August 12, 2014
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1h 1m
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2014
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Mark Koernke discussed communications infrastructure and preparedness equipment on August 12, 2014. The show covered repeater technology and affordable radio equipment available through 409shop.com, including Baofang radios and various connectors and adapters for field operations. Koernke detailed Czech-made field telephones available through KeepShooting.com and emphasized the importance of maintaining spare parts and backup communication systems. He also addressed station technical issues, fundraising updates for Liberty Tree Radio, and upcoming Czech military radio packages expected in the surplus market.
- communications
- repeater technology
- baofang radios
- field telephones
- czech military equipment
- preparedness
- radio equipment
- 409shop.com
- keepshooting.com
- liberty tree radio
- surplus equipment
- antennas
- adapters
- headsets
- ground line communications
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He took off his three-cornered hat, and speaking low to me, he said, We 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 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 won't 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'll 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 to keep the torch of freedom burning bright. As I awoke, he vanished in the mist from 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 and 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? Get out of there, let's hop an end, you won't let they weren't around to say Get out of Valleyport, they're great! My King Thomas and our crying tears of day, they're great! It didn't watch since when the free Americans pulled far the other side As we sent food to Hitler, troops are praised the enemy Did all our children die in vain, defending liberty? The Minutemen, Ouchington, and Jefferson are crying tears of change, and they're great to understand the man won't defend his home, won't ever let those people serve in Washington. Inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths, and to secret proceedings. But we are opposed around the world by a monolithic and ruthless conspiracy But we lie primarily on covet means. It's their influence. It was 1776, when the founders signed the risk, it was revolution. Melan enemies from within would enslave us all again, and deprive us of our rights in the Constitution. Restore the Republic! Wake up, it's time to understand. Restore the Republic! We got freedom in the land. controlling everything politicians. Good afternoon ladies and gentlemen and where we have technology we'll find a way to get around whatever blockages or stoppages or strange things happening with the signal communication system exist that exist. Good afternoon this is the first hour of the morning, intelligence report time, our Kornke. One day closer to victory for all of our brothers and sisters both on and behind the lines in occupied territories West, Southwest, well ladies and gentlemen, you're listening to us on LibertyTreeRadio.4mg.com, Indiana Freedom Talk Radio.com, run AM and FM microstations, CB base stations, and UltraNet technologies both east and west of the Mississippi along with Alaska Hallmark Network from the top of Maine to the bottom of Florida. From the bottom floor across the arc of the Gulf of Mexico and in Louisiana, Mississippi, Texas, Oklahoma, big chunk of Nebraska, a whole bunch of Wyoming to include both the third, the fifth, the pit, and the 12 sisters on the left side of the state. Oh, Colorado, the recall state, keep doing what you've been doing with the new organizations and the new perimeter militia, which is something, I appreciate the heads up on that. Also, great state of Jefferson out on the left side of the country there over on the Pacific side. Keep doing what you're doing. Yeah, interesting. Turning back to the east, we sweep across plains, leap over the burgeoning banks of the Mississippi and Atlanta and the Smokies slash the Blue Ridge. Will the restaurant crews dare Grandma teams OK teams? In the Ma Bell, grab a consortium and bring us the Golden Spike. Many hands make for light work a million Peddicojunction operators, the ability to continue to function when everything else is offline. and it is a beautiful, well it is, it's been a rainy but mixed weather. We had square blocks of cloud, not exaggerating, rectangular waves of storm coming through the area. Watched it happen, looked at them as they came through, downpours in squares, downpours in rectangles, and then it carried on downrange. Other than that, Beautiful weather on and off cool air behind those rain fronts, which is really nice. It helped to cool things down a little bit And here we are back on the 12th of August, 6th year of Opin-Fabian Socialist and Soviet Socialist Occupation of America, the K2014 Old Earth Calendar or Nostradamus Doom Calendar. Are you worshipping Nostradamus properly? Are you peeing in the tea leaves, boiling him up, and then pinching a little bit of something strange in the way of other exotic drugs? I hope not, but if you are, don't worry, you'll see what he did. Pretty much anything you can darn well imagine and all totally off