I had a dream the other night that, well, I didn't understand. A figure walked in through the mist with a flintlock in his hand. His clothes were torn and dirty as he stood there by my bed. He took off his three-cornered hat, and speaking low to me, he said, we've fought a revolution to secure our liberty. We wrote the Constitution as a shield from tyranny. For future generations, this legacy we gave, in this the life and home of the brave. The freedoms we secured for you, we hoped you'd always keep. The tyrants labored endlessly while your parents were asleep. Your freedom's gone, your courage lost, you're no more than a slave. In this, the land of the free, 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 this 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 you traded in your nation You've given government control to those who do you harm so they could burn down churches and seize family farms and keep our country deep. 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 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, but in fear, oh sons of the Republic, defend the Constitution, the Supreme Law of the land? Preserve our great republic in each god given right And pray to God to torture freedom, burning bright As I awoke he vanished and missed for once He came His words were true, not free But we have ourselves to blame For even now as tyrants trampled each god given right We only watch him tremble, too afraid to stand and fight If he stood by your bedside to dream while you were asleep And wondered what remains of the freedoms he fought to keep What would be your answer if he called out from the grave? Build a land of the free. Poor time, R. Kornke. Closer to victory for all of our brothers and sisters in the occupied territories. West pre-radio dot 4mg dot com, Indiana Freedom Talk radio dot com, M&FM micro stations, C-Bay stations, and Ultra Net technologies. West of the Mississippi along with Hallmark Network, Top of Maine, to the bottom of Florida, from the bottom of Florida, across the arc of the Gulf of Mexico, headed Louisiana, Mississippi, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Big Chung in Nebraska, a whole bunch of Wyoming to include both the 3rd, the 5th, and the Pick Cruise, that's the big trucks, the Quarry, and also at the tailing point where they dump the... Also the 3rd station is located at the barracks area, so they've got really a triangular system set up, and they can move anywhere in the area and here, our programming on a regular basis through their micro stations. Over on the left side of Wyoming, 32 sisters but a whole bunch of masks. I've got a picture of about 22 different FM micro masks that they put up based on the PVC design that we know works. I actually mapped it out for the guys, you know, what it's all done on the cheap. You don't cry if it's broken but you know what if you schedule 80 schedule 40, schedule 80 would take your pick. heavier it is, longer it lasts, and one of the tricks is you can actually also fill the thing with cement, or the post with cement, the tubing, which is something that if you water it, you know, slurry it up a little bit, put it inside, it creates a not even more rigid fixture, which is a neat trick. And you don't have to do the whole height, but for a 30-foot mask, you end up with a pretty decent structure that is heavy enough that you can actually handle a person's weight for upper maintenance, which is kind of neat. Anyway, it's a standard X, three post X format system. And the guys have continued to build more. I guess they've got a little production line going at one end to take them out, cement them in, and prep them for when they finally end up with another micro-FM station to set up. So Wyoming is in motion and continuing to do the job. Out there in the left coast, great state of Jefferson, all of their friends all up and down the Pacific side of the Rockies, turning back to the east, we sweep across the plains, leap over the burgeoning banks of the Mississippi, and in the With the restaurant crews, grandma teams, OK teams, and the Ma Bill, Grandma Consortium of retired telecommunications workers bring us a beautiful, you know, it's clearing up actually. Well, I won't say it's clearing. It's less cloudy. We have blue sky spots, but this is like what we've seen the last couple of days. And we see saw back and forth between blue sky overhead and then storm clouds and pouring rain. I'm not expecting either, you know, with any great anticipation, but just plodding along and it looks like it's going to rain again, cover up what you need to that hasn't already been covered up, and wait till it's done, uncover it, and keep right on working. I've got a couple of car projects need to be done, actually. Truck projects, just can't get to them yet, but when I do, help to build us up tactically the way we, everybody should be, you know, focusing on Tuesday. It is the 16th of August, it's the 8th year of open Thebians, Socialists, and Soviets. and problems in their neck of the woods and uh... and the data we needed to continue to track the bad guys so keep it up guys another one of the irish confederate pieces from the civil war so let's do this it's twelve minutes after first of all communications this day uh... might mention