December 17, 2013
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1h 1m
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2013
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Mark Koernke discussed emergency communications equipment and preparedness on December 17, 2013. The show focused extensively on affordable radio options from Deal Extreme, including handheld radios, solar-powered lighting, throat microphones, and antenna maintenance. Koernke emphasized the importance of redundant communication systems, robust equipment over ultra-lightweight alternatives, and practical preparedness strategies. A caller shared experiences with Baofeng radios, amateur radio licensing, and vehicle modifications, while Koernke provided advice on physical fitness during winter weather and equipment sourcing.
- communications
- baofeng radios
- deal extreme
- preparedness
- handheld radios
- solar lighting
- amateur radio
- michigan winter
- equipment maintenance
- throat microphones
- emergency services
- redundant systems
- antenna
- self-sufficiency
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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, you've traded in your name, you've given government control to those who do you harm, so they could burn down churches and seedly farm, and keep our country deep in debt. Put men of God in jail, harass your fellow countrymen while corrupted courts prevail. Your public servants don't uphold the solemn oath they've sworn. And your daughters visit doctors. Your leaders send artillery and guns to foreign shores. And send your sons to slaughter fighting other people's wars. You regain the freedoms for which... Or don't you have the courage or the faith to stand with pride? And are there no more values for which you'll fight to save and fear? I think you're walking through his clothes were torn and dirty as he stood there by my bed. He took off his three-cornered hat, speaking low to his head, and 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 lens we secured for you, we hoped you'd always keep. 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, the brave. You buy permits to travel and permits to own a gun. It's 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. You read about the current use 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 us. You've given government control to those who do you harm, so they could burn down churches and see we farm. A figure walked him through the mist with a flintlock in it. His clothes were torn and dirty as he stood there by my bed. He took off his three-cornered hat and, speaking low to his descent, we fought a revolution to secure our liberty. We wrote the Constitution as a shield from tyranny. For future generations, this is likely secured for you. We hope you'd always keep. 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. You read about the current use 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. You've given government control to those who do you harm so they could burn down churches and see farms 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, the support of their children, leaders send artillery and guns to foreign shores and send your sons to slaughter fighting other people's wars. Do 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 which you will fight to save? Or do you wish your children and the Constitution, the Supreme Law of the land, preserve our great republic and each god given right as Iowoki vanished in the midst of whence he came? His words were true, we are free. But we have ourselves to blame. For even now as tyrants trampled each god-given right, we only watched him 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 fought to keep, what would be your answer? He called out from the grave. All of our brothers and sons behind the lines, you've had territories west and you're listening to us on Microific network in the morning. Also on AM&FM, micro is east and west of the Mississippi along with Alaska. We're in the Hallmark network on the eastern seaboard from top of Maine to the bottom of Florida. From the bottom of Florida, across the arc of the Gulf of Mexico, headed Louisiana, Mississippi, Texas, Oklahoma, big chunk of Nebraska, whole bunch of Wyoming to include both fifth or fifth for our friends in the recall. We're the evil, the darkness, the state of Jefferson, a shining star in an otherwise disaster zone environment. Back to the east, we sweep across the plains, leap over the burgeoning banks of the Mississippi land of the Smokies, flash the Blue Ridge, where the restaurant crews, grammar teams, OK teams, the Maville Grammar Consortium, over there. Telecommunications workers bring us to the Golden Spike. Many hands make polite work. A million Betty Coe junction operators continue to function, with everything else. fall to winter day outside right now I know about that listening it is the 17th of December ba ba ba it's the 17th of December that means absolutely nothing but it is the fifth year of open Fabian socialist and socialist occupation 2003 calendar or Mayan crazy town crazy town for all of you out there listening yet there it is been a very busy busy busy weekend here is already only Tuesday Tuesday tree so be careful It's Communications Tuesday also. So don't forget, there are a lot of people out there who have technology available, take advantage of it. You name it, uh, don't? Well, we get on with other things, guys. But throw anything out. Once a rig is up and we're put into a secondary sun standby, but nothing that we have in the way of signal communication is going to be tossed because we will never have enough. It's like these guys you will never have enough. Putting them in place on any kind. Doesn't mean it's so cheap or how fancy. I know