Tonight's guest is Steve Bossert of The Hudson Valley Digital Network. Steve shares a ton of stuff regarding camping hiking backpacking emergency preparedness, being familiar with you gear carrying a flashlight and many other parts of good backpacking, camping, and emergency preparedness tactics and techniques.  Steve has been working toward integrating the amateur radio community with preservation of ecology in the Hudson Valley as well as helping local  hams network and connect in new ways. Steve has written many articles on HVDN.org related to amateur radio, DMR, HF, backpacking, camping, hiking, fox hunting and many more exciting amateur radio related activities on his website. Tonight's show includes a very special guest appearance from Jonathan Gong of the You-Tube channel "TheFossilChannel" from out in the field atop Sam's Point in Minnewaska park. Jonathan shares his gear in the field and relates about all the pieces he carries, how they integrate, and how they deploy in the field for maximum effectiveness.   Use the following links to check out some of the information these two special guests have shared with us. Links: See the corresponding write-up on this here: https://hvdnnotebook.blogspot.com/2021/02/prepping-for-sota-field-report-and-gear.html Jonathan Gong's Channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/TheFossilChannel Steve Bossert's Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNRcle_up0nuL60hTDwzjPg See the live stream on You-Tube Wednesday 12 AM Eastern Tuesday  9 PM Pacific here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6HVdu-1cOg&list=PL837tk-T71LjTQb1sXVtVWZlgnplv-Wor Listen to the the live stream on Truth Frequency Radio Wednesday 12 AM Eastern Tuesday  9 PM Pacific here: https://tfrlive.com/listen-live/?TimeZone=+3 --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/tfsncif/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/tfsncif/support