Hello everybody and welcome to another episode of T-Rex Talk podcast exclusive.

And in this episode, we're going to be talking about radio communication, specifically

a single category of radio communication and some of the recent developments, kind of where

things are at in the year 2022, because there are some interesting developments and some

new projects that are worth

mentioning. Now, as you know, there's a whole bunch of different categories of radio communication.

There's the public safety radio, which is your police, fire, EMS radios. These are issued pre-programmed

radios that these guys carry. And there's a network of fixed repeaters generally covering an entire county or a state.

Military radios are kind of the same thing, only more rugged, more secure, and more complicated, because military radios are often on different types of vehicles and need to communicate different types of data,

and there's a larger and more complicated command structure that has a lot more different layers in it, so there's a lot more different radio

networks. And then you have your amateur radio, which is kind of everything from a little tiny

Morse code radios that can talk to the other side of the world but fit inside of an altoyd's tin,

or base stations in your basement that pump out hundreds and hundreds of watts into giant antennas,

or handheld stuff and fox hunting and contesting and a whole bunch of other sort of hobby-related activities.

And then a subset of that amateur radio is kind of, I would call, for lack of a better word, prepared citizen radio.

There's a subset of

that group that is more focused on emergency communications than the hobby aspect. They're more

interested in being able to make consistent, reliable communication, consistent reliable contacts

with specific people than random stuff. I think there's been a huge amount of growth in this area over the last few years.

And it's an area that I've really focused on studying over the last few years, and I've also

learned a lot.

And I've also sort of been dividing the types of radio communication that exist into some

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