1 00:00:21,730 --> 00:00:23,550 Welcome in to the Prepcom's podcast. 2 00:00:24,050 --> 00:00:25,830 I'm your host Caleb Nelson and we are 3 00:00:25,830 --> 00:00:29,050 in the midst of the GMRS radio service 4 00:00:29,050 --> 00:00:29,890 series. 5 00:00:30,570 --> 00:00:32,650 Yeah, are you listening on a podcast player? 6 00:00:33,350 --> 00:00:35,610 Some of you probably are and I bet 7 00:00:35,610 --> 00:00:38,330 some of you are listening, air quote, on 8 00:00:38,330 --> 00:00:38,790 YouTube. 9 00:00:39,030 --> 00:00:41,250 Yeah, I had a listener, a viewer, whatever 10 00:00:41,250 --> 00:00:42,990 you want to call it, tell me that 11 00:00:42,990 --> 00:00:45,530 hey, YouTube is for video stuff. 12 00:00:46,010 --> 00:00:46,350 I get it. 13 00:00:46,590 --> 00:00:47,170 I totally do. 14 00:00:47,910 --> 00:00:50,190 That's why I was so... 15 00:00:50,190 --> 00:00:52,270 I didn't get in a hurry to get 16 00:00:52,270 --> 00:00:55,490 on YouTube with this program because it is 17 00:00:55,490 --> 00:00:55,710 video. 18 00:00:55,890 --> 00:00:56,830 I understand that completely. 19 00:00:57,570 --> 00:00:58,730 But at the same time, there's a huge 20 00:00:58,730 --> 00:01:01,110 number of people who listen to this show 21 00:01:01,110 --> 00:01:01,770 on YouTube. 22 00:01:02,010 --> 00:01:02,830 So that's why it's here. 23 00:01:03,230 --> 00:01:04,630 But thank you for reminding me of that. 24 00:01:05,030 --> 00:01:07,710 Hey, speaking of reminders, you can go back 25 00:01:07,710 --> 00:01:09,210 and look in my Instagram feed and you 26 00:01:09,210 --> 00:01:10,370 can look at some of my stuff and 27 00:01:10,370 --> 00:01:12,870 you'll see that for months I've been encouraging 28 00:01:12,870 --> 00:01:14,710 people to check out a guy on YouTube, 29 00:01:14,890 --> 00:01:15,730 terminal element. 30 00:01:16,230 --> 00:01:18,530 And he's on Instagram as well. 31 00:01:18,690 --> 00:01:19,790 Doesn't do a whole lot there, but on 32 00:01:19,790 --> 00:01:22,250 YouTube he makes some great videos. 33 00:01:22,730 --> 00:01:25,010 He's a fire medic out in the great 34 00:01:25,010 --> 00:01:26,250 Northwest somewhere. 35 00:01:27,230 --> 00:01:29,310 And he talks, what really caught me was 36 00:01:29,310 --> 00:01:31,570 he creates these videos where he's building a 37 00:01:31,570 --> 00:01:33,950 system to be able to utilize his amateur 38 00:01:33,950 --> 00:01:37,010 radio license and other things to communicate with 39 00:01:37,010 --> 00:01:39,870 his family when he's out on a remote 40 00:01:39,870 --> 00:01:40,430 fire. 41 00:01:40,630 --> 00:01:42,370 So out in the middle of nowhere in 42 00:01:42,370 --> 00:01:45,350 the high mountains, I think it's probably Washington 43 00:01:45,350 --> 00:01:46,790 or Oregon, somewhere out there. 44 00:01:47,230 --> 00:01:49,050 And he's a fire medic. 45 00:01:49,270 --> 00:01:51,510 So he's in an ambulance, but like a, 46 00:01:51,510 --> 00:01:53,850 you know, an all-wheel drive, four-wheel 47 00:01:53,850 --> 00:01:57,770 drive kind of forest fire fighting ambulance. 48 00:01:58,250 --> 00:02:01,250 And he goes out and he talks about 49 00:02:01,250 --> 00:02:03,110 how he's able to communicate with home base, 50 00:02:03,270 --> 00:02:04,310 his wife and kids. 51 00:02:04,390 --> 00:02:05,130 It's really cool. 52 00:02:05,410 --> 00:02:07,389 So if that's something that interests you, you 53 00:02:07,389 --> 00:02:09,030 really should be checking terminal element out. 54 00:02:09,169 --> 00:02:11,430 Now my show is not about terminal element, 55 00:02:11,550 --> 00:02:14,130 but I have found that he did not 56 00:02:14,130 --> 00:02:15,910 realize I was also on YouTube. 57 00:02:16,370 --> 00:02:18,010 Of course, it's not a video that you're 58 00:02:18,010 --> 00:02:20,590 watching, but he's listening and he's, he says 59 00:02:20,590 --> 00:02:22,850 he's been telling people that need to know, 60 00:02:23,050 --> 00:02:25,030 hey, go check out the prep comms podcast 61 00:02:25,030 --> 00:02:27,290 sharing my show with a podcast player. 62 00:02:27,290 --> 00:02:28,670 And he just realized I'm on YouTube. 63 00:02:28,710 --> 00:02:29,950 So just a shout out, man. 64 00:02:30,070 --> 00:02:30,790 Thank you very much. 65 00:02:31,250 --> 00:02:33,510 And again, if you haven't watched this stuff, 66 00:02:33,510 --> 00:02:34,730 I want to encourage you to, it's really, 67 00:02:34,850 --> 00:02:35,110 really good. 68 00:02:35,290 --> 00:02:37,230 So why do I even mention that here? 69 00:02:37,230 --> 00:02:40,170 Well, I didn't realize, I didn't anticipate the 70 00:02:40,170 --> 00:02:43,210 feedback that I would get into this GMRS 71 00:02:43,210 --> 00:02:43,810 series. 72 00:02:44,010 --> 00:02:45,430 Now I knew I knew that it was 73 00:02:45,430 --> 00:02:46,130 necessary. 74 00:02:46,490 --> 00:02:47,350 I knew there were a lot of people 75 00:02:47,350 --> 00:02:50,810 asking for this series and have been since 76 00:02:50,810 --> 00:02:53,190 I started back talking, you know, AM FM 77 00:02:53,190 --> 00:02:55,770 radios a year or so ago, but here 78 00:02:55,770 --> 00:02:56,250 we are. 79 00:02:56,470 --> 00:02:58,710 We're in the GMRS and all of a 80 00:02:58,710 --> 00:03:01,910 sudden the second show just blew up with 81 00:03:01,910 --> 00:03:03,310 comments on YouTube. 82 00:03:03,310 --> 00:03:05,790 And either I get time to time, there's 83 00:03:05,790 --> 00:03:07,990 comments on a podcast episode, but those are 84 00:03:07,990 --> 00:03:08,670 harder to do. 85 00:03:08,830 --> 00:03:11,430 I understand that YouTube's easy for everybody to 86 00:03:11,430 --> 00:03:13,090 comment on and a lot of folks have. 87 00:03:13,270 --> 00:03:15,450 So thank you all, whether you're listening to 88 00:03:15,450 --> 00:03:18,170 a podcast or you're watching this blank video 89 00:03:18,170 --> 00:03:19,530 on YouTube now. 90 00:03:19,950 --> 00:03:22,630 So what I did, I decided to pause 91 00:03:22,630 --> 00:03:25,510 my outline here and give you some real 92 00:03:25,510 --> 00:03:28,810 world filled reports and lessons from folks who 93 00:03:28,810 --> 00:03:31,990 were out there in YouTube land that shared 94 00:03:31,990 --> 00:03:34,190 with me what they've got going on. 95 00:03:34,530 --> 00:03:37,370 So I'm just going to go through and 96 00:03:37,370 --> 00:03:38,890 if I get your, if I get your 97 00:03:38,890 --> 00:03:41,570 site, your call sign or your, your name, 98 00:03:41,610 --> 00:03:43,450 identifier or wrong, I want to do the 99 00:03:43,450 --> 00:03:43,990 best I can. 100 00:03:44,090 --> 00:03:45,150 Cause some of these names that just run 101 00:03:45,150 --> 00:03:47,490 together and ADHD is real. 102 00:03:49,170 --> 00:03:52,010 Forgiven dash C five hotel. 