May 27, 2021
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1h 5m
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2021
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Mark Koernke discussed radio equipment and mobile communication systems, including CB radios, linear amplifiers, and antenna configurations for militia and preparedness purposes. He fielded caller questions about powering high-wattage amplifiers (1600 watts) in vehicles using auxiliary battery systems, solar panels, and generators. The show covered technical specifications for various radio units, coax cable quality, shielding requirements, and military vehicle surplus options for establishing mobile command posts. Koernke emphasized proper grounding, connector quality, and power management strategies used by the military.
- cb radio
- linear amplifier
- mobile communication
- antenna
- battery systems
- coax cable
- shielding
- military vehicles
- preparedness
- radio equipment
- power supply
- generator
- solar panels
- militia
- signal transmission
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Constitution, you know the right to bear arms is because that's the last form of defense against tyranny Not to hunt to protect yourself from the police anybody that wants to disarm me can drop dead Anybody that wants to make me unarmed and helpless people that want to literally create the proven places Called gun-free zones. We've got a box or sucking my machine. Yeah, not again. The light is good. What do we do politicians? Look, okay, just get any blunt-off checks together, alright? If you get corners, bash him in the head, that seems to work out. Kick together, stay sharp, and follow me. 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. 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 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. This number you 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 so their children won't 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 to live in fear? 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 in each God-given right, and pray to God to keep the torture freedom bringing bright. As I awoke, he'd 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 Tyrant trampled each God-given right, we only watch him tremble, too afraid to stand and fight. If he stood by your bedside in a dream while you were asleep and wondered what remains of the freedoms he'd fought to keep, what would be your answer if he called out from the grave? Is this still the land of the free? in our valleys there's danger and there's danger in our hills oh here you're not just singing of the views of wild and free soon you'll know the ringing of the rifle from the tree oh the rifle oh the rifle in our hands will prove no joyful We may ride a goodly speed, you may know it's a turn of after. Your forward march with speed, but you'll learn the back much faster when you meet our mountain boys. And the leader John Stark glad to make those little noise and all we've hit the mark. Oh, the rifle, oh, the rifle, in our hands we'll prove Noah's rifle. Man you know graves at home, back across the briney water, and hidden you must come, like bullets to the floor. But if we the job must do, then sooner it is begun. If sentence figure hold a buck through, the clickers will be done. Oh the rifle, oh the rifle, in our hands will prove no to rifle. Oh the rifle, oh the rifle, in our hands will prove no to rifle. ladies and gentlemen this is the evening intelligence report time our court date one day closer to victory for all of our brothers and sisters bond and behind the lines and occupied territories northwest south southeast and uh... central isn't that when you're listening to us on liberty tree radio dot four m g dot com liberty tree radio on satellite and we are out in the different micro stations cv bay stations and all trod net hallmark and golden spike technologies east and west of the mississippi along with alaska good afternoon to all of our friends out there at lower forty nine including great saturday or so on with konos the outline to state territories and the clock it is five ten p m eastern standard time thursday twenty seven to may it is the thirteen-year-old and baby and socialist and soviet socialist occupation of of america with the k two thousand twenty one older calendar two thousand twenty one battle for the republic the dance of swords but the battle began and uh... couple things straight off the bat here it is thursday of course and we're going towards weekend already was a high to the uh... camp emmer king cap emerson facilities i understand we have construction going on work culverts that were uh... donated before i guess for the during uh... more installation while we have a bit of a dry spell post get some moisture here probably happening already some i don't know if we're gonna cancel i don't think they will but uh... what if you hide because the micros are open online there right now along with cb channel eleven so if you reach out all of them are so you hide or guys there they're testing one of the new uh... cb relay stations and they'll be running that for about three four hours nonstop cuz i want to tell you what a test endurance will we do that we set up a uh... heavily cold and modified cb base for that very recent cup of the morning blood or in the evening it's actually in cool out there we have to win the one i don't know if we're gonna get some uh... stormy weather or we're just getting some action awful lake i have to look at the weather pattern i have a chance to do that yet but uh... uh... what i say like you could be like michigan like you're on like to say cool air degrees summer standards were not quite the summer yet were okay In addition, of course, we do have a pattern from the south and those two are butting heads probably, so yeah, we're going to get some dynamic weather. The wind is blowing a little bit. Anyway, see number one for Todd. Got the 250 amp image and the information, but