready to go. The trailer carries all your housing issues, the truck itself, camouflage netting, all the rest of your radio gear. You've got yourself a mobile CP on one package. Something to take into consideration there. Again, this particular one is in Barstow, California, but that's not the only place they sell vehicles from with a donut of destruction. So for everybody out there, again, take into consideration if it's nearby, especially if it's an obscure location, it might stand a pretty good chance of getting it for a reasonable price. Something to think about there. Now as far as trailers go, again, field kitchens have been coming through on a regular basis, guys. Typically, these field kitchens are complete with all the fixtures, all of the stoves, everything on board so you have a complete modular field kitchen. It would be kind of nice to be able to show up with that and feed a whole bunch of people more efficiently than the government can with FEMA because FEMA, of course, is waiting for the plastic guards to work and they're too busy taking up space in the Holiday Inn while they put all of you in FEMA camps. Isn't that amazing? Don't you think that the people who are temporary should be in the FEMA camps? And all the locals who paid all the taxes, shouldn't they be in the Holiday Inns? Isn't it amazing how these pigs think? How these rotten pieces of trash think? How these usurpers slash parasites think? Just something to take into consideration there. Anyway, a lot of trailers available. A lot of other spare equipment available. Let's not forget also. Radio and signal communications. Gov Liquidation. Let's see your best bet again. They have a whole section on nothing but radio gear and electronic technology. In fact, some of it is right down there in Texas, not too far away from where a lot of our operations are centered out of right now. Just take that into consideration. When you go to goblequidation.com, go to audio, video, photo. Second from the top list on the left hand side. When you get there they have everything from microphones to headsets to everything in between. In fact headsets and microphones. And I wanted to do this real quick for you because one of our guys did get one of these lots of microphones this last time around. There are a couple of them. Lockburn 303 units. They're Rockwell Collins Incorporated electronic headsets. Dynamic earphone element. Adjustable single headband. It's set for a plus. They also have a lot of ten. Let's see, microphone headsets to include 3H Boss, blah blah blah blah blah. Guys, those are, oh, well it's already in the auction. Both of these are actually on bid and unfortunately the 303 pieces, they're at $3,600 on the bid right now. These are brand new in the boxes. Somebody really really really wants them because they know what they're going to do with them. But that comes to what, $10 a piece? About $10 and some odd cents a piece? Whatever. That's pretty reasonable. I think you can handle that. We're at the bottom of the hour break. I think we're going to be hearing the music here in a minute. We've got Ed there on standby. For all of our friends out there listening, it is Communications Tuesday. I don't know, we are a little past the bottom of the hour break, but I'm hoping maybe we get a break here somewhere. Anyway, it is libertytreeradio.4mg.com if you want to go to our webpage. I would also recommend take the time and go to libertytreeradio.com on YouTube, our YouTube channel, guys. One of the reasons, well, a whole lot of stuff going on right now. We've had people that are concerned about what they're seeing in California. get more people linked up to these activities for training purposes. Save us a lot of time if instead of worrying about trying to figure out what to do, giving people a little bit of direction. That way they can concentrate in other areas that we've left open or that we, you know, again, are personal issue things that people are going to have to take care of themselves. But basic organization and construction of militia formations and idea text are in there in force The idea is to give people a little bit of leeway, creative juices flow, and we have a hundred solutions to the same problem. That means we're not predictable. I don't have a problem with that. But again, www.libertytreeradio.4mg.com, www.libertytreeradio.4mg.com. Take the time. Go to our page. Check it out. and if you can, if you see in your heart to donate to Liberty Tree Radio, we have a donate key right there in the middle, that little brown band that you see up at the top. If you go there, you will find that we have, well that's right, we have a number of, let me see, make sure, yep, I got it right there. I'm pretty sure I got the brown still in place. I gotta confirm, yep, it's right where it should be, right below the, Colored trees the brown fall colors that you see there's a brown band right in the middle. It says donate do n a t e Second line and if you tap that and go to it you'll find there's all kinds of options that are available training manuals The Florida discs are on their way for everybody out there Make sure again that you pay attention. There's a new attachment. That's also part of that particular package and and also pay attention to look through the whole box guys don't assume that well I got what I asked for you might notice there's usually a little bit more hanging around in there so make a point of don't just unwrap part of it go oh that's what I was looking for run over to the DVD player and plug it in unpackage the whole thing and don't throw anything away until you confirm what you're looking at because I try to add and we try to put a little extra in there for everybody so that we arm you better with information, artwork CDs, DVDs, you name it, it's in there. And for our militia troops or militia personnel, as you know, we try to send additional training aids whenever possible. And typically, again, we're to the point where we've been running out of stuff and had to restock and running out of stuff and restock. It's just the way it is. We know how it works. Not to keep us busy as it is, so that means we're actually having to multitask. The most important thing is we expect you to copy, please. A lot of