the wall. Kukukuchuu, I am a zebra walrus! Oh wow, that dude's the image man, the image is... Kukukuchuu. Anyway, we got Ed with us here. Ed, jump in there please. Interesting, you had again a problem with the phone system. People, if you're having a problem getting into the conference line, we're aware of the problem. That's why Mark was late getting on. It's not on our end though. I do have the conference line bridged into the way we've got Mark hooked up right now, so it's not a problem. I'm having to use Skype though to call two numbers. That's going to eat up our Skype time debt. Just try try the other way again at 8 o'clock and if not we can run it this way. Very good. As a matter of fact, we might even we could try at the 6 o'clock hour just to see if it's cured. No, we'll go straight through with that dad. That way we don't have to mess with it. Very good. Otherwise, what's going on with our fundraising? Do we have an update? Oh. Well, I like that it was telling Henry the update on the website that's the current level where it's at right now and hang on here I'll get home and go back there because I was working on a couple other things Let's see, we've currently got raised $1,216.28 of $3,000 that we're trying to raise for the end of the year bill. We need that by October 7th and we are getting closer. We're down the last couple of months here guys on trying to raise those funds. So it is kind of important. I do have an update for Liberty Tree Radio's website and our sponsors. Liberty's Guardian has cancelled their sponsorship so I've got to take their banner off the website. Sorry to see them go but they've been... Actually, wait a minute. I think, no, the problem is they tried to make the payment. I got an email on that. They tried to make the payment. You need to get hold of them. Sorry about that. Oh, okay. Well, I didn't... They just, if for some reason it didn't go through, so you need to contact them, they're trying to make the payment, so we're good. Sorry about that. That just came in. I just went through it last night, as a matter of fact. I think email just went to Liberty Tree Radio automatically so... Well Liberty Tree Radio would be libertytreeradio.yahoo.com. Okay, so well give them a call, find out what's going on because they definitely they sent an apology and said hey contact us by you know, whatever other means and we'll take care of it right away. So whatever you want to do to take care of that, they will. So they are still there as a sponsor. They're just trying to figure out what happened with PayPal. Okay, I hadn't heard anything back from him yet myself, so I was just getting ready to take their stuff down. So I'll get a hold of them, try to get a hold of them again when we're done with the broadcast today. Very good. Interesting. Couple of things here. Well, as it is, anything else? Anything else jumping on the wall? Off the wall with Liberty Tree Radio before we go any farther. nothing really i've got some bumper stickers and probably offer those up here eventually for donations uh... that the guys senate down here in texas i got a whole pile of those uh... which have been given out down here for people to using oh let's not forget we also have our key hangars that were donated by joe from carolina's we still have some of those in green and information on those key hangars Oh, I have to take a look. Which one? The old archive site listed on there. Oh, okay. Well, still, at least we know one of them is good. If it fails, they'll try the other. So we'll just make sure we get those out. Ooh, so by the way, I'm having three different little four-pod helpers try to get in here close to work the phone. Yes, shoulder. I have shoulder ear muffs during the summer. I don't need. Yeah, I know. Our new one's that way too. He likes to... Actually, he gets up behind the keyboard, Dad. I got a keyboard tray here. He sleeps behind the keyboard on the keyboard tray where he sticks his head out on the end. That way I can pet him while I'm working. He's getting good about not getting on this stuff, but eventually he's going to be too big to do that. Right, it's like Tom. It's like big Tom. Tom, the keyboard operator. He's as big as the keyboard. That's not even one that we had originally. I can't believe somebody got rid of him. Somebody tossed him out and the poor guy fortunately found out. Well, you probably threw him out and saw our cats and threw him out figuring we're a cat colony. Anyway, oh yeah, he's by the best. He's as good a cat as you could ask for. Before I came down here, he was sneaking into the station before we knew he was around just to be around people. He has that deep morale. In fact, he talks all the time. The other thing we found out is he actually likes baths. He expects a bath. He knows the word bath on top of everything else. Our kitty, Kalani, likes baths. The little one just found out what a bath was today. Yeah, Tez, we need a double. Yeah, he wasn't that bad. At first he was, but then he calmed down. Yeah, get him used to it early on and then it won't be as much of a fleabag. Yeah, like, yeah, the fleabag next to me. Well, at least we don't have a mic problem. Let's put it that way guys. Remember that. There is one thing that you can help me with, though, as far as the station goes. We need to get ahold of our seasonal