I didn't get another image earlier for the other piece. I didn't, or what? I got the one individual email from you, but the second one came in just fine. The one doesn't have any data imagery or anything like that, so just a heads up. If there was another with another image, I need to go ahead and send that to me, please. Otherwise, over on eBay, and these are brand new, was mentioned during the 2R Block Rocket Box, HD250, in black. It's very important, you gotta understand, you know, it costs you two more dollars for silver. That sounds weird, but it's when you see it emphasizing black. it's like a lot anyway six available to report eight i mean i can do the battle that one without common core and and with common core method be twenty four six plus two would be twenty four i know it's close to get me feel good i think i got more things that way right even though it's not real anyway uh... let me read real quick here is kind of a cool package again relatively small uh... for what it is and rocket uh... high drive uh... two fifty uh... obviously ten to twelve meter unit uh... what's uh... in two point five what key dead key with a twenty five uh... max pep uh... for four output of two hundred twenty five watts uh... whether or not that's what you'd actually read off the end of the antenna you'd have to experiment and a couple things they're also shielding let's remind everybody you can spend better money on coax going out to the antenna and there is commercial two and three three insulator layer slash multi shielded coax line and that will allow you to get most all of your power to the antenna just kind of cool but anyway sidebar all RB units are under 30-day warranty from factory except transistors due to Operator error are you going to operate or error and do some of the things I told you not to do remember first of all We don't plug the power in until every make sure the power switch is always in the oh, but just as a precaution Let's not plug anything in power wise until we have the antenna hooked up on connected everything is double-checked and Grounded some issues grounding do it talked about that earlier with you know again independent and committed ground line And then we put the power to the wall. We plug in and look for the wall lightning. And then we carry on. Anyway, this unit will last a lifetime if ran to the rocket box spec. We'll see our high SWRs, high voltage, and over-driving will cause the transistors to blow and that you will not have any issues. If there is something you don't understand, just ask us or contact the factory. All warranty repairs. go to rocket box paper off but might be in the battle i have to work on that one but anyway uh... cool little unit uh... for the price hundred seventy nine dollars or six in stock that they say at this point in time hundred seventy nine ninety nine all for a penny and think you think they're pretty dollars and it's uh... over it beyond ebay uh... punch in a rocket box space hd two five zero space both yeah black critical It does cost you more. It really does. For silver. It really does. I'm always amazed by that. I don't care what radio company it is. If you want silver, it's gonna... sometimes three. But another thing real quick. It was kind of cool over the weekend. I did get picked up a... well actually two of them were freebies and there's nothing wrong with either one of them. A neat thing is that the SWR won't do it because it can't afford it. more than one radio but if you keep an eye out nowadays you can find yourself uh... antenna s w r analyzer uh... usually the preview box last one i paid for paid two dollars for kim serious nineteen eighties you know uh... playing jane unit uh... no meter readers as far as it's all uh... analog dial it and uh... you know what's supposed to be were supposed to be uh... and of course you have the standard you know actual gate okay you have the uhh... automatic system uh... otherwise see what else did they have those interesting oh yes uh... and genine or gen... no just genine not genine okay uh... yeah over at uh... ebay that's where the twenty uh... x balcon bf eighty eight you know eight eighty eight eight eight eight i want to eight eighty eight eight eight eight five watt two-way radio u h f four hundred to four seventy megahertz twenty of them for one hundred sixty nine ninety nine now those are the bundle radios we were talking about before and there are a number of different variations out there of the other company that everybody keeps sending a couple emails out of the ritivists also everybody but a bunch of people from different points of the compass far as i can see and i haven't had a chance to pry the lid open on one uh... it looks to me because of where the controls are that the ritivists uh... h seven seven has made the same factory as the others on but i don't I've seen this before. And it is, again, just another name out there because people bad mouth and mouth young. So if you're smart, you make another brand name. Retievous. Or, you know, you know, nectulous. Or, take your pick. And everybody goes, well, that's not well, Fong, it's blah, blah, blah. Well, yeah, but, and of course you have to go through the process of what we do and explain that on the outside it looks different, but where all the controls are, it's the same. And when you open up the hood, it's the same. And it looks like it's the same factory. but the prices are still very good therefore the uh... effect a little better for the are the repeat this models are record this take your pick you tomato tomato uh... h seven seven seven or take a look at the options to which one poacher boat or makes more sense but if you're looking for bottle radios for your militia unit or for you know your family slash retreat unit that's the place to go anyway um... uh... mark or a court of an air give me a quick like uh... i'd uh... i got your break but uh... uh... so we were talking about the rock-and-box and could you get a chance to look at the picture of