The AN/PSR-1A showed up yesterday. Major pain in the ass. It seems that military batteries , when this thing was made, were coated with a layer of thick paper. Modern batteries have a rice-paper thin coating of plastic. So when I put the batteries in the battery holder clips the clips cut through the plastic exposing the battery container and thus creating shorts. So, I have to wrap each battery in duct tape. This took about four hours to figure out. So then after getting the power supply end of things figured out, it took another twenty minutes to realize this thing will work best when its grounded. Okay, fine. Ran about thirty feet of wire and stuck one of the probes in the ground…not too enthused with its sensitivity. I think I need to hunt down the TM for this thing , which will be a major pain in the ass, and make sure Im doing everything right.

The TRC3A should be here next week. Hopefully they’ll be a bit easier and more reliable. This is what I get for dinking around with Vietnam-era military tech.

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Well, in addition to the AN/PSR-1A, which should be here in the next day or two, I also managed to get a set of four TRC3A intrusion alarms for a mere $175. Thats a score. These’ll be just the ticket for when I want to sleep soundly at night without worrying about someone tip-toeing across the property.

As it turns out, the TA-312 is a slightly improved version of the TA-34 field phone. The Canadians, it seems, are unloading a bunch of the 34’s and Im getting a few more. I’m almost a full-fledged phone company..all I need is a switchboard.

So, we’re got the perimeter intrusion angle covered. (Except for the actual wire..I need a couple spools of wire.) Doing okay on food, ammo, and first aid. Need to work on more nuts-n-bolt things…storage space, pre-positioned gear, etc, etc.

One angle I really wanna start working on is making a bicycle generator to recharge batteries. Id also like to work up some type of solar array to do the same. Thats going to require alot of research, not so much for the mechanical aspect but for the whole electronic angle…watts, amps, line loss, etc, etc. More stuff to learn….

Well, in addition to the AN/PSR-1A, which should be here in the next day or two, I also managed to get a set of four TRC3A intrusion alarms for a mere $175. Thats a score. These’ll be just the ticket for when I want to sleep soundly at night without worrying about someone tip-toeing across the property.

As it turns out, the TA-312 is a slightly improved version of the TA-34 field phone. The Canadians, it seems, are unloading a bunch of the 34’s and Im getting a few more. I’m almost a full-fledged phone company..all I need is a switchboard.

So, we’re got the perimeter intrusion angle covered. (Except for the actual wire..I need a couple spools of wire.) Doing okay on food, ammo, and first aid. Need to work on more nuts-n-bolt things…storage space, pre-positioned gear, etc, etc.

One angle I really wanna start working on is making a bicycle generator to recharge batteries. Id also like to work up some type of solar array to do the same. Thats going to require alot of research, not so much for the mechanical aspect but for the whole electronic angle…watts, amps, line loss, etc, etc. More stuff to learn….

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Lets see…

Economy on the ropes…..check
Military stretched thin…check
Terrorist activity likely…check
Civil liberties gradually eroding…check

Time to grab the clipboard and make sure things are ready.

This week, since the weather is nice, Im taking the GPS and heading out to the hills to scout cache locations. Joy.

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Well, yeee-hah!

I found my self an An/PSR-1a on eBay, with 9 probes, and won the damn thing for a little over a hundred bucks. Bwahahahahaaa……lets see the feds get past those! “Intruder alert! Intruder alert! Humans approach!”

Indeed!

Well, yeee-hah!

I found my self an An/PSR-1a on eBay, with 9 probes, and won the damn thing for a little over a hundred bucks. Bwahahahahaaa……lets see the feds get past those! “Intruder alert! Intruder alert! Humans approach!”

Indeed!

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Damn…I was outbid on eBay for the TRC-3A Wireless Seismic Intrusion Detection sets…..

I dont want to have to depends on trip flares and jury-rigged devices to alert me to someone breaching the property. I wouldnt mind getting the AN/PSR-1A sets, but those arent wireless and would require burying the wires..which can result in having to dig a couple hundred yards of trench…small, narrow, trench sure..but still a good bit of work.

I can get the new TRC-3A sets from JRH but I was hoping to find something cheaper on eBay. Still and all, eBay has been *very* good for lots of other hard-to-find military gear…like my field phones…..

Damn…I was outbid on eBay for the TRC-3A Wireless Seismic Intrusion Detection sets…..

I dont want to have to depends on trip flares and jury-rigged devices to alert me to someone breaching the property. I wouldnt mind getting the AN/PSR-1A sets, but those arent wireless and would require burying the wires..which can result in having to dig a couple hundred yards of trench…small, narrow, trench sure..but still a good bit of work.

I can get the new TRC-3A sets from JRH but I was hoping to find something cheaper on eBay. Still and all, eBay has been *very* good for lots of other hard-to-find military gear…like my field phones…..

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This is amusing. The Democrats are , again, trying to give the impression they know something about guns… theyre first AW ban didnt work because they couldnt figure out how to define an AW. So now theyre just going to keep adding to the list of features and pretty soon (you can see this coming, right?) *everything* will be considered an AW.

They better bottle the 1994 AW Ban up and not let it come to a vote or Im gonna be majorly annoyed.