What To Do When The Cell Phones Go Down (AT&T)

Published 2024-02-27
On the heels of the great AT&T outage. Here are my thoughts on how to offset your dependence on phones with different radio services and technologies.

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00:00 - Intro
03:13 - What Happened To AT&T?
06:01 - The First Thing To Do!
07:52 - The Three Part Plan
10:10 - Voice: Amateur Radio
11:48 - High Frequency Amateur Radio
13:27 - Send Data Over Ham Radio
15:46 - Meshtastic Mesh Network and Messaging
18:46 - APRS
20:20 - Final Thoughts

All Comments (21)
  • @ItsaMeLeah
    I definitely sent a message that said those exact words while grocery shopping to feed our family nutritious food.
  • @xephael3485
    Yeah the wife thanking him is pure fiction 😂
  • @kenofken9458
    I remember life before cell phones. It really is possible to survive for a few hours or a day without texting and checking your social media feed 10 times every hour.
  • @knowmeaning
    That look at the camera after reading the message from the wife... 🤣
  • Comms is the main thing I have focused on in my "readiness" lifestyle. I wish more people would pick up on the message that old school analog is foolproof, at least 99% of the time. Great video as always Josh!
  • @leroymay8156
    There is also NPR70. "New Packet Radio over 70cm" This is very nice to create a transparent Ethernet connection in UHF, so it is great to connect e.g. a PC to the Internet or the Hamnet. I do access the Hamnet in this way, since I don't have line of sight to a 6GHz access point. Fairly slow, but quite stable.
  • @Ammed_KN6STX
    Josh, can you do more in-depth dive on Meshtastic? Setting up the units??? Great Video Josh!!!
  • @rbmwiv
    My niece and nephew have radios and use my Gmrs license and that outage didn’t really affect us. I gave everyone a radio lock on the local repeater that covers the whole county.
  • @colebronson3392
    Hey just wanted to say this format is super useful and easily digestible! Took a lot of stress off the communications I’m lacking while also making me feel excited rather than stressed to get more into it!!! Being prepared can feel like a black hole and you make it a much happier hobby/lifestyle
  • @dewrunning
    Other than the timely and informative information, the text from wife at the beginning of the video, and then Josh looking at the camera, resulted in a welcomed laugh, which was much needed - Thanks !
  • OMG this is hilarious. More skits please. Also, just got my Winlink working with th-d75 because of your video explaining how to do it. so happy to be following this community. You guys have built a great, informative channel and supportive community
  • Good evening HRCC! NotARubicon sent me here. Then I realized I've watched several of your videos so I subscribed. Just starting HAM (the only radio type here in Colombia) so I have a lot to learn.
  • Josh, well done. You are the best communicator in amateur radio on YouTube! 73 Nate W4NDK
  • @barrelandhatchet
    This channel is legit! Def a great resource for the preparedness communities as well! Awesome video! Maybe a collab in the future!
  • @JackBQuick79
    Having full blown conversation with yourself shows just how into communication you really are. You got my attention.
  • @alfredfishcock
    I always appreciate the knowledge that you relay in your videos. A lot of info out Barney style, great job! Hearing you talk about HF and sending data in binary makes me remember doing sigint training and how mind blowing it was once you learned everything.
  • @peck4933
    This is incredible. You are a one stop source. Thank you!
  • @M9A1MAN
    Good video bro. The gird will go down, not a matter of if, but when... be prepared folks.
  • @blueboy1183
    Great video!! Videos like this will get more people into ham radio!! I recently got my general license and will go to extra in a few months!! Thanks for all your videos!! I look forward to all the videos!!