Speaker 1: POC link sent me two radios. There's one, here's the other.
Speaker 1: These are POC pushed to Talk over cellular and I've
Speaker 1: talked about POC radios in the past a little bit,
Speaker 1: and I'm going to give you the reason why I
Speaker 1: like these more than some others in the past I've seen.
Speaker 1: So let's let's take a look. These are the radios themselves.
Speaker 1: They're pretty small compared to there's my smartphone right there,
Speaker 1: so pretty small quote radios. They've got the power button
Speaker 1: here at the top, push to talk over here, it's
Speaker 1: the volume up and down on the side. They are
Speaker 1: USB C rechargeable right there in the bottom belt clip,
Speaker 1: and you could put a standard K connector headset in
Speaker 1: the side here. So they work pretty well that way.
Speaker 1: One two, three, four, five, six, seven eight nine two
Speaker 1: one two one two. Now the question is how far
Speaker 1: will these reach? So I don't like these asshat companies
Speaker 1: that try to sell you an off grid device that
Speaker 1: requires a SIM card, and that's not what this company
Speaker 1: is doing. So they sent me an email they said
Speaker 1: they wanted to send me these radios for free, which
Speaker 1: they did, and I asked them about the service plan
Speaker 1: and they said, well that The first year is free,
Speaker 1: but there is a fifty dollars per year service fee
Speaker 1: for coverage after that. And they were upfront about it.
Speaker 1: They were upfront about it, and I'm like, okay, that's
Speaker 1: that's fair. Okay, where else are you going to get
Speaker 1: a cell phone for fifty bucks a year? So first
Speaker 1: year free, you buy the radios. It comes with one
Speaker 1: year of global coverage, and after the first year you
Speaker 1: have to upgrade, or you don't have to upgrade. You
Speaker 1: can turn them off, I guess if you want to.
Speaker 1: But after the first year you have to pay again.
Speaker 1: So here is a brochure. This is what they send
Speaker 1: to their content creators nationwide. Global covers as long as
Speaker 1: there's a cellular network. They say it right there upfront,
Speaker 1: as long as there's a cellular network, okay. So they
Speaker 1: are upfront and open and honest about that. You can
Speaker 1: instantly connect to family, kids, friends, team members, push up
Speaker 1: a button US Mexico, Canada, UK, France and other countries.
Speaker 1: They partner with ninety nine percent of global carriers, allowing
Speaker 1: devices to automatically switch to a stronger network if the
Speaker 1: carrier goes down. This ensures in uninterrupted communications if you
Speaker 1: go to their website poclink dot com. I'll put a
Speaker 1: description below. It will be an affiliate link, and we
Speaker 1: can go to Global Explore Global Plan from the top
Speaker 1: and you can scroll down. Here you can see all
Speaker 1: the companies free Global Plant free for the first year
Speaker 1: in Europe, North America, Europe, Oceana, Australia, Asia, Africa, and
Speaker 1: then the premium Global Plan unlocks all these other countries,
Speaker 1: so you can pay more money for that. That's a
Speaker 1: lot of countries right there. Poc works not only in
Speaker 1: the US, but also multiple countries without extra fees. A
Speaker 1: lot of times you have to pay roaming on your
Speaker 1: cell phone private with AES encryption. POCQ is the only
Speaker 1: POC radio currently supporting the Bluetooth mode. It comes with
Speaker 1: exclusive Bluetooth headset, assaysories for more commedian I did not
Speaker 1: get the Bluetooth headset, but that's all right, I will UH.
Speaker 1: I might look at that later. No complex setup or
Speaker 1: programming required three thousand million per battery. To change your
Speaker 1: group or use a name, please send your device's IMI
Speaker 1: number to this email address. And that was the That
Speaker 1: was the question I had about some other brands that
Speaker 1: I was looking at as like, okay, they named the grid,
Speaker 1: they named the user each Each radio is named user one,
Speaker 1: user two or something like that. Let me show you
Speaker 1: what this one's named here, all right, so right here
Speaker 1: you see this one's called user fifteen, this one's user sixteen,
Speaker 1: and group is group eight. I go to menu group
Speaker 1: group list group eight. Oh, what is group eight mean?
