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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. But 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 attacks 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 can be born. 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 which 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, get the torch of freedom burning bright. As I awoke, he vanished in the mist for whence he came. His words were true, we are not free, but we have ourselves to blame. For even now as tyrants trample each God given right, we only watch him tremble, too afraid to stand and fight. If he stood by your bedside in a 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 this still the land of the free? Aye, aye. There's the aye, aye. If you haven't seen one, well, check them out. The aye, aye. Ooo, more on that in a minute. Good afternoon ladies and gentlemen, this is the second hour of the afternoon intelligence report. I'm R. Kornke. One day closer to victory for all of our brothers and sisters both on and behind the lines in occupied territories west, southwest, east, and northeast. Well ladies and gentlemen, you are listening to us on... LibertyTreeRadio.4MG.com run AM and FM microstations, CB base stations, and UltraNet Technologies. east and west of the Mississippi along with Alaska. We're in the Hallmark Network on the eastern seaboard from the 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, a whole bunch of Wyoming to include both the third, the fifth, the pit, and our friends, the nine sisters on the left side of Wyoming. In other words, on the western side, guys. Colorado, the Recall State, making a list and checking it twice. We'll double it again and then we'll get rid of all those that are not so nice and really naughty. Anyway, that's when the war starts. As it is, the left coast, well our friends there doing proper diligence to prepare for what's coming. The great state of Jefferson along with all of our other friends in California, Oregon, Washington State and near to the Rockies. For everybody out there, we appreciate the work you're doing. Stay focused, keep it up. Turning back to the east, we sweep across the plains, leap over the burgeoning banks of the Mississippi. Getting our toes wet because it's wider. Ah, it's cold out waters from the north. Gravity sucks. Landing on the Smokies with the restaurant crews, grandma teams, OK teams, and the mom bill grandma consortium of retired telecommunications workers brings the golden spike. Many hands make the like. We're a million Peddico Junction operators doing their part. we will to the 22nd of February it is the 6th year of open Fabian Socialist and Soviet Socialist occupation of America with a K2014, older calendar, 21st century. Anyway, it's Tuesday, communications Tuesday, www.fairradio.com, www.fairradio.com, www.fairradio.com, www.fairradio.com, www.fairradio.com, www.fairradio.com, www.fairradio.com, www.fairradio.com, www.fairradio.com, www.fairradio.com, www.fairradio.com, www.fairradio.com, www.fairradio.com, www.fairradio.com, www.fairradio.com, www.fairradio.com, www.fairradio.com, www.fairradio.com, www.fairradio.com, www.fairradio.com, www.fairradio.com, www.fairradio.com, www.fairradio.com, www.fairradio.com, www.fairradio.com, www.fair If you can take the time, go there and check them out. Again, that's for our friends in the chat room, www.faradio.com. They have a couple of new things that have come in in the military circle that you might want to check out to include some of the unique, cool, actually The military light duty radio, short range radios that have been available for quite some time, definitely worth checking out. And if you can, take the time to plug into their page. And miscellaneous military. You have radio accessories, battery mounts, all kinds of fun stuff. One of the things I've brought up here, and especially with everybody buying these field telephones, There is another wave of Bulgarian field telephones that have been coming in. What's interesting is a lot of these phones, they all talk to each other guys. Their phones will listen to yours, your phones will listen to theirs. But if you're sitting up a facility like a site with LPOPs, listening post, observation post, weapons sections, if you have multiple buildings you need to communicate with, why not set up your own phone grid? There's no reason not to and a lot of our places up north are already set up this way. Remember that ground lines can be put underground using half inch PVC pipe for insulation. These lines would last indefinitely. You can also run multiple lines at the same time. There's no reason not to. And the cool thing about that is that something happens where one compromises. You just simply change out to the next wire. Oh, that's too simple, isn't it? Since you already got the wire running and you're running the line and the piping, the water pipe, PVC pipe, why not? There's a number of different ways you can do that. We run into rolls of the interior housing stuff. They're at the end of it. They throw it out all the time. They're anywhere from, oh, as little as 20, 30 feet to as much as 150 to 200 feet left on a spool. They just toss it. Why? It's cheap. It's China's, it's China junk speed, cheap guys. But the cool thing is it makes for great underground conduit protection for wiring, for cabling. Especially if you're going to put a field telephone system in place. Think about that. The reason I bring it up also is that there are a number of switchboards. Now, if you run into these at a yard sale, mostly you'll see them at