sponsor, Knob Creek and... Oh, yeah, I'll give him a call. Actually, I need to talk to him. That's only a couple of months away, too, but that would be two months of sponsorship that would help the station out a lot. Well, as a matter of fact, we also have a need with the Colonial Marine National Conference. If Craig, we need to remind everybody, Craig will probably be set up. at 100% sure he'll be there or not. That's if there's a table open. You know what Knopkreek is like getting into it. Yeah, we might be able to do, we're making an arrangement on that one this year. We'll see what happens. Okay, then I need to know that too. Okay, we're good then. And for everybody out there, we are up on the air. I believe all of the rest of our technology is working. So for our friends in the chat, we're gonna give us a thumbs up if we're sounding okay over the air. It sounds great to me through the earpiece. Again, we're using another technique for hooking up to Liberty Tree Radio for today until we can find out what's going on with the other service or whether or not it could be just maintenance. Hey, things don't run forever. The one thing you got to remember, guys, things don't run forever. Do your tires, does your car, not even the front door in the house will last forever. Eventually those hinges in the doorknob got to be changed, especially if they're used a lot and they're China support made in this day and age. Oh boy. Anyway, anything else Ed? Oh, I think Ed's okay. I'm trying to get some other stuff done. Very good. And tweak us as we go. We'll see how he sounds. For everybody out there, it is Communications Tuesday. You may have noticed in the chat room, www.409shop.com. Now, we've been talking about repeaters. And this is the only company, it's not the only one out there, I know that, but this is one of the few companies that is actually listing the repeater technology as a subsection and the prices are all under $100 for what they have available. Yesu, TYT, Kenwood, you name it, they've got patch kits for the system, the duplexers. In fact, I think they cover pretty much everybody's icons. Let's see, Midland, Motorola, SMA, okay, let's see what else we got. I don't see anything else, it's jumping off, it looks strange. Yesus are pretty common out there, Motorola and Midland, needless to say, Midland very common. But you name it, the repeater technology available is off the shelf for as little as about $59 to $59.90 or $59.50. I mean you might as well say $60. But everything under $100, most everything under it looks like $1.90. Well, we have one item that's $95, the rest are all $72, $68, $59, or $60. So again, in that $10 plus or minus price range. The big advantage here is that this gives you the ability to stack and rack and bounce off whatever systems we have laying out there. It doesn't make any difference what it is. We can pretty well switch it out and use it as a repeater station to jump over a mountain to get out of an area of operation with multiple banked repeaters. This is a little trick we learned a long time ago. Points of the compass. Establish one and maybe even use it so that it's noticeable. But keep two or three others on operational standby and with a slap switch all of them send out a repeat signal. so that you literally get out to all four points of the compass on different frequencies and they then are snagged by allied radios monitoring those designated frequencies for auto record. This is especially useful in the situation for instance like the Ranch Siege slash the standoff out west in Nevada but works in any other situation where you have a defensive posture and you are We want to make sure you can give the heads up to allies that you're probably going into fighting mode or that contact has been made. And again, it's not a frivolous system. This is designed for very specific committed actions wherever you are around the country. Down on the border, it would be useful for signaling back deeper into the United States. to core facilities that might be near the border where you have standoff personnel, etc., or you have a communications hub or signal hub, medical support, things of that nature. So there's a number of different ways these can be used. We use a repeater system, but it's the oil, these are all repeaters. They're much bulkier than what I'm seeing here. Our repeater units we use are the 6 meter sets, or about the size of a full-size Midland CB radio. And they're not brand new, they're not spring chicken, but they've got guts and they have thump power. In other words, they're going to get the message, they're going to get the signal out hard, which is the agenda. We have all the adapters, we make up a series of kits. In fact, before I came on the program, I just ran into a whole, oh, about a orange box full of multi-connectors, data stream cables. All pretty much brand new, most of them brand new in the package. And what I'm doing is sorting those out to make patch kits and backup kits so that I can separate them. In other words, there's so many connectors of this, one of each of the different unique adapters, power supplies, all kinds of fun stuff. But it all goes into a kit for a computer, in the one case, and for radio with the other. In radio, remember guys, once you know what your values are for your wall warts and your adapters, a lot of stuff is 12 volt anyway, pretty much is committed to 12 volt because of car batteries. As much as anything, it's just the idea, what's your ashtray power? 