a lot of people love this, especially with desks. They looooooove and everybody had all kinds of chrome out there which is cool. Remember there's cheaper and there's less sophisticated. Make sure that you do have you would be best. That way you've got primary, a backup and a backup to the backup. And that's just on your list of things to do if you're in single communications. And even if you're, even if that's not your specialty, that needs to be how you should get handheld radios. And you have a whole fleet of that you're using. You pick up spare nub antennas. That's one of the most common things you're gonna wear out if you're carrying They get beat, they get rubbed against stuff, they get bent sideways, they get cold, and sometimes the rubber snaps that way, they just get too... A lot of you guys are listening up there in the Rockies, and when it does, well, it doesn't want to bend the way it's supposed to. Instead, that little crystal in the freeze, well, it's enough. Snap, it may not even break right away. One of the most common things is to get what's, you know, basically a hairline starter fracture, and if you're familiar with how flexible polymers, how flexible materials work, that crack with every additional or extended flex. and more and more and eventually it compromises something you want to be watching for. But there's a reason for protecting with that fine polymer, those antenna components so that way they don't oxidize, the moisture doesn't create a cross. All kinds of important things you just should know about with your equipment and make sure it doesn't happen. Remember, more sealers that keep the weather away. For the fun of it, it's the R&D Research and Development where they already knew what probably is going to happen. so they didn't have to put it on there. They saved the money and charged at the same price anyway, wouldn't they guys? They had before and a lot of different injuries. So pay attention to your equipment, don't just beat it up. For cheaper rigs, in many cases you may not be able to find spares. Remember the little hand-held person that are out there. Convenient, they're cheap, and they do disassemble and you don't throw any away. Remember that if something really starts to go, equipment like that, there's not going to be anything spare later on you might be all find something reading cannibalize another wreck and this is why everybody out there listening you don't cost your you know often stuff away if it goes bad uh... instead put a joke box together uh... pull battery nested and take it for the problem yeah we use this one so much that we've the uh... control wish to talk switch and you know blah blah blah whatever could be not so mostly can be fixed but remember It's probably not very big and it's not very heavy and when you start really really really really using it, it was designed to flex so many times. We've talked about this on here also. Everything that's been tested fits a cheaper company. They kind of test and know. Other really really companies, they just, in most cases, they grab a design that somebody else was building that they discontinued. They grab the molds, they get the parts, they crank it out and hey, if you like to run it, you'll buy it, you'll run it and when it wears out, oh well. your problem round i've got mine because most all the stuffs come from with that uh... mind that you have in terms of radios off you go to deal extreme dot com deal extreme dot com deal extreme dot com and go to their radio section you can spend the rest of the next two and a half hours rather than listening to me you can go peruse deal extreme that many pieces of equipment now i would point out that why you might look if you're not carefully be wasting your time because As I said, they will run a piece of equipment in production and then it's gone without a stock and they don't restock it. The design, they don't return to it for a while perhaps. They don't retool. They just run it and stack it up and then when they're done with it, they tell them they go to another model. They start cranking that out for something to be unique. When you've got labor force, you can afford to do that. If you're out on the rise and you want to create diversification, you want to create something new, create something unique and you try to catch the eye of your market out there which mostly is again for the uh... and stuff c we're one of the most critical uh... you know for you for just something unique for the sake of you know buying something different is pomegranate sort of grace or must be better for me for all the difference in the world uh... well only if it's like bright colors and the combat situation i don't really want to shoot the color but color is irrelevant back even bright colors can be covered with spray paint but idea that there's also like gimmick designs which are actually cool little ideas many cases there's a bunch of for instance really harped on them but i've mentioned a few times on the earth there are wristwatch size radios out there all over the place and spend any amount of money you want on them and quality does bear but you can get a little set the border of a mile easily arm on uh... you know a neighborhood or whatever again not designed for your run across town and pick up across the city not going to happen with most of them but you can spend up to a hundred fifty dollars on a set of radios like that and those will it's a matter of i know again what what the application how many people you have to outfit how much money do you have about a hundred fifty dollars you example here if i had a hundred fifty dollars but i have five or six or seven people are doubt that i want to put radios in a five ten program i get a nice little handheld set for about five or six