Most people just need to understand that 99% of the usefulness of a radio of any kind is intelligence and information gathering. Gathering. Meaning just listening. Not much of a need to key that mic in a lot of situations. Just like the other parts of life, you are way better off listening than you are talking. Every time you key that mic you are putting a target on your back.
I prefer to think of myself as a "Crime Lord" rather than a warlord, because use of force is counterproductive. I deal in unregulated food. If you're hungry, I can probably find you some illegal food.
Reminds me mostly of 1920s china when the rugged and diverse land was ruled by numerous warlords and diverging clans. Probably crazier than the american west.
@UN-common Sense AUS My wife cooks our milk. But yeah, that's the idea. Milk, eggs, beef, pork, chicken and preserved fruits. All produced locally, without any taxes or inspections.
This is a great presentation. I am glad somebody is actually explaining Radio Communications instead of trying to sell an $800 handheld radio. In my opinion, 99% of the ham radio videos on CZcams are for operators who already "know" a lot about ham radio. This is why non-hams watch those videos and they cant comprehend a single word those people are saying. I think this channel has the great potential to change the future of ham radio.
just have every one in your group get bofang handies and then get them programmed the same then all you have to do is move through the memery channels to get em to work
I am a very experienced long distance hiker/backpacker who spends most of my time in Appalachian mountains, far more then 10,000 miles of back-country travel, there are very very few humans who could carry 100 lbs 12 miles in a day while bush whacking up and down mountains, i couldn't, on a trail sure but not truely bushwhacking. the difference between walking 20 miles down a road or even trail and walking 5 in the back country will blow minds, this spring i took a been there done that army ranger with me for a hike, on trail was fine but when i took him on a bushwhack for about a mile he said it was the hardest thing he had ever done. every yuear i challenge myself to bushwhack a new peak that trails do not reach and every year I am amazed at how hard it is, how sketchy travel without a path can be, how hard it is to get gear through the thickest and steepest of terrain
Or just take away someone’s boots/shoes and they are worthless! I think that’s overlooked for someone’s cache is an extra pair of footwear. Mountain miles are a lot different from bottomland. The southern Appalachian is like a triple-canopy rainforest in the summer!
@@BearBig70 dude... for real tho, what tf has been/is going on out in all those places, those "clusters"??!! I seriously think it's something otherworldly/multidimensional... Idk... it's nuts fr. 👍✌
@@firstnamelastname6216 I concur. So much more to Godsworld than we could possibly understand. I simply keep an open mind, and take in all the info. David is doing a great job highlighting it, and when hiking, I take his suggestions seriously. The suggestions are something one would want in a lofe or death situation anyways. Can't hurt.👍
get your license. youre already on a million govt list. you can use a po box if you dont want to use your home address and you really do learn by doing and practicing. you dont know what you dont know. theres alot more involved than just turning on the radio and pushing the talk button.
@@tubeguy4066 You don't have to talk to them on the radio, there are local ham radio clubs that meet in person. They teach you how to pass the licensing test, so they HAVE to talk to people who aren't licensed all the time.
@@tubeguy4066 You don't have to talk to them on the radio, there are local ham radio clubs that meet in person. They teach you how to pass the licensing test, so they HAVE to talk to people who aren't licensed all the time.
I know nothing about ham radio. I did spend years training in the military immediately post cold war. The training I've received regarding radios over the years was significant. We hung antennas in trees, set em up on poles, mounted them to vehicles, etc. Training under soviet threat doctrine we moved a lot. With the tech the soviets had back in the day they could triangulate a radio operators position in seconds. Field artillery, jamming, and what have you could be targeted on that position in seconds to minutes. Shoot, move, and communicate was the order of the day. Since then I've also deployed to various theaters overseas. Technology has changed significantly in just 20+ years. I've been out for in excess of 10 now. Our guys could, and did listen to all the transmissions sent out by the militant groups in our area. The only real protections modern insurgent groups really have imo is the amount of resources they'll have available to devote in your direction. The amount of movement you can do, and how fast, etc. You could string your own landlines in fixed positions. These can't be intercepted as far as I'm aware. Use directional antennas. You can find out how to make these in publically available field manuals. Those are harder to detect. Use preset locations where your antennas are setup using materials your prepared to abandon. Roll in, hook up antenna, send message, grab radio, go. Leave antenna. Don't communicate at all for long periods. Use lots of keywords in voice communications. Use every tech advantage you got to shorten your communications. Your ideas on sending txt or pictures is great. Pictures not as much. Its the 21st century, could you use drones as repeater stations? Send it up, burst your message, grab drone, go. Use existing infrastructure, tap into existing phone lines strung out for miles already. If there is no power that's another option for communications with improvised, or surplus field phones. Depending upon the state of urban areas, there could be plenty of camouflage, cover, and concealment available there. Use, or modify existing power lines, or phone lines for house to house communication, op (observation post), etc. The imagination goes on, and on. By the time we've got abandoned urban areas, and can freely utilize existing infrastructure there's gonna be a lot of unprepared dead people, and the survivors probably won't need my advice, or will have forgotten it. Also anything a person can wargame in their mind can be countered by an equally imaginative opponent, and you really cannot plan what happens when shtf. Every scenario you've imagined with the aid of your 10 besties will be different than you imagined. After the 1st shot, rocket, zombie attack happens its all adlib with the resources you and your theoretical demonic enemy have to throw at each other. The one thing I hated about using radios in mountainous terrain was how the mountains themselves severely limited your commo. You couldn't talk to the guy a half kilometer away, but you and the guy 20 klicks away could talk all day. If your in an area where your antenna can talk to anyone your also in a spot that's got great line of sight to all bad guys and field artillery. So you try to hide in the valleys where they have to use high quadrant elevation to drop things on you, but move your antennas as far away as is possible with as much cammo as you can do. Mountains just suck, and after you've been climbing up and down and running around for an entire week with no sleep there's no amount of physical fitness in the world that seems adequate.
