The First 30 Days: Building a Future After the Fall

by suburban | Mar 5, 2024 | Bug In, Bug Out, Bug Out Location, Communications, Food Storage, Health, Hygiene, Mutual Assistance Group, Personal Security, Preparedness, Prepping, Psychology, Self Reliance, suburban survival, Urban Survival, WROL

The fol­low­ing is a fic­tion­al account of the first 30 days after an apoc­a­lyp­tic event and how we may “attempt” to recov­er some nor­mal­cy in the neigh­bor­hood if we can­not make what could be a dead­ly and dan­ger­ous trek to the bug-out loca­tion... Read more

The Benefits of Playing with Walkie-Talkies with Your Kids from a Preparedness Perspective

by suburban | Feb 6, 2024 | Bug In, Bug Out, Children, Communications, Gear, Preparedness, Prepping, suburban survival, Survival Gear, Urban Survival

A cou­ple of years ago, I bought my then 4?year-old a cou­ple of walkie-talkies for tod­dlers… The usage con­cept didn’t take.  Last week, I put a Baofeng UV-5R in her hands that was tuned for an FRS chan­nel.  She imme­di­ate­ly grasped the con­cept and... Read more

The Emergency Travel Communications Kit

by suburban | Mar 21, 2023 | Communications, Gear, Man Made Disaster, Mutual Assistance Group, Natural Disaster, Preparedness, Prepping, suburban survival, Survival Gear, Travel, Urban Survival

So, busi­ness trav­el seems to be a thing again.  I’m not thrilled about it.  After stay­ing home for two years, and spend­ing it with my nuclear fam­i­ly, I real­ly don’t want to get back on a plane to trav­el for busi­ness.  I’d rather work from home,... Read more

Properly installing a CB radio Part 2

by Cameron | May 25, 2015 | Bug Out Vehicle, Communications, Gear, Preparedness

In part one of this arti­cle, we cov­ered the gear and tech­niques nec­es­sary for a prop­er instal­la­tion of CB radio in a vehicle…so now that the sys­tem is set up, lets learn how to opti­mize its trans­mis­sion capa­bil­i­ty. In part two, we will dis­cuss a few... Read more

Properly installing a CB radio Part 1

by Cameron | May 18, 2015 | Bug Out Vehicle, Communications, Gear, Preparedness

Cit­i­zen band radio is free and requires no FCC license to oper­ate so it is a good choice for local com­mu­ni­ca­tion. If cell phones fail to work for what­ev­er rea­son, it may be the best method for remote com­mu­ni­ca­tion since its range is bet­ter than FRS and... Read more

Getting Started in Ham Radio

by Cameron | Apr 6, 2015 | Communications, Gear, Preparedness, Prepping

Here is a long over­due write-up on ham radio… I have quite a few friends that need help get­ting start­ed and with­out a direc­tion or some back­ground knowl­edge, its daunt­ing.  Keep in mind, this isn’t com­pre­hen­sive, but it’s a good start.  I may... Read more