the pmc that i had uh... it didn't uh... come through yet but you that you've got a notation but there's no image so if you could shoot that again partial well that uh... she only gave up on on the on the other items of a rocket box of a career Okay, so you think that looks like a decent unit? It looks like really the controls are in the same place that a Palomar would be. Exactly. Well, it's either, first of all, remember, it's a Kiss Simple design. So either it's a Pontiac, you know what I mean? In other words, made the same factory, but with a different logo. Or somebody who just shamelessly said, I can make that. and they crank it out. What's interesting, if you read the disclaimer, which is something we've talked about forever, but it's like they're really, really, really hammering at it because some people are, you know, they're not as familiar with radio. And I've pointed out in the past that transistors are, you know, an exceptional weak point. Diodes are always an issue when it comes to EMP or over power. But you'll notice they do two full disclaimer lines that remind you that, you know, don't screw with this thing, you know, don't mess it up past specs. last a lifetime but if you do otherwise well the transistor or is the the weak point in terms of tweaking the system and this is another reason for no again a greater number of filter buffer you put a number of other uh... uh... tripables not terrible uh... fuses uh... up and down the system even on board you can do that uh... that's what a lot of your bridges are for actually people don't realize that but When you see these little hairline bridges, rather than doing a piece of, say, brace stock or material, the idea behind that is that when power surges down the board, those become fusible links. They'll fry, they'll cook with the energy on down the board. So what it is is you may get a partial failure board, but it won't necessarily burn out critical components. That's an old trick. you know long ago we used to be a person who we were doing if you were doing well everybody's by thank but taught i mean for recently they've for as long as i've been around we would take uh... and make all your jumpers and bridges off of wreckage that you have off other components and people who say if you want to be a little more robust little heavier but you don't have a it's like no why is there why are there different gauges of wire uh... if you use a you know the fundamentally smaller component or narrow real better but better stock you can also shave it and there's a couple other tricks to actually make it more sensitive uh... it will handle the standard load but if something starts to push down the line and remember it takes me longer to talk about it than does work to happen right you hear that pop-up well that brings up another question and by the way i just sent an email recently again i must have forgotten attached the picture but i was just senate You've got bigger amps that, for example, the Texas Star Sweet 16, that's 1,600 watts. Right. It's like a 12 or 1,500. They've got a $1,600 model with built-in fans. My question is, at what point, if you do put that in your vehicle, do you need extra batteries? and also uh... actually i think you guys with like a a whole row of alternators and they've got a little bit more often is that well it would happen here's what you do we have bigger cars uh... you what you do is you upgrade to a catalog if you had a job if you had a gm you'd upgrade to a Cadillac or heavy truck alternator to begin with mob the other thing is you've got the idea right where you would basically mimic uh... what we do with the u.s. military a radio like a dead at eight ninety will actually they made eighty and i made ninety which are gas uh... ball have three batteries under the uh... put interestingly enough to have those batteries are for only one purpose radio support i thought i love the m eighties in the m eight uh... m eight nineties because uh... the date ninety two-wheel drive the eight eighties four their dodge trucks so what they did is they helped understand something we know what the guys used to do is modify big body car or like to get a bourbon suburban or popular for radio trucks and needles to save and band don't offer you the space under the hood though for adding batteries to get a part of the battery battery repack in the private band which is in a good place you know because of your papers with and core slash conventional car batteries if you think feel battery system does not as much of an issue in the past nowadays Personally, I like the idea of long-nosed truck or a suburban type vehicle. Older square bodies are great. There's still a bunch of them around. And you basically mimic because you can buy the battery pan. You can still buy most of the under-the-hood components and with the M880 you had and it's basically what the guys were doing custom. They would, off one of the other flywheels, take another armature off like a heavy truck, toward two fifty or you know like uh... well big chevy network i've got you know like what is it the it was with twenty five hundred back in the day come up basically the camper package that would be a good example take uh... you take a heavier alternator of one of the camper packages or one of the tow package units they had an armature that came up off to the side you took that off mama that on your engine ran a traditional pulley and there's your additional for charging up the batter keep everything up to the back of three batteries under the hood Two batteries to support and the other battery base always tied in to you know to provide additional power. Oh, well Now it is no just go go ahead. Go ahead. Forgive me. I just can't say I've the setup I have about 10 years ago. I bought a van which was used as a DEA surveillance van and they had this with some government auction and Didn't have a lot of miles on it and I got it for really cheap the back of it It was set up for like surreptitious surveillance and