Tag: All Hazards CommPrep

Trials and Tribulations of New Amateur Radio

I agonized over the purchase of an Icom 7300 HF transceiver after a few weeks of surfing different Internet sites, reading reviews, checking prices on various sellers’ websites trying to decide which radio to buy, what features I wanted, new or used, prices, etc. For several weeks before that I studied antenna designs and measured…
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December 14, 2018 0

Codes and Signals for Radio Communications!

Codes and Signals for Radio Communications Preparedness David Vine “All Hazards Preparedness” audio below Codes and signals are the stuff of spies and other high drama, right? If you watch old movies, especially films or videos that involve submarines in distress or spies lurking about in the woods, you may have seen simple Morse Code…
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November 28, 2018 0

Contrails, Chemtrails, Communications, and Controversy!

Contrails, Chemtrails, Communications and Controversy! David A. Vine “All Hazards Communications Preparedness” Audio player below! “Under an Ionized Sky” is the title of Elana Freeland’s 2018 book, recently discovered by All Hazards Communications Preparedness show host David A. Vine. He shares some of the book’s startlingly relevant (related to emergency disaster communications preparedness) information with…
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November 14, 2018 0

Reliability and Alternative Power!

Reliability and Alternative Power Jeff Yago On Disaster Communications In A Box, Energy David A. Vine “All Hazards CommPrep” Audio player below! Jeff Yago, author of “Lights On: The Non-technical Guide to Battery Power When the Grid Goes Down” designs self-contained solar-powered buildings made from shipping containers, “Alternative Power”. These rugged metal freight containers allow…
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October 31, 2018 3

HF Radio Selection for Worldwide Communications!

HF Radio Selection for Worldwide Communications David A. Vine “All Hazards Communications Preparedness” Audio player below! I was pleasantly surprised recently, when I passed the technician class amateur radio license exam. The Volunteer Examiner told me the FCC would reissue my expired general class license. That means I can legally operate with much higher power…
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October 24, 2018 0

Land Navigation in Emergencies and Disasters!

Land Navigation in Emergencies and Disasters! David A. Vine “All Hazards Communications Preparedness” Audio player below. You might ask yourself, “What does navigation have to do with All Hazards Communications Preparedness?” That would be a reasonable question if you are not familiar with search and rescue and disaster communications. Land navigation is integral to mapping…
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October 17, 2018 0

Communications Five-Phase Program!

Communications Five-Phase Implementation Program David A. Vine “All Hazards Communications Preparedness” Audio player below! This show presents an implementation program to achieve a high level of communications preparedness. I am basing a Five-Phase Implementation Program on a lifetime of extremely varied experiences– all of it related to communications in one form or another. This is implementation program…
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October 10, 2018 0

American Redoubt Radio!

American Redoubt Radio David A. Vine “All Hazards Communications Preparedness” Audio player below! When someone new to prepping wants to go beyond the blister-pack walkie-talkies they purchased at Best Buy or some other retail store, they are usually directed to become a ham radio operator. To obtain an FCC amateur radio license that’s the right…
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October 3, 2018 0

Covert Communications and Surveillance

Covert Communications and Surveillance! David A. Vine “All Hazards Communications Preparedness” Audio player below! NC Scout AKA Brushbeater, is our guest for this Tuesday, September 18, 2018 show. NC Scout’s communications training activities are unique. As far as I can tell, no one else in this country offers the type of hands-on “in the field”…
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September 19, 2018 0

Grid Down Black Sky Event!

Grid Down Black Sky Event! David A. Vine “All Hazards Communications Preparedness” Audio player below Imagine waking up in the middle of the night. You are suddenly jarred awake by a strange warning siren you rarely hear. You’re equipped with a NOAA Weather Radio in your bedroom but it hasn’t gone off. Is it the…
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September 12, 2018 0

Communications Security!

Communications Security, Before, During and After SHTF David A. Vine “All Hazards Communications Preparedness” Audio player below Everyone with two eyes to see and two ears to hear knows how little (none?) privacy we have these days. Forrest Garvin, founder of Carolina Preppers Network and the newly formed PrepperNet organization is a computer security expert…
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September 5, 2018 0

Electric Power, Communications the Essential Ingredient

Electric Power, The Essential Ingredient For Communications Preparedness David A. Vine “All Hazards Communications Preparedness” Audio player below! Electricity from the Earth??? Trees that grow 16 feet in just a year??? 500 watts of electricity from one solar panel??? More powerful batteries shrinking its size? You’ll learn about those startling developments from Allen Summers our…
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August 29, 2018 0