Starvin Larry

Whether or not you believe Brandon Smith’s overall hypothesis concerning a globalist conspiracy, this article contains an important admonition for those of us fighting for liberty and individual rights. This may be the best Smith article that SLL has reposted. From Smith at alt-market.com:

For months now, long before the 2016 election, I have been warning about a specific social dynamic which is likely to lead to a form of civil war within the U.S.; namely, the reality that people on the left side of the political spectrum would become despondent at the inevitable loss of their candidate, Hillary Clinton, and that they would react by becoming far more militant. In my article ‘Order Out Of Chaos: The Defeat Of The Left Comes With A Cost‘, published November post-election, I stated:

“When I mentioned in my last article the crippling of social justice, I did not mention…

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Developed as propagation prediction for Voice of America (VOA) the prediction tool is great for HF users as well. Aside from the propagation tools, there’s lots of great information linked there as well. Use it!

Uninspired, Baofeng-looking HTs. Two of them, to be exact. A 2m only and a dual band model, that (at least from what they say) are rugged. Well, who knows. No wideband RX is an issue for me, and the styling makes me think they outsourced production to the same place that builds Wouxons. Maybe I’m wrong.

That being said, this is yet another (at least in my opinion) a big misstep by Yaesu. The 991, 891, and now these are all steps in the wrong direction, at the cost of the great radios they replaced (or are replacing). The VX-3R has been discontinued, signaling that Yaesu likely has plans to retire many other older models, including the venerable FT-60 and one of my top pics for a general purpose Survivalist radio, the VX-6R.

Having general purpose RX capability is a huge asset in…