the gun shows Midwest and in the South. Guys, there are actual little switch boxes, the old switch box, like you used to see the operators use from the early days of telephone through even to the 60s and 70s. Remember, I always joke about Petticoat Junction. Remember how Kate had the little, you know, she could hook up, you know, from the board for the hotel. and connect to a location, connect to Hooterville or whatever, well that same basic system compressed and made mobile is readily available from a number of different armies in Europe, a surplus. What's the advantage? Well, if you do decide to relink your town or relink farms, having a person who can route the calls means that you have a regular telephone service again very quickly, no matter what happens. which might be kind of a really good idea. So anyway, check out what they have at Fair Radio. They do have the British World War II UC British 10-line switchboards right there. These mini switchboards have generator and buzzer for signaling with manual 16 point, let's see with manual, 16.1 inches by 8.2 inches by 8 inches, 38 pounds shipping, The D2X used fair condition operable. They also have $175 for that one by the way. One black long cloth cord. It's got all the other plugs, extensions and stuff too. $235 and again $38 shipping so it's the same basic model with for whatever test and a few other trinkets. Operator's terminal board for the same set if you want to replace it. You see British 10 Line Switchboard unused for $35. So if you need to or if you would like to replace a component, I'd recommend if you buy the rig, you buy one of those. The UC10 operators terminal board. Why? Well, they obviously got the spare parts for the unit. It'd be sensible to buy the spare now rather than trying to fish for it later and then not being able to find it. And then making a repair kit or a transport kit that goes along with the switchboard that has that in the box. has that in the kit along with other critical components. I would go right through this thing and look at it for other critical component replacements and I start hunting them down right away. I highly recommend that. Anyway, there's a number of other radio rigs that are military configured. They're hardened. One of the other cool things about this is that they are weatherized obviously for field use. That's especially critical, but these are man portable and definitely very reasonably priced considering. So $27 to $48 to $50 for a unit and you're looking at a whole lot of different technology out there. Fair Radio by the way has a lot of old catalogues floating around. I'll say thank you to Bill for sending us the old ones. I had several of them, but there's a few I didn't have. What's neat about Fair Radio's mail catalog is that, like everything else, it has a lot of referencing material in it, guys. In some cases, the stuff may be out of stock for Fair Radio, but they have examples of it in picture and nomenclature form. This means you will know what you are looking for down the road when you need it. Kind of handy to have. So just something to think about right there off the bat. Again, one of the other neat things, and we brought this up before, in fact there was a discussion we had on this whole about three, four months ago. Guys, there are a lot of military aircraft radios that are out there. Are they fancy radios in that respect? Not all that fancy. In fact, they also don't take up that much space because typically with military radios, especially aircraft radios, you can try to carry as much as you can for the least amount of weight expended per item so you're not pulling as much junk around in the air. Well, amazingly enough, especially these rack mounted for tight space attack aircraft, the radios are typically only about 3 to 4 inches wide, maybe 4 or 5 inches tall and anywhere from as little as 10 inches to 18 inches deep. They were designed to slide into a little dashboard or workstation. The neat thing is they're completely self-contained. which makes for a really, really nice mobile rig to go someplace or to adapt for backpack use. More important though is the fact that they were designed to be carried in aircraft so they can be used also in another aircraft or they can be used and tucked away as a clandestine radio set. That's what a lot of these are very popular for. In fact, many of the improvised radios that you see that were used in Europe, although crystal sets were obviously the vogue of that time, commercially made crystal and commercially made tube sets of different types, different variances in VHF, UHF, etc. were used for uh... special gorilla warfare operations of the reason for your craft reas were so popular is for the same reason i mentioned they were lightweight they were small they were easier to come seal and yet they had significant range based upon how much power could be introduced into and what kind of antenna could be attached to the radio So, you may run into these. One of our friends listening from Canada gave us two or three of the old B-24 rack radios and again very small, all aluminum, lightweight, perfectly functional. Actually, we hooked them up and made them part of a grid here. We were able to track down some other pieces of equipment that were similar, although they came from other aircraft. Again, in most cases it's the same basic radio. If it comes from a window of activity, an era, remember they didn't want to have to rebuild and rebuild and have all kinds of extra spare parts around. So typically for aircraft intercommunications, if you pick a window of activity like say 1955 or 