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Off-grid power, Fixed & Field Radio, Digital QRP modes fanatic, Julian OH8STN is retired broadcast engineer and expat living in Scandinavia for the past couple of decades. Other than making YouTube videos, OH8STN enjoys operating an off-grid ham shack, man-portable micro-expeditions, designing and building bespoke gear, and solving many practical problems associated with off-grid survival radio on HF & VHF.

OH8STN promotes the concept of:
Max Capabilities with Minimal Gear.

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Survival Radio

When the channel and blog were started, the target was always man-portable field communications. Growning as an Operator over the years, I began understanding the need and importance of presenting both fixed and field communications strategies. Survival radio has never been about going to a managed campsite for field day, or an super easy POTA activation. Both can be fun, but survival radio is about purpose and intent!

Here are a few videos driving this point home.

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At the off grid ham shack using parallel Genasun charge controllers, with several strings of solar panels, and a hand crank generator to charge my @powerqueenbattery LiFePO4 battery. We don't get much sunlight at 65°North this time of year, so augmenting solar is important for station continuity. New video up on YouTube and soon Rumble. Sending out Winlink email for Winlink Wednesday. Using the @retevisgermany @retevis_com RA79 and Microsoft Surface Go 3 LTE to send email to KC3WHJ. The RA79 & @thedigirig make a cheap data radio for my chest pack. What's in your man-portable VHF/UHF Go Kit? New blog post up. JS8Call NVIS QSO on 40 meters from the off-grid ham shack. New blog post up. New video and blog post up. Letting the EcoFlow River 2 Max manage the Retevis HT batteries is easy. Retevis on-board USB charging simplifies charging, ensuring equipment readiness in a grid-down.