they had a fake ladder rack on it with 70 centimeter antennas in there for communication. And the thing, although it was decommissioned, you know, all the wires were cutting everything, it's still everything's intact. Everything was there, yeah. The one thing, except the electrical components, the one thing I liked about it was when you open up the side doors of the van, You've got a wood floor and then underneath that there's spray-in insulation in the bottom sides and top and it's got a door for the front. Now on the floor right when you open up the side doors there's a floor hatch you open it up and it's got this big space and I could it's a big enough space and it was originally for batteries. They would put the supplemental power supply in there. I've got enough space in there. I could put five marine batteries in this area and it's still got the battery cables going to it. So I run this, you know, in series with all these five batteries and then that's hooked up to a battery isolator which goes to the alternator. So I guess if while I'm driving going to the batteries to charge them up but not bleeding back into the other electrical areas of the engine. The biggest problem you're going to have with this, you're talking about doing like a 1600 watt amp? I'm just seeing if it's possible and I mean should I do something like this? It is, but let me add something as an addendum. All of the military vehicles you're going to run into all shielded to dampen elected to prevent interference with their electronic processes but also so that they do not create any dirty transmission around the equipment they can receive uh... and or or the wire harness now you're going that mr. gonna go that big or you should say if you're going to go that paul what something i mentioned earlier is you invest in and where you were you really uh... improve the quality of transmission is investing in better the coax for your line running out to you whatever antenna you're going to do if you're going to do a flexible uh... mass something where you can you know crank it sideways you know it's horizontally mounted to the side of the body of the chassis of the of the box whatever you've got what it is they make them you can actually just pivot it you crank it up and uh... your your in business with a thirty-foot uh... the other option can build it yourself you can make a homemade version we've seen about my cat monahan made several variations on that I was just thinking about running 21.02s in the back and I don't know if that would handle 1600 watts. Well, that's the problem. You're starting to talk about throwing a lot of juice on what is the limited system. You're going to reach the peak on that real quick. Always remember that. Even if it's oil cooled or has the oil balance, there's all kinds of other things you can do. The big thing is if you're pushing that kind of power off the antenna remember it's going to come back to you to a degree your certainly do you have a but no cold around the uh... antenna below it when you're broadcasting it's it's a because he built army directional uh... it's the nature of the of the dipole you know the river she whatever type of material whatever type of antenna configuration you have the base typical is everything else But you still get a lot of feedback. And the biggest problem you've got when you start going up and with an amplifier is the effect it has on the equipment that's supporting what you're moving, your driving, your stationary. So shielding is the big thing, but the primary equipment, transmitting. And also supplemental shielding, for instance, for all of your support electronics, your regulating system for the power, anything like that has to be shielded, should be shielded more significantly. You can copper wrap it. uh... there's uh... a number of other different types of uh... materials available including some of the stuff that the d o d was using and was classified some of the fact that you know there now which is a little blocks uh... electromagnetic well little block magnetic that got a bunch of sitting right over top of all pile of right now it's next store and we can save it for wrapping all of our radio equipment and certain piece of equipment things of the goldene f fifteen same stuff with the f sixteen of they don't talk about which helps to protect against the m p your you're creating a basically not not quite that bad but you're pretty good p m p generator when you start looking at how much you can push the absorption level with anything around it example dash radios your dash radio would would be affected by that that much power if you had a dash the radio modded unit uh... here's the one thing i've never really check but i'd be one of the bed would also become an issue In 1975, we didn't have much electronics under the dash and inside the front of the car. The greater the number of microelectronics and subcompressors, subcompact processors, little black boxes nobody ever addresses. So we start looking at creating mobile transceiver stations. This is one of the reasons that the Monahan argued for, for instance, using freestanding trailers. the advantages you could pull it pull it out needles to say or move away from it set up all of your equipment and then turn it on and there's nothing that can be affected because all the equipment you know set up for the perot the mission the problem with our world right now and this is a ritcomical is not essential none of it is essential is the in order for them to sell more microprocessors and sub subcircuits and all this other bs we've got electronics in places we have no need for or we should be a bit redundant i was one hour dot it obviously perspiring or for manipulation or record-keeping in some way has nothing to do with making the machine work better cars are the best example hell we're talking about refrigerators talking to you if you would like to make a little bit richer to tell me if i need milk you know i've got a crap uh... my brain and then