dollars guys I can also get spare batteries, spare battery chargers, everything else. And that radio actually will be serviceable. It's going to work. It's just not fancy, it's the most expensive. No, it doesn't have any encryption or any BS like that. It is a simple handheld point-to-point radio. But it holds five people, and my idea is that I'm going to help out for the medical unit. And I'm going to have these, this is the support equipment on standby, a simple, straightforward handheld on an off frequency. is a great way to outfit five medical personnel who are emergency services. Talk to each other, they've got instant communication, it's, you know, again, separate from everybody else. It's limited in range, which is especially critical because if you're in a built-up area and you have thousands or nay, hundreds of thousands of people with radios or technology, you don't want to be walking or stepping on each other. One nice thing about the limitation of range is that if my people are going to be working as a team, they're going to be sticking together. I'm not going to spread them out miles and miles apart. And the tactical communication is so I don't have to show simply talk and talk normally and draw the attention of stretchers or a medic or young people because I'm trying to get somebody out of debris. And I've got a team that's maybe somebody's walked back over to my I got a deuce and a half, I got five people that drove it in, it's a recovery vehicle, it's got engineering tools, and somebody's back in the corner, rather than screaming, I can hit the radio and say, hey, bring a three foot, copy that, shh, or copy that, shh, that's so much easier than, not with that, somebody else might get the impression you're screaming or shouting or insulting them, and I think you create all kinds of other problems, we don't want that to happen. So, prior proper planning prevents fiscal performance. Again, while there are a lot of different companies and a lot of different rigs, we've got some good friends that have equipment available for your base stations, mobiles, handhelds, you can go to www.dealextreme.com. And when you get there, I just put it in one of the chat rooms so you guys can follow it up. Anybody else listening in any of the chat rooms or any of the other blogs, www.dealextreme, which is communist China support guys. And if you don't think so, well, take a look at what they offer. Useful Solutes of Radio. a 1% B900 motion sensor solar powered 1 watt. See, now thank you for helping me by me thinking I needed to give you information this morning and I see something that they're offering that is self-contained, designed for external use, and it's only 1770 a piece. And remember, oh, garden security light, home garden security lamp. Now, because it is totally self-contained, it would make a nice addition to lighting. By the way, it comes in its own flange. contained three hundred three five two eight LED light home garden security lamp. Well, you'll see metal body never fades or in the dark. Any saving and environmentally friendly? Are you sure? Just making Tommy's China. God knows what the dark side of the moon place this came from. Over 12 hours of lighting time after one day charge. Widely used in outdoor balcony wall, etc. OK. Zero four. Now this is something totally different from what I was just talking about, but I'm going to point it out for a reason because when I see something like this, I make a point of writing it down because while Mark's doing the radio program, Mark may also forget, or unfortunately, in the shuffle, the information that I need about something like this. Actually like self-contained lighting, you can put in place and is ready to use. You can have it on standby in the box, people. You're going to need mobile lighting locations. You don't want to be able to walk away. This is fantastic for Remember, if you buy from them, that's free shipping. It takes 7-10 business days in this case for this item. It's $1.70 a piece and that's a motion light. And it's sold by Nivor about. That's not what I went to deal with extreme for, but it's definitely something that we're going to be checking into. And I'm going to give you a follow up because I'm probably going to try to get one of these and make sure that we have them stationed in a few places. uh... for obvious reasons it'd be great to combine with your security camera systems that you put up somebody walks into an area motion sensor activates light doesn't have to be very much your conventional cameras because most of them have IR collection so as long as the light activates and washes over an area to your camera systems guys it's for a very good combo when it comes to uh... oh you didn't know that sensor was there did you hahaha now I can fire a fire on location looks like you can shoot that whatever it is pop pop pop pop pop all of that being used you want course it was matter of fact let's see what the trees are and they do have any other solar type light packages like this guy so that's not the only one let's see what our price is like three or more than sixteen dollars piece five or more there you know nickel yeah 95 as opposed to $16 as opposed to 1770 hey every dollar count that's another couple of bullets I can buy to deal with a problem number of other options and another couple of other systems out there take a look at what they have but solar is something that again uh... many solar powered fence and warden light with fixtures ninety cents and again lighting especially your night vision is a very desirable kind of you know take that through these things already have fixtures screwing use guys that's all there is to it so that makes for a pretty handy tool uh... the fixtures especially hypercritical. One of the cool things