Thanks for the real world advice. Excellent. Include terrain masking, remote radio transmission on directional antennas using field phones, 'disposable' low power repeaters and low power techniques for RX/TX, and NVIS propagation that can be nearly impossible to DF. Also, get to know your mountainous terrain and using it effectively for propagation (refracting and reflecting), and masking, is a mostly underappreciated advantage.
Thank you for giving me a perspective into my own thoughts. I'm glad I'm not the only one who aknowledged this. A polite society is an armed society is all I can say
Note @ 7:27 - "The knock on the door for being a HAM" That happened during WW-II. Although HAMs were tolerated for training Morse code radiomen, they were shut down during world war two. Many call signs were lost and old timers were given new call signs. Also, Some cities in California now want HAM to pay to co-locate antennas. Two local Emergency operations managers have come back with "The after hurricane report from Florida opened with "We did not think we needed HAM operators since we have cell phones, mobile data and Starlink satellites. We were wrong. We needed too many people in too many places. HAMs could travel by bike" NOTE: MARS mods may not be bad. NEVER use a police frequency. I'd rather use a military or GMRS to call for help after a fire, gun shot, explosion. I expect to be prosecuted for using a police freq. NOTE: SDR allows people to see how active a wide band of frequencies. "Waterfall" option can even help spot code vs speach vs FSK. I keep a CB. Why? Its what others have. Use for intel gathering and monitoring. Do not forget NOAA radio & FM to have some music after a long day. Good stress reliver.
Back in WW2 our country was occupied by the nazi's and our government-in-excile was located in London, UK. Together with the UK army they kept in contact and coordinated resistance groups in the Netherlands. The resistance also helped coördinate repatriation of downed aviators or receiving and repatriating British spies going in or coming out of nazi-occupied territory. Getting intelligence in and out of nazi occupied territory in the proces. But the nazi's were hunting down these radio transmitters and the people using them. They had vans with directional antennas running around the area to do triangulation. Many of those radio amateurs were caught and shot by the nazi's.
Depending on your operational area and what your needs are, don’t discount the humble CB radio. If you can get your antenna high enough, they have 10-20 miles of range and don’t require much power. If you’re planning to ally with like minded neighbors, being able to communicate is as easy as making a trip to your local truck stop.
I have had skip at times, allowing me to talk from Central Qld to Alice Springs and sometimes as far as Weipa (in the same state as me). Australia for context
For good range, use CB SSB radios. Big differance.... In SHTF situations ONLY: out of regular CB band (26 MHz) for tactical comms and CB 40 channels for inteligence gathering...
I find shortwave radio's fascinating. I have been interested in them ever since I was 7 years old, just messing around with one. Being able to tune into a station from *thousands* if not *tens of thousands* of kilometers away is still a mind boggling concept even today.
That's how I became an amature!... it's interesting stuff through and through! When you know stuff, you can do stuff. Check out ham radio crash course, Mr Carlsons lab and soldersmoke! There is something powerful in being able to talk around the world on a device you figured out how to cobble together!
This video got me down a rabbit hole of ham radio, there's a ton of good channels talking about at least the features but not with the insight and worldview that S2 has.
@@unclebenny9028 Plenty of HAM channels. I'm talking about intelligence trade craft etc....There's 20 guys down at the local Radio Club that can teach you that stuff.....running a safe house? How many guys you know with that skill set?
As would I. I feel like I’m drinking from a firehose with these videos. I want to learn soooo bad. But I need some kind of classes to educate me. Then I need to acquire the equipment and setup a network.
this is the type of technical information that can really save lives in the future and help our people survive .. may God help good triumph over evil in this world..
And we all need to realize just how grave a threat humanity faces. The Great Deceiver has reached out through his minions and seized much of the planet. Go with God
He is a idiot! He knows nothing about Mil-Spec Radios-The AN/PRC-117F Multiband/Multimission Radio, currently in use by all the U.S. military services, is a 30-to-512 MHz-band radio that incorporates several different software-defined waveforms, such as SINCGARS, HaveQuick, and old Type 1 encryption modes.
i was a radio operator in the marines. i definitely felt that carrying a PRC on 8 hr patrols daily. GET YOUR BODIES PREPARED GENTS. much more difficult over long distances/rough terrain than you would think.
The subject of communications has been on my mind for a few years now. This was the best information I've seen and heard on the subject, by yards. Outstanding. Even though I had enormous gaps in understanding, you kept bringing it back so I could kind of follow along as a new guy. Thanks a lot for that.
Hams and Physical Fitness..almost pee'd myself laughing. I can't think of one time where a ham-meetup didn't involve a never-ending buffet of some variety.
Discretely gaining practical experience with this in the US is incredibly difficult, since HAM operators will gleefully DF you and rat you out to the enforcers. F'ing collaborators. And yeah, you can get a license for it; but registration is the first step to confiscation. Wouldn't it be better to DX and bounce?
Most Ham operators are very patriotic awake people and understand the situation and during a communist take over/globalist reset would not rat out freedom fighters.
@sandpebbles Most people would not understand that they're snitching on American patriots. They're just complying with authority, as they have always done. The best way to communicate is to encapsulate your message into normal communications traffic. Done correctly, message recipients will understand, but idle listeners will not suspect that a coded message has been transmitted. This gets easier when the "listener" is a computer program, coded to look for certain words, patterns and phrases.
@@SuperCulverin if you want to tx on a limited spectrum, get that ham license. If not, deal with it. A majority of non-licenced tards will cause interference, have zero knowledge of proper etiquette, and be a general nuisance to everyone who took the time to learn and get the license
I am regularly involved in much of this for emcomm. I was in Navy then Army MARS for several years. I can add to almost everything mentioned here. Let me add one thing... DStar works (and is legal at 6khz bandwidth)on HF. It's not encrypted but also not easily decoded by others and it is freaky clear in HF. Works on NVIS. I have talked to hams from here in PA to Idaho, Florida, Carolinas, etc just as clear as FM VHF . Several radios can do this. Sort of unique as other digital voice modes are too wide to be legal in HF... Assuming you're still abiding by the rules.
