Why Everyone Needs a GPS

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Published 2022-11-01
Isaac Botkin dives into the importance of having a dedicated GPS device, how they work, and how to use them, and touches on GPS spoofing and jamming. Why? Because our system is more fragile than we think and GPS is one of the most secure and reliable navigation tools at our disposal.

00:00 Intro
02:39 How GPS Works
05:16 Garmin GPS Map66sr
07:49 Garmin Basecamp
09:01 Garmin eTrex 32x
12:19 Garmin Foretrex 601
13:30 Garmin Instinct2 Solar
15:40 City GPS Use
17:27 GPS Spoofing/Jamming
23:06 GPS Infrastructure
25:29 Closer

All Comments (21)
  • @dirtydan2314
    As a Garmin employee/engineer- I found this very informative and accurate. Great job as always.
  • @rcnewman51.
    That intro shot tho. The cinematography in your videos is simply, unmatched!
  • @OutcastAngelV
    The cinematography and the editing on this is so top tier. Bravo. I understand how trilateration works, but the visual references were fantastic. I'm sure that helped contextualize it for a few of us.
  • @america12g
    "You must become less fragile than the system." What an amazing and profound statement. Thank you all at T.Rex Arms for all you do for the community.
  • @john4865
    Shooting stuff is cool and can be very useful in a bad situation. Being good at comms, GPS, and all those other skills keeps you out of bad situations to begin with. Good video. I look forward to the “deGoogling” video.
  • Isaac I cannot understate how important it is that you make these tech videos. From GPS, to comms, to observation devices, and everything in between. In the 21st century, THESE will be the real difference between who lives and who dies. Predator and prey. You’re doing gods work my friend. Please keep it up for all our sakes.
  • I know this content doesn't get the popularity as other flashy videos viewership wise but please don't ever stop producing these.. 🙏
  • Little tip, depending on your location (out west) your National Forest service office should have some foldable paper maps for OHV use. These maps have extra data other maps don’t have like forest service roads, water sources / tanks, and trails along with the normal highways. I grabbed one for every county in Arizona. Mind you, Arizona has an very large amount of public land where forest service roads can go for hundreds of miles. This may not pertain to your state. For example, In Texas, I doubt there will be maps like this because being from Texas originally, I understand most of the land is private.
  • With a Garmin trex 10, I arrived on a base in Iraq. As we were driven around and shown the critical locations, my trex mapped the roads, and I manually marked pins at those locations. Do the same thing any time you travel to mark the airport and hotel, and you can always find your way home.
  • Always quality content coming form Isaac and the T.REX ARMS crew, no fluff, no ego, just facts and useful information. Phenomenal work
  • @jacksin3323
    This is so crucially important. Most people wont watch this or be bored to death... but im gonna watch this on repeat and research until i can explain like this to others. Im also expanding my GPS rig, and learning how to use a raspberry pi and gprs chipsets. I used to work with arduino, but that seems like dumb toys at this point. I hope everyone watching this learns and survives well. Bad shit is coming our way.
  • @calebdoner
    When driving across the country, I found that large parts of the west (particularly Montana) had no cell reception at all. Not having to rely on cell signals is a big deal.
  • Obviously started watching this channel because of Lucas and his antics, but I think Issac has become my favorite Botkin lol. Even though the dad is pretty awesome too.
  • @jeffb5781
    Such high quality excellent videos from your company. Thank you!
  • Hey TREX I recently made a purchase from you for the 1st time 3 weeks ago. Your company has not bombarded me with email ads. THANK YOU. That's a company I will give business too.
  • The quality of trexs videos has gone up exponentially, the camerawork and cinematics in this video are beautiful
  • These are the best videos that Trex Arms produces. Thank you and please keep up this kind of content. I know it can be more of the "boring" stuff and isn't as exciting as shooting, but this is really educational and people who wish to own arms for purposes of the second amendment need to know how to do this stuff. Thanks Isaac and the Trex team!
  • "PROFESSIONAL DRIVER. DO NOT ATTEMPT." Lmao. I saw your video about the flipper and now watching this one. Only 6 minutes in and it's already fantastic. Well done, man.
  • @lucion511
    Thank you Isaac. As always, appreciate your content too.