Speaker 1: What does that mean? I don't know? So you can
Speaker 1: create a group in here. Go back here menu okay,
Speaker 1: and scroll down create group, join group. So you got
Speaker 1: a buddy with with something like that, you can create
Speaker 1: a group. I might try to create a group. We'll see.
Speaker 1: But the user fifteen and user sixteen, I thought that,
Speaker 1: you know, they don't know which you want it named.
Speaker 1: So that's what they named it. And you can send
Speaker 1: an email to get the group name or the user change.
Speaker 1: So that's good. That's good. But what I have always
Speaker 1: said from the beginning, Communications twenty four to seven, Communications
Speaker 1: twenty four to seven, Okay, services like starlink and your smartphone.
Speaker 1: Your smartphone is an excellent MCom tool. If you have coverage,
Speaker 1: you should always have a smartphone with you. If you're
Speaker 1: going camping, you're going hiking, you're going out into the
Speaker 1: non populated areas, take your smartphone and if you lose coverage,
Speaker 1: then have a backup a radio, a POC radio, a
Speaker 1: regular radio, starlink, some sort of nomad internet device or
Speaker 1: something like that. But your smartphone can always be an
Speaker 1: income tool as long as you have coverage. These require
Speaker 1: a network, just like your smartphone does. But the better
Speaker 1: thing about these is they work on multiple networks. So
Speaker 1: inside the United States, the big three networks is Verizon,
Speaker 1: AT and T and T Mobile. My smartphone is on
Speaker 1: AT and T, and if I get out of a coverage,
Speaker 1: if I get into an area that does not have
Speaker 1: good AT and T coverage such as the Texas Snowmageddon
Speaker 1: of twenty twenty one, where they basically turned off AT
Speaker 1: and T to the general public so that first responders
Speaker 1: and first net users could use it. Okay, I didn't,
Speaker 1: and I would send a text message to my wife
Speaker 1: and she might get it about twenty minutes later. Couldn't
Speaker 1: make a phone call at all, couldn't check my email,
Speaker 1: but my Verizon tablet worked just fine, no problems there.
Speaker 1: So Verizon didn't do that, but AT and T did.
Speaker 1: That was in one area during one storm at one
Speaker 1: point in time. It's not gonna work like that all
Speaker 1: the time, but these would have worked if AT and
Speaker 1: T was down, then it would said, okay, what's the
Speaker 1: strongest signal of Verizon or T Mobile, And in other
Speaker 1: countries it would pick other carriers. You can see a
Speaker 1: whole list of carriers on their website. Always have some
Speaker 1: sort of communications available, Always have something available. POC regular radio.
Speaker 1: I'll never be without my I would not trade in
Speaker 1: my icon or Yazu for this, but I might carry
Speaker 1: this with me as an added feature, as an added
Speaker 1: means of communication in the field, on road trips, on
Speaker 1: overseas trips, if I can to keep in touch with
Speaker 1: people who are on my network. I'm gonna take these
Speaker 1: out into the field. I'm gonna take these up to
Speaker 1: the hunting lease, which I'll be there in a couple
Speaker 1: of days from now, and I'm going to set one
Speaker 1: up and drive the other side of the lease and
Speaker 1: talk into it and let you guys see what it
Speaker 1: looks like and try to use it out there where
Speaker 1: there's cell coverage but not great cell coverage, and kind
Speaker 1: of see how they work. So I will put a
Speaker 1: link for everything in the description. Blow but let's check
Speaker 1: out and see what they look like in the field.
Speaker 2: Here.
Speaker 1: I have them here out in the woods. This is
Speaker 1: at my hunting lease. Now. We're about an hour and
Speaker 1: a half north of where I live in Grapevine roughly,
Speaker 1: so this is not the most remote location that you
Speaker 1: can get to. And I tried using these things at
Speaker 1: Big Bend National Park when my wife and I took
Speaker 1: vacation there just a couple of weeks ago, and they
Speaker 1: did not work, could not get a signal, so we
Speaker 1: were out of cell phone range during that time. And
Speaker 1: that's just what you have to bear in mind with
Speaker 1: these POC radios. However, they seem to be working here,
Speaker 1: just fine. I'm gonna take one in the back here,
Speaker 1: all right. So you see right.