103 00:03:52,850 --> 00:03:54,810 I believe he's up in Western North Carolina. 104 00:03:54,810 --> 00:03:57,630 We've talked quite often in YouTube in the 105 00:03:57,630 --> 00:03:59,230 comments and he's always got a lot of 106 00:03:59,230 --> 00:04:01,350 great stuff to say, but one of the 107 00:04:01,350 --> 00:04:02,610 things I wanted to mention here because of 108 00:04:02,610 --> 00:04:03,770 his comment is great. 109 00:04:04,030 --> 00:04:06,650 He said, if he had had GMRS during 110 00:04:06,650 --> 00:04:09,990 the hurricane Helene, he would have felt a 111 00:04:09,990 --> 00:04:13,330 lot more substantial with his understanding of what 112 00:04:13,330 --> 00:04:14,610 was going on locally. 113 00:04:14,890 --> 00:04:16,690 Cause he's been told that the repeaters in 114 00:04:16,690 --> 00:04:19,290 his area were discussing road closures, gas stations 115 00:04:19,290 --> 00:04:21,750 that had gas, which one's only taking cash. 116 00:04:22,450 --> 00:04:25,010 And he kind of just, he's lamenting he 117 00:04:25,010 --> 00:04:31,530 didn't have it Um, Adam, Oh man, Adam, 118 00:04:31,670 --> 00:04:32,750 how do you say your last name? 119 00:04:32,870 --> 00:04:37,710 But shelter 41 21, uh, he uses GMRS 120 00:04:37,710 --> 00:04:41,130 quite frequently in the Northern Sierra Nevada mountain 121 00:04:41,130 --> 00:04:42,230 range in California. 122 00:04:42,250 --> 00:04:43,530 Now I've been out in that area. 123 00:04:43,710 --> 00:04:44,350 It's amazing. 124 00:04:44,710 --> 00:04:46,130 Uh, he didn't think it was so great, 125 00:04:46,130 --> 00:04:47,630 but I mean, of course I was visiting, 126 00:04:47,630 --> 00:04:49,870 uh, you know, eight, 10,000 feet above 127 00:04:49,870 --> 00:04:52,630 sea level is fantastic when you're living at 128 00:04:52,630 --> 00:04:54,610 528 over here in South Carolina. 129 00:04:54,610 --> 00:04:56,250 But he want to let me know that 130 00:04:56,250 --> 00:04:58,430 he has several Peters that he uses in 131 00:04:58,430 --> 00:05:00,170 that area and they can talk. 132 00:05:00,290 --> 00:05:02,910 This is GMRS. These are repeaters that are 133 00:05:02,910 --> 00:05:05,390 up at these extreme elevations compared to my 134 00:05:05,390 --> 00:05:06,270 528, right? 135 00:05:06,670 --> 00:05:08,790 Uh, and they're getting 75 to a hundred 136 00:05:08,790 --> 00:05:12,930 miles range with their repeaters and two of 137 00:05:12,930 --> 00:05:15,610 the, two of the, um, guys, I guess 138 00:05:15,610 --> 00:05:19,290 out there, he's been, you know, having conversations 139 00:05:19,290 --> 00:05:21,850 with or whatever they're getting up to 50 140 00:05:21,850 --> 00:05:22,930 miles simplex. 141 00:05:22,950 --> 00:05:24,470 Now what that means is there's no repeater 142 00:05:24,470 --> 00:05:26,590 between those, but let's say one guy's on 143 00:05:26,590 --> 00:05:28,530 a peak and another guy's on a peak 144 00:05:28,530 --> 00:05:31,470 and they're talking 50 miles away from each 145 00:05:31,470 --> 00:05:31,750 other. 146 00:05:32,270 --> 00:05:34,990 And he's like, his comment is, I can 147 00:05:34,990 --> 00:05:37,830 see what you mean by antennas and terrain 148 00:05:37,830 --> 00:05:40,670 being a major influencer and they are. 149 00:05:40,850 --> 00:05:43,410 So if you have that range, if you 150 00:05:43,410 --> 00:05:45,510 have that height, if you have those antennas 151 00:05:45,510 --> 00:05:47,090 in place, you can do that. 152 00:05:47,730 --> 00:05:49,130 People like me, man, we have to put 153 00:05:49,130 --> 00:05:49,770 up towers. 154 00:05:50,170 --> 00:05:51,430 We have to get over humps. 155 00:05:51,970 --> 00:05:53,250 Um, it's, it's not a lot of fun. 156 00:05:53,250 --> 00:05:54,890 So depending on where you live, it's going 157 00:05:54,890 --> 00:05:56,310 to affect your radio service. 158 00:05:56,430 --> 00:05:58,530 These are real world examples. 159 00:05:59,050 --> 00:05:59,950 And thank you, Adam. 160 00:06:00,090 --> 00:06:01,290 I appreciate that film. 161 00:06:01,290 --> 00:06:03,290 695 says here in Eastern Tennessee, we had 162 00:06:03,290 --> 00:06:05,270 the best GMRS repeater network. 163 00:06:05,270 --> 00:06:08,510 Anyone could ask for it's open and has 164 00:06:08,510 --> 00:06:09,670 a huge coverage area. 165 00:06:09,670 --> 00:06:12,590 So he didn't say where in East Tennessee 166 00:06:12,590 --> 00:06:16,830 he is, but I'm guessing probably Knoxville, maybe 167 00:06:16,830 --> 00:06:18,710 Gatlinburg, Severeville somewhere in there. 168 00:06:19,690 --> 00:06:19,790 Okay. 169 00:06:19,790 --> 00:06:20,790 So if you're out here on the East 170 00:06:20,790 --> 00:06:22,150 coast and you're going to check out the 171 00:06:22,150 --> 00:06:23,990 Christmas lights at Dollywood this year, take your 172 00:06:23,990 --> 00:06:26,150 GMRS radio, look it up in repeater finder 173 00:06:26,150 --> 00:06:27,070 and see what you can come up with. 174 00:06:27,510 --> 00:06:31,690 You may find film 695, um, James Brown 175 00:06:31,690 --> 00:06:32,470 Miller 808. 176 00:06:33,030 --> 00:06:35,310 This is, this is a huge comment and 177 00:06:35,310 --> 00:06:37,430 you can find all this in the second 178 00:06:37,430 --> 00:06:40,390 episode of the GMRS show, um, in the 179 00:06:40,390 --> 00:06:42,510 YouTube comments on the YouTube channel. 180 00:06:43,210 --> 00:06:45,910 And these are just real world examples. 181 00:06:47,150 --> 00:06:48,590 I think for me to come on and 182 00:06:48,590 --> 00:06:50,650 say, Hey man, GMRS is great for you 183 00:06:50,650 --> 00:06:51,250 and your family. 184 00:06:51,310 --> 00:06:52,510 You should check it out. 185 00:06:52,510 --> 00:06:53,750 It works really good. 186 00:06:54,150 --> 00:06:57,150 These are real examples of things that folks 187 00:06:57,150 --> 00:06:57,530 are doing. 188 00:06:57,670 --> 00:06:59,930 So this is a little different, not necessarily 189 00:06:59,930 --> 00:07:01,670 GMRS, but I wanted to share it with 190 00:07:01,670 --> 00:07:04,230 you anyway, because this again goes back to 191 00:07:04,230 --> 00:07:08,270 Adam and his comments about height above average 192 00:07:08,270 --> 00:07:08,890 terrain. 