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T.REX TALK

A Conversation with Terminal Armament

T.REX TALK

T.REX ARMS

Technology

4.6732 Ratings

🗓️ 28 April 2023

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Summary

Isaac and Vlad begin discussing the many practical applications of SDR radios and the new ruggedized SDR-STK from Terminal Armament, but they quickly end up talking about the more philosophical ramifications of decentralized communications equipment, building for the future, and the need to take control of our technology. 

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Transcript

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0:00.0

All right, everybody, welcome back to another T-Rex talk. This is an interview episode, and I have with me on the show, a friend of mine. We've talked together for years on the internet. We have yet to meet in person. It's on my to do list. Every time we go out to Colorado to visit family, I think about dropping you a line. a line but glad if you would introduce yourself and

0:22.2

tell the folks a little bit about you yeah hey i'm vlad say i'm the owner and founder of terminal

0:27.5

armament 22 years old and yeah company mainly focuses on making communications and software

0:33.1

refined radio equipment to help people preserve their privacy and freedom.

0:38.6

Yeah.

0:40.3

Well, it's great having you on the show.

0:47.4

One of the things that I have really appreciated about you is I love the radio space,

0:49.6

the decentralized communication stuff.

0:54.0

And I have really appreciated you, a bunch of other guys too.

1:01.1

There's a whole collection of folks that have basically taken that next step beyond ham radio into something that is a little bit more modern, has a little bit more, I don't know,

1:06.5

I don't even know the best way to describe it, but a little more practical application.

1:10.4

And I think that you've done a lot.

1:12.2

And you have a product, an actual product that you have released.

1:17.0

So can you tell us a little bit about that?

1:19.7

Yeah, so the main product that we released a little while ago, like late last year, is called the SDR stick.

1:26.9

And basically kind of the history behind that

1:29.3

is when we were first starting out one of the things we started focusing on a little bit is

1:33.4

software-defined radios and specifically the RTLSDR dongle simply because you know for a variety

1:39.7

of reasons maybe we can talk about that a little bit later why software-defined radio might be a good

1:44.1

thing for

1:44.5

people looking for certain capabilities to get into and then the RTL STR was just a you know

1:51.0

basically the cheapest option or at least you know one of the cheaper good options that you can get

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