1965, what you will find is pretty much all of the equipment used. Now the older equipment would probably be your better choice, World War II to Korea to early Vietnam. But you'll find that the equipment talks to each other and in most cases they are virtually the exact same transceiver. which is especially handy. So just something to look at there. By the way, if you've got anybody who's got an old airport laying around, just like the old boat docks where they're tearing up old boats and the marine radios are out there in force, let's not forget that we can do the same thing with aircraft radios. Oh, and by the way, aircraft radios can also be easily modified either opened up or we can completely change their bandwidth, what they operate on, and use the still the basic, you would take advantage of the basic hardware and technology that was paid for with your tax dollars, but altered to meet our needs in terms of frequency and committed mission. Okay? So just something to think about there. Now other radio rigs I would point out. Some really neat stuff that they have here at Fair Radio. They've got the PRC-47 backpack frame for radio and battery accessories with harness used for $50. Now that radio frame that you see there is the, that's a Vietnam era rig, but that particular radio frame dates back to where the original design was for the mountain rucksack that was used by the 10th Mountain Division in World War II. That wishbone design was in fact so well thought out that it stuck around in the US military for a night on about a good 42 years or so. Again, in service and used or you could find in a lot of different places. The PRC-47 is a radio that is not obsolete but it is harder to find a whole lot of the goodies for here and there but you will find them available. So, something to think about there. Also, we've got PRC-41 UHF MANPAC UHF transceiver. $400 for the basic rig. And for those of you who might recall the PRC-41, its particular niche was with air support to air ground control and for unconventional warfare operations. It was very popular in the post Vietnam period in a lot of third world countries. The equipment is out there. It's going to start boomeranging back into the US. It already has been by the way, which is why FAIR is offering a lot of the goodies that go along with this. But everything that you need if you have a number of these radios, all the spares, all the replacement sets, They pretty much have everything in stock. Whip antenna with legs and ground counterpoise. Used excellent condition $200. That's a candidate for doing base operations. Handsets, suspenders, battery cables, adapter, battery terminals, everything you can think of. So if you're looking, and by the way that PRC-47 backpack frame for radio with accessories and harness, the N1U used, those are $50 for the set. And that's with the suspenders, that's with a lot of the other lesser accoutrements, the small parts, pieces and components, and the standoff insulators and stuff too. So there's a bunch of other cool things in there. You're going to have to take a look at what they have. Another thing, I've pointed this out before, insulators. Insulators. Now surplus companies both here like we see with Fair Radio down in Lima, Ohio and in Wisconsin and Minnesota there's a bunch of US Army signal communications surplus companies up that way. You'll find that glass insulators are offered for a very cheap price or the ceramic as opposed to the polymer types which are of course much more popular because yes they do take more of a beating. But let me give you a little hint about glass insulators. For clarity and clear signal, for greater range, The glass insulators or the ceramic insulators are the the cat's meow. They are the noise reducer. Everything that you can come up with that's cleaner means you're going to get a better signal out and receive more efficiently. So on the one hand, the polymer insulators for the base of your web antennas and such, Obviously, if you're going to be beating them up a lot, I understand. But if you can change them out in a fixed location where it's not likely that you are going to be beating the snot out of everything, and even if you are going to be mobile, you may want the glass insulators. They usually buy about three of the glass insulator bases, if not four or five, for the price. They're ceramic. They're brown ceramic and they're green ceramic. Usually four, five, or six to one. over the polymer because the polymer are in demand or the metallic are in demand. There's a couple of different models that were made after the ceramic. Now the ceramic, because they were made, they're breakable, there were a lot more of them made and there's piles of them, guys. It's like years ago night vision lenses in different sizes were available and came out in force in literally like cookie stacks with a little piece of paper between each lens. They were usually 10 or 20 to a stack. Well, why was that so? Well, because they were made out of glass to properly be proper depth and to filter the light efficiently and appropriately. They were made out of glass and on the battlefield as we know ceramics and glass and anything breakable probably will break. So, well they made lots and lots and lots and lots and lots and lots. Oh and by the way, lots and lots and lots and lots of these lenses. And what they did is they came out all at once for pennies on the dollar. I tried to get everybody to buy them and I think obviously a lot of people did because most everybody is out of them now. They're very efficient. They offer the best IR illumination, glass