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Apr 20, 2025
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now for 6815 but headed to 68
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okay I got you loud and clear
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well so we're going to shoot a video and
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show the testing
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welcome to the intercom
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emergency communications has become
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probably one of the hottest subjects for
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preers and people who are concerned
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about natural disasters
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and government collapse and all these
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different scenarios that we're all
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preparing for and
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communications radios and how you
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communicate with loved ones and family
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friends uh it just it keeps coming up
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there are all kinds of videos on radios
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out there right
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now and in today's video we're going to
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be taking a look at a radio that really
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isn't a radio but I guess it is i don't
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know it's called the PC Link
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all right
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so how is the sound on your end
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sound is great no background noise
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whatsoever
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and just so everybody knows we're
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probably what like over 150 miles apart
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right now
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probably pretty close to it
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and the last time we tested these was
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even a little bit further because I was
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all the way down by work which was
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probably closer to 200 miles apart
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correct well it is raining currently
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where I'm at and you're not getting any
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of that noise correct
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no you're coming through loud and clear
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and it's the it's starting to rain here
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too
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can't hear you dizzy with traffic sorry
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that's okay you got to be
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safe so just so everybody knows these
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are pushto talk radios this is not like
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a cell phone where you can talk over
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each other this is like an old
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walkie-talkie of the F FRS's where you
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you can only transmit it's like you're
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right next door you can't even tell that
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the miles are between us
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yeah so she loves these things she
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thinks the clarity is really good and
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actually sometimes when we uh talk on
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the phone when we're
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traveling there's dead spots that we go
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through that cuts out can't hear we have
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to end the call with these we don't have
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to so no dead spots with these radios
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my knowledge I'll be able to tell you
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here in another five minutes or 10
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okay when when you get to an area where
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you know there's a dead spot uh give me
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a shout and we'll see how it does then
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okay
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all right i'll talk to you in a few
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minutes
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i wish I could give you guys more
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technical uh background on these things
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or I could speak to this a little bit
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more intelligently um but I just don't
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have that knowledge and um I think a lot
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of these companies um they're only
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telling you so much of the information
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because they don't want to give away
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anything that they're you know that's
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proprietary or what or how their systems
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work exactly
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um because there's not very many of
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these companies that are doing this
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right now as far as I know um and the
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the cool thing about the PC link radios
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is that you can um make calls or
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transmit to one radio right um but if
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you buy multiple radios you can set up a
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group and then you can transmit to all
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of everyone in that group so it's very
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similar to um if you old guys remember
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this the Nexttel system uh Nexttel H I
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can't remember when it came out like I
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want to say '9s but uh it was very
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popular like with uh ambulance services
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and things like of that nature because a
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dispatcher could have a next and make a
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call uh or transmit out to everybody who
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had a next in their group and then they
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could all receive that message at the
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same time so it's not making individual
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calls you're making one call uh with the
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information this is the same thing it's
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the same kind of setup where I can make
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a group call so I can have 20 people in
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my group with these radios have them all
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set up on the group and I can transmit
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to them so as far as an
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emergency style of communication that's
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pretty cool now some downsides of this
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is
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one oh okay this is one of the dead
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spots where I typically lose my mom i'll
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just talk to you for a little bit you
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tell me if you have service or not
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because this area generally off our
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typical hi mom how you doing phone call
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in the morning
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yeah you are coming through loud and
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clear no issues whatsoever
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hey I got another one here in a few
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okay that's a good test thank you
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so frequently with these uh with this
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commute that I have and my wife also has
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a commute we communicate with our cell
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phones back and forth all the time uh
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the problem is that there are dead zones
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even here in Ohio which you know it's a
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pretty populated state but we're driving
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through farm country um and there are
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dead spots and there are times when I
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call her or she calls me and we we have
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to drop out on the call because it's all
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broken and I I I can't you know I didn't
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get the last part of your message i
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didn't hear what you said very
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frustrating and it it just it blows my
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mind that in this day and age you still
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have bad cell service in you know the
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middle of the United States but these PC
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links that's not an issue