193 00:07:09,250 --> 00:07:13,170 So the short version of this is James 194 00:07:13,170 --> 00:07:15,390 Brown Miller is a member of the civil 195 00:07:15,390 --> 00:07:15,890 air patrol. 196 00:07:15,990 --> 00:07:17,090 He's also a former Marine. 197 00:07:17,330 --> 00:07:19,390 Are you ever a former Marine? 198 00:07:19,610 --> 00:07:20,710 I don't think so, but thank you for 199 00:07:20,710 --> 00:07:21,230 your service. 200 00:07:21,630 --> 00:07:23,610 Uh, so he's in the CAP and he's, 201 00:07:23,690 --> 00:07:24,410 he tells a story. 202 00:07:24,490 --> 00:07:26,550 It's in the, it's in the YouTube show, 203 00:07:26,630 --> 00:07:27,470 YouTube note. 204 00:07:27,490 --> 00:07:28,590 So you should go back and read it 205 00:07:28,590 --> 00:07:31,030 where the civil air patrol put a repeater 206 00:07:31,030 --> 00:07:33,950 up in an airplane at 10,000 feet 207 00:07:33,950 --> 00:07:35,670 and it works so well. 208 00:07:35,670 --> 00:07:38,350 They asked them to take it down because 209 00:07:38,350 --> 00:07:41,870 it was interfering with other relief operations after 210 00:07:41,870 --> 00:07:44,370 the, uh, a flood that they had in 211 00:07:44,370 --> 00:07:46,490 Texas, 550 miles away. 212 00:07:47,310 --> 00:07:47,430 Okay. 213 00:07:47,750 --> 00:07:50,730 So the repeaters at 10,000 feet and 214 00:07:50,730 --> 00:07:53,290 it's got a 550 mile radius. 215 00:07:54,450 --> 00:07:54,970 Okay. 216 00:07:55,290 --> 00:07:56,530 Do you, did you hear what I say? 217 00:07:57,670 --> 00:08:00,130 10,000 feet is like the godlike view. 218 00:08:00,150 --> 00:08:01,430 So it's an airplane is elevated. 219 00:08:01,850 --> 00:08:03,110 There's nothing in the way. 220 00:08:03,110 --> 00:08:05,770 It's looking down and it's got a 500 221 00:08:05,770 --> 00:08:06,350 mile radius. 222 00:08:06,630 --> 00:08:10,270 That's, that's what the height above average terrain 223 00:08:10,270 --> 00:08:10,850 will do. 224 00:08:11,150 --> 00:08:13,970 Uh, it's not every 10,000 repeaters going 225 00:08:13,970 --> 00:08:15,890 to talk for 500 miles, but when it's 226 00:08:15,890 --> 00:08:18,810 like the space station and looking down on 227 00:08:18,810 --> 00:08:20,770 the earth, there's nothing between it except clouds 228 00:08:20,770 --> 00:08:22,550 and atmosphere that you have to get through. 229 00:08:22,810 --> 00:08:23,950 So it makes a difference. 230 00:08:24,130 --> 00:08:26,710 Again, we're talking about real life experiences and 231 00:08:26,710 --> 00:08:28,390 we're talking about this is real. 232 00:08:28,790 --> 00:08:30,450 This, this is how this stuff works. 233 00:08:30,510 --> 00:08:31,270 Radio is magic. 234 00:08:31,530 --> 00:08:32,230 Totally get it. 235 00:08:32,510 --> 00:08:33,490 Don't let it confuse you. 236 00:08:34,150 --> 00:08:36,630 It's not about, uh, bragging. 237 00:08:36,970 --> 00:08:37,370 Okay. 238 00:08:37,750 --> 00:08:39,710 We're just talking about real life experiences here. 239 00:08:39,870 --> 00:08:42,909 Jeff Skidmore, 64, uh, he came in with 240 00:08:42,909 --> 00:08:45,090 a huge point for a future show, but 241 00:08:45,090 --> 00:08:46,130 I'm going to drop it in here now. 242 00:08:46,570 --> 00:08:50,830 He's talking about the difference that coax cable 243 00:08:50,830 --> 00:08:51,370 makes. 244 00:08:51,550 --> 00:08:53,190 It's a maker or a breaker. 245 00:08:53,290 --> 00:08:55,170 It's because it's part of your antenna system. 246 00:08:55,470 --> 00:08:56,670 So here's the deal. 247 00:08:57,330 --> 00:08:59,350 Um, the coax cable goes from your radio 248 00:08:59,350 --> 00:09:01,810 to the antenna and you can buy coax 249 00:09:01,810 --> 00:09:03,650 cable in all kind of flavors. 250 00:09:03,770 --> 00:09:05,030 I mean, you can buy cheap, you can 251 00:09:05,030 --> 00:09:06,590 buy a mid range and you can buy 252 00:09:06,590 --> 00:09:07,010 expensive. 253 00:09:07,490 --> 00:09:10,130 And a lot of times the cheap just 254 00:09:10,130 --> 00:09:12,810 won't get it done in the GMRS frequency 255 00:09:12,810 --> 00:09:13,670 range. 256 00:09:14,190 --> 00:09:15,590 So you want to spend some money here. 257 00:09:15,790 --> 00:09:17,650 Matter of fact, you should probably spend more 258 00:09:17,650 --> 00:09:19,830 on the coax than you do your antenna. 259 00:09:20,690 --> 00:09:22,210 And that freaks people out when you tell 260 00:09:22,210 --> 00:09:24,630 them that because they're thinking, but the antenna 261 00:09:24,630 --> 00:09:27,530 is 150 bucks or the antenna is $100 262 00:09:27,530 --> 00:09:28,710 of $75. 263 00:09:28,830 --> 00:09:32,610 I've got a $30 antenna for the 220, 264 00:09:32,770 --> 00:09:35,250 220 megahertz ham radio band. 265 00:09:35,470 --> 00:09:38,230 And I spent $75 on the coax cable. 266 00:09:39,710 --> 00:09:42,270 So, uh, sometimes it takes that you have 267 00:09:42,270 --> 00:09:43,870 to, the signal has to be able to 268 00:09:43,870 --> 00:09:46,530 pass through the cable effectively to get out 269 00:09:46,530 --> 00:09:47,170 of the antenna. 270 00:09:47,330 --> 00:09:49,810 If you operate with a very low cost, 271 00:09:49,930 --> 00:09:55,030 high, um, high loss coax cable, your signal 272 00:09:55,030 --> 00:09:56,910 is going to get lost in the, in 273 00:09:56,910 --> 00:09:58,090 the wire and it's not going to be 274 00:09:58,090 --> 00:09:59,290 able to get out of the antenna and 275 00:09:59,290 --> 00:09:59,770 vice versa. 276 00:09:59,770 --> 00:10:01,590 So it works on, on the receive as 277 00:10:01,590 --> 00:10:01,810 well. 278 00:10:02,290 --> 00:10:05,590 So rule of thumb here, if you're putting 279 00:10:05,590 --> 00:10:08,930 up anything beyond say 25 feet of coax 280 00:10:08,930 --> 00:10:12,370 cable from your radio to the antenna, find 281 00:10:12,370 --> 00:10:15,410 yourself an LMR 400 equivalent cable. 282 00:10:16,030 --> 00:10:16,150 Okay. 283 00:10:16,470 --> 00:10:20,450 LMR Lima mic Romeo dash 400. 284 00:10:20,850 --> 00:10:23,910 And that's the baseline you should start with 285 00:10:23,910 --> 00:10:28,390 when feeding a base station antenna with GMRS 286 00:10:28,390 --> 00:10:29,050 frequencies. 287 00:10:29,290 --> 00:10:29,650 Okay. 288 00:10:29,650 --> 00:10:30,370 Got it. 289 00:10:30,390 --> 00:10:36,330 Um, man, Timothy stockman, 75 33 wrote a 290 00:10:36,330 --> 00:10:39,530 dissertation for us in, in the comments to 291 00:10:39,530 --> 00:10:41,530 the point that I'll probably do an episode 292 00:10:41,530 --> 00:10:45,850 just on Timothy stockman seven 75 33 comments. 