because of its clarity. It's not going to fog out or it's not going to hamper the passing of the light through that filter system to the degree that plastic will. Plastic is less efficient in that respect unless you spend more money on the chip. If you can find ceramic for the same reason, again, signal clarity is what we're looking at here. Remember that you've got fixed locations where the ceramic, you can put one on site and even leave a couple spares as part of the kit and leave the antenna base and the whip up and in place ready to use. Another thing is if you have the PRC-27s, I've noticed that the prices and some of the stuff have gone up again. Pretty much everything is there, but I would remind everybody that a lot of the stuff is running along in the tooth because well a lot of you guys have been eating this stuff up. People carry a lot of these radios home or bought the surplus. They've been using them. They're wearing parts out and because they're the more common rig that everybody thinks that they need or want, which we understand why, what's going to happen is You'll see that the parts prices are up higher than they are with other rigs. Another thing I wanted to bring up here, I've talked about batteries. By the way, they finally put a notation in here. Interesting. You go to Fair Radio and then go to their Military Radios, backpack radios. and scroll down you'll see in the PRC77 category battery for PRC25 to 77, the 18 alpha magnesium battery dead for rebuilding battery pack only. Did you hear what I just said there? For rebuilding battery pack only. Three batteries for $7. That's item BA4386. Wait a minute. Also, apparently they are for rebuilding battery packs only. Now, you remember what I told you about these? These have a multi-pin connector. And these multi-pin connectors, what they do is they're routing power from subcomponents of the battery pack. In other words, there's not just one battery there. So, what you want to do is very carefully open up where the flaps are and the seals are and open them up carefully, taking them apart with a razor blade. It's like dissecting a frog. In this case, we're not going to cut randomly on the case. We are going to disassemble it to get to the soft, chewy stuff on the inside. Then you'll be able to see and identify the power values, although there are schematics available, by the way, too. You don't have to guess. But most everything is clearly marked. If you know how to read the components, you can easily identify what kind of battery needs to replace each of the battery cell components to build the voltage that you need for the PRC25 and the PRC77. So they are readily available. Just something to think about and at three four seven dollars by the way we did see PRC 77 batteries down at Knob Creek the last time for a dollar apiece that were also burned. You know they're also tired. They were stored. They're supposed to be dead, but they're selling them for the same reason either A for reenacting which not critical. We're not worried about reenacting but also for use with the rebuild kits because there are other guys that were building radio battery kits together, putting kits together that allow you to rebuild. You're probably not going to find those guys hanging around. Two or three of them were from Motorola. They were around a few years ago. I haven't really noticed whether or not they are out there in force or not. Also, PRC8s, PRC9s, PRC10s, portable man pack FM transceivers for tanks, artillery, and infantry units. They've got them used. They use mobile or stationary. Let's see if there's anything unique about these. Nope. They're just simply overlapping the base frequency, the top frequency overlaps to the base frequency of the next, as we've pointed out. Again, PRC10s, 38 to 54.9 megahertz. They are asking $150 per radio. Now, they also have the AM598 mobile vibrator power supply for PRC8, PRC9 and PRC10s with 24 volt input. It provides all the necessary voltages. It contains an NF amplifier for a 600 ohm loudspeaker, an internal selector switch changes the settings for PRC8, PRC9, PRC10 or PRC8A. A PRC9A and the PRC10A. That's a K1H H1C used. $200 for the AM598. So again, they've got the harnesses too. I've got all of these items pretty well covered. In fact, I bought them back when they were pennies on the dollar guys. But if you're looking for replacement parts or if you've got part of the equipment in place, your rigs work, but you're needing components, fairradio.com, fairradio.com, fairradio.com. So I want to make sure we touch on that. They do have a lot of other hand-helds, not just backpack brakes, so you need to go through the slide to see what they have on hand. Now I'm going to switch back, well before we move farther, do we have any callers? And don't worry, star six, if you want to unmute yourself. Any questions? and you can still do that while I'm going to the next section here. Now I wanted to touch on DealXtreme again www.dealxtreme.com www.dealxtreme.com Now when you get to dealxtreme.com and we should be there in just a moment I think when you get to dealxtreme.com there's consumer electronics touch that and a whole bunch of other cool things pop up on the menu. Well at the bottom of the page in the middle it says other consumer electronics. I want you to go over there to other consumer electronics. I brought this up before. They have two things that are definitely going to be worthwhile for any of you that are listening. Number one, if you were looking for an AM FM shortwave radio, there are a number of different options that they have sitting here on the