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so one of the downsides of these radios
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that I can find is that
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um you would have to keep them on
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uh all the time to you know to receive
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messages during an
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emergency so that's a little that's a
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little problemat problematic because
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it's not like a a cell phone where our
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cell phones are on all the time and I
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can text anytime I want but if that cell
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phone network is down and I can't
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communicate and I can't get through with
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my PC then uh how is someone in my group
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going to know that I'm trying to reach
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them and they need to turn the radio on
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that becomes a little bit more
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difficult this week we're having some
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tornadoes uh popping up here and there
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in the state there's a lot of storms in
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the evenings so you know this is a good
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time to leave the radios on while we're
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traveling that way if the cell phone
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service drops out I can still contact my
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wife so having a a radio plan um drawn
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out ahead of time with your family so
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they know what to do um you know if an
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emergency is happening everybody gets
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their radios and they turn them on and
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they leave them on uh until they hear
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from everybody that would be one way of
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of kind of alleviating that issue of not
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being able to know when to communicate
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on the radios so I'm just waiting for
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her to call back uh she's going to be
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going through another dead zone a known
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dead zone and see if
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um the PC link works now when I say that
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they use the uh cell tower network um so
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when you're on Verizon or another
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carrier they're using their towers right
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uh some of them lease out I believe
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other towers to other companies but they
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don't all connect so AT&T doesn't
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necessarily use Verizon towers you know
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T-Mobile may not use
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AT&T but from my understanding with
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these PC links and other radios that are
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similar to these is that they're using
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all the towers and they're all kind of
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piggybacking off of each other and of
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course like I said before they're using
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uh different uh data uh packets or
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whatever data or different types of
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information to talk to the different
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towers okay in town and I'm told there
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is no service in this town and how it is
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sometimes difficult with fire calls as
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well and yes I've lost mom when we have
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had our conversations in the morning in
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this town as well and let me know how
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it's doing i am one way from the other
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end of town but let me know how it goes
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i hear you loud and clear once
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again
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very encouraging maybe I'll just switch
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over to these set of phones
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i tell you they're a lot cheaper than
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than our phones
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true story
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all right I'm going to let you go i'm
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going to get back and wrap up this video
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and then I will see you at home be safe
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i love you and I'll talk to you later
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here's the cool thing if you have uh
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friends and family that are kind of
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spread out in the state or even in the
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country um maybe you have a kid going to
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college out of state um and you're
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worried that how am I going to get in
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contact with him if something really bad
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happens it's a possibility right uh
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we've seen it happen time and time again
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in the United States uh recently there's
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been these very strange uh cell phone
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outages that last all day um and then of
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course we go back to natural disasters
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we you know we've had the wildfires out
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in California we've had the hurricanes
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down south uh this last year and of
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course before that there was the big uh
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storm of Katrina
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um which the only way that people were
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getting communications out back then was
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with ham radio systems and relays um so
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possibly you know having uh a bank of
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these radios and giving them to family
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members who are spread out uh through
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the United States or through the state
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would allow you to communicate with them
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um if something bad happens uh so you
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know if you're considering buying these
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you really need to think hard about how
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you're going to use use them what the
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best scenario is for you why you would
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use these um they're not the uh the end
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all the beall they're not the absolute
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best form of communication uh but if you
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have a communication plan and you have
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it layered and maybe you have some
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different types of systems available to
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you like uh I have my GMRS license I
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have my ham license uh but not everybody
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in my family does and of course they're
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they don't know how to use those radios
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like I
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do but I have friends and I have people
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in my support group who do
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so the PC links is just another way of
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communicating with people and it
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definitely gives me the ability to
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communicate with people who do not have
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the licensing or the equipment or the
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knowledge of
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operating a real radio system like a ham
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or a GMRS so definitely these have a
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place in the
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emergency plan system your emergency
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communication plan
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so hopefully you found this information
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useful and uh we'll keep testing them
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and keep using them throughout the year
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and I'll let you know how it goes thanks
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for watching
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