people, oh my god they're going to copy my stuff. No, we expect just to reverse. We expect you to copy. The advantage here is that we are creating a force multiplier, putting more people in the field with the ability to effectively engage the enemy to deal with a problem. That's one of the reasons there's only a couple times. The last few days here I held off and I still have to wait. I'm talking to Nancy today. We're looking at some stuff. I'm not going to say anything. I found a little pile of stuff that I definitely want. And I know that if I mentioned on the air, you guys have bought it off the shelf so fast, we didn't even get a chance to pick up the phone to call to find out that it was out of stock. It's like click, click, click, boom, gone. So again, I highly recommend with regard to certain items, if you're going to commit to it, especially in support systems, not just weapons systems, support systems. purchase what you need plus 25 percent. Now the reason I bring that up is, we typically are going to add people to your unit, right? And I'm going to remind you that a lot of this stuff is surplus. Once it's gone, it's probably not coming back. So if you're going to standardize on equipment, this is part of your 510 program. Try to pick up extras. Also if you like the item that something is going to work with, you want to make sure you have spares for yourself because of attrition. Things wear out. Clothing items, body armor, knoble pads, knee pads, I don't care what it is. Guys, things wear out. Even if you buy it brand new. It's only good for so long. So if you really do like it, buy spares now. Think ahead. Don't think short term. Think long term. That's our biggest concern. We've got everything plugged in where it needs to be. Another thing about antennas, we're working on Antrons. The Antron antenna that we have, that we've used in the past and for quite some time, very serviceable. I don't have any problem with it at all. The units have worked phenomenally for us over a period of years. We are trying to make a package deal to buy 10 at a time, kind of like we did back in the middle 90s. If everything goes well, we will also have both the marine and the CB radio. We can direct you towards the source. You do need to buy in quantity. And this is again for a lot of you out there that are building up radio nets or if you have militia units or again, Patriot support groups that are out there. You need to be linked. You need to be able to talk to each other free and separate from the internet, free and separate from phones, free and separate from the ground telephone lines. Now when I said phones, in reality, remember, your little cell phone is a radio telephone. It's a military radio. It's just what everybody expected to go. We call it a phone, but it's not a phone. We're using it as a phone, but it's a radio. For that reason, that's why the Fed can come in and monkey screw with it. OK, because there's a whole bunch of other issues that upon you being allowed to use it, they're allowed to abuse it. OK, so don't forget that. That's why you need alternate technologies on hand. Battery power is another thing. And I can't stress enough, guys, there's been few and far between in terms of inexpensive or reasonably priced utility rechargeable batteries. But if you do run into them, grab them. Another thing that was brought up here today about the cost because of the lead issues. And then we talked, the plus and minus is about the bullet industry. with regard to shortages etc. and the argument that there will or there won't be. Well, the quality of lead varies depending upon the company and remember, as was pointed out, there's an article, a great article that, in fact it's a debate article so you should read it anyway. I didn't say shouldn't, I said should, you should. I would advise that you read it that there won't be a bullet shortage. Well, the logic is sound but remember that while the companies use processed lead, okay recycled lead as I said, to a degree they do but it varies depending upon application. One of the things about desulphiding lead is the process time. Well, everything takes energy. And while, depending upon the application, in other words not just bullets, but remember I mentioned industrial applications. There are many other applications for lead that you don't even think about, that aren't even part of your world or your life. Well, they are. They are a second tier that you don't see. But without the lead, without lead in quantity, You wouldn't exist. This can be anything from a number of different chemical processes to industrial machining. And I brought up something today, white lead, white lead paste. For a lot of special processes, lead is used for manufacturing. Not to be cast, but actually as a lubricant. Now, of course, this means emulsifying the material, using a bonding material, kind of like when you create VIX Vapor Rub. There we go. Okay, VIX Vapor Rub is a series, is actually a homeopathic solution from years ago, stabilized in the petroleum jelly product so that it can be applied and stays in place and the application is more consistent and reliable. It endures. Different lead products are produced in the same way. Now, the purity of those products will vary because of the interaction, what it's working on, what it's being used with. Recycled material in order for it to be used, a lead or any natural element, typically has to be purified. Now in this case with lead, purifying includes resmelting and drawing. Now there's a number of techniques, but the most common is simply reheating and vacating the sulfides via the heat thermal process. It's not the only technique that's used. There are chemical bath washes in the process in a number of different types of additives that are used that are then extracted because they drop as weight or they float as debris once they have bonded with the oxidants. That's one of the other techniques. If you've ever smelt lead, let me give you an example, you'll notice that when you smelt lead and bullets that the bullet casings pretty well seemed to float. Now they don't float per se, but once you get to a certain temperature, the lead does not bond slash adhere to the other higher metals, making it very easy