Tactical Operations With Baofeng and Other Radios

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[ReignOfGlory]

As an active-duty Army comms guy with experience, if these concepts and techniques interest you, I'd recommend checking out ATP 6-02.53 "Techniques for Tactical Radio Operations" which is approved for public release. It goes a bit deeper in certain areas which could be applied to HAM in scenarios. Thanks Josh!

[dus]

read it last weekend. My 3 post-it flags are: 1, only give radios to people that know what their doing. 2, the claim that regular soldiers wouldn't have better gear than us. 3, OTP. I've seen SARNEG used many, many ways; most often for authentication, rarely encoding . A Baofeng is the most powerful and dangerous thing a prepper can carry. You can absolutely send digital over a Baofeng. I very much over thought the concept of cross band repeater. The book makes it simple.

[auto]

I was going to ask "Who invites someone else to their hamshack?" But if he's bringing beer...

[kchaney]

I just bought that book last week. Thanks for stepping out and covering this.

[peteparise]

Thanks Josh. Knowledge is power, but also essential to protecting our freedoms and loved ones. Thanks for all you do to educate the Amateur radio community, and the larger communities we’re apart of. 73

[lyfandeth]

After hurricane Katrina, there was a deep dive by everyone involved, including the FCC.
In order for hams to use WiFi and digital modes, it is necessary to use the encryption in these systems. The FCC stated EXPLICITLY that hams CAN USE ENCRYPTION, as long as the encryption keys have been formally "published". Sending them to the FCC is the accepted way to do this.
So instead of saying "we have fifty dead" in cleartext, you can and often SHOULD send that message encrypted, for simple and real public safety.
Katrina didn't change enough--but it did bring some changes to ham and cellular policies.

[BroncosRetro]

NC Scout knows his stuff! Good book. Great for those who want to be prepared.

[levisorenson]

Great book! I gifted a copy to my father as well. NC Scout is legit.

[thecandyman]

Thanks for posting recommendation.
Been tuning in to some HAM livestreams here on the tubes from the Asheville, NC area & reminded me why I got my little Baefeng in the first place & why I need to get better acquainted w/ it.

[mikeb]

Of course his name isn’t ‘NC Scout’, that’s ridiculous!….. his real name is Brushbeater.

[DarkShadowCustoms]

The way they have pronunciation of numbers in the book is they way the US military is taught to pronounce numbers over the radio. It does help with distinguishing between numbers that can sound similar in an environment where you can't hear radio communication clearly.

[ludokaleo]

Have the book. My personal experience is most preppers buy a Feng, don't get their license, pack away their radio & never actually practice radio.

[Fuzzstatic]

Got my tech license at the beginning of the year, but life happens and I haven't been able to do much of anything with it. This seems like a fun read to get me back into it. Love your videos!

[hbarwickjr]

Looks useful for shtf situation when the common rules are over ruled for emergency life or death matters. Thanks Josh.

[jeffgee]

Just got my AR152 radio, yesterday. NC Scout’s book arrives Monday. I’m as green as it gets. Looking forward to getting familiar with its functionality.

[tjd]

Just bought 2 5RM’s off amazon. No clue what im doing with them but i guess i have a new hobby seems to be pretty cool

[badcompany]

great book, good radio. If I had this when I was a F/O the jungle antenna would have been a great help. As always thanks Josh and NC.

[rosstaylor]

The military trains certain number pronunciations (I'm told) and in aviation we definitely use the funny-sounding "fife" for 5 and "tree" for 3...and, of course, niner for 9. But OTA with amateur radio, I just use regular pronunciation and haven't ever had issues with that. Thanks for all you do. 73, NV1V

[bendeleted]

Josh, thanks for walking us through it. I think the sooner we realize that the prepper types prefer these cheap little short-range radios for reasons that are not a threat to the ham hobby, the better. AND, I have seen some of the pure preppers "go legit" after learning the benefit of other services that can fill the need, like GMRS, and yes, even ham. 👍

[rogerkulpnik]

I liked the book. He talks basics of course, but he has great detail on actual communication procedures actually used in actual practice that Ham guys don’t get into when making contacts. Nice cross-over !!!