is they've taken into consideration tapering that little solar hole so snow and water doesn't build up on it. I would say something about all these little solar panel systems though. I'd break out the bathtub caulk and I would caulk right along the line for the solar panel. You've got that much more protection and that much more durability slash lifespan for something to think about there. And again, That's something with all of your electronics if it's going to be left outside Cheap tube of China's sub-clock or color you think is appropriate earth Browns Browns are not a bad idea because it breaks up the pattern you know whites kind of jump at people but brown or you know gray Like OD green that just you know settles the eye it doesn't jump out at anybody and that's kind of a nice thing That way doesn't draw attention until you know you need it so to speak and I just found a couple of cool items that I'm going to have to go through and follow up on that to see exactly what all they have now in stock. They've got new things. Constantly, the communist Chinese production facilities have new junk that they've come out with. Well, let me give an example of yard lights for perimeter lighting before I switch back to where I was going with the radios. I've got LED lights that we put. Usually they use a AAA battery. Guys, they've been up now for anywhere from one to three years non-stop on the fence of post night with the snow, I might as well have a spotlight out there works just as well and with the Nome night vision that Don provided years ago he had a series of Nome generation one monoculars in the target area see everything is going on, no doubt what you're looking at and there's no way to hide again with minimal low-end technology I can set up the system that okay expensive but it doesn't have to be a James Bond movie with super high beam and touch and light and click click click. Go over to walkie-talkies and they have another one here walkie-talkie supplies I'm going to click that instead of walkie-talkies. Why? Look at this. They have all the other China junk here and it's purely a matter of selecting what you think you need what fits you have but Even a lot of stuff made by a company I've mentioned before yes now. Yesuit has built radio equipment overseas in Japan and uses other manufacturers been doing it for a left a yesu back in the day two meter I paid $80 for policy it's on the shelf on standby right now but that radio is by today's standards heavier than one and a half months in other words a pop pop can take a soda pop can cut another one second happens radio but you know what that radio has worked first time every time with the new nickel hydride batteries it'll run for hours and hours and hours a very efficient rig but it's heavy because some micro solid state talking about here you're going to find yes it's lightweight but i would warn everybody about that now i have pointed this out many times and in fact there were comments made about this uh... sci-fi series battle for galactic because when all those goofy stuff is really heavy for their expecting star wars and you know ultra micro whatever all from micro whatever it is cool but all for micro can get squashed crushed broken and bent easily So one of the things you'll notice, and I'll point this out to you in modern battle, on a modern battlefield for all of the super spy tech and for all the micro tech and all the stuff you see, what are you seeing the combat troops wearing in the field? I want you to right now, if you do a Google search, American troops in Afghanistan, American troops in Iraq. If you look, although we had plenty of hyper micro tech, ultra light, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, available, you might notice the troops are wearing stuff that's a tad robust. Wanna know why? Well it might be bulkier and heavier but it also takes more of a beating. So understand and do not get frustrated when you buy ultra light and you get, you know, ultra break. It's one thing if you're, you know, dum dum dum dum dum dum dum dum dum dum dum dum dum dum dum dum dum dum dum dum dum dum dum dum dum dum dum dum dum dum dum dum dum dum dum dum dum dum dum dum dum dum dum dum dum dum dum dum dum dum dum dum dum dum dum dum dum dum dum dum dum dum dum dum dum dum dum dum dum dum dum dum dum dum dum dum dum d security and you got your razor glasses you're not doing anything well that earpiece you're sitting there picking your nose and doing nothing okay cool you look like the movie man your security got to look like this okay so everybody has to look used to be with a big thing now it's razor glasses blah blah blah down the road it'll be micro razor or be a line glasses and they'll have contact lenses but whatever it is you're not doing jack you're not moving around Combat situation, very different guys. 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When you start to get tired, don't do the, I can go a little farther, maybe just a little farther, but not much. Because you haven't done it in a while. It's like driving in the snow. Back up, go inside, get yourself a cup of cocoa, do whatever you're going to do. Once you start to feel comfortable again, put all the snow gear back on and get your artist back out there and shovel some more until you don't feel too happy about it, and rest again. Basic physical therapy 101. In fact, if you were bodybuilding, this is how you start a bodybuilding program. You don't kick into and go, I'm going to move 500 pounds and I'm going to lift it all over my head and break my spine and my arms are going to hurt. But it don't hurt right now. I can lift it 500 pounds. But tomorrow morning when you try to get up out of bed and you go, uh-uh, not doing things that they are supposed to. You're not a