This fine video is spot on regarding portable operations in both regular and extreme emergency conditions. I gave up the ham shack thing twenty years ago and and now operate entirely out of my backpack. Features are a 5 to 100 watt radio in all modes, 60 watt solar panel, lifepo4 batteries, and all the finest and smallest accessories. The antenna is a portable 2m to 40 m (144 mhz - 7 mhz) in vertical, horizontal and NVIS configurations. I have operated from many countries and remote locations using this system.
I'm really a fan of making the vehicle a mobile station. I'm new to ham so searching info found you. Its really alarming the state of the world, and with wartime lurking, we really should be considering staying in touch with events.
Mesh networking is something that should also be looked into. Long range low bandwidth networks interlacing high bandwidth local nodes is a game changer.
@@ImperiumLibertas itll have tradeoffs, but will still work, the goal is compatability with extant systems more than efficiency you can have the most useful and ideal system but it wont mean much if it needs special-built applications
These "Training" exercises by the Ham Radio community, are played out in contest type environments usually, Like POTA, IOTA, SOTA, Field Day, etc. There's should be a type of "war" type of event organized, these would really get hams out there and planning war or conflict based rules for contests. Select multiple points and place scenarios simulated (Jamming as it's illegal) and real type of challenges. this could be "gamified" and could work. Maybe even like a type of RPG card game, set random situations, etc.
do the current contest events make spaces for support elements, who are unskilled at radio operations? the wartime scenario seems like a good way to practice the coordination. how could one, who seeks Understanding, make oneself available, one wonders?
@@diligentsun1154 For the first question, yes. Everyone is welcome. There are sides to it where someone without much skills and a little bit of guidance can participate, also you do not need a license to listen. Listening and learning to decode what's coming trough is integral to radio comms and very valuable. You can receive satellite images, listen to sattelite communications, receive images from the International Space station, there's a ton of stuff you can do without a license and just listening. Also, you can do 3rd party comms with a licensed ham. You can speak and communicate with their supervision. I personally would love to participate on this. But no rules or setting exists for this right now. I would love to participate developing rules and "Game plans" if other ham radio enthusiasts would join in. There a re many here in YT. For the third, the local club. If you got questions, they will talk for hours.
@@dieselstruck that's awesome! thanks for the information. i wish I'd paid more attention, the first time around, but the Heat of youth disrupted the focus. there's something to be said for calming down, with age. Be Well
Rf wargames sound hella fun. Jamming... Gotta do what you gotta do. Like purposfully breaking a leg before a hike... Fk that. Place the high priority, jammable objects in no man lands, for an example.
thank you very much for this video! it was a bit too late for me since it searched around for years and spend hundreds of hours trying different things and modes. you confirmed alot of things i discovered by myself.
I have been working on a Lora meshtastic network in my area for friends and family to communicate , currently it's just for fun but if it's even half set up if things go sideways it could be useful
@@firstnamelastname6216 I'm not an expert , however it's bosted that meshtastic is encrypted , then week point would be the Bluetooth connection , witch can be avoided with direct wires . It's decently small but has a limited range of around 500m in suburban areas. Depending on location they use different frequencys and have different ranges accordingly. My plan is to make up some solar powered nodes that I plant on houses or in the bush maybe to increase the effective range . It's all open source and can be tweeked if one has the knowhow . I have a few videos on the lora one assably and setup and one testing some antennas .
@@firstnamelastname6216 I've heard that most meshatatsic devices work on the same frequency as traffic lights which can make it hard to df in urban environments, other than that I think it'd be relatively the same, haven't tested it out, but it's what I've heard.
@@firstnamelastname6216 depends but not really because it uses frequencies that are very common to many devices people already use. Therefore making it hard to differentiate from something like a wireless home phone or something else making noise.
I am a general class Ham. After watching this video, I really don't know what I don't know. This is the most informative video I have ever seen on HF Radio. I feel like I am in the first grade regarding this information.
would love to see more outdoor appropriate, manpack, non-chinese type radios on the ham market that are more affordable than some of the Codan/Harris/Barrett/Thales options
A radio must have two IF stages for double seperetherodyne conversion. Those Chinese VHF /UHF radios use a single wide band RF stage, and a SDR concoction which is an homodyne at all effects. A bit of noise kills the radio link when you use those baofeng and the like...
there's A LOT of ground to cover, with regard to even understanding the basics of Radio. times like these make the dummies among us, wish we'd paid more attention, when it's was easier to comprehend.
I'm a Canadian HAM with a strong interest in off-grid comms. I appreciate your video because it touches on a range of important topics which are ear and dear to me. In a world of media censorship the so-called knock on the door scenario is less theoretical than I suspect most HAM's understand. The ability of the government to change the rule in a heartbeat was recently demonstrated when the government of Canada enacted the Emergency Act to quell the Canadian Truckers protest. This single demonstration of government power not only provided a clear illustration of how quickly the amateur radio operating environment can change but also how the population can become divided in their opinions on a single issue. Fear and propaganda are used in a variety of ways to turn friends against each other in a divide and conquer campaign. Today's amateur radio hobbyists may be tomorrow's enemy of the state virtually overnight. It is impossible to say who can you really trust without sounding paranoid but it is now the central question to ask when considering the kinds of operating you discuss. Adherents to the rule book will first to report anyone they deem to be an enemy operative after the hammer falls on legal comms. To borrow a well trodden phrase, keeps your friends close and your enemies closer when considering off-grid comms. After all comms gear is only the smallest part of a much larger equation. Thanks for bringing all this into shaper focus. It is a very important topic.
I've been a ham radio operator for 3 years I've mainly focused on uhf,vhf ptt and 40 meter tap tap tap all things I've tried in this vain has been very difficult with very little information or help to be found. The closest thing I have found close to what your talking about is packet radio not ideal but works well after you put the reps in to figure it out the concepts and hard ware you just mentioned are new to me I would definitely like to learn more about it I guess I'm going to have to rewatch this video so I can take notes to make research easier thank you for the information
In some situations the internet will be up and accessible.. by radio link . Many modes can go from handheld or base station radio to internet and back out to radio . Also some WiFi frequencies are in the ham bands and there are MESH networks using these . Makes comms look very common in a sea of WiFi . Don't forget small directional antennas ( beam Yagi ) that extend range and are narrow in detectable area . Since " someone " is always listening or capable of doing so the best advice given is to use words/phrases that are more meaningful to only those who know the meaning. Of course those talking about Sigint are absolutely correct in that merely sending signals tells a lot about sender and especially about any particles communicating with each other . Like S2 calling Audi Ence , come in . This is Audi Ence to S2 , don't be obvious . Large Male Sibling is ever auditory aware . 52 K
This video is pure gold. The type of information I wanted since I started this hobbie 3 months ago. As an electronic engineer always wanted to learn more about those long range communications. Here in Colombia in the 90s always was curious how the communications of FARC guerrilla were so fluid all about this full of mountains country. Army still didn’t have any digital comms system and they were listening one to each other all the time.