293 00:10:46,350 --> 00:10:47,910 And I appreciate it so much. 294 00:10:47,910 --> 00:10:49,790 It's just too much to cover here, but 295 00:10:49,790 --> 00:10:51,770 he broke down some really great points. 296 00:10:51,790 --> 00:10:54,850 He talks about the channelization of the FRS 297 00:10:54,850 --> 00:10:57,490 and the GMRS frequencies and what, what frequencies 298 00:10:57,490 --> 00:10:59,350 are good for repeaters and where you can 299 00:10:59,350 --> 00:11:00,870 use the 50 Watts and where you have 300 00:11:00,870 --> 00:11:01,790 to use the half watt. 301 00:11:02,230 --> 00:11:05,130 He reminds us that the license covers your 302 00:11:05,130 --> 00:11:07,790 whole household and you have to be responsible 303 00:11:07,790 --> 00:11:11,070 for whomever uses it underneath you. 304 00:11:11,170 --> 00:11:13,450 If you want some information, some great info, 305 00:11:13,610 --> 00:11:15,490 this written really well and makes a lot 306 00:11:15,490 --> 00:11:15,850 of sense. 307 00:11:16,090 --> 00:11:19,430 Check out the comments in the GMRS part 308 00:11:19,430 --> 00:11:21,590 two from Timothy stockman 75 33. 309 00:11:21,830 --> 00:11:23,470 Thank you for sharing that with us, sir. 310 00:11:24,390 --> 00:11:28,990 Um, up next, Ken Adamson 45 35 is 311 00:11:28,990 --> 00:11:31,610 in Brevard, North Carolina, which happens to be 312 00:11:31,610 --> 00:11:34,010 the place where I have some of the 313 00:11:34,010 --> 00:11:37,330 best memories of camping as a child at 314 00:11:37,330 --> 00:11:41,070 the Davidson river campground before they had electricity 315 00:11:41,070 --> 00:11:42,370 on any of their sites. 316 00:11:42,930 --> 00:11:45,830 And, uh, it was just the best, the 317 00:11:45,830 --> 00:11:47,270 best times ever. 318 00:11:47,270 --> 00:11:49,290 If you're out this way and you're looking 319 00:11:49,290 --> 00:11:52,210 for a great campground, uh, you cannot beat 320 00:11:52,210 --> 00:11:54,830 Davidson river in Brevard, North Carolina. 321 00:11:55,390 --> 00:11:57,270 So he asked about, you know, he's got 322 00:11:57,270 --> 00:11:59,150 some antennas and he's got some questions and 323 00:11:59,150 --> 00:12:01,830 he's trying to figure out what would work 324 00:12:01,830 --> 00:12:04,470 best from his home as well as in 325 00:12:04,470 --> 00:12:05,230 his car. 326 00:12:05,670 --> 00:12:07,970 And he's about 18 to 20 miles away 327 00:12:07,970 --> 00:12:11,670 from the local repeaters and he's having some 328 00:12:11,670 --> 00:12:13,610 issues, you know, getting in clear and clean 329 00:12:13,610 --> 00:12:14,190 all the time. 330 00:12:14,410 --> 00:12:17,270 And the guts of it is he's asking, 331 00:12:17,590 --> 00:12:19,410 should I put up a directional antenna? 332 00:12:20,070 --> 00:12:22,390 And in South Carolina, we call that a 333 00:12:22,390 --> 00:12:25,750 Yagi and probably my friends out West probably 334 00:12:25,750 --> 00:12:26,590 call it a Yagi. 335 00:12:26,950 --> 00:12:29,050 Either way, it's a directional antenna. 336 00:12:29,150 --> 00:12:31,210 It looks kind of like a small miniature 337 00:12:31,210 --> 00:12:33,610 version of the old school TV antennas we 338 00:12:33,610 --> 00:12:34,890 used to have on our chimneys back in 339 00:12:34,890 --> 00:12:35,230 the day. 340 00:12:35,630 --> 00:12:39,010 And it focuses the, uh, the energy from 341 00:12:39,010 --> 00:12:40,990 your radio and the energy that your radio 342 00:12:40,990 --> 00:12:44,270 receives in a specific direction instead of an 343 00:12:44,270 --> 00:12:45,550 omnidirectional pattern. 344 00:12:45,750 --> 00:12:47,410 Uh, these things can be had for like 345 00:12:47,410 --> 00:12:51,070 38 to 45 bucks on, on eBay, Amazon, 346 00:12:51,070 --> 00:12:51,390 whatever. 347 00:12:51,570 --> 00:12:53,070 I'll try to remember to put a link 348 00:12:53,070 --> 00:12:53,790 in the show notes. 349 00:12:54,450 --> 00:12:55,830 Um, should you do that? 350 00:12:55,870 --> 00:12:58,030 Well, that's depending if you want to put 351 00:12:58,030 --> 00:12:59,530 that up there and leave it pointed in 352 00:12:59,530 --> 00:13:00,250 the same direction. 353 00:13:00,310 --> 00:13:03,010 Now you can put a tip, uh, these 354 00:13:03,010 --> 00:13:03,750 things are small enough. 355 00:13:03,770 --> 00:13:06,290 You can use a television style antenna rotator. 356 00:13:06,570 --> 00:13:08,370 Uh, those aren't cheap anymore, by the way, 357 00:13:08,370 --> 00:13:09,810 but you can still do that and turn 358 00:13:09,810 --> 00:13:11,610 it around and aim it in different directions. 359 00:13:11,810 --> 00:13:13,770 If you're wanting to talk a certain, certain 360 00:13:13,770 --> 00:13:14,190 way. 361 00:13:14,690 --> 00:13:17,730 Uh, he asked about, uh, different antennas. 362 00:13:18,230 --> 00:13:20,890 Uh, my favorite, my pick is my friend 363 00:13:20,890 --> 00:13:23,970 and one that we stock and that is 364 00:13:23,970 --> 00:13:25,630 the ZBM two industries. 365 00:13:25,970 --> 00:13:27,990 Derek makes those handheld antennas. 366 00:13:28,390 --> 00:13:31,710 He also makes vehicular antennas and, um, they're 367 00:13:31,710 --> 00:13:33,330 hard to beat, uh, in a lot of 368 00:13:33,330 --> 00:13:33,790 different ways. 369 00:13:33,950 --> 00:13:35,250 I mean, they're tough as nails, plus they 370 00:13:35,250 --> 00:13:35,790 work great. 371 00:13:36,070 --> 00:13:37,150 That's why I stock them. 372 00:13:37,270 --> 00:13:38,890 I run them on everything that I own 373 00:13:38,890 --> 00:13:41,570 as well as we have in our store. 374 00:13:41,910 --> 00:13:44,730 Now we have a roll up GMRS slash 375 00:13:44,730 --> 00:13:46,830 M U R S roll up J pole 376 00:13:46,830 --> 00:13:49,330 that works with your handies or works in 377 00:13:49,330 --> 00:13:50,130 HOA or whatever. 