the carry bags guys if you're going to use the computer bags here's the other rule of course a lot of more waterproof or water resistant but I carry Ziploc bags of two different sizes in anything like that. Number one, if I get radios and they're going to go into any kind of field operation, especially FRS radios, they're so stinking small. That and there's a whole bunch of new Ziploc bags of different dimensions. One right now is longer than it is wide and it's great for putting radios in. go to the store, go to Meyers or go to Walmart, take your pick and go through the Ziploc bags section. Now, these are not going to be the cheapy cheapy bags. They're going to be a little better made, but considering that you're reusing them, that's a good thing. However, there are different dimensions. Little snack bags are a great way to have something on hand for the smaller earbuds and throat mics and things like that. It doesn't mean you're with size. The idea is to have a Little bundle of those in the bag, you know, slash the carry bag and anything and everything goes into the field should be in the Ziploc bags. And forgive me for not mentioning that earlier, but that's something that is a policy. You know how I've been doing stuff for years? All my electronics is separated that way. If you're looking for wall warts, be keeping them as dry and clean as we can, and I also keep them in individual little, again, sandwich Ziploc bags. Every one of them wherever possible is separated and itemized that way so that they're, again, I can easily access and see what the output is. 9 volt, 12 volt, 6.5, 14.2, whatever the goofy output is for those particular transformers. And I can also easily see which plug, whether it's a Sony plug, those are buggers, large format pin, positive, negative pin, reverse, etc., etc. kitty litter buckets of just 9 volt and 12 volt. The yellow kitty litter buckets are great maintenance buckets for keeping track of large inventories. I do the same with mice, power cords, computer components, etc. If at all possible, like for instance the mice, they automatically go into the Ziploc bags. They're not going to be as exposed, they're not going to get dusty or dirty. When we need them, down the road, we got them. If we have an older piece of equipment, we have the older matching mice to go with the older machine one way or another when other people can't. Those Ziploc bags and rubber bands are a really, really, really good idea. So put those into that computer bag you set up as your radio support bag. However many radios you are going to support, make sure your charging systems are also on board, matched up for it, ready to roll. It may be a very thing we're just talking about, a standard wall work plug that's for a lot of little FR-S radios used. or they do have a little net for sitting up and creating a little management arrangement on a desk or whatever for your radios. That's fine. That works. Either way, whatever you got, just make sure it's sealed and secured from the environment. You're going into the field. It's a combat type situation. And moisture abounds, like we've been seeing the last couple of days. You've got to keep this stuff from getting soaked and wet. You'll have to dry it out. Oxidation will develop if you're not careful. It happens. So you got to be thinking ahead and thinking to win anyway here We go a little more candy and song of the Irish Brigade for everybody out there but for our friends the Georgia's 6th white infantry and CSA and also for our friends Western North Carolina and the guys that are associated with the six so here we go Thank you very much. We appreciate that then supporting Liberty Tree radio of course communications to the whole idea of technology at hand with something else from another department or another idea or concept, another angle. Still technology. I mean bags are very, very reasonable again, almost give away if not throw away if you look in the right locations. And we've seen quite a bit of this a couple of years with the changes in the cell phone. over the phone, it has all kinds of problems. That tiny little screen does get kind of monotonous. Even when you go to a bigger screen, it's still monotonous. Top, which really does make a bit of a difference, but people go swing back and forth. They've got everybody into the small format, you know, tiddly technology again for a bit. That's going to change. I've watched it change three times. We went from, in fact, texting is probably the best example. Guys, We used to call it a bulletin board. And it was really exciting when we could finally start to talk to each other. But wait, we didn't do that because when we had cell phones, we already could talk to each other. And that's why we bought a cell phone. We did not buy a cell phone, so we could try to run a little keypad that's so stinking tiny that it's touchy and doesn't always work right. And then if it gets broken, it's even more obnoxious than before. But we're still texting, oh wait a minute, bulletin boarding like we used to. That's what we used to call it. And we could only type because we couldn't talk. My-how, things have changed. In fact, we shouldn't even have to talk type because if we control our voice and we talk properly, the system is actually set