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Radio Basics: Making Contact
Now that you’ve learned the basics of radio technology and procedures, it’s time to talk about making contact with others (that’s the whole purpose of this radio thing, isn’t it?). We’ll briefly cover...
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The Truth About Preppers
NOTE: This article was not meant to imply that all, or even most in emergency management and homeland security have negative perceptions of preppers. However, things like this, this and this show that...
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Radio Basics: Digital Modes
So far in the Radio Basics series, we covered the basics you need to know to get on the air and talk, but there is much more to do on radio than just talk. Data and text transmission are extremely...
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On The Wisdom Of Mass Prepper Migrations
A recent post at The Survivalist Blog got me to thinking about this subject. I do understand that writers like Skousen and Rawles don’t suggest that every prepper in the country move to the redoubt of...
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Going Beyond Preparedness
Survival is better than dying. Preparedness is better than being unprepared. These things are true, but don’t we want to do better than barely get by during dangerous times? In this post I will...
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EMP Myth vs Reality
Sunspots from the solar storm of 1859. Scientists estimate a 1 in 8 chance of this occurring again by 2020. Fiction books, TV shows and movies taught you that EMP (from solar or nuclear sources) would...
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The Future of Radio
For this final article in the Radio Basics series, we’ll talk about the future of radio as it pertains to emergency preparedness. There are a lot of very interesting developments in the field that will...
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Daily Intel Roundup
Fresh links from around the interwebs to educate and inform on disaster preparedness and emergency management: Modern Survival shares 8 Lessons Learned From the Great Depression. Emergency Management...
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Turn Your Smartphone Into A Disaster Tool
Only a small percentage of the public is even minimally prepared for a disaster, often because disaster preparedness is seen as something very hard to get into. One way to get past the perceived...
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Are Rural Areas Really Safer In Disaster?
The common wisdom among survivalists says that the cities are going to be too dangerous in disaster or societal meltdown. But, if you can get to your rural retreat (or live there full-time), you’ll be...
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Daily Intel Roundup
Below are several links from around the interwebs that educate or inform on emergency management, disaster preparedness and related topics. John Robb discusses making your expensive items pay for...
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The Importance of Training and Practice
For personal defense or for emergency preparedness, gathering goodies is never enough. Your knowledge, skills and attitude will always be more important, but getting started and knowing what you don’t...
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Daily Intel Roundup
In today’s Daily Intel Roundup, we have everything from CPR to pipe bombs! The Daily Intel Roundup is the result of a daily trolling of the interwebs for links and resources of interest to people...
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Basic Firearms Safety
While not all people into preparedness are into guns and not all people into guns are preppers, there certainly are a lot of people who are into both. As a firearms instructor, I will have many posts...
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Marksmanship Fundamentals
In this post, I will cover six elements to good marksmanship. This was originally written to apply to pistol shooting for pistol courses that I teach, but most elements can also be applied to rifle...
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Don’t Shoot Your _____ Off! (A Few Words On Holsters)
How can a quick walk to the grocery store for snacks end in an amputation and powder burn horror story? Easy: by not using a holster. In 2011, an Arizona man and his girlfriend were walking to a...
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Daily Intel Roundup
Today’s links from around the interwebs to educate and inform on disaster preparedness and emergency management issues! University of Colorado Boulder issues a press release detailing what might have...
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What You Need To Know About Weapons Laws
So, you’ve bought yourself a gun of whatever kind for personal defense or disaster situations. Beyond use of force laws, you basically need to know the who, what, when, and where of firearms laws. Who...
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Site Update: Still Here :)
I just wanted to put up a quick update for the (few) subscribers this site has I started out with a blitz; each day had one or two new posts. Don’t worry, this isn’t the burnout point where the blog...
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