girly girl. You just haven't been doing it enough. You have to remember that you have to build up to the body's strength. And to do that, you do the mediums, not in extremes now, later. I'm doing these streams because we're going to bust the muscle up. They're going to turn it into scar tissue. We're going to make big muscles. That's not a problem. We don't have too big. Big muscles are not smart. You want working muscles. You don't want the pretty muscles. You want the working muscles. If they don't work and the muscles get in the way, they serve no purpose. Always remember that. OK, that's another thing. Just because somebody's got a whole bunch of curvature there, it doesn't serve any purpose. Okay, just something to think about. In fact, lean, lean to mean 5%! Remember that? Lean to mean! Now, they like to keep you starving, so you come back to the army. After each meal, you'll come back, because you'll work your arse off and you'll be starving. And you'll come back for the next meal, which keeps you on a close leash. To their madness, yes. Not so mad after all. Anyway, the idea is you should have more food on the shelf than you need, and that way you're not starving. which also have the calories you need to build up and food accordingly. If you're gonna do some breakup like that, you're gonna have yourself some stuff on the shelf there for when you come in that first couple of times and do a little bit of nibbling. Not a whole lot of gorging, just some nibbling, especially in the protein category. It doesn't hurt and creative. There's all kinds of good you can make or you made through the season. Now you're gonna take advantage of it, okay? Anyway. A couple of interesting things I would point out. There are some really cool items that are kind of neat even though they're China sport. I'm going to ask you to go towards the solar. Just a second caller because I want to point out they have throat mics available and they're cheap. One advantage of throat mics is with a simple hand button down below. There's nothing that's going to be out there that can get snagged or tagged. The throat mic is a light wrap around the larynx. This is why it sounds like a pylon. when you're talking on the radio some kind of throat mics but the cool thing is the message the cool thing is these are secret squirrel spy type have a little flexible earbud or whatever now that is handy for hands-free where would I need hands-free how about a medic how about somebody who's a medic who's got to be able to have the stuff where it's there but not in the way for what the people like that who are in the field who might need a little bit of extra technology at certain times okay guys So I will point out that these little throat activated mics with the little coily earpiece, they got them for, let's see, neckband anti-noise, throat sense, air conducting PTT headphones with microphone in black, of course the little earbud shows it's in clear or white, $5.90. Now you see, there's where you're at a balance. it's cheap enough you can afford to put it on the shelf and use it and if you need be by quantity by two or three more you got a month and by for each person because eventually you can wear this out there is a big advantage of this so i guess that the depends on application the situations where a lot of what you see here for instance they've got short antenna knobs for you know they're brand new here's here but this is the mind i'm not excited about the earbuds and i said about the wraparound here your but microphone systems guys the ones that go around your ear. The reason, yeah, they're lightweight and they are cool for emergency kits and backups only, but my primary, I'll use a harp and earbud, the earpiece and a boom mic. That works for you people that have other jobs. That makes a little more sense for a lot of the work that you're going to be involved in. So just take that into consideration. Those little wrap around earpieces where they go in here, they have the mic or the pickup mic in front of you on your chest. Put one of those in as a backup. Make sure they all plug in. They do what they're supposed to do. We got a caller. Let's go to a caller. I don't want to keep hanging. Who do we have? Good morning sir. How are you today? We got snow here this morning. A little bit trying to calm down by the way too. So we're going to get a little more I think. What's happening over here next to the woods? Yeah, looking at the radar. Milwaukee's getting a bit that's headed your way. I had a comment the other day when you were talking about how nice and warm it usually is in the lower part of lower Michigan. You've got some global warming generated over there around Chicago. I worked some bucks. turbines around that city and the darn things are flipping everywhere and they waste 60% of the energy. It's a good thing we're going to switch everything from coal to natural gas. It makes a whole lot of sense. It burns like the other stuff that burns. It's actually pretty efficient system. Oh, that's pretty easy. Before I get to Kuwait, though, we've got 350 miles north of here, about 1945. Stepping into yesterday, you're going up there to work. But then again, I wish I could. I had some comments the other day on Bao Fang radios. I've got one sitting here. It's 52 MHz for local communications. You have the option with the bounce angle. You get the radios for about 35-40 bucks. I paid 40 on Ebay, shipping included. It was about $20 for an 18 foot coax, 6 inch rubber duck antenna and your small size goes right on there. Roll plated connection, 59 Z male coax on the other end. Shipping 110 bucks. I've got a pretty nice setup. I'm miles away, up and over. So a nice setup for communications. But then again, you know, 20 bucks, it's your local flea market, which