up when the onboard talk to type thing. So you don't even have to use your fingers. But that's again another issue altogether. We're not worried about that. People are getting rid of their computer bags. If you are setting up signal communications in the field, those computer bags are padded, they're armored, they have compartments, they've got multiple pockets and multiple stations. This is wonderful. This means that you can take those FRS radios, all five or six of them, and you can nest them in one area, and then you've got the ability to transport their charging equipment, all the batteries, fair antennas, Ziploc bags, of course, as I said before, need to be in there somewhere, along with rubber bands. Between Ziploc bags, rubber bands, some paperclips, and a few other goodies like maybe a small roll of electrical tape, you've got pretty much everything you need to make some things seal up and work. and weatherize as needed. Something else you need to take into consideration. Don't forget that you're going to probably want either hand mics, throat mics, or whatever you're going to be using. So you need to be able to accommodate those space-wise, and you've got to protect them. Once again, these old computer bags are perfect for the mission. In many cases, they were made out of Cordura. By the way, the system is not buying the materials they were only a few years ago because they're chinsing out everywhere they can. don't let the Cordura products slip through your fingers. They're no, it's like the Gore-Tex, okay? Gore-Tex is already on the out in some ways because they want to chince out on what they give to what they consider expendable troops. So they're going back to the old, you know, shall we say milky-smelly, souring rain gear that we dumped at the end of Vietnam. Now we made it work, but Once they start using Gore-Tex you realize, wow man, this stuff doesn't stink right off the bat. I will tell you that. Okay, the nylon weight ring gear is great provided you air it out, don't roll it up and get it wet. And even then it's kind of like on some kind of time bomb clock. When it goes, it goes. Well, the Cordura is the same way. They're starting to chins out and going to lower ends of conventional nylon and they're not doing anything to fix that, guys. So what we need to do is we need to again save what we can in the Corogura while we can because when it's gone, there won't be any more. Not for a long time if ever. So if you see again, you know, material bags and support bags like this, pick them up and stack them on the shelf. There's any number of different projects. Hey, here's another idea. You guys are all talking about doing demolitions and stuff. You know what's really funny about that? You want to be able to transport this stuff so it doesn't dingy-bouncey around. You know those computer bags are great for that. Once again, I will repeat, they're armored, they're sectioned. They have all kinds of little spaces and zippers and places to store all the junk you need to bring along to go pop pop boom boom either by command or on a timer. So there might be method to the madness. Yes, as a matter of fact, there is. Anyway, as it stands, Take the time, check out what you got in the resale stores, watch especially like the Salvation Army, etc. etc. There's all kinds of locations like that. Whatever's in your area, you know, scour them every once in a while. Launch for OD green gear. There's a bunch of stuff like that that is showing up. And what's really cool is the price typically is right, so you really can't complain about it. I mentioned alkali. Somebody said, you mean the alkali batteries run longer than the rechargeables? Yes, typically they do. Yes. Interestingly enough, now you wouldn't expect that I guess, but fact of the matter is that with the alkali batteries, for whatever reason, again, deeper, deeper initial charge, certainly they can't be recharged. Initial charge means that they'll run for anywhere from almost one full day to two full days depending upon the type of unit you're running, how much output, what is the transmission output of the particular system. Think of how many milliwatts or watts, and watts are the key here. You can actually find some pretty decent time with any of the better Standard they don't have to be named brand Myers Standard knockoffs of whatever it is done by copper top them by the energizer bunny whoever They do work longer now. Can you recharge him? Well, yeah, actually that's a dead story into itself They can be done with a slow solar charger as long as you're patient And I don't throw away batteries that they have even a little bit of charge because he will run an LED light when other things won't Okay But when it comes to being reused then most assuredly, as we know, rechargeables are the solution, but you've got to keep the schedule going and you've got to keep charging things up. This is the most common mistake made over and over and over again when it comes to operations. Again, mixing up batteries. Number them. Mark them and number them. Dots, dashes, you can use, for instance, fingernail polish. That's a good choice. whatever it is that you use to mark them, a permanent marker, a sharpie marker, they mate them up and keep them together. And that way they're