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Big heavy machined forgings (if mil spec), castings if not, vs. a couple of stampings and a little forging? Steel isn't free. Neither is machining. A ball coupler is good enough and a LOT cheaper: Remember that the military pays a lot more for the pintle hook/lunette new than you do surplus...

Amerex Model B402 5# ABC, rated 3A:40B:C, in each vehicle and in several places around the homestead (along with others). The pickups also have an Amerex Model A411 20# ABC rated 20A:120B:C, and a 2.5 gallon PW extinguisher --- plus a shovel, ax, Pulaski.

First of all, you don't need a pure sine wave for any of those devices. They will all take AC and convert it to DC and don't really care about the waveform. In fact, you can even run some of them (the netbook certainly, maybe the others) off of DC, with higher efficiency. If you want a good...

+1 on the Swing-Aways. The OXO are very good too.

Aside from muffling the engine, you can make the perceived noise quite a bit less by redirecting it upwards. I have 4 3x4' pieces of plywood, which I set up in a rough box around portable generators. They're large enough that there is plenty of room for cooling air and exhaust, and extension...

I managed quite well using 2 meter radios and a Larsen 5/8 wave NMO antenna, on Civil Air Patrol transmit freqs (below 2 meter) and SAR freqs (155.16 and up). The antenna was nominally resonant at around 148 or so.

Every vehicle has a kit based in one of these http://www.conterra-inc.com/index.php?dispatch=categories.view&category_id=19 Usually a Responder II or III The big kit is in one of these: https://kifaru.net/navigator.html

IIRC, they've been around a long time, mostly doing industrial FA courses. I think the instructor and sylabus makes more of an impact than the organization hosting it or printing the certs... Good luck!

LOL, too warm. It made my youthful blondish hair look green in the sun....

Does Fuji still make film? I always thought their film was as saturated as Kodachrome....

I never really liked Kodachrome - too saturated. I shot Ektachrome, mostly. Or Illford HP. But frankly, I'm surprised anyone is still using film. I love digital. And I don't use photoshop.

Here's another explanation: http://hamslife.com/?p=106

astroturf analog from the home center....looks nice, feels nice, shakes out well, hose it off when filthy.

I keep mine on (set at around 38F, to keep drugs cold) all the time. When I'm going to be away for more than a couple of days, though I either take the drugs out, or plug in a battery maintainer. Of course, being a diesel I have two batteries anyway.

Cool. I can't wait for them to become available here - even for $100 http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jul/23/india-unveils-cheapest-laptop

Frequencies are licensed permissively in the US: In order for anyone (government or civilian, military or ham) to use them there has to be an authorization somewhere. For civilian (non-federal governmental use) the FCC says what frequencies can be used: Not which ones can't be. For example...

Show me where in the FCC regs (which specify the modes, frequencies, and purposes that radio frequencies can be used by civilians in the US) that the frequencies they operate on is legal for civilian communications (hint, it's not). The band is restricted to government use and control via not...

They're in the federal UHF low band, a license is not required...however transmitting on those frequencies is limited in the US to federal agencies, so technically its unlawful to use them. FRS radios transmit on frequencies around 460 Mhz, and these radios are not economically modifiable to...

I don't know anything about their stoves, but Brit ration packs are a nice change from MRE's. Of course, Kibble is a nice change from MRE's

As stated, it was a survival tool after returning to earth. For a very long time the Soviets didn't allow aircrew to have any weapons in their survival kits: A pilot crashed in the tundra, survived for several days and kept a diary stating how he was starving to death with small animals...