Here on the podcast, we talked about a number of pieces of equipment and hard skills that you should personally be developing.

And among those, the ability to communicate. But have you ever considered that you don't need a radio?

Welcome back to the T-Rex Talk podcast, and of course that intro is clickbait.

I should have more heavily emphasized the word A.

You don't need A radio because you perhaps need many radios.

And you may have already come to this conclusion as well, because there are

many different radio bands that you might want to talk on, and there are different radios that

have different strengths and weaknesses that you might need to have for different jobs. And you

probably already know this because if you are like 99% of people, you're listening to this podcast on your phone.

Your phone already has at least three radios inside.

You got your Wi-Fi radio for when you're at home.

You got your cell phone radios for talking to the towers and then probably a Bluetooth radio as well.

Definitely a GPS radio for receiving GPS signals and possibly even

an NFC radio. So several radios are built into your phone that you're listening to this podcast

on because, you know, sometimes that's necessary. Now obviously all of those are in one device

and there's a bunch of radios that have multiple capabilities inside of one device

to talk on multiple bands. For example, I really like the little Yazoo VX6, and it is a tri-band radio,

all in one, very small, pocketable package. But let's back up a little bit. Instead of talking about

the individual devices, let's talk about

the jobs. We should work backwards from what we're actually trying to accomplish. With our radios,

we're trying to communicate with people. And there is an idea that I think is a fantastic idea that

we have adopted from the ham radio community, which is

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