378 00:13:50,510 --> 00:13:52,510 So, uh, I'm not trying to sell you 379 00:13:52,510 --> 00:13:55,330 either of those, but for me, I'm putting 380 00:13:55,330 --> 00:13:59,250 a ZBM two industries whip antenna on every 381 00:13:59,250 --> 00:14:01,310 handy talkie I own the end. 382 00:14:01,610 --> 00:14:03,170 And if you're, if you need something to 383 00:14:03,170 --> 00:14:04,570 put in your backpack and you want something 384 00:14:04,570 --> 00:14:06,330 on these frequencies, we have those for you 385 00:14:06,330 --> 00:14:08,590 in our GMRS, M U R S roll 386 00:14:08,590 --> 00:14:08,790 up. 387 00:14:08,790 --> 00:14:10,570 So you can check that out at prep 388 00:14:10,570 --> 00:14:13,230 coms.shop. Uh, I'm going to keep going 389 00:14:13,230 --> 00:14:13,490 here. 390 00:14:13,510 --> 00:14:14,990 I'm just trying to get through these because 391 00:14:14,990 --> 00:14:17,230 they're, they're so much good stuff here. 392 00:14:18,590 --> 00:14:22,230 And, um, here, here, Steven alds, he has 393 00:14:22,230 --> 00:14:25,470 a great question that could really, uh, be 394 00:14:25,470 --> 00:14:26,590 a whole show unto itself. 395 00:14:26,590 --> 00:14:27,870 And I think we're probably going to do 396 00:14:27,870 --> 00:14:29,670 a show on this Steven coming up. 397 00:14:29,750 --> 00:14:32,450 Uh, Steven asked, Hey man, uh, good stuff 398 00:14:32,450 --> 00:14:32,710 here. 399 00:14:32,990 --> 00:14:34,190 Thank you for posting, but I've got a 400 00:14:34,190 --> 00:14:34,530 question. 401 00:14:34,850 --> 00:14:36,350 I want to put an antenna on my 402 00:14:36,350 --> 00:14:38,250 roof and be able to use my GMRS 403 00:14:38,250 --> 00:14:39,490 radio throughout the house. 404 00:14:39,730 --> 00:14:41,490 Is there maybe a transmitter that I can 405 00:14:41,490 --> 00:14:44,030 plug the antenna to, to make this happen? 406 00:14:44,490 --> 00:14:45,290 Uh, yes. 407 00:14:46,850 --> 00:14:48,370 Um, and we're going to figure out the 408 00:14:48,370 --> 00:14:49,410 best way to do that for you. 409 00:14:49,910 --> 00:14:51,530 I know how most people are going to 410 00:14:51,530 --> 00:14:55,830 do this and it's not, uh, it doesn't 411 00:14:55,830 --> 00:14:57,470 meet the rules, but this is how most 412 00:14:57,470 --> 00:14:58,670 people will tell you how to do this. 413 00:14:58,730 --> 00:15:00,070 I'm not telling you how to do this. 414 00:15:00,430 --> 00:15:02,690 This is how most people would choose to 415 00:15:02,690 --> 00:15:03,030 do this. 416 00:15:03,030 --> 00:15:04,550 Cause we've already talked about this in our 417 00:15:04,550 --> 00:15:07,430 MERS shows in the comments here on YouTube. 418 00:15:07,650 --> 00:15:10,550 So, uh, most guys will take a MERS 419 00:15:10,550 --> 00:15:14,110 radio or they'll take a dual band, a 420 00:15:14,110 --> 00:15:18,910 VHF UHF Chinese mobile radio that will do 421 00:15:18,910 --> 00:15:20,990 what they call crossband repeat. 422 00:15:21,990 --> 00:15:23,190 You can even do this with some handy 423 00:15:23,190 --> 00:15:23,530 talkies. 424 00:15:23,550 --> 00:15:25,410 If you get one that has a crossband 425 00:15:25,410 --> 00:15:27,730 repeater built into it and what that does, 426 00:15:27,810 --> 00:15:30,530 it allows you to use, let's say a 427 00:15:30,530 --> 00:15:34,570 VHF walkie talkie in your bedroom and it 428 00:15:34,570 --> 00:15:39,250 transmits to a radio listening on a VHF 429 00:15:39,250 --> 00:15:39,790 frequency. 430 00:15:40,790 --> 00:15:43,670 And then in its internals, it then spits 431 00:15:43,670 --> 00:15:46,350 that out like a repeater does at the 432 00:15:46,350 --> 00:15:49,670 same time, the speed of light out on 433 00:15:49,670 --> 00:15:52,170 a UHF signal, which goes out of the 434 00:15:52,170 --> 00:15:53,810 antenna to the local repeater. 435 00:15:54,570 --> 00:15:56,230 And nobody on the other end really knows 436 00:15:56,230 --> 00:15:57,190 that you're doing that. 437 00:15:58,450 --> 00:16:01,190 And it's against the rules to use MURS 438 00:16:01,190 --> 00:16:01,890 in that fashion. 439 00:16:02,470 --> 00:16:03,650 That's how a lot of people are doing 440 00:16:03,650 --> 00:16:03,930 it. 441 00:16:04,370 --> 00:16:05,250 Are there other ways to do it? 442 00:16:05,350 --> 00:16:06,470 Can you put a small repeater on your 443 00:16:06,470 --> 00:16:06,790 property? 444 00:16:06,890 --> 00:16:07,630 Absolutely, man. 445 00:16:07,770 --> 00:16:10,090 You can build those things out of little 446 00:16:10,090 --> 00:16:10,790 mobile radios. 447 00:16:11,030 --> 00:16:12,210 You can build them out of walkie talkies. 448 00:16:12,590 --> 00:16:13,870 A lot of different ways to skin that 449 00:16:13,870 --> 00:16:14,130 cat. 450 00:16:14,410 --> 00:16:15,950 And again, it may not be the next 451 00:16:15,950 --> 00:16:17,750 show, but in this series, I believe we're 452 00:16:17,750 --> 00:16:19,010 probably going to talk about it because I 453 00:16:19,010 --> 00:16:20,290 can see that being an issue. 454 00:16:20,810 --> 00:16:22,570 I have lived that problem back in the 455 00:16:22,570 --> 00:16:25,490 day as an early in my ham, whatever 456 00:16:25,490 --> 00:16:26,170 you'd call that. 457 00:16:26,350 --> 00:16:28,130 We had a local repeater here that was 458 00:16:28,130 --> 00:16:29,870 in a different location than it is now 459 00:16:29,870 --> 00:16:31,870 and really hard to get into from my 460 00:16:31,870 --> 00:16:32,130 house. 461 00:16:32,390 --> 00:16:34,750 So I had a radio in my E350 462 00:16:34,750 --> 00:16:35,930 van, the Millennium Falcon. 463 00:16:36,470 --> 00:16:37,290 It was silver. 464 00:16:38,130 --> 00:16:40,550 And that radio had a crossband repeater in 465 00:16:40,550 --> 00:16:42,290 it and I would transmit on one frequency 466 00:16:42,290 --> 00:16:44,790 and it would repeat it on the on 467 00:16:44,790 --> 00:16:46,330 a different band and I could get in 468 00:16:46,330 --> 00:16:47,570 the repeater free and clear. 469 00:16:48,030 --> 00:16:50,050 That would allow me to just leave the 470 00:16:50,050 --> 00:16:51,850 radio in the truck on all the time 471 00:16:51,850 --> 00:16:53,630 with a high gain antenna connected to that. 472 00:16:53,730 --> 00:16:54,930 You could do this as a base station 473 00:16:54,930 --> 00:16:56,370 as well, but it was just mounted in 474 00:16:56,370 --> 00:16:56,830 my truck. 475 00:16:57,430 --> 00:16:59,290 It was a Kenwood TMV 71 Alpha. 476 00:16:59,570 --> 00:17:01,110 If anybody cares, it was one of the 477 00:17:01,110 --> 00:17:02,350 greatest radios I've ever owned. 478 00:17:02,450 --> 00:17:03,510 I had to sell them when Carla got 479 00:17:03,510 --> 00:17:05,690 sick and I'm still sick about having to 480 00:17:05,690 --> 00:17:07,670 sell them, but they're great radios if you 481 00:17:07,670 --> 00:17:08,470 can find one cheap. 