After reading my last article, you may have gone out and bought a Baofeng for emergency communications. But you realize that you can’t talk to anybody unless they are within a mile or two of you. Most likely that is because you are using the standard antennas, and you live in an area with a…
The two main purposes of a shelter are to provide protection from the elements (wind, rain, snow, sun, heat, cold, etc.) and to provide a place to hide (from people or animals). Some shelters are proven to be better than others at each task, while others offer well rounded protection for both needs, but not…
Can you get from your current location back home without using a GPS? What if your regular route is blocked off and you need to go around? And worse, what if you can’t use your car at all? Pretty much anybody can use the Maps app on their phone to follow a GPS-created route from…
A discussion on emergency communications.
The power just went out. Your computer doesn’t work. Landline phones are out (who still has those anyways?) Cellular phone towers will last anywhere from hours to days before their backups run out. Do you have a plan to get information, or a way to contact somebody to ask for…
There are many reasons we may have to leave our location, wherever we may be, in a matter of minutes. There could be a hurricane bearing down and we don’t have hours to pack. Or the damn breaks and we are about to get flooded. On the darker side, there could be a terrorist attack…
I get into a lot of discussions over power storage. What you need, what you want, what works and doesn’t work, and everything else. After my last discussion where somebody showed me this “awesome” power bank that I would never have bought for myself, I decided I should put some thoughts down on paper (a…
Teaching kids about guns can be a controversial subject. When should you start? How much should you teach them? Ask ten people, you'll get ten different answers. I'm here today to provide mine, if you care to read it. The big issue is, guns are out there, people have them. We want everybody to be…
Observe, Orient, Decide, Act
The OODA Loop is a four-stage framework that was initially designed by Pilot Colonel John Boyd of the US Air Force, to help fighter pilots to win during air-to-air combat if they were ever caught in a dogfight matrix. Maneuver warfare is a strategy used in the military that emphasizes disrupting…
"You are such a conspiracy theorist." "Zombies are not real." "It's just an election, the world is not about to end." Do you know anybody you could say this about? Or has anybody said this to you? In the last five years, this has become much more common than it has been since the Cuban missile crisis…