You should do a video on logistics, like how to set up so that you will have food etc. If you are running around in the hills, you gotta have a way to feed yourself while hunted.
You could do what every hunter, trapper, trader, sailor, and even Louis & Clark and Co. did. Learn to produce lots of 19th Century style Salt Pork, (not to be confused with the stuff sold under that name in the local grocery stores). The stuff keeps a really long time and you can bury it in caches and mark it on your map. If it weren't for salt pork, there probably wouldn't be a United States of America.
Familiar broll I saw in there 😜 Good video. I think there were some criticisms that didn’t account for the realities in say military comms. Most aren’t running high speed/low-drag hf and the sat comm systems requires massive crew to staff. All the recommendations you gave on modes was great though. The 705 in particular with the image transmission is valuable once you tether to a phone for image transfer for sending. I didn’t hear you mention encoded words and one time pads? The most simple and brute force encryption methods that done require special gear.
Nice, thanks for watching! Yeah, we get our B roll from news clips, so we end up recycling a lot 🤣 Current military comms is certainly a larger topic, especially when talking military HF stuff. Mesh networking, ALE, and other "modes" are definitely a huge piece of the puzzle that we didn't mention. And yeah we have an instructional video on One-Time Pads that shows the potential; one-time pads would work great with winlink emails in an emergency situation.
S2, what I've learned since the Covid Atrocity, is that knowing a lot yourself is only one part. The other part is the ability to teach others and bring them to a level of competence. Thank you for everything you and the S2 Underground are doing.
@S2 Underground, MARS volunteers during the Vietnam War would connect US Soldiers in Vietnam with their families in the states for personal communication.
After your ghost network video, I decided to buy an icom-705 and then found this video trying to learn about it. Super awesome info in this, thank you amigo.
Thank you for bringing up the issues. Every time in the past I've asked a HF radio operator how much range he'd get if the repeat antennas went down. I'd get either a blank stare or a sputtering"that'll never happen" reply.🙄
Most of the HAMs I've met are 100% dependent upon hitting a nearby repeater, and have effectively no simplex capabilities. They're also now using internet apps to stream directly from the repeater, and any transmitter they have is just an SDR (software defined radio) connected to a PC.
Are y'all referring to HF, or VHF? Because vhf is good for local & use repeaters (same with uhf. HF can go around the world without repeaters, but due to wavelength isn't great for local communication.
If you're talking to HF operators, and you ask that question about "repeat antennas"...and you get those replies, you're not talking to HF operators. I don't know who you're talking to, but definitely not HF folks.
Ham Radio Outlet will professionally MARS mod any new radio you buy for $30. You void the manufacturers warranty but who cares. You can participate in natl guard civillian radio checks too. They have back ups for their backups for their backups. Learn from their training be part of a solution yours, theirs, ours.
I’ve tried to get the wife and kid onboard with ham radios in case we get screwed by a hurricane as we live in west Florida. Both of them aren’t interested in learning it for right now. I actually tried GoTenna, and it was okay in the line of sight coms. I finally broke down and got myself a Garmin Inreach explorer plus and pay for a few satellite messages a month and free quick replies. I think if you are in public safety and need to stay in touch no matter what-just use the Garmin. Now I have to get wife and kid the Inreach minis. Clicks and clans can use cheap Beofangs. I wish we could hide somehow in Florida too. It’s hot and nowhere to escape.
Very valid points and criticism of ham radio operators. I fully concur with your ideas. Unfortunately very hard to make this work in a real world scenario.
Id love to have my own commo guy again, jeez its always been so overwhelming to get my head around the deep side of this fn magic. Thanks excellent overview again.
They can because if you're a REGISTERED HAM operator... then they got your information and can find your home easily. Now if you are unregistered and never transmit from home, then you're correct.
Excellent video. Being an amateur operator myself, it's nice to see a video highlighting issues and current strengths of shortwave communication and the amateur radio side. In the Army I repair tactical ground radios (I.E. Manpacks, vehicle amplifiers, and other tactical radios), these radios have frequency ranges that are, for the RT-1523 series, between 30.000-87.975 MHz. MARS modification would allow amateurs or really anybody that would need to, the ability to communicate with military forces in an emergency or otherwise warfare situation. The RT-1523 radio transmitter only has a high power output of ~5W and that limits how far your signal can actually propagate and be heard from. Even with this, the ability to transmit on every frequency your transceiver is designed for is extremely helpful in an emergency I would say. The amateur radio portions of the bands allocated by the FCC are always filled and I think during an emergency they'd be lit up hotter than on Field Day. Having the extra space to transmit outside of the current bands would allow for easier communication, data transmission, and operational planning to be carried out more efficiently.
Mentioned before, and it is 70 plus years old experience, but WWII Australian Coast Watchers we’re the gold standard of radio reconnaissance for many years. Including many of the concerns, and precautions mentioned here: radio detection,constant movement,equipment weight ect. Lonely Vigil by Walter Lord is an excellent book which goes into all aspects.⚓️
I can't remember the name of it, but there was a book about the history of the Vietnam Era comms and the challenges accordingly.. There were definitely high end (like microwave links) and specialty radio gear but what was striking was a lot of it was done with basic Collins sets like KWM2s. What was also striking was they used as many scraps of spectrum as they could and scheduled heavily, just because they had so much traffic. You mentioned antennas. Likely a good follow up video there. Something I'll say as a thought is that good coax is worth the money over cheap stuff, you'll end up with a lot better
well,' heading for the hills.'..may be a thing of the past. You would be surprised how little space there is left to 'bug out ' to, maybe hiding in plain sight is an alternative?