not just jumbled around in a box. Well, I think those are the ones I charged. Oh, that's really embarrassing. Well, one's kind of charged, and the other one isn't. Don't worry, they'll equalize, and then they'll run down real fast. If one's up, one's down, it's amazing how the batteries compensate for that. And then they sink. Really? Yeah, we don't want that. Okay, so... Again, prior to proper planning prevents, piss, poor performance. You can use the dot system and you can even use colors. One thing to think about, fingernail polish, comes in colors. You can even do different colors, not just dots, so there's no confusion. Three purple dots is three purple dots. Two yellow dashes are two yellow dashes. You can't confuse them. Color is a good thing. Combined with numbers, there's no possible way you can mix and match and make mistakes. You see how that works? So again, solutions, not just complaining about the problems. Anybody can complain about the problems. The idea is to figure out how to make things work better. Another thing to remember about sealing stuff in bags, a quick reminder you need to inspect things. Okay, somebody's in a hurry that didn't quite burp that bag or didn't seal the bag all the way. You were out in that pouring rain like we had yesterday. You're out there for the whole shebang and you're walking in and you're tired and well before you could just lay down and flop yourself down somewhere if you're coming back into a secure area. You have to go through all your equipment, but more important is this. All electronics need to be inspected, cleaned off, wet, dried down. Everything is necessary. Inspect, pull the batteries, confirm that the battery packs are not wet and or day no damage in any way. Remember, oxidation. Water is your enemy across the board. Oxidation kills your equipment. It's that simple. So you need to do a complete once over. Your night vision, lasers, your flashlights, everything needs to be dried up, dried off, everything needs to be cleaned up. Then you can let it rest. If you're in a military situation or a combat situation, before you close your eyes you've reloaded your mags, you've reactivated all your weapons, resupplied your grenades, made sure your flares, make sure that you're grounded, you know, smoke, everything is there and charge back into your combat load. Make sure that your batteries are up on all your equipment. Then you can sleep. You know what? You'll get real good at doing it quicker, but the most important thing is don't cut any corners, especially with your electronics, or they won't be there when you need them. Each person is going to have to be responsible for their individual electronics. One man cannot do 10 man's worth of work. And if you all do it at once, it takes less time. Everybody inspect it. Some teams even make it mandatory that they go step by step from one item to the next, and they don't cut corners. Everybody, first of all, night vision equipment, check it, pull the batteries, wipe everything down, cotton rag, make sure if there's any moisture covers or anything you can put back on, reinstall them, especially as we start getting into the wet seasons. and then go on to the laser, go on to your flashlight, go on to, and on your rifle. Well, survey's got these doohickeys on their rifles now. The idea behind it, yeah, I know doohickeys. Isn't that nice? That's mean. Okay, well, the goodies. Whatever the latest goodies are. You know, once you add a goodie, it's another maintenance item. Oh, you didn't think about that. It would look cool in the movies. Yeah, and it's another maintenance item. You gotta make sure it doesn't fall off. You gotta make sure it still works. Why are you carrying it if it doesn't work? Looks cool! Does it do anything? If it's broken, you probably should find another one and you better fix it to make it do what it's supposed to do! That probably would be a good idea, wouldn't it? Yeah, you would think so. Oh, well, yeah, I know. I'm just making it terrible for you. But again, with the batteries, this is another reason we don't throw rags away. We don't throw cloth away. If you've got cotton cloth, it's going to be a commodity. Nylon doesn't do it, guys. The Army did this to us years ago. Couldn't find cloth anywhere. What did they do? They went out to the Salvation Army and bought a bunch of rags. What did they buy? Polyester. You ever tried to use polyester to clean equipment with? You know how inefficient that is with regard to sloughing the oil and stuff? You know, it just goos right out because of the weave and the nature of the plastic. Prior prepper planting prevents piss poor performance. Oh, by the way, we didn't have enough oil. So the government went out and bought a 55 gallon barrel of diesel fuel. That's what we were cleaning the weapons with. A 55 gallon barrel of diesel fuel and polyester cloth. Well, that's... Well, that must have been some goofy operation. Yeah, it was the US government. Military operations, the US government, active duty. How do you like that? So for everybody out there, we can do better. But in order for us to do better, we need to plan ahead and we need to have an SOP. Now again, your night vision and pecking order, all of your equipment is outrageously expensive, really, if you