12 volts, what do you need? Plug and play. Now it'll adapt and work down or work up. Again, you've got inverters you can attach, or you go with a wall work system basically, but with the ashtray mechanism to drop down to 10.5, 10.4, 8.6, 9.7, whatever goofy output or input they needed. So you have a step that works that. But beyond it, it's all plug and play. It's already figured. It's already worked into the system. But to have spares and backups is a really good thing. One of the things I've noticed is in what I'm finding in this area, a lot of Kenwood, in the newer Kenwood, small tech, that's not a problem. Cables, connectors, power supplies. I just got several headsets in a rat nest today that was I think a total of 9 Kenwood headsets. Total cost was $2.50 for about 30 pounds worth of stuff. In other words, I actually had two boxes to include another uh... apple computer system that is really cool into the i never expected have more than one sister unique but somebody seems to be running into a lot of these the unit you slash unique uh... systems and getting rid of them are being convinced to do so which i have a problem with his work to come up beautiful pieces of equipment The big thing is with spares is palletize it. Break out the dollar store, ziplock bags, keep everything clean. If it's in the original factory bag, put it inside, those are already separated so that your color codes, reds, greens, blues, yellows, everything is color coded which is really neat if you're running into it. It doesn't mean that just one color won't work but why when you can separate it so that it's a lot easier to follow and track and do maintenance. If you can find color coated different plastic color sheet cable that helps a lot especially if it's kind of quasi dark and you're trying to work on something with minimal lighting. Green to green, red to red, blue to blue, pink to pink, yellow to yellow, dark yellow to dark yellow, I mean and etc. That's how I sort these things out. So when the time comes, for instance, the radio trailer, radio trailer one is functioning flawlessly except for one burnout that we had not on an old piece of equipment. A brand new piece of equipment that I installed that we spent money on. So gee, what's the surprise? Well, lo and behold, it turns out that it was a Chinese port connector that caused a little issue with one microphone. So we lost a mic that was a Chinese port GP for the, in fact what it was, was for a Midland Marine radio. Fortunately, we have a box full of those. I shipped the other one out. They've got that. The second trailer has got to go up here. It's got to go south of Texas soon. I think we're going to be issuing that out to an allied unit in the east end of Texas. We'll see what happens. I just made touch base with one of our friends down there today just to make sure everything was okay. We'll probably be routing the technology there and then we'll be aligning it with a border unit as quickly as we can, but at least I can get it deployed and onsite down in the area of operation where it needs to be. We're proceeding, I want to say thank you by the way, the 2 meter grid is working really well for our friends that are up on that down, or up on here, down in the Texacoas area, slash Texas. We're hoping to help them to expand that and just send some recommendations via Spike down to, you know, through alternate, down to our friends there. Let's see what else was on the list of things to do. This particular 409 shop.com, www.thenumerals409shop. You know, like 409 engine or formula 409, scrubber clean. Well, the cool thing is the technology is pretty straightforward that they have here. But they do have a lot of other pieces of equipment available that you might want to go through systematically to see what they're offering. and then don't just buy, do compare prices because DealXtreme is pretty good about if they have it, they have it, if they don't, don't show up. Don't try to bid something that you don't bid. Forgive me, don't try to buy something that is in the back order category there, one or two items that are close to sale out. I try to avoid that like the plague. They'll say close to the last model and they'll actually ID if you wanted 6, you'll get 5. Don't do that. You might as well go in another direction. Reason? Chances are what I've seen with deal extreme and a lot of the other China companies is they're running waves of equipment. When they run out, you don't know how long it's going to be before you get the difference in material, if ever. It doesn't mean you're going to charge for it. But remember that you're trying to standardize within your group so you don't have a lot of parts issues. So, if it looks like there's a short supply item, don't forget that there's a whole bunch of other radios that are pretty much comparable. I mean, in Baobang, Dao Po, Chi, Pai, Taipei, Maobang, Baofang, you know, whatever, you know, Bufong doesn't make any difference. And by the way, Bell South and several of the others, their stuff is all China sport. So if you cross-reference, you'll find that pretty much you can find a comparable radio. for a comparable