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Just Joe's avatar

Congrats! Been following since you first started the vlogs on great men!

Suggestion on something to put on your radar. Consider looking into amateur radio. Since you're using these things in EMT and Aircraft it might be helpful to get yourself licensed and learn a bit more about the communication tool you're using on a regular basis.

You can test online it's very easy and fast plus very little cost. I think $15 per test x 2 tests. I got a general license this year and it took me just a few days of review for the first test, then passed the general a week or two after with no background in this stuff at all. Just look at hamstudy.org, you could do this in Uruguay or wherever.

License is good for 10 years so you can take your time experimenting whenever. I was chatting with a guy 2,000 miles away last night over JS8Call, a digital mode keyboard to keyboard. It ran flawlessly for several hours before I shut down. I have hit listening stations out of Uruguay but no successful 2 way communication yet (bit random finding someone on in various places), but it was encouraging the listening station could pick me up from the midwest!

It could be a nice tool to have in place to stay in contact with your family down there if infrastructure ever went down. With JS8Call you can drop message with another station if your folks were offline at the time you were transmitting and leave them a kind of radio mail they could pick up later and vice versa. It's a pretty handy tool for someone like yourself that's often thousands of miles away

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Just Joe's avatar

oh duh, I also ordered the book! I have two boys, 14 and 16 years old. They do not want to attend college and be saddled with crushing debt so I'm excited to get this and read it with them

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LibertyMom's avatar

I am exited to buy several copies, for my son, my nephews and any other young men I come across who are searching. Thank all of you for your efforts, wisdom and experiences that made this book possible! It’s SO needed right now.

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Maxim Benjamin Smith's avatar

This book can change their lives. I’m excited to hear what it will do for your son and nephews.

Thank YOU!

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JD Breen's avatar

Congratulations, Maxim, on all you’ve done and on everything you will accomplish. This book is a log awaited antidote to the conventional path, and a welcome remedy for those who read it and put its precepts into practice. Book review of “The Preparation”:

https://jdbreen.substack.com/p/the-preparation-002

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Maxim Benjamin Smith's avatar

Thank you, JD. I appreciate it, truly. Your review is fantastic!

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JD Breen's avatar

Thank you, Maxim. You’re an inspiration.

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Adam Hogan's avatar

Thanks Maxim i just placed my order. Congrats mate

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Maxim Benjamin Smith's avatar

Thank you, Adam! Looking forward to hearing your thoughts on it.

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Mario's avatar

Congratulations Maxim! I just placed my order and I can’t wait to read it.

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Lauran's avatar

Max........we are all proud of what you have accomplished; and I congratulate you on this book coming about. I know it will be a great success!

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starguy's avatar

Sounds great, can't wait to read it.

One question: you're two years into a four year program... will there be a follow-up book, say something like a retrospective, on how this preparation lets you engage the world, like the Edmond Dantes/Count of Monte Cristo ideal, that you have been modeling?

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