bought top of the line. So your night vision is probably a real high priority for first PM. The deal is to say your weapon system because, well, the night vision device, I guess you can see the enemy coming, but the weapon doesn't work. It's kind of, well, I guess it's great to know that you're going to die, but it would be kind of nice to make them die first, which is why you're carrying the weapon system. So again, all of this is pecking order. Most important is before you go to rest, you need to be combat loaded prep ready to go back into combat. Always remember that top to bottom front to back that should be your first rule I don't care how tired you are you go over to the table you pull more mags you go over to the table you pull more ammo you load up the mags you've got Confirm and check to make sure inspect them as you go I go so far and be quite honest you dump the ammunition you have in the weapon in the magazines making sure if they're like partials that everything is squared away with the mag itself introduce the new ammunition below, top off with the original ammunition or take all of the leftover ammunition from the other mags, start topping off separate mags, and those are the priority for usage. Now why? This is something that has been talked about in SOP operations for years. You don't know how long you're going to carry ammo, but people have a tendency to get fatigued and tired, and you've got to be thinking ahead. Consume the oldest exposed ammunition that's been in the field whenever possible first. If you're in a fighting situation or even if you're in training, if you've got stuff that's been on standby, if it's loaded up in the mags, well, progressively, that will be the first that you take to the range next time you go to the range or whenever you haven't scheduled, and you cycle other ammunition from your inventory into your standby mags for your Minuteman operations. The same is true with combat operations in general. You're going to inspect the mags as you go, be they plastic, aluminum, or steel, Confirm that there's no dings, pings, something didn't get shot you didn't notice. That's kind of embarrassing. But make sure that everything is squared away, reintroduce the magazines into the system, and prioritize again where the consumables should be first. Those that are longest in service should be used first in terms of ammunition. Also, again, maintenance in the field, well again there's a couple solutions there but we've talked about this, lens cleaning and optical electronic maintenance, you can make up a small kit for that which you really do need but you're going to need to make sure that all of your perishables in terms of for instance wiping cloths and such make sure that you have the proper material you can't be scratching or scraping up or damaging those optical collection lenses, those systems that are in place, you start digging them up and scratching them up, you're going to see some major issues real fast. There's no reason for that. Think ahead, make sure that you've got the proper maintenance systems, subsystems set up for infield use. Again, the electronics especially are most sensitive. Yes, they've been ruggedized, but not enough. In fact, eventually they're going to get scratched. It's going to get dinged. It happens. I've got one rifle night vision system that has been in the field probably for thousands of hours in terms of field motion, but only hundreds of hours of actual operational use, but it was carried everywhere. And it shows that Star Wars lived in look. And it's got a few pings and dings because every once in a while, you know, you're working it at night, you're moving across country and you've got the shields off and you've got everything in motion. There's natural occurring disasters that take place all the time. Okay, just that simple. So you need to be prepared for that. And you need to make sure again that you can increase the lifespan of all this technology by not abusing it now while we have the opportunity to maintain it properly. Okay? Anyway, a little more ear candy for everybody out there. The Irish volunteer for our friends and for the other side of the fence, I guess, two lots. But for everybody out there, again, We've got a lot of work to do. Music should be in your inventory. It's Communications Tuesday. Part of this is, again, it passes the time. It actually creates a meter and a pace for work. That's something most people don't think about. Amazing how time passes. A tedious task can be shortened mentally, psychologically, the way we perceive it simply by having other tools in the inventory. Not so much distract the mind, but keep the mind at pace. So anyway, here we go, a little more ear candy for our friends out there and for Robert and Hal. Because as soon as they heard the first piece, it was like, oh, Mark will play that? Well, then let's play this. Okay, here we go. The volunteer is sung by David Kincaid. David Kincaid, if you're looking for it. The Irish volunteer. if I've got, yeah, I got the time, but I'm gonna throw one more piece up here because there was another request. You know, we mentioned a number of different groups. How many of you know about the, everybody knows about the 7th Cavalry. I've even played, you know, again, yeah, theme