Beverages are great antennas for listening, monitoring, and getting a rough bearing on where a signal is emanating. Check out these great posts from Thomas over at SWLing Post: Beverage Reception Tests SWL Blog reception videos BBC Research Report: 1991-12
So you wanna be a Guerrilla RTO-
Keypounder sent me this question and wanted to pose it to all of you. There's a lot more to being an effective RTO than knowing how to key a mic, or even calculating a simple equation for antenna length, and one of the very serious reasons to get a license now is to start building …
Your First HF Station
So far, in following the Survivalist paradigm concerning radio, we've discussed the many uses of hand held sets, due to their overwhelming popularity but far more importantly their largely misunderstood role. Capable of local, or Line of Sight (LOS) communications, they are often the entry-level communications device that most cut their teeth upon. Mobile VHF …
Remember 7 December
Being stationed in Hawaii for a time, every Serviceman regardless of Branch is ingrained with respect and reverence for this day. It is as much a part of Oahu's identity as it is military history as well. From the stories told by the bullet holes still in the walls of E and D Quad Barracks …
Understanding Survivalist Communications Needs
Often among those new to Survivalism, Prepping, and all things on the more self-reliant side of communications, it becomes pretty important to define the exact role your communications equipment will play and what you expect to accomplish with it, all in an attempt to best suit your package to your needs. This is a really …
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The Road Less Traveled: Beyond the Basic Dual-Bander
Almost exclusively among the Prepper and Survivalist crowd the first couple bands that get referenced (and used, or at least planned to be used) are the 2m and 70cm, and their MURS and GMRS parallels, respectively. That's definitely understandable, because the majority of the equipment on the market, especially at the entry-level, for line of …
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Give Thanks-
We have much to be thankful for without losing sight of the road ahead. Give thanks unto God and pray for His continued blessing.
The Versatile Dirt Cheap D-I-Y Dipole
"Did you build that sloping Vee?" Team Daddy asked me. "yeah Sa'rnt, the long whip wasn't hitting the TOC from inside these walls." I replied. The thick mud walls of the compound were hell on a signal, and the makeshift TOC the commo guys had set up on the next ridge was having a hard …
Re: Spam Can Ammo Caches
From today's letter to Survivalblog concerning caches... A reader dug his up to inspect the conditions and commented on how well the Russian spam cans held up. The pictures tell the tale. The author indicated that he buried the spam cans in 2009. That gave them five years underground. They're not looking too good. For …
More notes on Community Networking
Sometimes its important to strip down to the bare essentials in order to refocus on why we do what we do. It doesn't matter what the task is, be it in a professional sense or the survivalist sense, everyone (myself included) can get lost amid distractors, detractors, and shiny objects that pry our attention away. …