Jim
   I like what you said.
Bob

Well said Gil.

For true....living off the land today aint gonna happen...........I have been to military survival schools........no holds barred........if you can catch it or kill it its yours ......no hunting season.....size.....sex.....etc...........any living critter was up for grabs.....we didn't catch or kill anything..........just went hungry nibbling on cool shit like watercress..........my conclusion.......want to eat in the future store some food today........mother natures supermarket is run by a mean mama.:)

WOW!    I have a HW-8 (built it when I was a novice many years ago)  love the little guy........they are asking 318$ for the kit.  I might let mine go for $3500:)  It is always ready to go on 40 meters.......day or night. Made my very first ham contact with it.

Wonder how many and how big are the solar panels and how long to fully charge an electric car.

Transistors.....chokes......filters.......they all go into a radio.........I like radios........I am here to talk radios.......Gil is a great administrator but if he is backed into a corner he is gonna swat some flies to get things back on track........That will use up a lot of time and forum space.......so please guys lets talk prepper radio.

Quote from: cockpitbob on February 19, 2015, 04:03:01 AM



Well, since the topic has shifted to slide rules...I've got a collection.  I'm in my 50s and probably the last generation to have learned them in grade school.  My dad is 92 and an engineer.  He's already given me his ivory covered Picket.  I'm a (inactive) private pilot, so I've got an E6b circular flight computer. 

I've got a collection of various other special purpose circular and linear calculators for everything from construction to celestial navigation, but my special one is the one my dad picked up while he worked for IBM inside the Pentagon during the early 1960s.  It's a nuclear bomb blast damage calculator.  Yeah, really.  A guy my age who grew up in uber-liberal Berkeley, CA thought it was a joke item, but there was a time in this country when many war planners and scientists had one in their desk and used it often.




Once dad gave me this there was only one thing to do; find its mate  Online I found and bought the same model radiation decay calculator Dr. Strangelove used in the movie to determine how long we needed to stay in the mine shafts.  It's in a box somewhere so no picture, but here's something about it.

I have one of those from way back.....

Your # 11 car sunshade also makes a great solar cooker........no mods needed......just set it in the sun with a pan of food.

I just put up an MFJ Feather-lite 40-6 meter vertical antenna.....2980...........it telescopes from 3 3/4 feet to 31 feet.........weighs 3.3 lbs..............have it on a stand which puts it up to 35 feet.......seems to work just fine.
This antenna gets bad reviews because of wind damage.........we put it up in a 25 mph+ wind and all it did was wave a little.
This antenna and my 857D will go with me if I have to leave home base.

There were no calculators when I started college......slipsticks for all us engineer hopefuls (slide rule)........still have two on my desk.....batteries never run down.:)

Paper would be in short supply? I don't think so..........dis-regard all the paper that will still be left in building etc...........didn't most of you younguns' learn how to make paper in grade school? I did.

I am with you 100% on this one KKOG.......I have been twisting wrenches for many years and if you want to wind up with good mileage start out with good mileage.  freax's suggestions are all viable but don't have a good return on the time and money invested.

Quote from: cockpitbob on June 13, 2013, 11:05:11 PM
I just added this to my list of things I will build as soon as I get the time by being laid off or kicked out by the wife.

Me too.

I just  signed up W0UDT

Name is Bob

Location Colorado