Speaker 3: There, you see right there that it is at the
Speaker 3: top left of the corner of the screen. It's got
Speaker 3: a blue text right now that says what the name
Speaker 3: of the radio is I'm transmitting. I'm gonna let go
Speaker 3: and it's gonna say idle at the top of that
Speaker 3: screen right there, and then I'm gonna key up and
Speaker 3: it turns blue and it says user sixteen or something something.
Speaker 1: Yeah, User sixteen is what I'm transmitting. From so right here,
Speaker 1: let's get into the shade because I can't really see
Speaker 1: much out here, all right, So user sixteen there, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna key up right there and we're gonna see that.
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna put the camera back over here while
Speaker 1: I walk over and show you guys what's going on there. Okay,
Speaker 1: I've got the radio set up on the table right here.
Speaker 1: I've got the second one in my hand, and we're
Speaker 1: gonna walk out this direction.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna walk.
Speaker 5: Away from the camera, walking away from the camera. Camera
Speaker 5: audio still has me one two one two. Okay, there
Speaker 5: you go.
Speaker 2: Okay, there you go.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Now I'll be able to walk away.
Speaker 2: I'll be able to walk away like this.
Speaker 5: This is not a range test.
Speaker 2: This is not a range test because unlike because unlike
Speaker 2: a real radio. Listening to this radio you're listening to
Speaker 2: right now, I have to go up to the cell
Speaker 2: side and make a connection and then come back to
Speaker 2: the radio. I'm talking from vice versa right now.
Speaker 5: I'm transmitting. Right now, I'm.
Speaker 2: Transmitting from the radio in my hands, signals going out
Speaker 2: to the cell side. It has a timeout it has
Speaker 2: a timeout timer. What do you know that's funny that's funny.
Speaker 2: So it went, it went out to the cell site
Speaker 2: and coming back to the radio that's right there in
Speaker 2: front of the camera.
Speaker 1: That's that you're listening to right now. Unlike a real radio,
Speaker 1: where if you were talking between two actual radios, the
Speaker 1: signal would go from here to here and back and
Speaker 1: forth and wouldn't need a cell side in between to
Speaker 1: make them work to let them talk, to receive and
Speaker 1: transmit between one another. So now does that make these bad? No,
Speaker 1: I'm just demonstrating a difference of how these work as
Speaker 1: compared to how actual radios that transmit are F worked.
Speaker 1: And you could argue these are transmitting our F they're
Speaker 1: transmitting the same type of RF that a cell phone transmits,
Speaker 1: and they require a cell tower in between them to
Speaker 1: hear each other. So the next experiment I was just
Speaker 1: driving out here today. I told you I was going
Speaker 1: to do an experiment out here in the woods tomorrow.
Speaker 1: Later this week, we're driving to the More Expo for
Speaker 1: an overland show in Springfield, Missouri, about a six six
Speaker 1: and a half hour drive from my home in Texas,
Speaker 1: and I'm going to leave one of these at home,
Speaker 1: and I'm going to take one with me, and once
Speaker 1: we get there, I'm going to tell my wife to
Speaker 1: pick one up and we're going to have a small
Speaker 1: short conversation over these from Springfield, Missouri back to grape Vine,
Speaker 1: Texas and see how that works. That's going to be
Speaker 1: the final test for them. So, like I've said in
Speaker 1: other videos, and I think I said at the beginning
Speaker 1: of this one, although I have to go I have
Speaker 1: to go watch that again to see what I actually said.
Speaker 1: This is a great tool if you want to have
Speaker 1: a group of people and they all want to get
Speaker 1: one of these, and you can talk to the group
Speaker 1: at the same time rather than key rather than picking
Speaker 1: up your cell phone and talking to one person at
Speaker 1: a time and having a doll a separate number for
Speaker 1: every person. And these work on all carriers. So your
Speaker 1: smartphone probably just has one SIM card from AT and T,
Speaker 1: T Mobile, Verizon, whoever it is, if you're in the USA,
Speaker 1: and these will work on all carriers, and for fifty
Speaker 1: bucks a year, how can you really go wrong? But
Speaker 1: I did want to test them. I just like to
Speaker 1: call a spade a spade and say, look, these work
Speaker 1: in this environment, but not in that environment, and that
Speaker 1: kind of thing. And I really appreciate the advertising that
Speaker 1: poc Link does on these and they they tell you upfront,
Speaker 1: legit what they will and won't do, and truth in
Speaker 1: advertising is always a strong thing. So the next test
Speaker 1: is going to be between Springfield, Missouri and Grapevine, Texas.