shelf ready to roll. and prices will fit your wallet. It's the SHOUYU, S-Y-D-P 100, full wave band, LCD stereo FM, shortwave radio with stand, or forgive me with stand slash, I don't know what else there. It's got a single rabbit ear, a single bunny ear by itself. This radio basically is the 23GE all over again, which naturally dates back to the late 80s. No, no, correction, to the late 60s. The basic radio has not changed hardly at all. Anyway, good radio. You'll notice there's another example of it. There's the SY-XYX5. Wait a minute, that looks just like they made a different picture of the same radio. Well, one is $27.95. The other one is $24.84. It has full band rechargeable radio, etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc. The shortwave radio is what you want. There are a number of different options there. Scroll through what they have. It's easier for you to do that. They've got another one, the Tech Sun. Now if you take a look, you'll see that the basic layout of the radio is the same. The only thing they've done is change where that block area is for the LCD readout or for the tuning controls. They may have a variation on how they plug that face in and the box on the outside, but the motherboard is the same. Note where the speakers are, note where the controls are, note how the LCD readout or the dash control is where you have the sliding little orange rod that goes over the numbers on the fake screen. Either way, it's the same basic radio motherboard. Now, the other thing they have are micro FM transmitters, not transceivers, transmitters. And I highly recommend that you take the time to see what they have. Now we have three models that we have already, oh, by the way, there's the TechShun. And then there's the TechShun 6.0. And the big difference is how they are cased. Otherwise, even the keys are in the same place. And the scroll buttons are in the same place. And the speakers in the same place. Wait a minute! It's the same radio repeated over and over again. You pay whatever you want. $92, $141. You name it, you'll charge it, and you'll pay for it. So anyway, well, if you choose to do so. Anyway, they also have digital tuning world band FM, MWSW ATS, it's a handheld radio with a whole lot of other controls, looks more like a walkie talkie and that runs 49.16. That is another option and we actually have had that radio in service. A couple of truck drivers have used them and said they got pretty good results from them. Just a little heads up there on that. The FM micro transmitters, we have three different models. I understand the one is a 5 watt, the one is an 8.3 watt or whatever it is, it's in here somewhere. The other is a 15 watt. All of them are running 24-7 right now. Now there's nothing being done to them. They are being run out of the box as if you bought them, you hooked up the power, you plug in the micro effect and Liberty Tree radio to them and they run, run, run, run, run. One of them I think they are just using computer feed and in fact they are using mostly archives because they just want to test the unit to see how it sounds. They want to see if they drift and apparently again all that, those are old issues that are not a problem with most of these new digital units. They have onboard synthesizers, all the items and features that we would see with the FM100 but they are not $300 guys. And in fact you're looking at a 15 water for as little as $89 to $90, $95 right around there. So these are an option, but we're going to give you a quality control heads up on these. We're going to let you know what do we think of them. Because these are being used apparently for Wi-Fi. They are floating around all over the place now. We are not going to use them. Well, actually we are. We are going to take computer feed off of a location and we are going to spit it out through that so everybody else can pick it up on their computer or FM radio. Again, that is the idea. There is a reason for that. There is method to the madness. The madness. Will it continue? Absolutely. In addition to the big ones, they also have wireless transmitter and receiver kits with antennas. Now some of this stuff is for security applications or at least can be used for security applications, not just for playing with Wi-Fi or transmitting, creating signal inside a particular site. I just want you to think about that. Remember that we're working on a bunch of other toys and trinkets and other solutions based upon what we're seeing here that's very reasonably priced. As soon as we get the specs on it, we see if there's anything we should give you a heads up about. I don't think there's going to be any problems. They have a number of different models. Remember, be careful when you start looking because some people get frustrated if you pay attention. A lot of the stuff is now out of stock or back ordered. Out of stock is most common for a lot of the stuff that they had even a year ago is no longer available. So I will warn you, if you see a model and you're really, really, really excited about it, I don't care if it's the AM and FM shortwave radios, if you're going to buy them for your unit and you're going to have everybody with a shortwave radio, pick a model. Everybody wants you tested and see if you're satisfied with it. Everybody jump on it. Remember the more you buy from DealXtreme, the cheaper they are. Everybody understand that? In other words, you buy three, it's cheaper. You buy six, it's cheaper. You buy 20, they're cheaper. So again, you start knocking down dollars to the point where you're getting a couple of them for basically for