September 9, 2014
Evening Show
59m
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Radio Episode
2014
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Summary
Mark Koernke discussed military surplus equipment and preparedness supplies, including MOLLE2 cargo frames and radio backpack systems available from Copes Distributing, with detailed pricing and specifications for building functional radio operator rigs. He also provided an extended recipe for a homemade herbal tincture using peppers, garlic, and ionic silver, emphasizing ingredient sourcing and preparation methods. The episode was interrupted by technical difficulties with station computers, requiring brief troubleshooting with producer Ed.
- molle2 gear
- cargo frames
- radio backpack
- military surplus
- prc 77
- copes distributing
- preparedness
- herbal tincture
- ionic silver
- cayenne pepper
- self-sufficiency
- equipment
- radio operator
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Live 365. of the Gulf of Mexico, headed to Louisiana, Mississippi, Texas, Oklahoma, big chunk of Nebraska, a whole bunch of Wyoming to include both the 3rd, the 5th, the 5th, and our friends in the recall state of Colorado. Waiting for the left coast, we have the great state of the plain Zulip over the burgeoning banks of the Mississippi and land in the smokies, slash the bluebirds. With the restaurant crews, the teams, OK teams, and the Ma Bell Grammar Consortium of retired telecommunications workers, bring us the Golden Spots. like. And remind everybody, well, 2004, try to get everything on and down the road, down that needs to be beefy. That's going to be a beefy month with a whole bunch of activities. We've got Knob Creek Machine Gun Shoe, Konya Conference. We also have a series of competition shoots here up at the Ogham Arranges that are going to be quite extensive. And I understand that everybody that's going to be participating is looking at scheduling additional training in light of what we see going on out west with other people with regard to it. I'm going to But in addition to that, it used to be the old cargo frames, both in aluminium, which are kind of hard to find by comparison to the bowback wood frames, which are early Vietnam, and go actually all the way back to all World War II. They're a cargo pack. I've got a couple of rigs, actually. One of the radio rigs I've got in PRC 77 is set up just like it would have been during Vietnam. I wore it at the end of the war, and after the war, I collected all the parts while I was in service. And the radio's got a PRC 25 and PRC 77 for about 60, $70 during that window back in the 80s. And because people didn't know what to do with them or didn't know as much about them, we know what I carried in service of laminate plywood. Some of you may not have seen these. You can look them up, look up cargo frames, military cargo frames, Vietnam era. The aluminum ones come into the middle of the war and later and the biggest reason that a lot of people didn't have a whole lot of exciting things to say about the aluminum ones is because they were stock tubular square aluminum. And the problem is, not when they first were issued, but as you use them, they start to get tinny. They start to wear out. they make more noise than all the rest of your equipment combined so the first thing you did is you when they started to get tired or when you got new ones coming in is you broke out the hundred mile an hour tape that you could find in colors if there was any or you'd break out the electrical tape and you'd wrap the joints and connector points after you'd set it up so it'd pick what you were doing you'd tape everything up and you'd silence everything so it looked pretty messy but it It worked really well because it was lightweight. The aluminum ones were very well built in terms of the idea. They just didn't think out the wear and tear issues. Clank, clank, clank, clank, clank, clank, clank, clank, clank, clank, clank, clank, clank, clank, clank, clank, clank, clank, clank, clank, clank, clank, clank, clank, clank, clank, clank, clank, clank, clank, clank, clank, clank, clank, clank, clank, clank, clank, clank, clank, clank, clank, clank, clank, clank, clank, clank, clank, clank, clank, clank, clank, clank, clank, clank, clank, clank, clank, clank, clank, clank, clank, clank, cl 30 caliber ammo cans loaded up or whatever you want to cargo in. Sea rations, etc. Well, the reason I bring that up is for building a new radio rig. A radio platform, let's see, fall clearance at copesdistributing.com. They've got in the three colors, they actually have all of it either brand new or used. They have everything you need to put together a backpack system or build a radio rig up. Molly frames. Guys, Ford orders a 99 cents for the ACU or to work with the Air Force camo, but it's a stage green so it works pretty much with everything. In this case, tan, oh no, forgive me, they say they're tan, but if they're tan, man, either they really did this in a dark shoot or it's a coyote brown into the tank. Five dollars apiece, I really don't care. If need be, I'd break out spray paint and break up the color on sale for quite a time, because they probably got a pile of them. It is the MOLLE2 molded waste belts in the three colored desert. Now they're $7 for the waste belt and they've got the