Building an Emergency Communications Plan 

What a timely video.. based on todays events with Crowdstrike

Have you all looked at what the "S2 Underground" channel is putting out with their Ghost Net?

A civilian PACE plan could look something like this assuming your not within simplex VHF/UHF line of sight. (Most people are not close enough to there family MAG) 1. Cell phone call/text 2. Sattelite text garmin/ Apple iOS 18 (update coming this fall) 3. Repeater ham/GMRS programmed into your VHF/UHF radio (baofeng ect) that’s been pre tested that all parties can reach 4. HF radio via js8call NVIS antenna 5. VHF/UHF simplex frequency for when your 3-5 miles ish away 3-3-3 radio plan Turn on your radio. Every 3 hours. For at least 3 minutes. Channel 3. Channel 3 could be programmed for the repeater you want to use. Ect

I prefer these types of videos over hearing strong opinions about marketing and influencers.... please keep making these types of videos. We all enjoy them. This is preparedness. Not how popular you are or how you run your company behind scenes... We don't care about that. I've always thought we as civilians should have some sort of standardized comms plan that the community can resort to. It's a great idea!!

Awesome look into the nitty-gritty details of PACE planning! We're also working on a more broad, LoS-based SOI/CEOI to incorporate into the GhostNet plan for those that may need it. Line-of-Sight plans are challenging to implement on a more generic, nationwide scale as most people around the country will be out of range of each other. But a plethora of more coherent plans, from a variety of sources and for different needs, would be of great benefit for the community I think. The good news is that the lower-cost Chinese radios have been the shoulders that cheaper Chinese digital radios can stand on. Right now, there seems to be a renaissance of digital comms becoming popularized, just like Baofengs were years ago. Really exciting to see such strong capabilities coming to market for the prepared citizen 👍

Definitely up for more, a continuing series would be great... S2 did this a couple years ago, always good to see it a couple different ways...

The best comms videos dont tell you what to do they give you things to think about.

Isn't it time to see radio equipment on the TRex store page? Maybe a TRex PACE guide and setup book?

I was just in a remote part of Michigan. The only thing that worked was the In Reach. The ability to get a local weather forecast is more helpful than the NOAA weather channels

Great dynamic between Isaac and Brandon, and I really like the informative video! Thanks!

... спасибо, мужики.

There are 40 CB channels currently. There used to be only 23 but in the 80's IIRC, 17 additional channels were added.

Easiest way to explain switches and routers in my experience: routers are main road intersections with stoplights, and switches are minor intersections with yields and stop signs. Network cables are the roads.

Y'all should do a thing teletype while you're at it. Also, the military is moving more towards HF again after the last 6 years due to spending limits. SATCOM is really expensive and if you need to have a bird moved to cover an area, which is even more money. Really, you should do a thing radios capable of HF. Edit: It's good to recommend a power amp for the SATCOM hand held radio's also, I know the 148 and the 152's without power amps transmit at 5w which is capable of burning out transceivers on satellites when it does not use an amp. This happens because transceiver would attempt to boost the signal power when it relays it to ensure it is received.

Thanks Isaac

Radio ready does work 60% of the time 100% of the time Life time guarantee to fail when you need it 😂

Good video! I need to look into that garmin inreach more, sound like a awesome thing to have. The best thing any serious prepper can do to better their comms is get their ham radio license. General class or extra class, don't just get your tech license. Your encouraging people to go out and buy ham radios, and "just start using/playing with them". Would be nice if you guys actually even mentioned in any of these videos the suggestion to become ham radio operators, cuz in all these vids you guys make, Ive not heard it mentioned once. People just going out and buying these radios with no intention of getting licensed just leads to unintentional or intentional interference with our ham bands... Another note, while the vx-6r is a good radio, it will NOT transmit on the CB bands! IF you Mars mod the radio, you can probably transmit on FRS and GMRS, but idk for sure, have to look up what the open transmit frequencies are after doing the mod. The VX-6r def does have wide receive tho, so as long as the signals are strong you can listen to a bunch of stuff (keep in mind the small antenna on the HT will limit receive too). My suggestion, Get a ft-60 HT and a mobile radio like a kenwood tm-v71a or equivalent. Once again, if you consider yourself a serious prepper, get your ham radio license! Its a ton of fun, and you will learn sooo much about radio comms and actually be able to test your radios and antennas to see how far they reach.

Ghostnet from S2 if you have the tech know how to

I would love a video about clandestine / hiding antennas considering Brandon was an MNOC instructor.

Sounds to me like the words you're searching for regarding civilian PACE might include "sustainable" and "organic" (specifically regarding "organization") hth Great material, intriguing presentation - I am enjoying your content, thx

Would enjoy a standard protocol to follow in the event of anything.