free, which is cool. Free is a good thing, or at least calculating that way. I don't know who's going to get the free one. Everybody gets charged the same, and you at least have some reserve money to spend on the unit in some way. Who knows? It's a personal choice there. Anyway, the other thing, and I'm trying to find it, there we go, they do have the crank generator models for about the same price that have both the full shortwave, they have the full AMFM, and they have a light on board, they can charge your small appliances as far as your handheld radio batteries or your cell phone or whatever else, and the average is about $35 to $45, actually to about $47. These are a different board. It's interesting, I have noticed there was a step to another model of mother board for these rigs. But they do include a hand crank for generation of power. They will of course charge because many of them also have solar now too. That's not critical, but it's nice to have combined solar and crank capability to generate power to charge these things back up. It's a plus-plus thing. The next thing on that note is tractor supply. China Sport Blue tractor supply. Every once in a while, if you go to their store, anything from this last season, which is going to be the end of winter here like now, They're marking everything down because they're already looking at springtime. You're still thinking there's snow on the ground and if you look outside, there he is! But what happens is these people are being run by computers. Hell, they've already got the same thing going on with Myers, Shifty Takers, Walmart, and the rest. Watch for the winter items, or watch for the seasonal items that aren't even really winter items. The idiots are simply being ruled by artificial intelligence, and it is artificial. There is no intelligence to the process. But as long as they keep stumbling up, we keep taking advantage of it. So pay attention to China Sport. Their last month's inventory or last year's inventory or last week's inventory, where they get to the end of the cycle, they mark it down by 50% or more. Well, one of the things that shows up cyclically are these little handheld, nice little AM and FM radio with a light, with a little crank charger. They're not fancy, but the nice thing is they can be put away for a very reasonable price. and kept in a reserve cache somewhere where you might need them. In other words, you don't have to worry about batteries, they have their own power source. So it's one less thing that you have to think about changing the batteries on, right? Just something to think about there. They're rechargeables. Again, you can also do the little hand crank thing, generate power and do something with the power. Once it's stored, it's yours. See how that works? Add a few other pieces of technology and you've got yourself a neat little survival package there. The big thing is, take advantage of it now, go check it out. They always have tools they're marking down, and I mean always. There's no reason for you not to have a reasonable little toolbox with all the unique multifunction tools. Right now, guide and crescent wrenches, you know, with a guide pin on one end to actually line up the two pieces of metal. Because when you're talking something that's half inch shank or three quarter inch shank, you're going to be manhandling it, guys. So don't worry about it. You need something to shove that two pieces of metal into play and then you run your bolt through. Then you've got the wrench on the other end, the adjustable head wrench, to tighten everything up. Wow, that's kind of nice. Well, if you keep accumulating these unique tools like this, you carry fewer tools or, well, you carry more tools that do more things. Either carry fewer tools that do the same amount you would with the other tool box or You've got more tools in the toolbox and everything does more in general. Makes a big difference. The other thing is, again, pay attention to right now stores that are in distress. You've seen all the stuff on the news about the different chains having problems. Well, remember that rechargeable batteries are going to be one of those things if they do a general mark done in places. You sweep in and grab the rechargeable batteries. But don't forget, you may not be buying them as rechargeable batteries in a pack. That may be something that they're offering that has rechargeable batteries in it that can be cannibalized. It's a trinket item. Let me give you an example. Again, remember a lot of these places have these external solar lights. Nowadays, I wouldn't be tearing those solar lights apart. But, if you desperately needed rechargeable batteries, and it was a choice between illuminating an area and being able to talk to each other because maybe range might be important for saving your life with regard to warning, you know, hey, they're coming. Oh, okay, he's two miles away. That's nice to know. It'll take a little time for him to get to you. Well, it was a choice between one over the other. Those rechargeable batteries are awfully darn handy to have on reserve. So, something to think about there. Again, there's a couple of different chains. You've noticed this. Even Cabela's, there's some questions coming up. One of the Cabela's died here this last week. I don't know how many people noticed that. And Cabela's, like some of the other chains, have been talking about closing some stores down. They were on a big expansion a while back, but even if they don't close them down, let's remember too that Cabela's has already been doing what we've been talking about here with regard