survival radio

By admin, January 26, 2010 1:43 pm

survival radio
What would you put in a survival guide?

If you were writing one?
I have so far:

Learn:
-To shoot multiple types of guns
- Archery
- How to make a crude radio
- How to use a radio
- How to track
- Navigate by the stars
- How to make a fire
- Plant guide
- Survival kit
- Purification of water
- Shelter
- How to make rope
- How to make a net
- How to hunt
- How to fish
- How to set traps
- How to make containers
- First Aid
- First Aid kits

You need to know how to FIND water; it isn’t always as easy as stumbling into a river or lake!

In order of importance for actual SURVIVAL:
Find Water — a person can die of dehydration in only 3 days; you can live for up to a month without food, even while walking 20 miles each day.

Fire — to cook food/purify water, to act as a beacon for anyone searching for you, and TO STAY WARM. Wet clothing, especially modern synthetics, can be useless for keeping you warm…

Shelter — you need a place to stay dry/warm. NEVER wander around, hoping to be found; more people die because they will not stay in ONE place…

Find Food Source — you will need to eat, if you wish to live long enough to be found.

For the list of things to learn to do: MAKE TRAPS, i.e., snares and dead-falls. Rabbits and squirrels are good eating, and fairly easily trapped. Also, fish traps are easy to make/use. It is not enough to know how to simply set a trap — you must first learn how to make the trap.

Radios are useless, if not equiped with a transmitter (unless all you want is to get information about the “outside world”…) — and the “crude radio” most often does not include a transmitter. A transmitter-receiver combination of some kind is required if you wish to talk with other people over the radio.

Also to learn: How to make/use signaling devices such as mirrors. If the batteries in the radio or flashlight go dead — and there is every chance they will — those items will be more than useless.

There is a lot more — more than there is room here to list. And it is always best to learn survival skills BEFORE you need them. If you wait until you are in “survival mode” (lost, injured and in direct risk of dying), it may be too late.

Eton FR-250 Survival Radio