Speaker 1: So stick around and that's what we're gonna do right now,
Speaker 1: testing one, two.
Speaker 5: Three, Good.
Speaker 1: I can hear you that here. Okay, good, I'm currently
Speaker 1: passing through Mississippi, across the state line from Melville and Mississippi,
Speaker 1: maybe twenty minutes ago and just.
Speaker 5: Headed that way.
Speaker 1: GPS has would be all about seven forty five pm.
Speaker 5: I've did jump.
Speaker 2: Good letter, looking where you.
Speaker 5: Are right now. It's cloudy, it's been.
Speaker 1: It was raining in Huntsville off and on just about
Speaker 1: the whole time I was there, and I went and
Speaker 1: I went and got a new Winchel Bibe promoter yesterday
Speaker 1: and installed that. So that's all fixed up and working
Speaker 1: correctly now. But but I've had rain off and not
Speaker 1: heavy rain, which is kind of light rain off and
Speaker 1: on since I started this morning.
Speaker 5: Okay, something, I'm ahead. I'm much gain that wishes up
Speaker 5: from fix and I know that's been. That's been kind
Speaker 5: of annoying.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's all done, though hopefully we'll have
Speaker 1: we'll have that trump again. But okay, were you are
Speaker 1: you about to head out or going to cleaner's done
Speaker 1: or what's this story there?
Speaker 4: Yeah, the cleaners are down. They left about an hour ago,
Speaker 4: maybe a little bit less. Maybe I got to come in,
Speaker 4: so they've been gone on to John Cow brought it
Speaker 4: back in and there I'm just kind of continuing with
Speaker 4: my day. I've got to play calling two thirty, I'm.
Speaker 2: Gonna go downtown.
Speaker 4: Okay really after that, so hopefully i'll leave here about
Speaker 4: three to go and I'll be there, so'll probably late,
Speaker 4: you know, probably nine or ten, hopefully not any later.
Speaker 4: But the days I started getting getting started.
Speaker 5: So that was she's at home and Texas.
Speaker 1: And I'm driving back from Huntsville, Alabama, currently in the state.
Speaker 5: Of Mississippi, driving along Highway.
Speaker 1: Seventy two westbound in the state of Mississippi, so like
Speaker 1: four states away, i'll go through. I'll go through Tennessee
Speaker 1: and Arkansas before I get back to Texas. And of
Speaker 1: course I'm in cell range because that's those these require
Speaker 1: cell signals or if they have a semi print and
Speaker 1: them so anyway, Tess successful. I did not get a
Speaker 1: chance to take them to the More Expo. I did
Speaker 1: take them to Dayton, but I didn't record a video there.
Speaker 1: So it's been I've been waiting to use them on
Speaker 1: a road trip, and that's what.
Speaker 5: We did here. We also used them last month when
Speaker 5: we went to Galveston. We drove from.
Speaker 1: Dallas Fort Worth area down to Galveston, and she left
Speaker 1: about an hour before.
Speaker 5: I did because I had some things to do that morning.
Speaker 1: So when I left maybe an hour and a half later,
Speaker 1: she had one of these radios and I had one,
Speaker 1: and we talked on the way down there to just
Speaker 1: kind of let each other know where we were and
Speaker 1: what time we'd get there and that kind of good stuff.
Speaker 1: So they're very useful as long as you're in cell
Speaker 1: range and you're using them and you're in a greater
Speaker 1: distance than what your simplex radio can work. They seem
Speaker 1: to work quite well. So thanks to poc link for
Speaker 1: sending me these. They do work well. I'll put a
Speaker 1: link in the description below. I think they're offering me
Speaker 1: a coup one, and if so, I'll put that down on.
Speaker 5: The descript below. Also, So seventy three guys, thanks for watching,