DAC - 2026, Prepper Comms

A passing who applicates positive preparedness, one body for any events that will disrupt day, be a changed that Hello everyone out there on Internet radio land. As Dave Jones NBC guy, Happy New Year, Happy New Year, Happy New Year. Twenty twenty six is upon us, and I'm with the tremp Intrepid Commander on this seizing the year. Let's do what we can to make this the best Prepper year ever. And I'm starting today to exercise my com plan. Yes, one of my resolutions is to establish better communications, and I'm taking several steps here all at once. One of them is to evaluate one of these radio systems that you see a lot of times on Facebook and the Internet. No contract, no, you know, talks coast to coast, blah blah blah. Well, the Intrepid Commander is getting in contact with a company and we're going to evaluate these little handheld pocket radio kind of things and we're going to see if they could be added into our communications plan. And you know, before you drop the two or three hundred dollars. On one of these, I think it was one ninety nine for one of these things, and then you need a pair, so that's four hundred dollars and I need three of them, so that's about six hundred dollars. You know, for six hundred dollars, I can get a SAT phone. So let's see, let's see, we're going to evaluate him. But tonight, tonight, I'm going to do GMRS with the Intrepid Commander. He is doing a camp out. Winter camp and one of the things he wanted to do was take a radio along and see if he could pick up anybody. And I think I am within range of his campsite, so I am going to communicate with him or attempt anyways, see how long these how far these things can transmit. I'm going to use a handheld in and a fifty watt base station. I plan to get a fifty watt base station put into my car so I can have radio communications in my car and hopefully it will reach from my house to the school. At least I'm pretty sure it will. The line of site is good, and just whether or not the fifty watts is powerful enough, So we'll see. We will see. That is the plan. And I have a forty foot television tower that I've been threatened to climb up for years and put a GMRS radio antenna on top of this thing. And this is the year I am going to do that. I have purchased all the accouterments that I need to make this thing happen now at the house here. It's going to be a temporary kind of thing because I don't want I don't want a permanent hookup. But I'm going to have the antenna up, the wire run down, and then. Like a portable base station running off of a twelve volt battery that we'll be able to plug in, turn on, and use whenever you need to. So that's that's the plan anyways. Not that I don't want a permanent hookup. It's just that I think I want to have the versatility to take this thing, you know, places, and if we ever get a second car, you know, put it in the second car maybe, so something like. That, something like that. And not only that, once you have the antenna and everything strung, you can hook other things to it, so. It doesn't have to be you know, set. Anyway, that's the that's along in the short of it. I'm sure if. Chin's listening here's he's probably thinking about a million different things that I. Could do that I have no clue. Soh and mesh tactics, miss tactics. My my neighbors into it. He's he's all about it. And I just haven't got the. First steps in communications down, let alone the second or third step. So baby, baby walk, you know, crawl walk, run, baby talk, baby steps whatever. And that's what I'm doing here. Okay, PBN family, that's about it. Stay tuned, stay tuned to PBN. Making a New Year's resolution to be a part of the PBN family. And uh, hope you hope you had a chance to see the New Year's Eve special. If you didn't, it's still out there. It is still out there. It might be harder to find, but it is still out there. And uh, making a New Year's resolution. If you want to get your medical stuff right, get the Prepper's Medical Handbook from William W. Fergie, Doc Fergie. He was on the PBN a few times. I got the interview along with the Intrepid Commander. He's a great guy, been backpacking for his entire life. So he wrote the book on off grid Medicine. This guy lived it, does it and he wrote the book. That's it's not his only book, but it's the book that we we have here at PBN. I actually have all his books. Okay once once we found him, I went back and looked at these other. Books, and I've just made him a part of my prepper library. There you go. So if you want to increase your medical capabilities Preppers Medical Handbook, there you go, and get you a GMRS license. Trump made it far more affordable. It used to be seventy dollars. Now it's thirty five dollars. So there you go GMR and it's one license for the entire family. It's a great deal. Check in the GMRS radio. It's kind of the go between between CBS okay or Family radios. CBS CB's a little more powerful than Family and HAM. There's no test. GMRS radios require no tests. It's just a license. You fill it out and it's on and you'll get your license, like within twenty four hours I did. So there's my prepper tips for the day, take care and prep on