Day: May 14, 2025

Preparedness Notes for Wednesday — May 14, 2025

On May 14, 1607, English colonists established the first permanent English settlement in America at Jamestown. Unknown to them, they had landed amidst the worst drought in eastern North America in 800 years. — May 14th, 1686 was the birthday of Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit, who invented the thermometer. — May 14, 1853: Land surveyor, newspaper publisher, and inventor Gail Borden patented his process for condensed milk. — And on May 14th, 1948, in Tel Aviv, Jewish Agency Chairman David Ben-Gurion proclaimed the State of Israel, reestablishing the Jewish state after nearly 2,000 years. — A special editorial note:  About six months …


Communications Options for the Common Man – Part 2, by Tunnel Rabbit

(Continued from Part 1.) I’ve busted other Ham buddies who were not FCC compliant with an embarrassing phone call.  It is a fun and a useful exercise and practice of a poor man’s version of what is referred to by the military as Signals Intelligence (SIGINT). Intelligence of any kind, from Human Intelligence (HUMINT) to SIGINT is needed, because intelligence gathering in general is essential to our security operation. Intelligence from all sources should drive our security operations.  I (and others) will be listening for radio traffic as that is the easiest form of intelligence available to the survivalist.  As …


SurvivalBlog Readers’ & Editors’ Snippets

Our weekly Snippets column is a collection of short items: responses to posted articles, practical self-sufficiency items, how-tos, lessons learned, tips and tricks, and news items — both from readers and from SurvivalBlog’s editors. Note that we may select some long e-mails for posting as separate letters. — SurvivalBlog’s Editor-at-Large Michael Z. Williamson sent us this first-hand evidence of audio keyword snooping by social media, via a persistently listening smartphone: “I recently drove to Atlanta for a memorial service on aSaturday morning. On the way, I had a phone call with my ex and mentioned a real estate firm, Noble …