price, probably with a name brand you might even recognize. Not critical there, I don't really care about the name brand, it's all made by the same stinking slaves. And pretty much all they've done is put their, you know, sometimes not even their different casing, they just put the marker on there, the dash symbol, and everything else is identical to the other China Sport Baobong, Bao Bi, Chao Pi, Tai Pu, Ti Pong radio. The big thing is, does it work? Do we understand it's a throw away? Yes. Is there much we can really do to fix it? Other than antennas, add-on microphones, speakers, and power supplies? No. Not a whole lot when you open the dash, because it's too darn tiny and it is modular, but as far as getting the parts, I wouldn't throw them away. I'd use them for instance, if I had a fragged radio, I'm going to save the radio because there may be a small circuit or component in there I can salvage. small boards that are part of the off the primary board, knob controls, antennas, you know there's all kind of even the fixtures for plugging in. I might desolder and re-solder one of those. If the radio got squished, broken, quished, whatever, or even if it got fried, I'd still save it. because again parts is parts but also if all else fails another high-confidence detail item that can go on a dummy if I need to put something up there to increase my manpower all the little detail junk that is you know you put it in the throwaway box put it over the trash box we think you're not gonna I'm not gonna do anything with that mark I'm just gonna buy a new or whatever put it over in your throwaway box with busted up clothing that damaged your frag connector gear When the time comes, little duct tape, some staples and a dummy and you got yourself a real high confidence warrior there. You put a Halloween mask on something and put a set of wrap around dollar store glasses on, sunglasses on it with a booney hat or a garbage helmet liner with camouflage cover on it. Who's going to know? Guys there's all kinds of cool tricks. By the way that dummy can also be a camera stand in the eyepiece You know where the eyes are you can throw a couple of cameras there and feed those back with a wireless You got yourself a scout picket that well it may be dead, but it's still got a set of eyeballs of work for you. Oh That's not cheating. That's common sense intelligence So in reality that little dummy is still serving a purpose even while somebody has to question whether or not it's live or Memorex See how that works creative, constantly thinking ahead. One of the other things that they do have a pretty good selection on are earpieces. Now in the microphone and earpiece category, I've got to watch it there because some of this stuff just ain't going to take much abuse. But here's the thing, if they're cheap enough, You can actually afford to buy a pile of them and when one wears out you put it over into the non-service drawer again the big old box over there and Save it for spares for you know cobbling wires, maybe cobbling the earpiece Remember, you can cut the line somewhere and then add the jack or cut the line at the other end and add the fixture and everything else. You don't go back into the fixture. You splice and reconnect and gobbledygook up with a little bit of liquid goop and then good old electrical tape to bind it the rest of the way or for that matter, high quality camouflage duct tape. And to be quite honest, high quality duct tape pretty well is going to hold everything together, keep it where it needs to be. It's not a great A-connect fixture issue, but it will get the job done. So again, so many headset systems, you know, voice to talk, earpiece, throat piece, earpiece, boom mic, earpiece, you know, harp system. It's anything you can imagine. Like I said, I just picked them up. I am needed. It looks like it is. We've got a few people in there. Very good. And it's showing that we're sending audio to it. Whether or not they're hearing that could be another story all together. Give us a thumbs up by talking to us in the chat room. How's that sound guys? And some of you that are listening are probably also on the computer anyway. Again, take a look. Two numerous to mention. Every variation on headset, microphone sets, Jumper's, adapters. Adapters are one of the big things that you don't think about. I had a conversation with a young person here yesterday, or no, forgive me, Friday. The weekend went by fast. But anyway, as I pointed out, I said, hey, you know, because I was looking through these boxes that we'll grab, I'll grab everything. I literally, unless it's something I have a billion of, but even there, I'll still probably grab it. But for what I'm getting this brand new stuff for, As I pointed out, I said, hey, if you get in here, if you see any of these connectors, especially with what you're trying to do, you're going to want all the different adapters that go along with this. And that way, when you do run into something unique that you think, wow, that's a cool toy, now you don't have to scrounge for it. You've already got all the different variations on A to Bs and A to Cs and C to Bs and D to Ps and P to Ls and L to Ks and K to Ys. And you're not out anything. You're not going to be losing anything in terms of time and resource. Now, another thing is they do have larger