of the 7th, y'all recognize that. Theme of the 5th Cavalry. Well, you do realize that not all the cavalry of the U.S. military got wiped out with Custer's last stand there, boys. That was the 7th. But there were in other whole cavalry formations across the west. And of course down there at Fort Wegotcha you had the Buffalo Soldiers, that was the black cavalry detachment that was deployed down in the southwest up against Cochise. And you're also famous in the later stages of know that Guys that's straight up and down conditions. In fact, you could be looking right across at somebody you could put bullets on them You could shoot at somebody across to reasonably do you know short distance a couple three four hundred yards? Take you half the day to get to them because you're across on the other side of a ravine that's straight down Straight up again, you know, you can't get there from here and this kind of incident in action is what took place Another thing that I should point out, you know, I think the only movie that's accurate about this of all He's the outlaw Josie Wales. Do you remember when the two guys that were ranch hands got taken by, you know, 10 Bears? Have you ever paid attention to the rifles that the Indians were carrying? Do you notice that most of them were carrying three band? In fact, even 10 Bears had a three band Springfield, old muzzle loader, cap and ball. There we go, well what good would that do? Well it reached farther than the average cavalry carbine and I would point out that a lot of cavalry units were wiped out by Indian formations because the Indians, the native population, used longer range firearms because they typically purchased, in some cases, older weapons but cartridge guns after the war were certainly something the military wanted. but the government didn't have the money or didn't want to spend the money on because they had several different cartridge programs in place. So another thing you probably don't know about is that each cavalry formation in many cases had their own special firearms, their own special cartridge guns. But it goes, what? In fact, they didn't waste anything that had been developed from the Civil War. Whole units were equipped with pre or early stage cartridge guns, pre-Civil War guns. until since time as the inventory of ammunition was depleted or almost depleted then they phased them out in favor of going to newer weapons that were standardized on like the Spencer and others that you're so familiar with. Each of these formations though typically went with and carried the cavalry slash the carbine version of the weapons that were normal, normally long barreled rifles. Guess what? Many, many times many actions where total failures for the cavalry, most common trick chased by a superior Indian forces, get across the river and then return fire. Problem is, the Indians were across the river, but they could reach farther with the rifles they were using, so they continued to inflict heavy casualties, while the cavalry carbine could not return fire effectively. Sound familiar, like I've tried to explain to you? Yeah, as a matter of fact, it's true. Well, again, just as a case in point, most all of these cavalry units had the lighter weapons based upon the philosophy of heavy cavalry, or, you know, again, fast attack cavalry units, saber, you know, again, pistol and light rifle slash carbine. It was a big problem for them until standardization caught up, and that really didn't take place until after the 1870s. Even in the time of Custer at the Little Bighorn, most of the units still had a hodgepodge of firearms in service and not everybody was compatible with each other. Were one unit to be side by side with the next, they couldn't necessarily share or supply ammunition to each other. They didn't have the same firearm and they all had short rifles. Anyway, going to throw this little piece of air candy in for our friends and for those with a fifth. and or who remember the fifth and all other units that use this particular piece of the girl I left behind me. You might think about it, you've heard this song in several variations just like I've played the vocal, the actual version of the song that is known as the theme of the 7th Cavalry in several different formats. Well here we go, anyway, one more ear candy for me before we lose the hour. Have units, as you better be pulling me music in matches repertoire, you know, again, should match the formation that you're a part of. Make sure that you have a grand expanded bouquet of music, especially traditional music. We're supposed to be promoting our heritage. That's the only thing I ask. Everybody pitch in and help with that. Maybe you've got a record collection or a cassette collection that's got some of the classic stuff from the bicentennial period, but by independence of stuff out there that's really a lot rarer than most people realize, mostly is collectible. Centennial, forgive me, the Centennial of the Civil War, keep doing that bicentennial, Centennial of the Civil War, period afterwards. So there's a lot of cool music out there. We need to actually get it up and out where people can hear it and share it, whatever possible. Last but not least, Again, with signal communications guys making backups, here's the