Even if you make an FRS band plan and it isn't widely adopted it would still be good to have a stack of index cards with it printed on them. Hand them out with your loaner radios and to anyone who has their own.

PLEASE walk through creating a family comms plan!

Great video!

My wish list is that some industry standard develops (T Rex or otherwise) with a pre built radio plan pdf along with the appropriate CHIRP downloads to plug and play so it minimizes the risk of programming incorrectly. Tbh you could probably even charge for the files if there’s demand for it.

I think someone else mentioned it above but, now I'm thinking you guys caused the outage just to get more views lol

Thanks for the reminder to charge my backup radios...my main radios live on smart chargers so they are always at the ready, but not my back ups.

The question of what radio to get is highly dependant on needs capability and budget. The question or rather request that I have got for you guys is to see a video on how to put together a PACE plan with examples or a breakdown of a real plan. I have heard of PACE plans for a long time now but never saw a good example of one

Trex emergency plan please please please

Interested in the ad hoc CB channels. Off road, north-south etc. Any source?

Good video. You have a smart audience, give 'em credit - OSPF

A great Labs vid woulr be to discuss EMP preparation - Dirty Civilians did a great video and I thought more perspective would be excellent!

"Whistles are coming back." I kinda hope so as I've had one in my EDC for several years now. Although it would be odd to be ahead of the trend curve...

Where is that link again?

Amrron has a channel 3 protocol (CB and FRS/GMRS) NotaRubicon suggested GMRS Channel 19 as a rag chew

I got a lot from this video please keep pumping out this content as fast as you can. I feel it will be needed before the election the way the country is going

if you are going to make this a series focusing on Radios and Comms you might want to touch on the civilian digital modes like DMR, D-star and Fusion. if you really want to get into the weeds then some of the HF digital modes might be worth a mention. While I own a Vx-6r I much prefer having one of my HT's that is capable of digital modes. Also technically using your Vx-6r on anything other then the ham bands is illegal except in emergencies due to type accreditation of the radio, but I've personally never heard of the FCC actually enforcing that unless you do something stupid like interfere with Government radios.

I wonder if using a sdr device with your phone to listen to radio channels would be able to apply to this or even be able to incorporate into ATAK

Primary Auxiliary Contingency Emergency

No offense to all the ex military guys even the ones who specifically did commo. There is almost zero correlation to what the civilian prepared citizen needs. ham radio is close but a lot of what they do is also not applicable they don’t care about encryption & most don’t care how much power they use if there operating off 110v ac & there not worried about people direction finding them ect. We can take ideas from both camps but ultimately people like techprepper & OH8STN ect are much closer to what the prepared citizen needs.

Have you guys messed with the beartooth stuff? Is it snake oil or gold?

What can we do for someone in the industry to step up and make ruggedized civilian radios that interface with ear pro like comtacs and AMPs without scouring Disco32 and jerry-rigging everything?

Hello! Do you need a license for the radio you recommended? If so, which one?

Will a civilian sat phone work in a grid down without authentication networks???

VHF is 30 MHz to 300 MHz, not up to 512MHz

What do you guys think about the UV9R+?

WOW!

GMRS?

I would argue CB is not the most common. Everyone and their mother has those cheap UV5R radios

What radio did they say ?? Vxr by misu?

G90 you already have is the best radio all things considered. Don’t break off the 3.5mm port and your golden

I always thought modern communications is mostly IT concepts applied to different systems. Cool beans, shoutout network engineers

29:05 YOU LEAVE MY HOLOSUN OUT OF THIS. I wish he would iterate on that idea. Or anyone else, for that matter. Why dog on solar on red dots?? Is it bad, good, or pointless? Do higher price point red dots auto change brightness based on ambient light without solar?

how ironic 😂

You guys are killing some of us. We want some definitive recommendations...🤔

I think you forgot to mention something... how to build an emergency communications plan. All you did was casually define the PACE acronym once. How about explaining and then demonstrating what a building a civilian emergency communicating plan would like with an example.

Ok no more Mumbo jumbo here’s what to buy. “Mumbo jumbo “ Yes civilian world is very different from military. Here’s a military guy to Mumbo jumbo you for the whole video. Lol

GMRS .....r General Mobile Radio Service

I hope PSR does a video on this

Isaac made enough money to find drugs🤣

12 minutes in and I haven't gotten a single bit of useful information.

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Is Brandon okay he looks like he's going through chemo

This is way too serious of a video for me.. I’ll move on to something more immoral like psr’s new video on 3d printed supressors

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