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!

Originally published at Notes from the bunker…. You can comment here or there.

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…..

Originally published at Notes from the bunker…. You can comment here or there.

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.

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.

Originally published at Notes from the bunker…. You can comment here or there.

Praise be to eBay…the best source for military goodies since I bought that duffel bag of M16 magazines out of the back of a guys Citation in the Domino’s parking lot.

Commander Zeros Ultimate Dream Home (Rancho Ballistica) will have need for these things. The TA312 is the phone you used to see on M*A*S*H that radar would wind the crank on and yell “Sparky?”. You hook it up to some two strand wire and you have telephone communications between two points. Just the ticket for communications between the main house and the observation posts or the locked front gate waaaaaaaaay down the road. Best of all, its about $40 for the pair and another $9 for the Technical Manual. This is good. I’ll test ‘em out, clean em up, lay in a half mile of wire and secure them in the bunker. Will probably get another couple of them for parts and extras…..

They should be just the ticket for people at the gate letting me know theyre there. (And believe me, when you come onto Commander Zero’s property you do not want him to not know youre there….)

Next up: personal radio comms.

Praise be to eBay…the best source for military goodies since I bought that duffel bag of M16 magazines out of the back of a guys Citation in the Domino’s parking lot.

Commander Zeros Ultimate Dream Home (Rancho Ballistica) will have need for these things. The TA312 is the phone you used to see on M*A*S*H that radar would wind the crank on and yell “Sparky?”. You hook it up to some two strand wire and you have telephone communications between two points. Just the ticket for communications between the main house and the observation posts or the locked front gate waaaaaaaaay down the road. Best of all, its about $40 for the pair and another $9 for the Technical Manual. This is good. I’ll test ’em out, clean em up, lay in a half mile of wire and secure them in the bunker. Will probably get another couple of them for parts and extras…..

They should be just the ticket for people at the gate letting me know theyre there. (And believe me, when you come onto Commander Zero’s property you do not want him to not know youre there….)

Next up: personal radio comms.

Being Commander Zero is not all sunshine and stun grenades…there are a zillion mundane things to work on as well as the more exciting stuff. You never say Mad Max worrying about toilet paper or toothpaste, didja? Well, there ya go. But someone has to take these things into consideration…bad hygiene can lead to some serious problems in TEOTWAWKI, including but not limited to cholera, typhoid, and dysentary.

SO, one of the things we’re working on today is toiletries. The PACE plan calls for four levels of redundancy. (Primary, Auxiallary, Contingency, Extra) If things get ugly, the plan is to have enough gear and equipment to completely accomodate at least one extra LMI. To this end, one of the things being put together is a toiletry kit to make life a bit easier (and better smelling) for all concerened. Each kit contains: toothbrush, toothpaste, mouthwash, soap, washcloth, shampoo, razors, shaving cream, comb, deoderant, toilet paper, tissues and ac ouple other sundry items. Each kit fits in a 6×6 cardboard carton and there are five cartons packed away in the bunker.

When things get ugly, it is hoped that brother will manage to make it to the relative safety of out here and I need to be able to accomodate him and his family. Hence, these extra goodies. Of course, he’ll bring some of his own gear along as well, but you have to be prepared in case all he can get away with is the clothes on his back.

Chinese run on NY and Philly banks.

Okay, they barely speak English so the concept of FDIC insurance probably makes no sense to them. Okay. It only takes a *rumour* that a bank is insolvent for all the depositors to come clamoring for their money back…and just like “Its A Wonderful Life”, the bank isnto going to ahve anywhere near the money thats actually been deposited. So the banks may restrict withdrawls or even close for the day..and then the rumors really start flying and a slef-fulfilling prophecy starts – the bank *does* become insolvent..at least until the .gov steps in.

Moral? Me and the LMI’s keep four different types of ‘money’:
Money in the bank (and bonds, CD’s, etc) for when things seem to be working
Cash for when things get a bit uneven or theres a short-term emergency
Gold/Silver in case things tank in a big way. Honored all over the planet.
Trade goods in case the wheels really fly off in a big way. When people are far more interested in a box of 9mm hloowpoints than they are in a 1 oz. Eagle, you’ll have landed in the world of Mad Max, The Omega Man and most of eastern Europe.

Typical…the Chinese covered up the true number of infected people so instead of 70, its closer to 700. Insignificant in a country of over a billion people except you know that there are all sortsa outlying provinces that are probably ridden with this thing….

And now its in Canada, which, given the propensity of illegal aliens from China, means its gonna be here in the US soon.

Five percent fatal, 10-20% require mechanical breathing assistance, according to the CDC….this is going to be interesting to watch. Why couldnt it happen to some nice, pleasant country like North Korea?

Guess I’ll pick up a couple extra gallons of bleach and disinfectant from Costco and add them to the supply in the bunker.