industrial type or military kind of application headsets. And remember, as I pointed out, you can pay any kind of money you want. So whatever challenge to be charged. If you're willing to pay it, chances are they've got it. And it's hundreds of items, too numerous to mention. Yes, they do have conventional full cup headsets with boom mics for field operation. There's the ear hangers. I'm not as excited about the ear hangers with a long boom, only because they have a tendency not to really cooperate in the field. That little ear squiggly thing, if you have the ear wrap around with a small boom, that might not so bad, but remember it's Demi, kind of omnidirectional and has a tendency to pick up a lot of other noise too if you're not careful. In a closed environment that's one thing, in a field environment that may be another issue. However, catch a catch can, use what you got, run with it. But if you shop around there are a lot of different solutions. Don't forget FairRadio.com. That's another one. By the way, let me give you an example here. Let's see. Heavy-duty noise reduction headset. Black, full cable connector, wrap around $68. Battle type application. Yeah, it's a mimic of some of the stuff you're seeing the troops using right now overseas. In colors, not critical. I wouldn't want it in red, but you can get it in brown. OD green and apparently the traditional everybody loves black, right? So purely a matter there. Throat mics, yes. In fact, they've got throat mic sets for $20 to $23 to $25 depending on what you're looking at. You can spend more. If you want to spend more, you can spend more. Don't worry, they'll take your money. But again, shop and pay attention to connect doors. That's the big thing. Now, next is actually you have side wrap around systems and overhead harp type systems, which you're pretty familiar with, kind of like what you have for your stereo systems, who traditionally have had, you know, for home stereos for the longest time. Again, noise cancellation, background filtering systems, the whole nine yards. So they're pretty cool. Actually, nice collection of stuff. And too numerous for me to go over on the air because 100's and that again is www.409shop.com, www.409shop.com and that was just in the headset section. Now by the way they do have a whole bunch of other stuff on hand. Let me just give you an idea here. Earpiece products, news speaker, mic product, etc. New section, earpiece product, new section. Antenna products, adapter products, and Balfang radio! There we go, let's go to Balfang radio. Everybody's got Balfangs. Balfang! I love Balfang. We've had Balfang radios for quite some time and one of our listeners out there donated a couple of Balfangs years ago and we've actually used those around the station for I would say probably five, six years. Appreciate that. And apparently when they first started to really come in. But a white assortment. Don't buy yellow. Don't buy red. Blue's not a good choice. But they do offer them in camouflage and black. And actually even in some other kind of a greeny color. So it's up to you. But they offer them in camouflage. What the hell? Why not get them in camouflage if it's the same price? If it's not the same price, then we'd wait and see. However, there is a good selection of units available. Shipping cost included. Unit price, $38.50 for the UV-5Rs. Dual band, camouflage, and that's through the 409 shop. $38.50 a unit. Now, for that particular radio, that's about comparable with what they're charging through DX.com slash SteelXtreme. So there's probably an example of what we're talking about. Again, whatever you're looking for in models, they've got everything from the UV100s, UV200s, UV100 Mark II and UV200 Mark II just in case you weren't happy with the Mark I. But they still offer the Mark I's or slash the original models. UV3R's, UV3R Mark II's. If you weren't happy with the Mark I, we will sell you a Mark II, but we've still got the Mark I on the shelf. How do you like that? And also again, the UV5R5R's. And I'm looking to see RDs also, RCs, RDs, RAs, RBs. My God, this is as bad as working with UNIDAN. It's the same model, but we decided to dress it up and put a different skirt on it. It's the same model, but we decided to put slacks on it. But there's the same color as the skirt. You know, basically, you know, twinklets, as we call it. Many variations on the theme. So it's cool. And it's definitely worthwhile checking out. Again, that's www.409shop.com. OK? interesting kev is attempting to blow up a chemical plant that will destroy a 600 kilometer diameter 300 kilometer radius of area every living thing blacklisted news and that's the Ukraine news oh the boom boom boom many state door there's a couple of things post in the chairman there thank you guys Wisconsin can't milk your cows without a license Oh, I would expect that from Wisconsin. They've become so communist. It's funny because on the one hand the cops that are kind of become somewhat liberal, you've got the one sheriff there. Bloomberg is targeting because he's pro-gun and so that's evil and bad. So of course the communists are targeting him because there's people that are starting to bite back. and that needs to happen but like I said he's going to have to get serious about having the people you know support him by well old