Believe it or not, up until several years ago, I didn’t really know anything about ham radios or what it would take to get licensed. I knew it was an important skill to have in emergency scenarios, but I had always thought ham radios were expensive and required a ton of knowledge to operate. You can attribute that to Hollywood where they always show a crazy engineer who would spend days finding parts and testing electronic circuits to use his radio, but in reality I’ve discovered things are much different.

I stumbled onto learning about ham radios relatively recently after making an off the cuff decision to purchase a BaoFeng UV-5R. These are cheap, [...]

Here at Gear Primer, we geek out hard when it comes cool gadgets and gear and this year, there’s without a doubt some really cool gear that was released. If you’re a guy with a couple bucks to burn to level up your EDC setup or you’re planning to give a very lucky guy a really cool gadget, you’ve come to the right place. Without further ado, let’s check out the coolest gadgets that a man could possibly own!

One of the most stylish and utilitarian accessories a man could possibly have is a watch and while a nice it’s nice to have a classic Swiss watch such as a Rolex or Omega, none of that has [...]