Shortwave is the only feasible technology for the long distance communication for thousands of kms or tens of thousands of Km without any relay stations, which is available to human beings.Internet heavily relies on relay station, such as cables or satelites.
Last time I heard a TTY signal (FSK modulation) was 1990. It were news agencies broadcasting flash news. And it required a radio with SSB, a TTY decoder that I built, and a computer to display the text. And it was at the incredible speed of 75 baud! When I begun, I used a single 12AX7 in superreactive circuit that receive and transmit at the same time. HF Comms properly made require lot of experience and knowledge of antenna theory. In the wild, an antenna tuner and a miniature wind power generator are worth their weight in gold...
There is a difference between encryption and encoding. The FCC regulates against encryption for civilian communications, and frowns on encoding for civilian communications. Encoding is using a codebook to translate certain phrases between clear form and code form. The codes could be ordinary phrases that mean something very different as specified in the shared codebook. Such as "Ham and eggs" actually means "The attack begins at dusk".
@@mikemandell132 True, but you can put your protocol up on some obscure website that you don't allow the search engines to crawl and that counts as publicly available means if you're ever challenged. In theory it's public, but the chances of someone both finding it and associating it with your communications is pretty small.
@@costakeith9048 Nope. Still illegal. You should really read the regulation. It's not difficult. You can't encrypt on ham bands. Encoding by obscure means is effective encryption. Already ruled on. If you want to encrypt and be legal, don't do it on ham bands. If you are that paranoid about a signal being intercepted, don't use a radio.
@@mikemandell132 It's not encryption, it's simply a new data mode and Hams are allowed to invent and use new data modes, so long as they are publicly available. Putting something on a website that anyone in the world can access is publicly posting something. Which court case are you referring to?
Inspiring stuff brother! Ive been learning alot about radio, its somewhat confusing but you make it much easier and its quite a fun hobby. Hopefully we won't need it in an apocalypse scenario but it will be useful either way and of course we should be prepared to weather any storms. Ill be setup for Ghostnet this week.
Hey S2, I'd like to join the HF community, but it's so full of... old fudds that share not a single goal with me. what do you recommend for younger people like us to get started? I'm interested in unconventional radio experimentations.
Hey I'm an older guy. 64, and I agree. Too many old fudds are in the ham radio clubs to make it much fun. Sitting around drinking sodas and scanning radio bands aren't interesting to me, let's get outside and play with the radios in real life.
Just do it. The old fudds will leave this rock one day, dont let them stop you learning something new that will benefit in the long run. And all they talk about is their prostate, the weather, antennas and how bad us newcomers are. Meh- im new, and care not for the old fudds- they may be a wealth of information- but only if they stop talking about themsleves for 5 minutes
Don't let a bunch of cranky old men hold you back from doing something that you want to do. They have ZERO control over whether you operate or not. If you don't want to, you don't have to interface with them on any level. Do your own thing, make your own space, blaze your own trail.
I promise there’s more of us non-fuddie duddies on HF than you may think. Be loud. Be the change we need in the radio community. Do all the digital modes. No chat about your prostate. Join uuuussss!
FCC regulations are no different from gun registry. They want to know who is talking and control who is allowed too. Assigned call signs are done to make is easy to identify you for the gouvernment.
One thing that came to mind is **using EME / moon bounce** as part of our normal PACE comms plan. Someone I know made voice contacts Alaska - Wyoming on one watt with a Baofeng
Man, you are a wealth of information. I am gearing up to get into HAM, but I find it a little daunting on what equipment to buy and where to start. I'll figure it out...
You really did a good job on this video. Warlord must P.T. hump radio and gear, must PT. boy that made me flinch because I'm the fat guy in the rear with the gear. I did a scanner for awhile then our county changed to digital, so buy more stuff. Thanks for the video.
One question that is on all levels of the ham radio license tests is "In an emergency. What forms of communication are legal to use". Paraphrased. The answer is any form of radio communication.
I agree 100%. But when SHTF then all bets are off. And it's why I've been practing OTP and trying to wrap my brain around RTTY and my 7300. I'm relatively new to ham. Got my tech and general this spring but I've been full tilt with HT's, DMR and HF. Good luck out there Amigo. Edit: I find DMR kinda boring, almost cheating lol.
@@robertstephens1599 repeat message 3x for confirmation, we need to pioneer ways forward on this stuff rather than waiting for someone to do it for us like lazy shits
@@elconquistador932 im required to say "encryption illegal" on the internet, and digital like DMR is great because those often have encryption built in, like the anytone 878 with AES256 and it only costs $220 making it affordable to have muiltiple people in your team buy. i also have considered, if a feng u-vr5 can be used with ATAK, then why not an 878 on digital mode which has the possibility for encryption already loaded into it?
WOW I need to get a radio. I didn't know about all this stuff, and the things it lets you do seem pretty amazing. Especially the picture transmitting and just the thought of being able to send things out
Most people just need to understand that 99% of the usefulness of a radio of any kind is intelligence and information gathering. Gathering. Meaning just listening. Not much of a need to key that mic in a lot of situations. Just like the other parts of life, you are way better off listening than you are talking. Every time you key that mic you are putting a target on your back.
There is some merit to your argument but it's not universal, if everyone listens and no one talks then all is silence.
And this is why I bought an Eton Executive Elite rather than a handheld ham radio. I prefer listening anyway.
@@allmyhobbiesareexpensive2676 let them get the target. There will always be people who talk.
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“Channel your inner warlord” should be daily advice
I prefer to think of myself as a "Crime Lord" rather than a warlord, because use of force is counterproductive.
I deal in unregulated food. If you're hungry, I can probably find you some illegal food.
Reminds me mostly of 1920s china when the rugged and diverse land was ruled by numerous warlords and diverging clans. Probably crazier than the american west.
@@SuperCulverin raw milk etc ?
I want this on a t shirt!