482 00:17:09,450 --> 00:17:11,130 Anyway, this thing had a crossband repeater in 483 00:17:11,130 --> 00:17:12,589 it and I could go anywhere on my 484 00:17:12,589 --> 00:17:16,130 property with these little bitty UHF handy talkies 485 00:17:16,130 --> 00:17:19,030 and transmit from it and it'd go to 486 00:17:19,030 --> 00:17:20,410 the van and from the van it would 487 00:17:20,410 --> 00:17:21,750 go out of the antenna and from the 488 00:17:21,750 --> 00:17:23,290 antenna it would go to the local repeater 489 00:17:23,290 --> 00:17:24,829 and go out on that frequency and I 490 00:17:24,829 --> 00:17:25,950 could talk all over the place. 491 00:17:26,050 --> 00:17:29,190 It was so convenient until I would forget 492 00:17:29,190 --> 00:17:31,750 to turn the automatic timer on off and 493 00:17:31,750 --> 00:17:32,670 I would come out and my van would 494 00:17:32,670 --> 00:17:33,010 be dead. 495 00:17:33,090 --> 00:17:35,190 So my radio would actually kill the battery. 496 00:17:35,590 --> 00:17:36,850 That's more than you wanted to know. 497 00:17:37,150 --> 00:17:40,430 Thank you so much for Zulu 7 Delta 498 00:17:40,430 --> 00:17:42,310 3 November Romeo 4. 499 00:17:43,390 --> 00:17:46,130 I don't know what that means, but his 500 00:17:46,130 --> 00:17:48,650 comment was, thank you for helping me understand 501 00:17:48,650 --> 00:17:51,210 the basics of radio usage. 502 00:17:52,290 --> 00:17:54,290 Now this may be one of the most, 503 00:17:55,030 --> 00:17:58,990 I don't know, humbling or whatever you want 504 00:17:58,990 --> 00:17:59,490 to call it. 505 00:18:00,370 --> 00:18:02,730 The guts of my response to that comment 506 00:18:02,730 --> 00:18:03,230 is this. 507 00:18:04,630 --> 00:18:06,570 The reason I sit here and record these 508 00:18:06,570 --> 00:18:09,230 programs and write these blog posts and have 509 00:18:09,230 --> 00:18:12,390 these websites and have podcasts and create content, 510 00:18:12,910 --> 00:18:13,550 that's why. 511 00:18:14,510 --> 00:18:18,370 That's why you see it's my goal to 512 00:18:18,370 --> 00:18:20,790 help people who don't know how to do 513 00:18:20,790 --> 00:18:22,070 these things, how to do them. 514 00:18:22,230 --> 00:18:24,310 It might even be that you know how 515 00:18:24,310 --> 00:18:26,350 to do it, but you just really don't 516 00:18:26,350 --> 00:18:28,090 want to spend the time to do it. 517 00:18:28,450 --> 00:18:29,310 I can help you with that too. 518 00:18:29,730 --> 00:18:32,210 So the whole thing is, thank you for 519 00:18:32,210 --> 00:18:34,450 allowing me to help you understand the basics 520 00:18:34,450 --> 00:18:35,270 of radio usage. 521 00:18:35,410 --> 00:18:38,130 That is why we started at how to 522 00:18:38,130 --> 00:18:39,390 listen to an AM FM radio. 523 00:18:39,550 --> 00:18:42,250 That's why we started at here's a shortwave 524 00:18:42,250 --> 00:18:42,650 radio. 525 00:18:42,670 --> 00:18:43,690 What is it even for? 526 00:18:43,790 --> 00:18:45,010 Why do we have a weather radio? 527 00:18:45,570 --> 00:18:48,150 It wasn't because I thought everybody listening was 528 00:18:48,150 --> 00:18:48,750 just a dummy. 529 00:18:49,410 --> 00:18:51,910 I'm trying to build a repertoire of information 530 00:18:51,910 --> 00:18:53,990 here that when you get to a point 531 00:18:53,990 --> 00:18:57,930 in your communications journey and you're wanting to 532 00:18:57,930 --> 00:18:59,890 learn more, that's what the prep comms podcast 533 00:18:59,890 --> 00:19:00,570 is for. 534 00:19:00,610 --> 00:19:02,890 So like terminal element tells people, hey, if 535 00:19:02,890 --> 00:19:04,510 you're curious, go check this guy out. 536 00:19:04,830 --> 00:19:06,650 That's why I'm doing this to help people 537 00:19:06,650 --> 00:19:07,930 build that knowledge. 538 00:19:08,470 --> 00:19:10,230 And if again, if it's not, if you're 539 00:19:10,230 --> 00:19:11,910 not here to learn, you just need somebody 540 00:19:11,910 --> 00:19:13,150 to help you do it or do it 541 00:19:13,150 --> 00:19:13,770 for you. 542 00:19:13,830 --> 00:19:14,350 I'm your guy. 543 00:19:14,450 --> 00:19:14,810 Let me know. 544 00:19:14,870 --> 00:19:16,230 We can talk about that down the road. 545 00:19:17,390 --> 00:19:19,190 Harambe 4628. 546 00:19:19,470 --> 00:19:20,530 I said that wrong, probably. 547 00:19:21,090 --> 00:19:22,890 And I think that's like a, a meme 548 00:19:22,890 --> 00:19:24,550 from back in the day that I never 549 00:19:24,550 --> 00:19:26,950 really, I had two, my kids were too 550 00:19:26,950 --> 00:19:28,210 small to get into that meme. 551 00:19:28,330 --> 00:19:30,210 I don't remember that one much, but maybe 552 00:19:30,210 --> 00:19:30,570 a gorilla. 553 00:19:30,690 --> 00:19:32,670 I don't know either way. 554 00:19:32,970 --> 00:19:35,590 He says, this is the most accurate video 555 00:19:35,590 --> 00:19:36,290 out there. 556 00:19:36,630 --> 00:19:37,050 What? 557 00:19:37,350 --> 00:19:37,830 Thank you. 558 00:19:38,250 --> 00:19:39,330 Thank you so much. 559 00:19:39,770 --> 00:19:40,910 Um, yeah. 560 00:19:41,510 --> 00:19:43,130 Um, I mean, I hope that I'm creating 561 00:19:43,130 --> 00:19:44,230 great content here for you. 562 00:19:44,270 --> 00:19:47,390 And that, that just makes me feel fantastic. 563 00:19:47,790 --> 00:19:48,430 Thank you so much. 564 00:19:48,710 --> 00:19:52,770 Guest pass who decides to use a five 565 00:19:52,770 --> 00:19:56,430 instead of the letter S commented, uh, he's 566 00:19:56,430 --> 00:19:58,550 got the license and he's, he's connected with 567 00:19:58,550 --> 00:20:00,110 the local guy who has the repeater. 568 00:20:00,130 --> 00:20:01,770 He's registered and he can get on there. 569 00:20:02,390 --> 00:20:04,210 Um, he's, he's not used to it yet, 570 00:20:04,230 --> 00:20:05,370 but he just want to let me know 571 00:20:05,370 --> 00:20:06,430 that he could if he needed to. 572 00:20:07,010 --> 00:20:08,410 And he appreciated the content. 573 00:20:08,670 --> 00:20:08,910 Thanks, man. 574 00:20:09,170 --> 00:20:11,750 Uh, Michael Franzetti, uh, 3900. 575 00:20:12,490 --> 00:20:15,150 Um, he's been a ham for about 20 576 00:20:15,150 --> 00:20:15,490 years. 577 00:20:15,830 --> 00:20:18,750 He's typically only uses the VHF and UHF 578 00:20:18,750 --> 00:20:20,990 bands primarily on handy talkies. 579 00:20:21,570 --> 00:20:23,370 And one of the things he says here, 580 00:20:23,410 --> 00:20:25,630 the most difficult thing about amateur radio. 