frame for $5 and I mean it's like that's a giveaway price. Now you still need a set of suspenders and they do have them in the matching pattern. Now if you want to go one step farther, if you want to backpack it with the frame. For $10 they've got a matching camouflage desert camo back. For $10 you get the back, you get the kidney pad. $7 you get the kidney pads and for $5 you get the frame. If you're just looking for a frame to do a radio board pack radio system which can be more than one radio in this day and age because of the dash cam type radios, dash mounted radios. If you go to and again I'll remind you that they said we've had them on sale quite the frame is let me give you an item number here. I'll eventually work this out. Everybody's always exciting for having me. MEZ-B2-S. M-E-Z-B-C-Sail-Molly-2-TAN-Gen liquidation right now guys in all colors. Brand new, typically there's piles of them stacked up. These are brand new. They were offering these in a package deal. You can buy a pallet of them for a case of these backpacks. What they go if they able to find out. Also have the kidney pads and again those are in the in the brown range bomber and they have the suspenders and I believe the suspenders are brand new. MOLLE-2, in the sealed bag, quick release and ladder lock part. Lightweight load carrying equipment made in the USA by Specialty Defense Systems, probably with a slave operation. Suspender set for $15. So you're looking at $15 for the suspenders, new. Looking at $5 for the frame, new. And I believe that the back, the kidney pad, older brand new also. So you're getting all brand new. You're getting the DCU colors. And there's your basic kit, now as far as how you affix the material. Two ways that we've gone with holes into. The other is light duty, you know, not light duty, forgive me. Light weight, say a single panel. Cut it around the edges, the corners, you know, around the edges, sand everything down. Paint it to whatever color spec you want. And then, whichever you're gonna do to it. Remember that, I've sent these out before, I haven't done this in a while. Using a combination of existing off-the-shelf existing CB 2 meter or six radio six meter being very military a Mobile antenna unit that can be magnum outed so that you can actually have extra coax running with it constantly a couple different tricks there you go with a short bobtail on it and then again having a coax wrapped around the base board You know again, so it's on the kit when the time to line right there. You can string it out run the antenna up to some something higher, get height, stay down below, out of sight, out of mind. And you've got yourself the ability to reach as a mobile unit, could be completely functional, backpack mounted, and headsets and everything else are available that would work with the CB without any problem or the 6 meter radios. including even the newest stuff that you're seeing with the military is applying. But there's a lot of that stuff that's not the latest and greatest, but virtually every...they've reinvented the wheel. Most of the stuff that's presently being used in the field in Afghanistan and in Iraq, or has been used in Iraq, is stuff that we had 20 years ago, guys. They just got new contracts. So you can find Surplus, new in the box, from the 80s and 90s that will perform the same mission, do the same job, and you can either get double head cones or a single head cone like an aviator pilot set. They make them both ways, but one of the very parts has a single headphone over one ear. Boom mic is industrial and comes down, busts the head and there's a rest on the other side, but there's a second ear cleaner to be able to hear what's going on with the radio activity. Also hear what's going on inside the cockpit or inside the aircraft in general. very popular with people who have six-per-seat, you know, single compartment aircraft. They're able to talk in squat, but you can also hear what's going on if somebody has a question and they're inside the aircraft proper. That kind of headset works exceptionally well with the type of system we're talking about. Building, and yes, they are available and they're industrial grade, they're robot, they're not poorly made, in fact just reverse. And Fair Radio has several examples of these that are either mated or unmated with regard to their connectors. Some come raw and you have to add the connector to match to your radio set, which is not a big deal. Or you can buy them specific to if they match up with the system that you have. And remember, there's three-pin, four-pin, and five-pin connectors. I think as much as anything, it's not you're getting better quality. It was just that they had different ways of selling products, backing it for special. Anyway, it's not a real super issue with regard to mono or stereo. I can listen to mono all day while droning at me anyway. I really don't need stereo quality when I'm listening to somebody yapping at me on what should be a radio operator's monotone anyway over. So, just something to consider. As far as the MOLLE gear, remember the cool thing is if you're building up a radio operator's backpack, uh... the one thing about the molly gears man they put molly keeper stations everywhere there are a lot on the belt there are that base of the uh... packs there are the