@UN-common Sense AUS
My wife cooks our milk. But yeah, that's the idea. Milk, eggs, beef, pork, chicken and preserved fruits. All produced locally, without any taxes or inspections.
This is a great presentation. I am glad somebody is actually explaining Radio Communications instead of trying to sell an $800 handheld radio.
In my opinion, 99% of the ham radio videos on CZcams are for operators who already "know" a lot about ham radio. This is why non-hams watch those videos and they cant comprehend a single word those people are saying.
I think this channel has the great potential to change the future of ham radio.
just have every one in your group get bofang handies and then get them programmed the same then all you have to do is move through the memery channels to get em to work
Loved the middle earth map for comms scheduling. It was a nice touch.
I am a very experienced long distance hiker/backpacker who spends most of my time in Appalachian mountains, far more then 10,000 miles of back-country travel, there are very very few humans who could carry 100 lbs 12 miles in a day while bush whacking up and down mountains, i couldn't, on a trail sure but not truely bushwhacking. the difference between walking 20 miles down a road or even trail and walking 5 in the back country will blow minds, this spring i took a been there done that army ranger with me for a hike, on trail was fine but when i took him on a bushwhack for about a mile he said it was the hardest thing he had ever done.
every yuear i challenge myself to bushwhack a new peak that trails do not reach and every year I am amazed at how hard it is, how sketchy travel without a path can be, how hard it is to get gear through the thickest and steepest of terrain
Or just take away someone’s boots/shoes and they are worthless! I think that’s overlooked for someone’s cache is an extra pair of footwear. Mountain miles are a lot different from bottomland. The southern Appalachian is like a triple-canopy rainforest in the summer!
You made me tired just explaining it!😜
Did you ever check out the Missing 411 series with David Paulidus? Very trippy stuff...
There's nothing like breaking brush as the point man!
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@@BearBig70 dude... for real tho, what tf has been/is going on out in all those places, those "clusters"??!! I seriously think it's something otherworldly/multidimensional... Idk... it's nuts fr. 👍✌
@@firstnamelastname6216 I concur. So much more to Godsworld than we could possibly understand. I simply keep an open mind, and take in all the info. David is doing a great job highlighting it, and when hiking, I take his suggestions seriously. The suggestions are something one would want in a lofe or death situation anyways. Can't hurt.👍
As an unlicensed someone that’s been trying to learn about some of this stuff, from a relatively closed community, THANK YOU for this.
Not sure where you're at, but in the US many hams would be willing to show you and talk your ear off. You just need to find a local club
@@martinsonofwar395 Only if you are licensed. They are snitches otherwise
get your license. youre already on a million govt list. you can use a po box if you dont want to use your home address and you really do learn by doing and practicing. you dont know what you dont know. theres alot more involved than just turning on the radio and pushing the talk button.
@@tubeguy4066 You don't have to talk to them on the radio, there are local ham radio clubs that meet in person. They teach you how to pass the licensing test, so they HAVE to talk to people who aren't licensed all the time.
@@tubeguy4066 You don't have to talk to them on the radio, there are local ham radio clubs that meet in person. They teach you how to pass the licensing test, so they HAVE to talk to people who aren't licensed all the time.
I know nothing about ham radio. I did spend years training in the military immediately post cold war. The training I've received regarding radios over the years was significant. We hung antennas in trees, set em up on poles, mounted them to vehicles, etc. Training under soviet threat doctrine we moved a lot. With the tech the soviets had back in the day they could triangulate a radio operators position in seconds. Field artillery, jamming, and what have you could be targeted on that position in seconds to minutes. Shoot, move, and communicate was the order of the day. Since then I've also deployed to various theaters overseas. Technology has changed significantly in just 20+ years. I've been out for in excess of 10 now. Our guys could, and did listen to all the transmissions sent out by the militant groups in our area. The only real protections modern insurgent groups really have imo is the amount of resources they'll have available to devote in your direction. The amount of movement you can do, and how fast, etc. You could string your own landlines in fixed positions. These can't be intercepted as far as I'm aware. Use directional antennas. You can find out how to make these in publically available field manuals. Those are harder to detect. Use preset locations where your antennas are setup using materials your prepared to abandon. Roll in, hook up antenna, send message, grab radio, go. Leave antenna. Don't communicate at all for long periods. Use lots of keywords in voice communications. Use every tech advantage you got to shorten your communications. Your ideas on sending txt or pictures is great. Pictures not as much. Its the 21st century, could you use drones as repeater stations? Send it up, burst your message, grab drone, go. Use existing infrastructure, tap into existing phone lines strung out for miles already. If there is no power that's another option for communications with improvised, or surplus field phones. Depending upon the state of urban areas, there could be plenty of camouflage, cover, and concealment available there. Use, or modify existing power lines, or phone lines for house to house communication, op (observation post), etc. The imagination goes on, and on. By the time we've got abandoned urban areas, and can freely utilize existing infrastructure there's gonna be a lot of unprepared dead people, and the survivors probably won't need my advice, or will have forgotten it. Also anything a person can wargame in their mind can be countered by an equally imaginative opponent, and you really cannot plan what happens when shtf. Every scenario you've imagined with the aid of your 10 besties will be different than you imagined. After the 1st shot, rocket, zombie attack happens its all adlib with the resources you and your theoretical demonic enemy have to throw at each other. The one thing I hated about using radios in mountainous terrain was how the mountains themselves severely limited your commo. You couldn't talk to the guy a half kilometer away, but you and the guy 20 klicks away could talk all day. If your in an area where your antenna can talk to anyone your also in a spot that's got great line of sight to all bad guys and field artillery. So you try to hide in the valleys where they have to use high quadrant elevation to drop things on you, but move your antennas as far away as is possible with as much cammo as you can do. Mountains just suck, and after you've been climbing up and down and running around for an entire week with no sleep there's no amount of physical fitness in the world that seems adequate.
Outstanding perspective.
Thanks for the real world advice. Excellent. Include terrain masking, remote radio transmission on directional antennas using field phones, 'disposable' low power repeaters and low power techniques for RX/TX, and NVIS propagation that can be nearly impossible to DF. Also, get to know your mountainous terrain and using it effectively for propagation (refracting and reflecting), and masking, is a mostly underappreciated advantage.