for you to separate the components. Well, desulfification takes the same process to the micro degree and the material is then scummed or it can be magnetically removed depending on what it bonds to. There are a number of different processes, but let's point out something. I've made each step more complicated and when I make it more complicated, it costs more for the end product. This cost will be transferred over to the end user. The end user, well, go in the bathroom and look in the mirror. You are the end user. Oh, that's right. So all of these different processes where the lead has to be of whatever greater degree, or it will allow to back off on a standard, Even if they back off on the specs, the cost in production or the cost in processing has increased because of another factor which has to do with the EPA, which has been talked about extensively. The more interference by government, the greater the number of expenses that need to be applied to the final bill. This is another form of taxing the user, which is again, the final user is who? It's you. So, these are all part of the math formula. The plus of recycled materials. Well, as we know, we're not letting them go to waste. And as the guys have been talking about, we've been discussing for quite some time too. Again, remember we're dealing with re-excavated materials. I'm not worried about quality or purity with the bullets that we're pulling from an impact area. Guys, in fact, in many cases, Depending upon the era when the bullet was produced, chances are you are working with virgin first generation lead or virgin first generation material in general. This is why we also do not throw away or cast aside the copper jackets that we recover from older projectiles. There is a vast difference in metallurgy. This is also true of electronic components and it's why there's been fuzz going on, chancing out on electrical components and washing rather than truly plating surfaces, creating all kinds of other issues with regard to final product manufacturing. With bullet manufacturing it's no different. The idea is to try to figure out where and how you can skimp to the nth degree so you minimize the amount of money spent and maximize the profit on the product. Needless to say, we know that that process has been in place forever. However, there is a point at which it's a negative with regard to the quality of your product if you continue to skimp, so to speak. You start pulling more from the process. And that's something that we have been seeing. It's really noticeable, in fact, let me give an example. Sunday there was a massive private, or it was a public auction of a private collection of firearms and ammunition. One of the things that I pointed out in the picture of what had to be close to a million rounds of ammunition that was for sale, guys it was pallets and pallets and pallets and cans and cans and cans. Mr. D out of Indiana pointed this out, the auction was on Sunday, very little pre-announcement. The guy had 20 Johnson rifles, he had BARs, Tomsons, Garands, Moss rifles you name it full auto uzis this guy had a collection this wouldn't quit but he also had a comparable inventory of ammunition and One of the interesting things about that much ammunition one place especially where they taking it out of the cans and dumped it into flat boxes For you know so they can sell the cans and make money off them separate because they're trying to scam you as many different ways as they can when they're doing stuff like that and Well, the thing is that because of the volume, it was like looking at a spice rack. Now what do I mean by that? Well, consider this. A brass case is a brass case is a brass case, supposedly. But when you have several different nationalities of ammunition and several different eras of ammo, and it's all been effectively stored, so there really shouldn't be any. There's no oxidation, no patima from, you know, greening or any nonsense like that. The ammunition is virtually pristine because it was originally in sealed cans that had been used for whatever year it was produced. Well, here you have dozens and dozens and dozens of different loads piled up by the tens of thousands of rounds. It was like looking at a spice rack. Look at the shades of the colors of brass that you see. This demonstrates purity variances, or in other words, alloying variances, in the different rounds, just with the brass case itself. Remember, brass is an amalgam. It's a combination of metals to make a final product. And there again is an example of purities and or formulas based upon specs laid down by the governments for that particular case, depending on who built it. Could be the Russians, they of course had mostly steel case stuff there that you saw. Chinese ammunition was there. US 30-06, 308, 223. This guy had, there had to be probably close to maybe 300,000 rounds, 200 to 300,000 rounds of 30-06 alone. Belted and unbelted. At least probably 200,000 rounds of belted by the looks of it. M250 caliber rounds, same thing. Thousands and thousands and thousands of rounds. But the fascinating thing is comparing the shading which demonstrates again if you have an eye and you are in a metallurgy, if you work in metals, if you work in any product line guys, you know this, if you have been in any kind of production, you become a gauge yourself. Color variations and nuances like that jump out at you because you're actually part of the quality control process. So it's interesting to note that the same issue, not just with visible but non-visible, such as lead quality is something else that's going to be an issue. It doesn't mean they can't continue to alloy out into other areas and bond other metals to alloy to the lead. We already do this. Tin and anemone is already used to create specific pentile strength and to end up with a specific end performance range with regard to the material that we make bullets out of. Pure lead seldom used, typically again. Now we can change these formulas or we can actually alter and use other materials, as we pointed out. Now, malleable slash meltable metal could be used to produce a projectile. So, on the one hand it's like saying, we'll be out of bullets. Well, no, we'll be out of the bullets as we know them, but as