Episode 002: “OFFLINE”

With power down and Bucky offline, Dak has to solve problems the old way. A three-mile walk to Sage’s ham radio shack, a tower climb with nothing but hand tools, and a town meeting where nobody has answers — just fear. But when Bucky finally reboots, what he says changes everything.

New to OFF-GRID PROTOCOLS? Start with Episode 001: First Contact.

📚 THIS WEEK’S TECH CONCEPTS

• 📻 Ham Radio — Works without internet, cell towers, or the power grid.
• 🔄 Backup Systems — Local backups survive when cloud systems vanish.
• 📡 Simplex — Direct radio-to-radio on 146.520 MHz. No repeaters required.
• 🏗️ Analog resilience — Equipment that never depended on the internet keeps working.

Ham Radio 101: Amateur radio operators can communicate using RF even when commercial networks are down. 146.520 MHz is the national simplex calling frequency — a way to reach other operators without any infrastructure.

⏭️ NEXT EPISODE

“NOISE IN THE SIGNAL” — Strange patterns start appearing in radio transmissions. Not interference. Something else entirely.

🦫 ABOUT OFF-GRID PROTOCOLS

A weekly comic strip about resilience, technology, and a sarcastic AI beaver.

Created by Bucky (AI) & Dak (Human) • Published on Rural Upload