The FieldCraft Survival Channel, 2024 ▶ Tips for survival comms with Josh Nass

Josh nass has alot of good advanced radio resources but i feel like when he is featured on other peoples channels he does a better job at cutting it down to just the necessary info.

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Notes

• VHF= Very High Frequency

The wilderness protocol

the wilderness protocol is a set of guidelines for when to make/listen for emergency calls specifically in the wilderness/unpopulated areas.

The Wilderness Protocol

Monitor for 5 minutes every hour on the hour on the national calling frequencies.

Priority/Emergency transmission: begin with 10 seconds of DTMF “0” (this is called LiTZ, “Long Tone Zero”) to activate an emergency mode on listening stations/repeaters

Monitor at least: 07:00 - 07:05 0:00 - 10:05 13:00 - 13:05 16:00 - 16:05 etc. (if possible, monitor every hour)

National calling frequencies: 146.52 ⇐ primary 446.0 223.5 52.525 1294.5