If you’re a ham radio operator looking to enhance your 2-meter band performance, building a simple ground plane antenna is a great project. It’s cost-effective, easy to assemble, and can provide excellent transmission and reception. In this guide, we’ll walk through the materials, construction steps, and installation process to get your DIY antenna up and…
Calculating Storage For this particular article we’re going to pick a popular item, tomatoes. The first step is to figure out how much you need to put into storage for your year’s supply. In my case, we’re going to say that we’ll have a tomato based meal once per week, so let’s round that out…
Wow! It’s hard to believe how this event has has evolved since it’s humble beginnings in Huntsville, On so many years ago! This weekend, preppers from all over Eastern Canada will gather in Desboro, On for annual meetup. This has morphed into a 4 day event, this year starting on July 6th and ending on…
This would not be the first and only time I’ve brought up cyber attacks in relation to preparedness. I have, at least, glanced over the topic on one or two occasions. This time, perhaps the threat is more real than many believed in the past. We’ve mostly all pondered at the dreadful thought of the…
It shouldn’t be news to anyone that prices are on the rise. With inflation at a thirty year high, everything is going up in price, while wages lag behind. Simply put, our dollars buy us less and less day to day. One of the worst hits to our wallets comes from the grocery bill. Of…
The Shout Out Viva Frei (David Freiheiht) is a Montreal based lawyer who has been following and commenting on the Ottawa protests. He has plenty of video footage from ground zero, including from the day they were clearing protesters. Worth the watch just for that. The Heads Up Tonight Is A Big Night! This evening…
Here we go again and just in time for Christmas! The Omicron variant is having an effect on our lives, like it or not. Here a a few things we can look forward to. 1 – Closures. Already, Quebec (currently leading the coutry in new daily cases) has begun to shut society down. On Monday,…
One thing we have learned in the past week or so is that evacuations can happen at any time. Sure, sometimes there are warning signs, such as in the case of wild fires or hurricane warnings, but not always. In any case, if the need to evacuate your area arrises, you won’t have much time…
Well, despite all the hoopla over Grand Solar Minimum, the whole thing has turned out to be yet another big nothing burger. I’ve always maintained that it was going to be just that. Now that solar cycle 25 is ramping up, it looks like I was right.
In the weeks leading up to the new year, I lost track of how many times I heard people say “don’t worry, 2021 will be better”. Ha! Looks to me like 2021 just sucker punched 2020 square in the jaw and called it an amateur!
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