looking on you yeah i can't remember that milk i'd like my great selves are barely working out of the fourth of the corona beer virus shots Well, what I'm saying is that these electronic devices, more than matters, are snitching on people as opposed to talking to them. Yeah. Well, one of the things here, real quick too, with the van, your van package, right? Well, this is a 1994 van I have. And, you know, I don't know what 1600 watts would actually do. i mean if you're talking about three hundred what's being able to reach pretty much the whole state and the direction of got appointed to the product when one of those and happen is clarity remember that it would be all that what's going to do what what changes well here's the here's the bad part when you remember it kind of like a a face book marketplace search the more power you apply the what you know the your signal your first jump in clear transmission is going to be beyond your local area. It's not so much you're using this for local transmission. You're using this for exactly the purpose of discussing is reaching farther. This is now looking at strategic communication as opposed to tactical communication because you can literally reach as far as horizon and beyond. the deal limit is that you if you don't have a repeater dot range your signals are going to go so far past the horizon and then a combination of all of the different uh... physical or should say mechanical effects of the planet are going to negate the signal not the least of which is eventually it's not going to travel or curve on the planet actually does bounce off and going to play so to speak you're still going to get optimal coverage of what is the possible transmission distance that a piece of equipment like that could achieve. That's the advantage of more power. The other thing is, if you, depending on how you configure your antenna array, remember too, is that you get both clarity and penetration if you drop back, even though you do have the potential, if you pull back on the amount of energy you're putting through that linear. What's going to happen is you're going to get better penetration on local transmission, and you're going to get greater company outcome often because you're not going to have necessarily a background wash or any other interruption. You become the dominant transmitter in the area. At this given point, remember we've talked about this many times, you know, you go out so many miles and eventually you start bumping into all the other junk noise out there and that's what starts to retard your signal. And it can be harmonic frequencies, you know, it can be military business, it can be private material and equipment, a grain elevator. sounds weird but a grain elevator with however many motors fans and other pieces of equipment running uh... you'd be amazed at how much job noise you get off of something like that and it all we can build up or apply into in the environment when you're talking about radio communications they're not as critical i mean the deal says i have stopped you from transmitting but when you have more power you become the power you are the voice Now, whoever's sending to you is still going to have to achieve, again, reaching you, and again, you may still end up with, even though you're going to work the rig, you're still going to end up with a certain amount of noise if they're at extreme distance, but you're also capable of achieving collection more efficiently, too. So, the advantage is obviously extreme range, and clarity of signal at whatever range you choose. but i was told the intended that you see but the truck stop that are rated for three thousand wants that they look like a bokker lee you know they've got a corona on it both those should probably go out the path but at first forward were figured because there are certain units i've not i'm not even familiar with i've seen some of the stuff that's sitting there at the truck stops right now were mimics of a lot of the other equipment that came out of the uh... age of monster linears anyway and they were designed a lot of the truck drivers are still carrying some pretty beat the uh... linears on board and so market the truck stops mark cater toward the uh... out there there's no one would handle when friends three thousand watts that would be so handle fifteen hundred well and again well think about this the uh... now remember well this is like I said about the 200, 240 watt unit, what's going to determine what you're going to get out of the antenna anyway and of course remember significantly what you're going to lose with distance depending on how far you are from the transmitter to the antenna. You're not going to typically get 1600 watts out of the end of that antenna up and half. Bigger 12, 11 or 12. Yeah, 12 comfortably, 14, 14, I'd say more likely about 14. on s s b now yah so you but you're still that significant and again one of the problems is uh... it's it's first of all the transmitter that you're working with and again you can't get whatever kind of money you know how it is money money money creates distance uh... well you're all the overall perjesive money creates distance you will spend the money you will achieve you'll get the signal where you want to put it The big thing here again is fixtures. This is another thing I mentioned earlier about fixtures. If you're going to push more power, invest in the connectors. We talked about before, gold fixtures. When you hear the term, golden age of radio, they weren't joking about that. That wasn't a figurative term. The golden age of radio uh... to could create the the best quality radio signal radio was the king when radio was the the imagination machine uh... the amount of money that went into the fixtures and fittings that cleaned up the quality of signal which won't make my people wanted to turn in because they didn't lose the signal wasn't scratch it was a lot of warble uh... their filters are past filters everything that was tied into creating the