581 00:20:25,650 --> 00:20:27,630 Now this is GMRS. Don't, don't go anywhere 582 00:20:27,630 --> 00:20:27,950 guys. 583 00:20:28,290 --> 00:20:30,170 This is a ham talking to another ham. 584 00:20:30,170 --> 00:20:32,610 He said the hardest thing for him to 585 00:20:32,610 --> 00:20:34,270 do is to convince his friends and families 586 00:20:34,270 --> 00:20:36,710 to get licensed so that he could actually 587 00:20:36,710 --> 00:20:39,010 have somebody he'd want to talk to somebody 588 00:20:39,010 --> 00:20:40,150 that he cares about. 589 00:20:40,170 --> 00:20:41,110 I get that. 590 00:20:41,350 --> 00:20:43,270 And because of that, he says, I've been 591 00:20:43,270 --> 00:20:48,030 looking heavily into GMRS, also CB and MURs, 592 00:20:48,030 --> 00:20:51,430 uh, as an alternative to bring his friends 593 00:20:51,430 --> 00:20:51,690 in. 594 00:20:51,690 --> 00:20:54,050 And I'll tell you as a dude, there's 595 00:20:54,050 --> 00:20:56,590 nothing like having a buddy or 10 on 596 00:20:56,590 --> 00:20:57,790 the radio to talk to. 597 00:20:57,810 --> 00:21:00,430 Now we have a great ham population here 598 00:21:00,430 --> 00:21:02,450 where I live and I get along with 599 00:21:02,450 --> 00:21:04,170 everybody, but there are some folks who are 600 00:21:04,170 --> 00:21:04,710 my friends. 601 00:21:05,090 --> 00:21:06,870 I mean, I'm friends with everybody, but you 602 00:21:06,870 --> 00:21:07,810 got buddies, right? 603 00:21:08,390 --> 00:21:10,330 And I love hearing my buddy on the 604 00:21:10,330 --> 00:21:10,630 radio. 605 00:21:10,730 --> 00:21:12,430 I love talking to my buddies on the 606 00:21:12,430 --> 00:21:14,030 radio, my friends, if you don't like the 607 00:21:14,030 --> 00:21:14,510 word buddy. 608 00:21:14,810 --> 00:21:17,790 Uh, but either way, I get exactly what 609 00:21:17,790 --> 00:21:18,530 you're saying, sir. 610 00:21:18,890 --> 00:21:19,870 And thank you for your comment. 611 00:21:20,170 --> 00:21:21,710 Uh, GMRS is great. 612 00:21:22,430 --> 00:21:23,470 It's really easy. 613 00:21:23,530 --> 00:21:24,710 It costs 35 bucks. 614 00:21:24,950 --> 00:21:26,610 You fill out a form on the FCC 615 00:21:26,610 --> 00:21:28,970 website and you're, you're good. 616 00:21:29,130 --> 00:21:30,910 You can even share with them and this 617 00:21:30,910 --> 00:21:31,630 will be in the show notes. 618 00:21:31,630 --> 00:21:33,670 Michael, you can share with them. 619 00:21:34,130 --> 00:21:37,950 My GMRS how to, it's a very simple, 620 00:21:37,950 --> 00:21:42,250 um, series of prompts that you can utilize 621 00:21:42,250 --> 00:21:43,630 with AI. 622 00:21:43,670 --> 00:21:45,630 So if you're using Claude or if you're 623 00:21:45,630 --> 00:21:48,230 using GPT, you take these prompts one at 624 00:21:48,230 --> 00:21:50,810 a time and you open up the FCC 625 00:21:50,810 --> 00:21:53,170 website and it walks you through every single 626 00:21:53,170 --> 00:21:55,150 step, where to click, what, what to put 627 00:21:55,150 --> 00:21:56,530 there, what to put in that box. 628 00:21:56,890 --> 00:21:58,750 And it takes this mystery out of the 629 00:21:58,750 --> 00:22:00,650 FCC website, which is a stinker, by the 630 00:22:00,650 --> 00:22:00,850 way. 631 00:22:01,410 --> 00:22:03,190 I think they built it in 95 and 632 00:22:03,190 --> 00:22:04,210 I don't think they've changed it. 633 00:22:04,310 --> 00:22:05,670 It still looks like it's running on XP. 634 00:22:06,610 --> 00:22:07,930 Uh, that's all I got to say. 635 00:22:07,970 --> 00:22:09,950 They're, they're closed right now anyway, but I, 636 00:22:10,150 --> 00:22:11,850 I'm betting they'll be opened by Monday as 637 00:22:11,850 --> 00:22:12,450 my guest. 638 00:22:12,630 --> 00:22:15,910 Uh, Larry J, uh, Larry Jensen, 40, 11, 639 00:22:16,110 --> 00:22:18,050 this guy, I love this guy's comment. 640 00:22:18,470 --> 00:22:21,170 Um, thank you, by the way, Larry, uh, 641 00:22:21,290 --> 00:22:23,550 for, for commenting and listening here, guys, take, 642 00:22:23,630 --> 00:22:24,170 take this in. 643 00:22:24,210 --> 00:22:26,550 So you've heard me talk about using a 644 00:22:26,550 --> 00:22:30,130 top rail post for a chain link fence 645 00:22:30,130 --> 00:22:31,390 to elevate your antennas. 646 00:22:31,610 --> 00:22:33,630 Now I normally do this with one single 647 00:22:33,630 --> 00:22:33,970 piece. 648 00:22:34,110 --> 00:22:35,490 It's about 10 or 15 feet long. 649 00:22:35,690 --> 00:22:36,290 I think it's 10 feet. 650 00:22:37,070 --> 00:22:39,690 And, uh, I'll use that as a mast. 651 00:22:39,770 --> 00:22:41,530 It's a really expensive mast. 652 00:22:41,870 --> 00:22:43,590 I think it's a little heavier duty than 653 00:22:43,590 --> 00:22:45,610 the old TV antenna mast that we used 654 00:22:45,610 --> 00:22:46,730 to sell at Radio Shack. 655 00:22:47,390 --> 00:22:48,350 It feels heavier. 656 00:22:49,190 --> 00:22:51,290 Maybe, uh, maybe I'm just gotten older and 657 00:22:51,290 --> 00:22:54,910 it's literally heavier, but either way, um, Larry 658 00:22:54,910 --> 00:22:57,870 wants to put up a 50 foot mast 659 00:22:57,870 --> 00:23:00,470 built out of these 10 foot sections of 660 00:23:00,470 --> 00:23:02,650 the top rail from chain link fence. 661 00:23:02,770 --> 00:23:04,930 And he has a great idea. 662 00:23:05,130 --> 00:23:06,130 I want you to go check the comments 663 00:23:06,130 --> 00:23:08,090 out in the second episode, which will be 664 00:23:08,090 --> 00:23:09,630 linked here in these show notes. 665 00:23:09,630 --> 00:23:11,970 But he's talking about using them, cutting them 666 00:23:11,970 --> 00:23:14,210 down, uh, one third and two third links 667 00:23:14,210 --> 00:23:19,470 to have less stress on the overall, overall 668 00:23:19,470 --> 00:23:19,830 mast. 669 00:23:19,990 --> 00:23:21,090 And I want to say, Larry, there's people 670 00:23:21,090 --> 00:23:22,430 listening like this guy's crazy. 671 00:23:22,830 --> 00:23:24,310 Uh, that's never going to work. 672 00:23:24,310 --> 00:23:26,190 It's, it's too, it's too flimsy. 673 00:23:26,810 --> 00:23:28,590 Um, he's talking about putting it in the 674 00:23:28,590 --> 00:23:30,870 concrete base and, and, you know, grounding it 675 00:23:30,870 --> 00:23:32,370 properly and, and whatever. 676 00:23:32,870 --> 00:23:35,930 Um, and he wants to, um, he's going 677 00:23:35,930 --> 00:23:37,510 to, he's going to guy it as well, 678 00:23:37,510 --> 00:23:38,370 but here's the thing. 