thing. Watch yard sales for CB radio handheld units, even the kiddie radios. I grab all of those. I've got probably, I'd say close to a hundred of the little kiddie radios that are two channel. They do a quick switch out, make sure the batteries are pulled, check to make sure everything is connected tight, don't lose the back plates. Even if the back plates are gone or whatever is missing, grab them. Those little handheld radios make a second or third backup radio grid. They can also create a distraction. Remember, there's a number of different tricks here to the trade, but we need hardware. So anyway, radios, you run into, grab them. Any wireless multi-pack telephone systems that are like where you've got two, three, or four of the cordless handheld, they can be clipped to your belt in many cases. Phone systems that are built for houses they actually have two or three of the units so they can work as walkie-talkies And they can work as phones they work into the phone set, but even when they do because they're cordless they are a transceiver unit guys They usually have walkie-talkie option, but they're a transceiver unit from the get-go How do you think they were operate in a wireless format there a radio? Grab all of those that you can, box them up. Again, if there's anything plugged in, unplug the batteries. Try to save them just in case, because stuff is getting bounced around. Maybe you don't pack it. Maybe somebody doesn't pay attention. Power switch is on. You know, why burn something down when we can actually have it prepped? In many cases, we might even have a little juice left in it to use, even if it's been sitting for a little bit. Okay? Every little bit of power counts. Everything that's already been earned whenever possible, we need to try and keep it. It's already been paid for as they say. Now, about those little radios, I try to sort them out by type of battery. A bunch of them are 9 volt battery units and actually have a pretty good little output even though they're not real fancy. They typically have one or two channels. Some may have up to five channel options. They're already preset. It depends on when they were built. The micro FM radios I keep separate. These are just little They were built years ago from the 60s, 70s, 80s. Quality will vary, color will vary, some look very modern, some are designed to look space age, some are a little goofy. Don't care about whether or not they're pretty on the outside. Paint will cover all of that. Tactical paints and a couple more coats, make sure you don't destroy the controls. And lo and behold, you have a tactical radio. works just fine. And again, it's limited, but remember we've got medical support, we've got logistics support personnel, we need to be able to work command and control operations with them. Mostly it's short range management and re- or into deployment or redeployment or recovery. So a radio net using this equipment will be fine, it'll work just fine. And what it does, it takes weight off the other radio technology that's more sophisticated. So just something to take into consideration there. Not expensive. Watch the grab boxes. Baby monitors are another one. I've mentioned this before and I'll mention it again. Baby monitors. They're transmitters, guys. Transceivers. They will work both ways. They've got a voice talk option. They've got a send option. So you can use them as a, again, LPOP collection transceiver. or again, receiver, take your pick depending on how you're applying them, but there's all kinds of other gimmick items out there that definitely are worth acquiring, especially when they're in the freebie box or if you get them for a dollar, one dollar's worth of electronics, you never know what you're going to find under the hood, so to speak. Also, again, watch their recycled bins where people toss stuff out. I have gotten so much equipment that way, it's just unbelievable. I mean, it's just to the point where it's like, it's a gimme thing, it just piled up. Don't forget that, again, if you're going to be doing that, try to itemize and separate, but always watch for the little tidbits and widgets that usually fall off or might be nearby. If it looks like it's attached to something else but it's not, pick it up, take it with you. It might be applied to the thing you're holding and you just don't know what it does yet, just as a basic rule. Put it in your odds and ends box or a bag with that radio, you know, a little Ziploc bag again. When the time comes and you've got more time to sort stuff out, you'll have everything you need there on hand. Well we are almost to the top and we should have Joe from the Carolinas coming up next guys. With Wade looking here last, well what, four days ago we had little cubs for a plant. They plant. You've got idea how tropical it's been here in Michigan. We are, the gardens are cranking out. Fantastic tomatoes, the peppers have gone wild, the tomatillos are excellent, and the pumpkins down the road doubled in size in the last 48 hours. I just went by them today and oh my goodness, we are going to be up to our eyeballs in really good and cheap food. We just got to be ready for it when it shows up. God bless the republic. Death of the New World Order. 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