farming militias. Oops did I say that? Yeah if the sheriff's really serious he should be farming militias. Getting ready for the fight that's coming. Anyway let's see of course he's just telling everybody arm of the teeth and take care of yourself because that ain't going to happen. I'm sure Bloomberg doesn't like the police chief in Detroit because he's basically saying the same thing. Hey only going to fix this is shoot the crooks. oops, okay now a couple of things I wanted to touch on real quick here KeepShooting.com keep an eye on KeepShooting.com It is Communications Tuesday, but they may have some interesting signal items coming in right now they have the Check Army Field Phones now these are in the same They look to me to be the same model as the East German radio, radio telephones slash, forgive me, radio telephones, field telephones that were available for many, many years. Now most of the East German ones have dried up. I mean, come on, East Germany's been gone for a while, but Czechoslovakia did not dump a lot of its equipment because, hey, they're an operating country. Well, the Czechs, I can't say the Czechoslovakia, it's the Czechs. You got the Slovaks too, but you never hear about the Slovaks again, do you? So the Czechs are obviously becoming the prostitutes of Europe for the, again, the Jewish mob. And they're dumping a lot of their stuff and they're going to garbage that is being made by NATO. Most of it junk. OK, really junky stuff. However, the Czech-made field phones are very well built and they're in the same Bakelite type case as the East German model. So if you take a look, you'll recognize The basic container right off the bat is the model TP25. That's on KeepShooting.com. If you guys want to hook up a phone system in your own backyard, through the back 40 and around the, for instance, the ranches down in Texas, You can't be intercepted when you have ground wires running from A to B and you can bury these things. One of the tricks I've done is we use PVC, cheapest half inch china pipe you can get and connectors. You can armor up your double cable lines underground all the way from point A to point B and make them very permanent. They will last for decades. Decades and decades and decades and decades. Seriously. Hell, they usually run ground line, you know, literally lay it if need be. They don't even worry about it while they're buried if they need to, but typically they just run the line and it goes from point to point and when a ruster dies they just cut it and put a new one down. It doesn't have to be copper line, by the way. The Germans and the Euros used steel line. Yeah, do everybody understand that? Oh really Mark? Yeah, really. The Germans and the Czechs and the Eastern Europeans and the Western Europeans didn't have much copper laying around. They used that for all their special tech. Low end steel, comparable in terms of elasticity, taxed at tensile strength. was more than serviceable enough for the mission. Now how much of either one steel or copper you're going to see? Well, it's a throw of the dice, so you're going to have to keep an eye out for a field telephone line or make your own. In fact, if you can get a good deal on some Ronex, ooh, nice copper line, very good quality. You know, standard housing wire, like the lighter duty, that would work just fine. So if you watch a resale shop or somebody's getting rid of stuff at a yard sale, there's like a hundred yard or a couple hundred yard roll or whatever, that's about as good as you're going to get. Well Mark, it's copper. Yeah, it is nice. OK, in fact if it's four line, what's really cool is you can run two different phones off the same run and have two set up, one as a backup, or just keep the other lines on standby if something happens. Switch from one set of lines to the other. One at a time comes off of the same run. Hopefully it's not an explosion or something cutting you know like a burning its way through You know something you didn't see that hit the ground boom boom, but again for $34.95 That's a pretty good price for those my wholesale price for years on that box has been about $27 so $35 for the same rig considering that that's been several years. We haven't really bought any of the German ones in quite some time and That's actually a pretty good price right now for what are the well maintained pieces of equipment. The checks don't make junk and they don't waste their stuff. They don't beat it up. Even the surplus we've seen, the checks are very intelligent and have been very intelligent about supporting their technology. So I would highly recommend that you pay attention there and take advantage of that. That's the signal communications item. What is that? Well again, that's at KeepShooting.com. KeepShooting.com. Right on the front page, it's on the right lower corner of the front page when you scroll down towards the bottom, they've got some German Army Safety Vest, not really critical, I don't plan on wearing orange anywhere. But 3495 and those will work with pretty much all the rest of the systems that are out there. So if you've got other field telephones in place or for instance if you've got one of the switcher stations, now I would point out a lot of the switcher stations, the little petticoat junction operator racks, they're mobile but they're designed to