679 00:23:38,390 --> 00:23:39,370 So you guys are like, man, there's no 680 00:23:39,370 --> 00:23:39,950 way it's going to work. 681 00:23:40,190 --> 00:23:43,430 I've got a friend, a buddy, and doc 682 00:23:43,430 --> 00:23:45,350 is his name in four. 683 00:23:45,870 --> 00:23:48,910 I, I is his call in in four. 684 00:23:48,910 --> 00:23:51,650 I sorry, November, November four, India, India is 685 00:23:51,650 --> 00:23:54,890 his ham radio call sun and doc has 686 00:23:54,890 --> 00:23:58,770 60 feet of fiberglass military mast up with 687 00:23:58,770 --> 00:24:02,030 a really nice dual band vertical on the 688 00:24:02,030 --> 00:24:03,430 top of the mast. 689 00:24:03,610 --> 00:24:04,870 And you're like, okay, so what, well, he's 690 00:24:04,870 --> 00:24:05,350 got it guide. 691 00:24:05,430 --> 00:24:05,930 All right. 692 00:24:06,150 --> 00:24:07,790 And it works really, really good. 693 00:24:07,870 --> 00:24:08,950 He's at a really high point in our 694 00:24:08,950 --> 00:24:10,470 county, maybe one of the higher points in 695 00:24:10,470 --> 00:24:10,950 the county. 696 00:24:11,350 --> 00:24:13,150 He can talk all over the place, simplex 697 00:24:13,150 --> 00:24:13,930 radio to radio. 698 00:24:14,110 --> 00:24:15,670 He's on his base station home and his 699 00:24:15,670 --> 00:24:17,010 wife can be at the grocery store. 700 00:24:17,170 --> 00:24:20,190 He can call her through that base station 701 00:24:20,190 --> 00:24:21,870 into her walkie talkie in her pocket book. 702 00:24:22,030 --> 00:24:23,590 And she, I mean, they don't hardly ever 703 00:24:23,590 --> 00:24:26,230 use a cell phone because of the elevation 704 00:24:26,230 --> 00:24:27,610 and the way they're able to do this. 705 00:24:28,190 --> 00:24:30,670 Here's the thing you're like, Oh, I'm not 706 00:24:30,670 --> 00:24:30,990 impressed. 707 00:24:31,030 --> 00:24:32,330 Well, you would be impressed if you saw 708 00:24:32,330 --> 00:24:34,430 the tornado that went past docs house about 709 00:24:34,430 --> 00:24:36,950 three to five years ago, within, I don't 710 00:24:36,950 --> 00:24:38,210 know, maybe a quarter of a mile. 711 00:24:38,210 --> 00:24:39,850 It destroyed so much. 712 00:24:39,970 --> 00:24:44,670 It's incredible what it destroyed and his mast 713 00:24:44,670 --> 00:24:46,030 still stands. 714 00:24:46,750 --> 00:24:47,530 It's amazing. 715 00:24:47,830 --> 00:24:50,610 Like we, everybody knew one that doc was 716 00:24:50,610 --> 00:24:53,290 probably dead and to his antenna would be 717 00:24:53,290 --> 00:24:54,610 down neither happened. 718 00:24:54,850 --> 00:24:56,070 And it's still up and working like a 719 00:24:56,070 --> 00:24:56,210 champ. 720 00:24:56,530 --> 00:24:59,450 So yes, uh, Larry Janssen, when you get 721 00:24:59,450 --> 00:25:01,130 this thing up, man, we want to know 722 00:25:01,130 --> 00:25:03,130 about it and send us some pictures. 723 00:25:03,150 --> 00:25:04,150 We'll put them up on the website. 724 00:25:04,170 --> 00:25:04,590 All right. 725 00:25:04,790 --> 00:25:06,110 So here's the deal. 726 00:25:06,670 --> 00:25:09,830 Uh, Kate Cheney, 56, he reminded me that 727 00:25:09,830 --> 00:25:12,870 again, YouTube is a video site and this 728 00:25:12,870 --> 00:25:14,110 is an audio only podcast. 729 00:25:14,370 --> 00:25:14,770 Yes. 730 00:25:15,110 --> 00:25:16,450 And I appreciate you coming back and listen 731 00:25:16,450 --> 00:25:17,350 to this program too. 732 00:25:17,690 --> 00:25:20,450 Uh, seriously, um, I have a face made 733 00:25:20,450 --> 00:25:24,210 for radio and this is my audio podcast 734 00:25:24,210 --> 00:25:26,010 that we put up here and I appreciate 735 00:25:26,010 --> 00:25:26,590 your listening. 736 00:25:27,330 --> 00:25:28,570 Um, don't forget, if you want to get 737 00:25:28,570 --> 00:25:30,890 your GMRS license, they're linking to show notes 738 00:25:30,890 --> 00:25:35,470 here for the, the, uh, express GMRS express. 739 00:25:35,470 --> 00:25:37,650 And it again, it's, it's a prompts that 740 00:25:37,650 --> 00:25:39,710 gets you through the FCC website. 741 00:25:39,930 --> 00:25:42,370 Even if it's not open, they're still allowing 742 00:25:42,370 --> 00:25:43,070 you to apply. 743 00:25:43,470 --> 00:25:45,870 And by doing so, when they do open 744 00:25:45,870 --> 00:25:47,050 back up, you'll be in the queue and 745 00:25:47,050 --> 00:25:48,630 have your license as soon as they get 746 00:25:48,630 --> 00:25:50,990 around to that, I guess, uh, Thursday night, 747 00:25:51,190 --> 00:25:51,650 7 PM. 748 00:25:51,670 --> 00:25:53,110 If you want to know more about how 749 00:25:53,110 --> 00:25:57,170 to apply GMRS, FRS, MURs, scanners, short waves, 750 00:25:57,290 --> 00:25:59,450 all these different types of radios into your 751 00:25:59,450 --> 00:26:00,730 family communications plan. 752 00:26:01,190 --> 00:26:03,630 I do a webinar live on Facebook Thursday 753 00:26:03,630 --> 00:26:07,570 night, 7 PM Eastern family connect system.com. 754 00:26:07,910 --> 00:26:08,690 That's the show sponsor. 755 00:26:09,010 --> 00:26:10,910 It's my, my personal business here. 756 00:26:11,150 --> 00:26:12,790 It's a way, it's a system. 757 00:26:12,790 --> 00:26:14,930 It's built for you and your family to 758 00:26:14,930 --> 00:26:17,550 integrate and have a communication systems at the 759 00:26:17,550 --> 00:26:18,870 phone quit working. 760 00:26:19,250 --> 00:26:20,790 Now, if that's more than you want to 761 00:26:20,790 --> 00:26:22,470 do again, you let me know. 762 00:26:22,590 --> 00:26:24,770 We can, we can talk directly and I 763 00:26:24,770 --> 00:26:26,570 can help you build something out that direction. 764 00:26:27,410 --> 00:26:30,190 Um, anyway, remember, you need to have these 765 00:26:30,190 --> 00:26:32,350 things in place before something were to happen. 766 00:26:32,430 --> 00:26:34,190 And that's why you're listening to this program. 767 00:26:34,250 --> 00:26:35,490 If we can help you in any way, 768 00:26:35,530 --> 00:26:36,250 please let us know. 769 00:26:36,390 --> 00:26:38,490 Remember, you can find us online at prep 770 00:26:38,490 --> 00:26:39,330 comms.com. 771 00:26:39,890 --> 00:26:42,010 And until next time, again, thank you for 772 00:26:42,010 --> 00:26:44,230 all of this great feedback. 773 00:26:44,430 --> 00:26:46,450 We'll be back next time as we continue 774 00:26:46,450 --> 00:26:49,370 the conversation on GMRS radio. 775 00:26:49,570 --> 00:26:51,510 But until then, 73 all, God bless.