transmission on a m everything was was upper-end i almost bought a uh... what was it one of the cowboy radio stations into some we were looking for a place to station uh... republic radio international we were looking for actually another station so we could start licensing shortwave and i almost bought a station dot in tucson we went down we checked it out and it was eight one of the g not really how i got it finally we look it was a gene archery radio station i think there were twenty seven of them and every fixture was gold. All of the cable was silver over-plated. It was guaranteed, but everything was still sitting there and it was guaranteed, plug it in, works the way it's supposed to. Actually, it did have the FM transmitter. We got the license. It was an operator agreement license if we bought the station. And I kicked myself in the ass because we should have, because they wanted $27,000 for the station. It could easily have an AMRIC transceiver that hadn't been had. been warmed up and probably at that time back in the nineties fifteen years had very low hours on the primary tubes and had no hours on the f m to the primary f m to that runs pushes everything every is a the big thing that was you know that was the competition point is you know this is one of the cleanest radio stations you'll ever transmit from it will sound like you're in the room when your customers review you'll sound like you're in the room with them one of the things that you know again the discussion was well again you like what said if you money money gives you range and now obviously quality of signal that's not just on the machinery it's also with the fittings and fixtures hand shielding and you know again everything gets shielded or a meal but spend a little money on on to even if it's a short collect example you're going to be running a rigid piece of equipment the same industrial coax that you use for running up a line on a regular little fm or am station can be had it'll run about three to five dollars a foot uh... but from your transit from your root from your transmitter to your amplifier and from your amplifier out to those antennas even though it's not that great a distance would spend the money on that if you're going to be pushing that kind of power right now yeah it's not that it's not that hard to find in fact we bought uh... for all the micros who are the miker we were good we were doing back in the nineties university michigan i worked there Over property control, we bought a spool of... It was a 500-yard spool of industrial gray shielded. We paid $10 for the spool. And then I went and checked to see what the price... I like it when I find places with more money than brains. You know what I mean? The best stuff is laying around out there because most people, when they look at it, don't even know what it is. But if you can track down and look around through the industrial surplus in your area, which is very likely, Florida is really rich right now for that, over missouri uh... missouri is very rich along the mississippi river corridor really great industrial surplus because the system is dying and as american companies have gone out here's all this stuff that was in french midlabs you know three warehouse or business though you can find some pretty decent buys at the last gas thing we're not going to see much more this and it's it's like a bathtub eventually the water will run out but for the time being if we're up if we're ahead of the curve you can create a clap a package or your pack class a reagan system on board that vehicle superior anything probably the military was running back in the day i mean presently they are there still whatever money they want but uh... at what the what we did years ago when i get to buy all these vehicles ed those are one of the vehicles i bought was a uh... military or an air force flight line that's a cuban but gmc front end two-ton pack or a one-and-a-half ton package on board kind of like what you had there yet back station on one side on the other side of the of fixture board generators everything you needed to operate only because therefore skin has to run from dirt air strips or at least you know you know you know scale their lips were they you know they laminate them but this was designed to be part of the flight line support system and uh... work just fine those things are coming out right now that kind of package to use out there right now in uh... iron planet they've been getting rid of a bunch of what look like one half con air force blue uh... cube rear end gm c front end bears bigger boxes the boxes that we had on the ones that we were picking up not paid two hundred sixty five dollars for the one that i had actually paid two hundred sixty five dollars for two of them what to remove two sixty five each sold one before i moved it kept the other one uh... they they were like a dream on the road there like a big big rv even though they're not that big but they cruise really nice to a their wall and uh... got all kinds of storage on board you can reconfigure of our v want to i've used them for troop transport really great for that because they're deceptive but they do have all the space i've used a protrude assault transport didn't look like what everybody thought it was you put uh... twenty people their combat kidded ready to roll just like an airborne unit doors open up having clear and you still have your radio rigs on board, so you still have a CP available. Okay, so if you have, let's say for example, I put five marine batteries in here to power just auxiliary stuff in the back of the land, fans, whatever. The question is, if I hooked the amplifier itself to the auxiliary batteries to where it's drawing power from 5 it's got the power of the five batteries put together which would be about 600 amp hours. That would be more than enough to power that amplifier and it's not continuously on 1600 watts. It's only 1600 watts when I key up, correct? when you push it yeah and you can dial up remember