Until recently, off grid laundry was done with a wash tub and board. While this does work for cleaning your clothes, it is labour intensive and rinsing/wringing are an absolute pain in the neck. This ends now with manually powered washing machines.
It’s that time of year again! The snow has all but gone, the sun brings warmer temperatures, and the sky brings lots and lots of rain. That’s right folks, it’s spring flooding season!
It’s that time of year again when the “to do” lists seem to grow beyond control. It’s easy to get overwhelmed with project lists and get discouraged. Prioritizing your projects can help you get the most important jobs done and leave the
Two days ago, on April 21st, the sun belched forward a CME that has reached Earth earlier than expected, and this one has some clout behind it. Notices started hitting my inbox just after 10 AM today. Those first notices went mostly
A quick reminder – If you send in a password reset request, please be sure to include a VALID e-mail address. We have been responding to a number of password issues, only to have the e-mail bounce back on us due to
There are two pieces of information needed to arrange a conversation. All parties need to know when and where to meet. Local radio communications is limited by line of sight, output power, and obstacles. This means effective comms is limited to a
It’s been almost a year since I wrote about the Chinese built HF amateur radios. These radios are showing some signs of having issues, and there’s a pretty good reason for that.
Communications needs can ultimately be broken down into three major uses. Those being local, regional, and worldwide. Let’s take a look at radio comms for each of these uses.
When Chinese manufacturers came up with the Baofeng UHF/VHF hand held radios, the preparedness community gobbled them up like Potassium Iodide pills after a nuclear melt down. These affordable hand held ham radios gave a much needed boost to the amateur radio
Before you all go bugging out to your nuclear bunkers or grabbing your INCH bags, grab yourself some hemp toilet paper and calm your butts down. The termination event has absolutely nothing to do with current global affainrs.