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 & Recommendations