you can dial back you actually would have to be running six you know sixteen that well in theory sixteen hundred watts or we talked about back potential but yeah okay so let's just say it's only using a thousand watts and it's only doing that when I key up and talk so I could run that amp off the auxiliary batteries and not have to worry about putting I mean I've already got a big the output alternator in the van anyway so I wouldn't need two or three alternators I can just use the one alternator that I have and it would it would be sending power to the batteries at the same time that I would be using it but I've got 600 amp hours i'm not going to use a particular day of hours in one day talking on the radio the way to do it here's the here's how normally the military even though that you can take a look at several examples right now over iron planet dot com reason doing this is because go look at their view and their uh... vehicle vehicle and trailer sales section for military gotta go to military vehicles right now they're selling a series of what i mentioned earlier in the week were are uh... electronic maintenance uh... semi-vans all the van guys what you know it could be a do five-toner could be a semi-trailer uh... but they're there uh... because they're again a transport package uh... and their compartmentalized so the the term is you know applies to these particular vehicles the uh... semi-trailer you'll notice has the a c fixtures think about this add on a few pictures that's normal everybody expects that but they also have an on board uh... generator pack or to generate packs kind of like what i mentioned with the uh... cuban in your case here would be the the best solution you get yourself a really quiet and very smaller compact uh... lighter duty or mid-grade uh... honda generator now whatever they found it because they're quiet and this is something that basically the d o d did they have an onboard generator uh... it specifically is servicing the uh... technology uh... the clean power supply now you can obviously the power of the generator or uh... what they do is they can't happen the generator only operates when it needs to bring the uh... can maintain the charger maintain the standard output of the batter on a regulator so that i did identify his need it starts up automatically or to the batteries to maintain it never allows better up below a particular set potential whatever it is that you establish as the as the uh... level you want to maintain that's what that generation out very simple process and what you do like i'm not a vehicle like that uh... you may have seen these are on radio geek fans at uh... hamper you'll feel like a little are like an air conditioner box out the back end of the band or what a lot of guys do if you've got of and like that if you're using the side doors not using the back doors uh... you take and correct by one of these uh... uh... re-hitch alleges that you people you for cargo ledges uh... what the guys do you put that in the literature is done basically the same thing but they've maltam anywhere on the picture of the a fixture of the vehicle nor they want they don't care your text of paper that word about reselling the thing uh... but what you do is take a research platform out that in the back and then you mark your mount your uh... brown one side and your fuel patrol a model lubricant support in a transport can on the other side and you've got everything you need self-contained for uh... extended recharging capability or extended use for power apart from the vehicle itself and the advantage to well of course with the with the family semi-type bands the type of vehicles you see there they do plan on just dropping it off and pulling the tractor away but in this case it would still make sense with a mobile ability unit like this where you're wanting to you know generate more power uh... so that you can continue to broadcast uniformly no matter if your battery cell battery so goes bad battery breaks down something happened to do that you didn't expect you'd still have the uh... generator to work off from to provide you with ever power that you needed until such time as your wall of generated by the time you could evaluate what's going on with the battery pack fix it and carry out the way normally would that's just a real redundancy system that the people are no playing with radio use constantly and again it's it's not a big deal you'd researchers you get a simple research ballywands almost decent it's a bad so nori probably be you may already have one day and and let's not forget that uh... i was going to put uh... i have enough room on top of the very specific their time one-time band i do have enough rooms for our solar panels right by going out or the still yeah and that would get that would be another option why not add more or anything will generate more electricity even if it's a trickle uh... a lot of people who pull the idea why bother with with uh... wind but every little bit counts and remember were always fuel tipping or should play energy sipping uh... you don't broadcast constantly guys it's not a cell phone when you're doing radio signal communications you'll you've been depending on the threat environment or with all conditions with regard to uh... uh... potential in general rioters conditions are not the oldest goes a whether whatever you're only going to well broadcasting certain windows of opportunity or activity there designated and example about a clock you're going to tune in at nine o'clock we're going to light up okay next broadcast time will be ten fifteen or ten fifty five or ten you know p.m. eastern standard time blah blah blah blah blah where you'll grant each meantime take your pick you know everybody has you know the clock normal clock uh... anyway what you would do is that are but not brought to everything else down you can and then when you're designated window of transmission comes up again light everything up and go to town And again, you're surfing