Friday, August 07, 2026

Disney's "Go Away Green"

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The other day I read about Disney's "Go Away Green," which is a group of dull green colors they use in their parks to help inf...
Tuesday, July 21, 2026

Pipe Cleaners and .22s

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I wanted to swab the chambers on this High Standard and my bag of pipe cleaners was handier than my .22 cleaning rod, so I figured I'd g...
Monday, July 20, 2026

Fixing a High Standard R-108 Sentinel Snub Revolver

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One of my favorite guns is a High Standard Sentinel R-101 .22 with a nickeled finish and 3" barrel, that I bought in near-new condition...
Saturday, July 18, 2026

Graphing RF Line of Sight

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I have a few friends who live within a reasonable distance for 2M simplex communications, if there is line of sight. Today I found this tool...
Monday, July 13, 2026

Expedient 10M Dipole Antenna

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I whipped this up in about 15 minutes this afternoon. I used a wire stripper/cutter and the reamer on the Victorinox Pioneer Swiss Army Knif...
Thursday, July 09, 2026

My First Whack at a Homebrew Jungle Antenna

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This afternoon I made a VHF jungle antenna for the first time.  The jungle antenna is a field expedient ground plane antenna that can be mad...
Wednesday, July 08, 2026

Measuring SWR on an Ed Fong J-Pole with a NanoVNA

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I have an Ed Fong roll up J-Pole antenna for use with 2M/70cm HTs. It's currently hanging from a thumb tack pushed into the wall of my s...

Building a 2M Jungle Antenna

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Brett from the Survivalcomms YouTube channel has this nice video on how to build a 2M jungle antenna. The only tool he used to build it was...