to putting stuff on Markdown if it's the last of. If you haven't been to Cabela's in a while, you should systematically as a team spot check their markdown section at the back of the store. They have piles of things. We've talked about marine radios. I'll tell you right now, I don't care what color the marine radio is. It can be white, which a lot of them will be. It can be black, which a lot of them could be. They also have chrome on it. You know what? Go over to the other section where they've got Marktown paint and go, After you cover up the critical controls, we really do want to be able to use the buttons. But guys, for little or nothing, you can make those into tactical combat radios. Now we haven't forgotten about it on that note before going farther. Guys, we already have pretty well built a new, I guess we'll call it the CB or CBM, Mark III. We had the Mark I's and Mark II's, but there's some neat features we've been able to put together to make homemade backpack radios. Now, the advantage here is we wouldn't just have the radio on board. There's no reason for that. There's a whole lot of other features to include a solar panel system, storage cells, spare batteries, other pieces of equipment to factor. There's no reason for it to just be one radio kit. These two different radio grids can be covered with one pack system. In fact, you can pick and choose how you wish to employ which radio or both of the radios. If you are going to use both, you better make sure you have two antenna arrays on hand so that means a spare parts kit built onto the backpack which we are going to cover. That is already in motion. The big thing now is just waiting for it to warm up a little or getting it to the right place and painting. Because everything is pretty well been screwed together and everything has been tested. We are not worried about that. The big thing is to again weatherize certain components. The CB radios are not weatherized the way the marine radios are. So if we are going to be using the CB you have to have a battle box for it guys. You got to put it into something that is not going to leak. That is where Fair Radio comes in or DealXtreme or some of these other companies because they have what are called transit or cargo boxes that are designed or project boxes. That's another one. These boxes are designed so you can actually put a radio project or a piece of equipment in it, seal it up, and when it's not in use it will be of course sealed from the weather. Some guys have used in the 90s, they actually decided to just take a 30 caliber ammo can and fixture it right to the backpack and use it as a sealed system that was also armored. Now, there's tons of stuff. To give you an example of what I'm talking about, you can go to Colmans.com. They have a lot of cool stuff, but they have a lot of can canisters and containment systems. Those are designed to transport the very things or the size things we're talking about. Your tax dollars paid for a lot of this stuff to be developed for carrying night vision devices, radio equipment, detector units, all kinds of stuff. So, not only are they typically watertight, but they're also armored. Not just outside, but inside. They're bumper armored. So what's really cool is they're going to keep something from getting beat up and bounced around. The only thing that you have to take into consideration there is whether or not you are going to have to worry about cooling. So you need to pay attention to what kind of BTUs your radio is producing. If it's a hotter, older rig or an overpowered rig because you've tweaked it, it's got to have some ventilation, guys. Just something to think about there. You insulate it really well, which is not a bad thing during the winter, but if you insulate it real well, you still have to take into consideration cooling. It's got to be able to suck and blow, just like anything else. You've got to be able to breathe. The big thing is if you don't, don't be surprised if you start to see static, backwash, all kinds of nasty stuff pop up because you're building up calories, that heat's going to affect one component or another, and this is where other parts may start to even drift. They overheat, the material changes composition or changes geometry. When it cools, it goes back to the original form, typically. But as it gets to a certain temperature, it will distort. Now, every time that it cools, it goes back to the original form or design. But what happens is with each time that you overheat a unit, a fixture, a component, eventually it will distort and it will degrade to the point where it will not recover its original form. It's not an if, it's just a when. It's fatigue on material, especially where you heat it up and you cool it. You heat it up and you cool it. You heat it up and you cool it. This is one of the most significant problems with a lot of pieces of equipment, especially from that late 60s to early 70s window with CB equipment. I've warned you many times. A lot of that equipment was built, and it was built to be hot. It was built to be powerful. Well, along with power, along with energy applied, typically comes heat. Now, back in the day, you could buy industrial little fans and they were at arm and leg. For that reason, cooling was always an issue as far as trying to come up with something that would pull calories out but also be convenient to use. Well, those days are over guys because if you go to any of these surplus companies now, you can go to a recycle point and buy a derelict computer and pull the fans right out of the butt end of it. You have all the power