side of the pack throughout the wraparound everywhere so if you want to add additional molly your pockets to you know you know get out your rig it is not difficult to quickly adapt your your system to your needs now another example of uh... you don't have to go that that we have I don't think you have the suspenders, but for instance, suspenders used in ACU, they have the backpack in ACU, but it's the larger bag it looks like anyway. And ACU parts and pieces are all over the place. There are a drug on the market and there's going to be more and more of them. So if ACU works on the border for you, then use it down on the border. It'll work out just... Otherwise, it's equipment that's co-distributing.com, C-O-P-E-S dot... tributing.com. P-E-S is... that's T-I-S-T. understand the basic rules and things. And we've had one of these outbreaks. Remember that silver is not a counter virus. It goes in and should not affect your metabolism. Will not damage your system. Unless you again, if you have to use heavy, if you use heavy amounts. I'm talking, I know beyond a shadow of a doubt, for instance. Silver is formula right now. Thank you. Very good to Collins and Brandy. vodka should work as well for at least, but it must be at least any proof. We've used vodka. instead of brandy for the white apple of batches because the vodka is cheap. The important thing is the proof level with regard to it. Thank you for posting that JD in the chat room. Again, it's got enough time. I can barely get this out, but I'm going to do it. One pound of fresh jalapeno or habanero pepper. 80,000 BTU cayenne pepper. Three head, God, we chai chop the garlic. Oh, I love this. Okay, go ahead, Ed. I know a lot of people have been trying to get a hold of me about static coming from the station. The problem is I just had one of the computers die on me. I've been trying to get it back up and I didn't realize that whatever happened affected the other computer at the time. I might need you to run a little overdad or run Joe up without running any music. Or joking. I'll tell you what, if Joe's going to hook up, he can overlap with me and close with me. How's that sound? Well, yeah, I hope you guys are like you on everybody needs to know I'm just gonna call Skype it I'll give you a call on Skype in just a couple of minutes. Okay? So we're standing by very good Again, then we're gonna have to get a computer to add ASAP, right? Yeah, and unfortunately, this isn't the one that was overheating. This is a quad core Interesting. I'm not sure if I think it's the power supply that's died on it. So it's whole other issue. I was not aware curry powder, one pound of fresh jalapenos or if preferred habanero, I like either one. Three cups 80,000 BTU cayenne pepper, three head garlic fresh chopped fine, one cup red hot pepper seeds, one cup red hot pepper seeds, two cups of myrrh gum powder dissolved, two gallons of brandy, however, that should work as well. Now you can do a half batch on this guys, because two gallons of vodka means you're making a double, we use one gallon clear glass jars. Two gallons of brandy vodka will work just as well, but it has to be 80 proof. Half gallon, two bottles of water, one quarter cup. Celtic salt was recommended by a local health food store for a substitute. But Celtic salt, if you can find it, you know, Celtic slash Celtic salt, take your pick. Stir and marinate for 14 days. daily. In other words, you know, jiggle it up kids. Three gallons of product. Repeat, repeat. Much salt. Celtic salt slash sea salt. If you can't get Celtic salt, which most places do have, then you can get sea salt and it will work just as well. Salt the last batch. And I'll do this again at 8 o'clock. In fact, we need to do this. I'm going to make sure that we repeat this again on the air so that way it gets out more. As with all... Please stand by while we try to reconnect. ...the standard factory, take your pick. We've used both. The garlic, right now garlic is in its own. It's cheap. There's lots of it. The better American-grown garlic, that's where the health food stores are kind of handy. The red hot pepper seeds, that's pretty obvious there. By the time you're done with what you're already seeing in the recipe, you're going to be cooking your palate, okay? In addition to that, you've got the mergum, two gallons of brandy, or vodka. Again, the vodka has to be greater than 80 proof, which is not a hard thing to do and still go cheap. Again, you're looking for the alcohol. That works to create the tincture. That's where everything is bonded together using the alcohol. Okay? The ingredients, it leeches out of all the material and allows it to blend. Again, the water, you go to www.wateroc.com. The Ionic Silver is recommended. Originally the Doc McFind and the other manuals Joey Silver, also known as Ionic Silver because it is the finer particleized, works exceptionally well. You can use regular colloidal silver, but the Ionic Silver is a better choice. better in general for you to make i i i i i i had cordial over that's what i'm going to use a many years but the i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i And one of the critical, well of course you know, or the history of garlic, you know the history of cayenne, curry, come on, look at the ingredients here on this. We're looking at pretty much...