Since the average citizen is NOT an Amateur Radio operator, there is a need to have a standardized method of being able to communicate with one another.  Nearly everyone has at least one form of communication requiring no license to operate: CB, FRS/GMRS, or MURS radios.  There is a movement in the prepping community to setup an emergency communications protocol that will allow people to communicate during a situation when communications are down. Because this link-up protocol is being distributed among various circles, if someone needed assistance they have the highest probability of linking up with someone of like-mind, even if the two parties did not personally know each other prior that moment.

Enter the Channel 3 project. The channel three project is where people will monitor the radio on the threes-

Channel 3 Project – Area Ocho

It is based in the KISS principle. Go read the whole thing.

This article:

NYPD to use drones to monitor backyard parties over Labor Day weekend, sparking privacy concerns

The New York City Police Department announced plans to fly surveillance drones over the city this Labor Day weekend to monitor outdoor parties or barbecues following complaints about large gatherings.

The plan prompted criticism from privacy and civil liberties advocates who raised concerns about whether this use of drones violates existing laws on police surveillance.

“It’s a troubling announcement, and it flies in the face of the POST Act,” New York Civil Liberties Union privacy and technology strategist Daniel Schwarz said, referring to a 2020 city law requiring the NYPD to disclose its surveillance tactics. “Deploying drones in this way is a sci-fi-inspired scenario.”

I’ve seen a lot of people saying they’d shoot down the drones.

Let me remind you that firing a gun in an urban area is against the law, and you are responsible for every bullet that goes up and what happens when it comes down.

So let’s look back at history.

During WWII, when the Germans were bombing London, the British set up a passive defense called barrage balloons.

Interesting, but I’m not making bombs.

Let’s look at nature.

This is a Portuguese Man-O-War.

They hunt by dragging their tentacles behind them in the water.

This is one catching a fish.

Have we put two plus two plus two together yet?

How about a series of party balloons dragging long strands of high-test monofilament fishing line.

It would be nearly invisible, and any drones that would fly into the line would get it’s props tangled instantly.

No props, no lift.

No gunshots into the air.

No noise of gunfire.

I’m just thinking out loud.

Local PD made a drug bust and one the obligatory pictures with sized items shows a basic bottle jack like one would have in an old vehicle.

My questions is why would cops bother showing it at all? Is that used in drug trafficking some way I never heard of?

That’s a fucking burn…

Because I have to feed the Venezuelans in the house.

Two items belong to the missus and two to yours truly. She got the best part.

And so will we.

They will never stop so we can never stop.

To know the difference between a plateaus and limits.