connectors, you have everything you need, nuts, bolts and screws, and you can actually put some really nice cooling fans that are flush faced, very small, very narrow on whatever you want. In fact, even if you were patient, especially since you've got now all of these newer processors that have been frying left and right, While some of them do use a radiator cooling system, a lot of them simply use micro cooling fans. You've seen this when you lifted the lid on one of your under-the-table computers. The processor actually even has its own little cooling fan. Well, those come in awfully handy and can be banked. And they will pull, and again, draw air, which helps you to pull calories. Remember, the air, it's an air-cooled system. You can actually bring the temperature back down to a reasonable range. even with these older, hot desktop models. There's a bunch of them that you can't really run them non-stop. You've got to key up every once in a while. You can send a message out, but don't talk too long because you could fry an egg or you could roast toast on the top of that box. That's especially true with some of the better strong out-of-the-box CB radios and VHF and UHF rigs that were made during the height of the CB era back in the 70s. So don't toss them away. I'm going to go, man, that's a hot radio, man. I need to burn up. Well, only if you don't pay attention. But today, there's no reason for that because the technology is readily available off the shelf. Simple and easy to apply. Come on, it's not that hard to figure out how to put a black and red wiring line. One with an axe hooked up to a power supply. Give me a break. Come on. In fact, it's pretty straightforward, easy. In fact, here's the cool part. Go to YouTube, punch stuff like that up, because if somebody else has already done it, we'll show you how to do it, kids. You name it, it's there. So take the time and check out those tutorials. You never know what you're going to run into. Hell, there's one guy who's done a great job about taking used coffee makers, you know, Mr. Coffee Coffee Makers, some Pyrex from the sale store, and doing his own electroplating with a few other components. And that all doesn't look fancy, but you know what? Gets the job done, kids. We can do better than that. Once you see how to do it, once you've seen the prototyping, you can, with your little, using a little bit of gray matter and brain power, you can figure out how to make it look a little nicer in the process, be a little more stable for the work environment too. Well, this kicks over into a couple other things with regard to shop operations for radio support. If you go to these resale shops, also watch auctions. You're going to find a lot of hand-me-down stuff that's out there. And it doesn't have to be brand new in order for it to serve our purpose. Remember, a lot of the stuff that we're talking about doing, you're not going to use the equipment that often. So having state-of-the-art for the line share of what most of you radio maintenance people are doing, the older gear will work just fine. The big thing is to make sure that you have backups and components. and I've mentioned this many times, start watching from microphones, yard sales, auctions, resale shops, guys, stuff like this shows up all the time. Right now in goblet quiddation, the handsets and headsets. that were separate, not the hand headset combo, it looks like a phone receiver. It's not what we're talking about. The actual handsets like you used to see in World War II or like you see on the CB radio, but the military lightened, configured version of that that were made out of the high impact resilient plastic They are showing up at Gov Liquidation and they are also now in the surplus system because of that. Thousands came through here not long ago through the auction supply. There is a bunch coming through again. Now, if you have one of those military backpack radios, I highly recommend that you buy a set of those. You may have to search. One company got the headsets, the other company got the microphones. But these are very well made, they're very reliable, they're virtually new, unissued. Typically there may be one or two that somebody pulled out of the box, hey what are you doing here? Well there's an example right there. Oh no, this box probably is something totally different from what you have showing me the, oh it is the same. So there's two of them open, then there's three of them, then five. Maybe there's a couple that are open, the boxes are just open, they go, oh yeah, I guess they were right there, tell us the truth. That's the same one. So anyway, other than that, the rest are brand new in the box and definitely worth the price. Again, there's an advantage to being able to have the headset-handset combo because the one is set up on a harp. It actually is hands-free. You've only got the control talk device to take care of and that can be mounted on the side of your harness and a lot of guys used to even do that today right now. So that the talk unit, just like you see with a lot of the Cop Shop radios, is right there, you know, left of the face. If you are a personal choice, you are a left to right hand shooter. Other issues have to do with whether or not you want to center mount it depending on the type of equipment you are actually carrying or supplemental equipment you are carrying your combat rig. We are headed towards the top and it is communications Tuesday. FairRadio.com, FairRadio.com, and oh wait, because Tuesday, Del is coming up next. Don't touch that dial. 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