the energy curve, which is something that, if you're running backpack radios, you have to do constantly. So just think of it, it's a bigger backpack. But you have a greater potential. Think about it, because you can carry a lot more material along with you, and a greater number of transceivers or collection technology. Which does bring up another subject, because if you do have a backpack and you have a CD radio, You can carry a small linear with you like say a 40 or 50 watt and you can they've got a lot of different batteries at Walmart that are different sizes they go from you know, the big truck marine or a marine battery all the way down to a third of a size of a Golf cart battery and you can it is heavy but if you run that power into a linear and you have that hooked to a cb where it transmits and goes out the linear and then you've got a dipole thirty foot up into a tree you'd be surprised how far you can talk well it basically that's what they were doing that's what they were when they first started in military radio if you pay attention you'll notice i mean they already were limited and there's always so much you could do with battery typically the battery with original infantry radio operations uh... the transceivers were relatively compact i mean relatively for the day and they were to remember not solid state but the battery power was another man standing behind you and you had a power cord running from one you know from the power source uh... to the radio up front that's not how much of a significant change the first focus was on trying to compress the uh... uh... power supply not so much the transceiver. The transceivers, again, remember with military operations, with the philosophy of minimize, were sufficiently small to the point where VHF and UHF radios, for instance, could be compressed down to the size of a loaf of bread. And to give you an example, do a little research on this, go look at the radio packs, because there are multiple radios on board, a bomber or a transport, military aircraft. go take a look at a world war two nineteen forty two or nineteen forty three of the h f u h f radio rig uh... as it would be mounted on board the aircraft they were not radio boxes as you're familiar with their actually modules that will basically think of them like loaves of bread and these units were no bigger each one fact many of them were smaller but they were modular so that depending upon the mission of the video of the aircraft uh... they could in play they could alter the configuration depending upon what purpose in the suprincency air fleet uh... to a bomber group uh... certain aircraft had other missions that were really quite classified even until the korean war because the technology didn't change it was used the same during the korean war uh... that equipment was committed to a degree to the infantry and to the you know ground arm and you see it in some of the other radios that were developed before the end of the war that were actually handheld i mean handheld not backpack help again the biggest problem was trying to come up with uh... uh... an energy sipping system and that's where they became more efficient with regard to the uh... on board circuitry so that they could use of some kind of off-the-shelf standard battery the diesel battery being the most common back in the day that was the miracle battery not that it wasn't around but they'd be in in the focused on improving what was an already existing power module for the system of the next step was the ultimate compressing that other radio battery that you needed to go on that you know that guy was carrying the backpack radio because they didn't want that second guy hanging around because he might get shot then you're dragging a no sixty pound battery pack behind you on a court with a hundred eighty-pound man attached to it with a rifle who's so the idea of the movement get that back down as quick as possible or on the line mark i got your go ahead color Okay, for the other caller I would recommend he look up the schematics of a light armored vehicle LAV C2 the command and control vehicle I think that will Excellent help him again some ideas. Yeah It's essentially what he's I think what he's gonna look for wants to build right Maddox on the Correct. And sorry, this is the first time calling in and I'm not sure if the system I'm on is working properly. You're sounding great. Go right ahead, please. Okay, fantastic. Yes, what you will realize is that that setup is probably going to be superior to that UAV van that he had purchased. So like I said, just look up this schematic on the LEV C2 and look at how the battery setups are wired. in series because they're also running off marine batteries and speaking from experience, worked on those vehicles and that should help them out. Very good. Check it out right now. Thank you. Again, we're all right at the top guys. Ideas, now one of the neat things to remember, there's a whole bunch of equipment that's been out there, not just used in the military, but also of the civilian sector, especially field operations equipment packages for the oil industry. A lot of other industries have been innovative and had to produce their own technology because of the uniqueness of what they do, where they are on the planet at any given time. It's always a good idea to offer a surplus, get an idea of where they were, and then also maybe get a feel for where they are now because progress of course continues and well size and dimensions are the big issue can they lighten it up because it's less fuel to move it anyway we're at the top also less energy to push when it comes to signal here at the top for everybody out there thank you for your input gentlemen and also to Ann for the question she has which I'll answer off the air I'm gonna give her an email here real quick god bless our republic We shall prevail ladies and gentlemen, the Empire is on the rock. The one mark for the enemy. 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