You know what I’m talking about-it’s everywhere, and it affects every decent man.

 

Out there, there is a huge number of men who are sick of it. We’re sick of being made figures of fun and ridicule; we’re sick of having girly-men like journalists, advertising agency execs and movie stars decide on “what is a man”; we’re sick of women treating us like children, and we’re really fucking sick of girly-men politicians who pander to women by passing an ever-increasing raft of Nanny laws and regulations (the legal equivalent of public-school Ritalin), which prevent us from hunting, racing our cars and motorcycles, smoking, flirting with women at the office, getting into fistfights over women, shooting criminals and doing all the fine things which being a man entails.

Read the rest at Kim’s website, and linger a while-there’s lots of good stuff over there.

Thanks to Kim for permission to repost, and also Western Rifle Shooters for leading me to Kim’s website. You might as well head over there too, while you’re at it.

At his blog, here.

This class has been the most useful information I’ve received since I received my amateur radio operator’s license. I took the class in April of 2016, and attended a refresher since.

I was woefully ignorant of communications when I took the class, but learned a lot in the class, and much since then.

I took all the notes I could, and wish I’d taken more. Fortunately, that’s all you need-and an ability to learn.

If you’re hungry to get communication skills for the bad times coming, sign up. You’ll be thankful you did

Click on the link and see what it’s all about.

Can be great places to haunt, to wit:

I found these ham made pieces, along with a nice (appears to be new and unused) MFJ tuner, along with a couple huge boatanchor radios. I left the boatanchors, and bought the stuff above.

A couple weeks prior, I purchased a “grail” radio (for me anyway)- a Zenith Transoceanic H500. As you can see, it’s in nice shape:

 

 

Back side:

I took the chassis out, and it’s unmolested. I plan to recap it, install the filter caps, and replace the selenium rectifier with its modern counterpart. As much as I’m tempted to not change a thing, I’m more interested in using it, so the rework is necessary.

I didn’t pay too much, nor too little.

The moral of the story is to lurk the little second hand shops.

 

On Friday, I made my first HF contact, using my FT 857D connected to a Chameleon CHA F Loop. My contact was with a woman (Karen) in Urbana Illinois, on 20 meters-14.265 Mhz.

Today, I changed the oil on the Nissan, and again the old oil was black and nasty. This truck has the ugliest oil of any vehicle I’ve ever owned, other than my VW Rabbit Diesel. Better to come out filthy than clean, though. At least I know it’s doing what it’s supposed to.

I hope the interior of the engine is cleaner than the oil…

But it is for a detractor, an answer to his query.

I hope all of you have a good Shabbat, and a lovely weekend.

 

Hat tip to the Alt Right blog, via Coanan the Cimmerian

 

 

Take the two minutes or so this video will take you to watch:

Good stuff that I didn’t know. Work on your trigger skills first, they’re the most important.

 

Hat tip to SayUncle, via NewJovianThunderbolt.

 

While you’re at it, check out their blogs-they’re full of excellent stuff.

I recently purchased an EFHW antenna from Emergency Amateur Radio Club of Hawaii for $56 shipped, below:

It’s pretty well made, the joints are soldered and it’s installed in a simple project box:

 

The enclosure seems a bit less substantial than I’d like, so I decided to mount it to a piece of Plexiglass for mounting. I cut a piece, and drilled a few holes, rounded and sanded the edges:

And mounted the matching box to the Plexiglass:

I’ll also drill holes for the antenna wire later, when I have a better idea where they need to be.

 

Included is 30′ of wire. It looks like a nice little unit, and my hope is to get it strung up mobile this weekend for testing.

See you soon.

 

 

As I fancy myself a voluntarist (not a very good one, but I’m working at it) Bill Buppert’s latest at Zero Hedge was right on target. Again.

Many Constitutionalists constantly badger everyone around them that the restoration of the document or a return to its origins will create a new yellow brick road where the government acknowledges and protects individual liberty at every turn and the central government in contravention of all human recorded history will remain small and vigilant of every predation on individual liberty.

Ad nauseum, the same parroting of nonsense learned in government obedience classes carefully and artfully disguised as civics class begun by a pledge to the centralizing instrument of mankind on the North American continent.

 

Go read the whole thing.