Thanks for taking the time to type this info. Much appreciated. Using drones as a repeater station is a darn good idea.
Thank you for giving me a perspective into my own thoughts. I'm glad I'm not the only one who aknowledged this. A polite society is an armed society is all I can say
One of the few times where a wall of text is indeed necessary. Thank you só much for the perspective.
Note @ 7:27 - "The knock on the door for being a HAM" That happened during WW-II. Although HAMs were tolerated for training Morse code radiomen, they were shut down during world war two. Many call signs were lost and old timers were given new call signs.
Also, Some cities in California now want HAM to pay to co-locate antennas. Two local Emergency operations managers have come back with "The after hurricane report from Florida opened with "We did not think we needed HAM operators since we have cell phones, mobile data and Starlink satellites. We were wrong. We needed too many people in too many places. HAMs could travel by bike"
NOTE: MARS mods may not be bad. NEVER use a police frequency. I'd rather use a military or GMRS to call for help after a fire, gun shot, explosion. I expect to be prosecuted for using a police freq.
NOTE: SDR allows people to see how active a wide band of frequencies. "Waterfall" option can even help spot code vs speach vs FSK.
I keep a CB. Why? Its what others have. Use for intel gathering and monitoring. Do not forget NOAA radio & FM to have some music after a long day. Good stress reliver.
Having CB is like getting information from many truckers traveling in several different directions. It has great potential for good intell.
@@mtnboyjohn9353 Not to forget that an open HF rig can communicate on the CB band.
Back in WW2 our country was occupied by the nazi's and our government-in-excile was located in London, UK. Together with the UK army they kept in contact and coordinated resistance groups in the Netherlands. The resistance also helped coördinate repatriation of downed aviators or receiving and repatriating British spies going in or coming out of nazi-occupied territory. Getting intelligence in and out of nazi occupied territory in the proces.
But the nazi's were hunting down these radio transmitters and the people using them. They had vans with directional antennas running around the area to do triangulation. Many of those radio amateurs were caught and shot by the nazi's.
@@jfv65 Thanks for the history. Trying to find transmitters tie up men and supplies.
I guess the messages also help keep up moral.
@jfv65 are you polish?
MARS-gram’s were awesome to get while deployed before e-mail was mass available especially in the marines. I didn’t get an email address until 2004!
Depending on your operational area and what your needs are, don’t discount the humble CB radio. If you can get your antenna high enough, they have 10-20 miles of range and don’t require much power. If you’re planning to ally with like minded neighbors, being able to communicate is as easy as making a trip to your local truck stop.
Also, lots of local neighborhood watch organizations have started using GMRS radios.
Also, lots of local neighborhood watch organizations have started using GMRS radios.
I have had skip at times, allowing me to talk from Central Qld to Alice Springs and sometimes as far as Weipa (in the same state as me).
Australia for context
For good range, use CB SSB radios. Big differance....
In SHTF situations ONLY:
out of regular CB band (26 MHz) for tactical comms and CB 40 channels for inteligence gathering...
I find shortwave radio's fascinating. I have been interested in them ever since I was 7 years old, just messing around with one. Being able to tune into a station from *thousands* if not *tens of thousands* of kilometers away is still a mind boggling concept even today.
That's how I became an amature!... it's interesting stuff through and through! When you know stuff, you can do stuff. Check out ham radio crash course, Mr Carlsons lab and soldersmoke! There is something powerful in being able to talk around the world on a device you figured out how to cobble together!
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As a fellow ham this is an amazing video. And have been trying to tell people this for years. Comms are super important.
I second that as a Ham myself 👍 Old school social networking through Radio waves. I saw K8MRD in the video.
Dude, take this to the next level. Start offering classes. I would pay.
There's enough here to start a whole school
This video got me down a rabbit hole of ham radio, there's a ton of good channels talking about at least the features but not with the insight and worldview that S2 has.
Ham Radio Crash Course HRCC on YT has a class...
@@unclebenny9028 Plenty of HAM channels. I'm talking about intelligence trade craft etc....There's 20 guys down at the local Radio Club that can teach you that stuff.....running a safe house? How many guys you know with that skill set?
As would I. I feel like I’m drinking from a firehose with these videos. I want to learn soooo bad. But I need some kind of classes to educate me. Then I need to acquire the equipment and setup a network.
I don't know how it took me so long to discover your channel. I have found a new thing to be obsessed about. Thank you.
“Let’s see Paul Allen’s SALUTE report”
That meme always cracks me up
this is the type of technical information that can really save lives in the future and help our people survive .. may God help good triumph over evil in this world..
And we all need to realize just how grave a threat humanity faces. The Great Deceiver has reached out through his minions and seized much of the planet. Go with God
He is a idiot! He knows nothing about Mil-Spec Radios-The AN/PRC-117F Multiband/Multimission Radio, currently in use by all the U.S. military services, is a 30-to-512 MHz-band radio that incorporates several different software-defined waveforms, such as SINCGARS, HaveQuick, and old Type 1 encryption modes.
Who are you wanting to fight? What?
@@sillybirdy1994 You are part of a war whether you want to be or not. They are coming for you
We are not all narrow-minded a-holes. Great discussion!
Love your channel too. I’ve learned a lot from you.
Hey man, long time no talk. Hope all is well in your part of the world
@@perrytheplatypus7403 thanks 👍
i was a radio operator in the marines. i definitely felt that carrying a PRC on 8 hr patrols daily. GET YOUR BODIES PREPARED GENTS. much more difficult over long distances/rough terrain than you would think.
Excellent video as always, and I'm pretty dumb on communications stuff, so this was excellent information for me.
The subject of communications has been on my mind for a few years now. This was the best information I've seen and heard on the subject, by yards. Outstanding. Even though I had enormous gaps in understanding, you kept bringing it back so I could kind of follow along as a new guy. Thanks a lot for that.
Excellent summary of *useful* information about HF in the current times.
Hydrofluoric acid?
@@garrysekelli6776 I suppose it depends on what message you are trying to communicate.
