Uploaded January 2026 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago

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Join me on this backcountry adventure for an off-grid comms exercise. The goal was to go out into the cold and attempt to send and receive SITREPs while an amateur radio contest was taking place.

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0:00 Intro
1:20 Shelter Tour
2:19 Fire Pit
2:47 The Cook System
3:29 Operating Shelter
5:01 Antenna Tour
6:58 Antenna Mast Setup
10:10 Antenna Analyzer
10:49 Station Setup
11:52 First Winlink Session - Success
19:28 SITREP Statistics Day 1
21:24 Dinner Tour
23:48 VHF Comms
25:24 Evening Rain
25:53 Early Morning Report
26:15 Second Winlink Session - Fail
28:12 My SITREP
32:31 SITREP Statistics Day 2
33:25 Map of Received Reports

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