I'm missing right now, local flea market. I pick up every big whip antenna, big magnet, so I picked up a couple new ones. 10 bucks, that's the ball on the big magnet base. 24 Ford GTL was at the side bander. Got a new one from Radio Shack last year, about 160 bucks, that one's still in the box. Picked one up at the flea market. Oh, guy wanted 54 at 54 at 54, week after week after week, finally offered him 30 after he couldn't sell it. Got it for 30 bucks, the finals have been swapped out. It's good to back them off a little bit. But on the bow thing, I guess you can just scan. Haven't figured that out yet. I've been busy trying to figure out Kenwood's Yahoo group for Kenwood's and the old boys there really edging me, I'll tell ya. Saw this morning, 3 in the morning. Let them look pretty on the shelf or Better to work them once in a while. General consent. The classic vet sitting in the garage, better on the weekends, spin it around the block. Run it down the drag strip. Run a little better. And then we ought to dig them radios out and do it. I can't really afford it, but he's trying to start a club at the local junior high school. I don't even know how much a radio exists, and he's gonna get sidetracked. Anybody got a set of sweep tubes? See the tubes. All the same. We contacted through qrz.com. Sign is kilo delta zero street journal. Anybody got some sweep tubes you part with? I'd sure appreciate it. Sending cash. Back to the boffangs. This one I've got a frequency set, one for the local communications with my neighbors, and also monitoring the local sheriff. And it kicks back and forth, whichever one breaks the square. It's a slick setup. I'm real impressed with it for the money. 5 dB gain antenna, that was for shipping. 460, do scans, haven't figured that out yet. Also have the option of using the repeaters. There is a button on the side of the radio for I got some tricks for, I guess a lot of people are getting back into amateur radio or get for the first time. I guess the numbers of new amateurs around the country are exploding. My tricks that I'm first studying, thanks for amateur radio, is you can electrocute yourself or even fry your neighbors. Get us some education involved or you can burn up tubes and burn up tubes. Tricks for studying. One of the best websites I found is eham.net, that's H-A-M dot net. The bottom of the page, now you start with a technician. the old novice. There's no Morse code anymore. How easy can it get? Scroll down to the bottom of the test, click on grade the test. Do all the correct answers. Now the thing is you're not looking at 75% incorrect information. If you read the question, read the four answers, you know, and then you take a guess at an answer. Well, you're reading 75% negative, wrong, incorrect information. You're just befuddling and clouding your brain. Question? When I tested for my amateur license back volunteer examiner coordinator, the guy running the show, we gotta have three class amateurs, was one of the VECs. She freely admitted she got her extra class just through memorization. She don't know nothing about electronics. So if you got a good memory, you don't need to know electronics until you need to know something to set up the gear and not get hurt. You're studying with books. Read the question, skip over the four answers, read the short paragraph giving the explanation, it will give you the right answer at the end of that short paragraph. Go back and read the answer. You read the paragraph because the actual answer is on the test. Now for the novice, now the technician license, I think the pool 50 is always changing. 350 questions, they actually test you at 35. I think it's 5 from each of 7 different categories. One is the laws, so you don't elect a One group of questions will be on what your privileges are for that greater license. Take those 35 questions. If you pass that 50, they'll let you take the zip. No charge. You take the extra class. And don't do like I did and fail it miserably. I'm heading to study for the extra class license. I hope you're taking that here. There was something on the monster trucks the other day. We go axles, you just drive line axles and destroy your pinion bearings. Years ago, maybe 12. I think it was Military Vehicles Magazine. Had an article in the back, custom made lockout hubs, then they had a bolt up to those rear axles. Those monster shoes off, I think you end up saving, if I remember right, it was about 200 pounds per axle. When there's a dog on heavy, they're like 700 pounds an axle. Every little bit you can shave off helps. But then again, spend $500 for brakes and $500 for lockout hubs, unless like me, you've already built one and I can't find the darn thing. For 500 bucks, you can go buy a truck. I'd like to offer them. I would consider somebody that can meet me face to face. Hard goods, you got a grand. You want to see somebody put to use? Or maybe a Springfield Armory Range Officer 45. I really like it. I carry Glock these days. I hate it. I have all the colts, a three-phase ramp would take about five minutes. Maybe we'll do that later. I really need to get my boots on. The play market. See what kind of goodies I can find. We're going to the top of the arc. That's what I was saying. We're close. Okay buddy, why am I closing? Uh, if I can't get close with me, God bless the Republic. Death to the New World Order. We shall prevail, ladies and gentlemen. The Empire is on the run. We are on the mark. Be careful on the road, sir. Everybody else out there listening, you gotta grab that cup of coffee. Smell. A... espresso restaurant blend there, dude. One, uh, out for the moment, but we'll be back for the next hour of the Injil Report. It is Communications Tuesday. 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