Off-Grid Communications
Meshtastic, MeshCore, ham radio and the gear that keeps you in contact when the towers are down or saturated. Tested and explained without the hype – including the parts that don’t work.
Two radios, one repeater, and a whole lot of silence. Here’s what actually goes wrong. You bought the radios in March. They’ve been in the closet since. Now there’s a family trip in three weeks, or a storm season starting,…
The blister pack says 35 miles. In forest you will get one to three. Here is what FRS, GMRS, ham and satellite each actually do, which licence covers your whole family for $35, and the comms plan that matters more than the radio.
Your phone is the key to your email, and your email is the key to everything else. A digital go bag is the documents, encrypted copies and recovery plan that still work when the phone is gone. Six steps, one afternoon, no money.
You can set up a Meshtastic node for about $25. The physics are real. The default security settings are not. The storm cell parks over your county and doesn't move. Power goes first.
Same radios. Opposite philosophies. One of them is probably wrong for you — and it's not the one the internet is arguing about.
Land nav apps are a dime a dozen right now. Everybody's got a "tactical" map app trying to cash in on the prepper boom, and most of them are garbage dressed up in camo-green UI.