be plopped down and run 8, 10 or 12 or 22 depending on how big they were. Field telephones and you can route them from one to the other like a regular phone service. all of those centers, those control points, will run all of these different phones. So if you needed more field phones, now this is a hard body case. This is not a soft body case. This is a hard body case. So it does take a little more abuse. Now that doesn't mean you should beat it around like a basketball. Please don't do that. But definitely something to take into consideration. I wanted to mention that because it's a secure line system. Once you have it in place, it's yours. Now as far as sales items, man, on their page I don't see anything that looks like a sale item right now. In fact, if you look at what they're marking it down with some items, I'm remarking this down by 45 cents. I guess that is a bit of a sale, but it's a winter coat and it's the middle of summer. It should be gone for less than it is. Other than that, There are a few coats that they do have. One, the Swedish Civil Defense Parka, it's in powder blue, but that is an excellent coat. Unfortunately it is in the powder blue, but if you're trying to look like UN, then I guess it'll work for you. They use it for their Civil Defense and Medical, they use that color range also. Beyond that, anything new, and they do have some new products, we're watching for, they already got these field phone units in, pay attention and keep an eye out for, because we expect to see another batch of the check radios come through. Now I don't know when they're going to hit the beach and again I've already got the heads up from one of the surplus companies. The field phones if they've come in, the radios are going to be coming in with these phones. So just a heads up, anybody sees them before I do, they're a check backpack radio, they're closer in terms of operating systems to our ANPRC 90. The ANPRC radio that was pretty well brought into service after the Vietnam War. A little smaller in general, in fact size range working more towards the ANPRC 8s, 9s and 10s, but shorter in terms of diameter and general girth. Lightweight, the packages, if they become available again, had two rechargeable batteries both large format and small format, two of each. The whip antenna, the extended antenna, cabling and wiring for doing wire antennas, all the adapters and connectors, two handsets, one headset, all the instruction manuals and everything palletized in its own box itemized. Now granted the instructions will be in check and unless you re-check that's going to be a bit of a problem but the cool thing is it's all in one package and these things have been staying at around or hovering around eighty to a hundred dollars in the surplus market and they came in about a hundred and eighty to two hundred remember we picked up a quantities one of you guys some of you guys listening down in Ohio bought a bunch of them probably i connect everybody on this with that that was interested initially we got a big dot the radios when they came in drop ship and several market lot more in the i called the next day i literally called that morning and they were all gone somebody came in as a rent a revolution operative and bought the difference in one lump sold in last but a couple of days we got the initial batch and and then they were gone and the reason is they're complete The cool thing is they come with a headset, a harp type headset with a boom mic. They come with a couple of handsets. You've got all the spares. You don't just have the basics or stuff missing. These were very much accounted for. They are complete. They've got everything with them. They're cool and ready to go. So we're going to do what we can to follow up on that. See what we can find out. As soon as I see them, I will let you know. OK, as soon as I see them, we'll jump on them. The other thing, and this is for all you guys out there listening that have fleck-tarn camouflage, the Belgians adopted fleck-tarn camel back in the 90s, but there was a big outcry because they're saying the German stuff, it looks like the Wehrmacht. Oh, the SS, oh my God. Anyway, I'll tell you what, we're almost to the top of the yard. I better not do this. But anyway, the Flektar got camouflaged parkas $29.95 and they have them in good sizes. In fact, looks like they've got them all the way up to really big kids with like the 6'3 to 6'7 boys with 41 to 45 chest. But these are a large pocket Swedish type parka. Swedish cut which means big pockets well cut all the cool stuff attached where it needs to be Definitely something you want to check out. We should be here in the music. We are going to go to break and We'll be back in just a little bit right here for the second hour of the Intel report Ed string this out a little bit for me of the revolution. Thank you for listening to LibertyTreeRadio.4MG.com. We all need to prepare ourselves. You might have the food, water, gold and silver, but ask yourself, are you truly prepared? That's why you need to visit MainMilitary.com. MainMilitary.com carries everything you need. Gas masks, fire starter kits, high capacity magazines, chemical suits, military surplus items, and much more. Do 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? 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