far as making more, let's point this out something I brought up in several chat rooms this morning. Guys, whoever's first at perfecting alternate bullet production beats the wave. You'll be riding the wave. So take into consideration if you had a small CNC machine, it would behoove you just to collecting malleable metal rod, alloy rod, not steel, something softer than steel. The other options include zinc, which has an oxidation issue which is more extreme than copper or lead. However, one zinc typically, depending on the grade of zinc, it has a patima if it does oxidize, if it eventually does develop a patima. That is usually a very soft, narrow surface of oxidation, and it stops. Which is kind of cool why zinc is very popular just as copper was popular for many years for roofing materials. So these materials are also desirable for bullet production because they are malleable enough that they will give. They will not wear down, they will not abraise the rifling of a weapon. OK? So tin. Animoni? No, it's kind of pricey, but tin, a little pricey too by comparison to what it used to be. Tin bullets could be made. They would be very frangible on impact, which is maybe a plus or a minus. To be quite honest, in this day and age, if I create a frangible bullet like that and it shears to a bunch of jagged cubes or into a bunch of jagged surfaces, All the better still when I get to the other end. See, that's not really a problem. The biggest issue is reliability in flight. Will it hold together in flight? Can it handle the thermal activity between air surface and bearing surface during its flight? Because if we talked about in the other hour, remember guys, things become molten in flight. There's enough resistance depending on velocities. This is where a lot of your loading charts would not necessarily apply. Because bullet weight is going to change. The dimension may not change. Example, if you have a small CNC machine, if you have copper rod pretty close to 30 caliber spec, well you want it as close as possible so you don't wear down your tooling any more than you have to. But once you program a bullet spec in from tip to butt, you could literally take a rod and make so many solid copper projectiles. or so many solid zinc projectiles. Now the zinc would probably hold up quite well to conventional performance and medium to even low high velocity range. In fact, it probably would not be affected significantly at all with regard to flight activity in higher velocities. But the consideration is whether or not, because of imperfections, the crystalline structure, you might see the bullet actually break up in flight on occasion. That depends on, again, how consistent you are with casting. See, remember, we're casting in some cases. If we're going to be machining, well, all those issues we're already taking care of at the mill. When the foundry actually casts metal, they actually run a magnetic field through the metal. They direct the molecular structure. They do all kinds of cool things to strengthen the material. So, again, rod, depending upon its spec, what is the specification for that material? What is its strength, malleability, the crystalline structure? Everything is IDed by the number, the designated number. We've also talked about something before we need to qualify. For instance, remember, there's over 500 and some different stainless steel offered in the industry. Just because it says stainless steel doesn't mean that it's stainless. Then there is another direction that is called actually magnetic stainless which is really kind of cool. It is used in kitchen work mostly. It is a high stainless. It is at least likely, this sounds weird, even though it is magnetic, it has more carbon steel in it, it actually is less likely to oxidize than conventional stainless steel in the softer grades. Sounds strange? Well, ask yourself this. What produced the softness in the lower grades of stainless? That'll tell you why there's oxidation there. Hint, hint, hint. Anyway, the same is true with copper. The same is true with brass. Brass projectiles are another option. They're heavy. They are very stable, although it is a softer metal yet again, and in flight with hypervelocity projectiles, you are going to see breakdowns. So you have got to be careful there. But for the average work being done with a standard high powered rifle or with mid-range light rifles like the 7.62x39 AK or the .223, guys we could go with solid brass, copper, any number of different metals. They'll wish we were using the lead core again. They really will because penetration performance, especially against hard targets, would improve dramatically. I'm not worried about it. If I put my bullet where I want it to be and I put their lights out, I don't care about expansion even. I just want to make sure I put a nice ice pick slice right through whatever it is I was putting the X on. That is a plus plus for a lot of work that's being done. Plus let's not forget that a lot of stuff out there has sheet metal over it. It has maybe some light armor. So armor penetration is a plus. And if the bad guys push us in that direction, all the better still. See, the idiots, in a way, can upgrade our potential while trying in whatever way to bollocks up the program. and again remember aluminum has many grades of product copper has made so when they start doing that we're only going to allow aluminum under the logic that they would restrict your potential to do whatever guys there's all kinds of effect with the fact that there's nothing you can add to the formula plastic nozzle or bullets are already doing this aren't they by the way we're at the top of the hour we got Joe coming up next guys don't touch that dial if you want to learn how to grow things and we are at the top so I figure we're going to be hearing the music in a minute here for everybody out there it is Communications Tuesday but I had to get into this thing about the bullets and I did this morning too for a reason this lead this lead plant is a significant part of the battle formula against our industrial potential that is part of the strategic war being waged on America's ability to take care of itself Don't forget that. 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