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Everyday Carry – Starting with the Basics
Everyday Carry or EDC, is a term used by the perpper community to refer to the stuff you carry with you everyday. The term is actually more pervasive and is used outside the prepper community as well. In fact there are a number of great websites that allow people to share their EDCs with others. [...]
Ham Radio: Understanding Wavelength
Wavelength: of a radio wave is the distance that it travels during one complete cycle. It is represented by the greek symbol “lamda” or λ. All radio waves travel at the speed of light (represented by lowercase “c”) in the medium the are in. The speed of light in space/air is 300 million meters per [...]
The Untold Story of Gun Confiscation After Katrina
Having just returned from a business trip to New Orleans, I was interested in reading more about how people there survived during the Katrina disaster. One of the most disturbing videos was one I found on YouTube from the NRA about how non-violent law abiding citizens had their weapons unlawfully confiscated and destroyed; and at [...]
Ford Transit Connect as a “Covert” Bug-Out Vehicle
A Bug-Out vehicle (BOV) is a critical choice to make if you do not live at your Bug-Out Location fulltime (BOL), but much like a Bug-Out Bag (BOB) there is really no one BOV for every situation. Traditional thinking is to go big, minimal electronics, diesel, and off-road … but for situations that are not [...]
A Real Life Account of Post-Collapse Argentina
The following is an account of a student in Argentina during their economic collapse (source: RapidTrends.com via @ShelfRelianceOH). This is the closest thing I’ve read to a “been there done that” guide to surviving TEOTWAWK (The End of the World As We Know It). Life in Post-Collapse Argentina, Oct. 2005 My brother visited Argentina a [...]
Ham Radio: Understanding Spectrum
When connected to speakers, any signal below 20kHz makes sounds waves that a person can hear which is why they are referred to as “audio frequency” or AF; anything above that range is consider “radio frequency” or RF. The range of radio frequencies are called the “radio spectrum”. Radio frequencies (RF) fall into the following [...]
Ham Radio: Basics of Frequency
The first thing you will need to learn to pass the Ham Radio Technicians exam are the basics of frequency as it related to Radio waves. Radio waves travel at the speed of light. A radio wave begins as a signal that originates from an antenna and contantly alternates direction. The rate at which the [...]
Bug Out Guns
I think of “Bug Out” weapons as the weapons that my wife and I would carry on our persons and in our BOBs if we had to leave with very little advance warning. Also, I felt we must be able to carry these weapons, supporting ammo and all the rest of our survival gear, on [...]
You might be a terrorist when …
The U.S. Department of Justice in conjunction with the FBI recently released a PDF outlining how to identify a possible terrorist. The qualities outlined are disturbing to say the least. So who does the DOJ and the FBI think are suspicious? People that insist on paying cash People that buy weatherproofed ammunition or match containers People that [...]
Learn to Fold a Mini Book for Your EDC
I was recently reading a great article posted by @SelfReliantInfo about establishing a family emergency communications plan and it reminded me of a useful technique I use to fold up a single piece of paper so that it can be used to store a ton of information in an extremely compact format. The format is [...]
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