@Garry Sekelli
High Frequency
Apparently you don't know Useless Childish CZcams Scammers from Real Military Mil-Spec factual reality.
Hams and Physical Fitness..almost pee'd myself laughing. I can't think of one time where a ham-meetup didn't involve a never-ending buffet of some variety.
Ditto!
Well, it's a calorie storage method since ancient times. Survival of the Fattest.
ALL THE hams ive seen are great big fat dynamos or in their 70s ha!
This is a hidden gem, with thought provoking concepts… the narrator has strong suggestions of a prior life in the realm of 18E.
Discretely gaining practical experience with this in the US is incredibly difficult, since HAM operators will gleefully DF you and rat you out to the enforcers. F'ing collaborators.
And yeah, you can get a license for it; but registration is the first step to confiscation.
Wouldn't it be better to DX and bounce?
Who has been convicted of it. Not many. It more fear lingering, but the HF community of full of fudds, they are killing their own hobby.
Most Ham operators are very patriotic awake people and understand the situation and during a communist take over/globalist reset would not rat out freedom fighters.
My experience is if youre using the repeaters, they'll DF you and rat you.
@sandpebbles
Most people would not understand that they're snitching on American patriots. They're just complying with authority, as they have always done.
The best way to communicate is to encapsulate your message into normal communications traffic. Done correctly, message recipients will understand, but idle listeners will not suspect that a coded message has been transmitted. This gets easier when the "listener" is a computer program, coded to look for certain words, patterns and phrases.
@@SuperCulverin if you want to tx on a limited spectrum, get that ham license. If not, deal with it. A majority of non-licenced tards will cause interference, have zero knowledge of proper etiquette, and be a general nuisance to everyone who took the time to learn and get the license
I am regularly involved in much of this for emcomm. I was in Navy then Army MARS for several years. I can add to almost everything mentioned here. Let me add one thing... DStar works (and is legal at 6khz bandwidth)on HF. It's not encrypted but also not easily decoded by others and it is freaky clear in HF. Works on NVIS. I have talked to hams from here in PA to Idaho, Florida, Carolinas, etc just as clear as FM VHF . Several radios can do this. Sort of unique as other digital voice modes are too wide to be legal in HF... Assuming you're still abiding by the rules.
This fine video is spot on regarding portable operations in both regular and extreme emergency conditions. I gave up the ham shack thing twenty years ago and and now operate entirely out of my backpack. Features are a 5 to 100 watt radio in all modes, 60 watt solar panel, lifepo4 batteries, and all the finest and smallest accessories. The antenna is a portable 2m to 40 m (144 mhz - 7 mhz) in vertical, horizontal and NVIS configurations. I have operated from many countries and remote locations using this system.
Notification squad roll up.
Wouldn't miss it
Bitchass CZcams didn't tell me shit. But fortunately I find it an hour later accidentally. Still a W.
Better late than never!!! 👍
I'm really a fan of making the vehicle a mobile station. I'm new to ham so searching info found you. Its really alarming the state of the world, and with wartime lurking, we really should be considering staying in touch with events.
Excellent schooling once again S2 crew, thank you so much for sharing the craft, awesome stuff.
Man… I hope your friends appreciate the value you bring to the table.
Mesh networking is something that should also be looked into. Long range low bandwidth networks interlacing high bandwidth local nodes is a game changer.
with internet protocol support its the ultimate solution
He has a video on it.
@@khlorghaal TCP-IP is not a low bandwidth protocol unfortunately. Although there are many protocols that work well in low bandwidth situations.
@@ImperiumLibertas itll have tradeoffs, but will still work, the goal is compatability with extant systems more than efficiency
you can have the most useful and ideal system but it wont mean much if it needs special-built applications
LoRa Meshtastic, we should promote it...
This was one of the best videos I have watched regarding shortwave radio.
Bravo and thank you!
73s!
These "Training" exercises by the Ham Radio community, are played out in contest type environments usually, Like POTA, IOTA, SOTA, Field Day, etc. There's should be a type of "war" type of event organized, these would really get hams out there and planning war or conflict based rules for contests. Select multiple points and place scenarios simulated (Jamming as it's illegal) and real type of challenges. this could be "gamified" and could work. Maybe even like a type of RPG card game, set random situations, etc.
do the current contest events make spaces for support elements, who are unskilled at radio operations?
the wartime scenario seems like a good way to practice the coordination.
how could one, who seeks Understanding, make oneself available, one wonders?
@@diligentsun1154 For the first question, yes. Everyone is welcome. There are sides to it where someone without much skills and a little bit of guidance can participate, also you do not need a license to listen. Listening and learning to decode what's coming trough is integral to radio comms and very valuable. You can receive satellite images, listen to sattelite communications, receive images from the International Space station, there's a ton of stuff you can do without a license and just listening. Also, you can do 3rd party comms with a licensed ham. You can speak and communicate with their supervision.
I personally would love to participate on this. But no rules or setting exists for this right now. I would love to participate developing rules and "Game plans" if other ham radio enthusiasts would join in. There a re many here in YT.
For the third, the local club. If you got questions, they will talk for hours.
@@dieselstruck that's awesome!
thanks for the information.
i wish I'd paid more attention, the first time around, but the Heat of youth disrupted the focus.
there's something to be said for calming down, with age.
Be Well
Rf wargames sound hella fun. Jamming... Gotta do what you gotta do. Like purposfully breaking a leg before a hike... Fk that.
Place the high priority, jammable objects in no man lands, for an example.
@@dieselstruck "the international space station" 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
thank you very much for this video!
it was a bit too late for me since it searched around for years and spend hundreds of hours trying different things and modes. you confirmed alot of things i discovered by myself.
I have been working on a Lora meshtastic network in my area for friends and family to communicate , currently it's just for fun but if it's even half set up if things go sideways it could be useful
Is it very vulnerable to tracking(triangulating or w/e), and can it be used on the move? Just curious, I think I'll look into it. 👍✌
@@firstnamelastname6216 I'm not an expert , however it's bosted that meshtastic is encrypted , then week point would be the Bluetooth connection , witch can be avoided with direct wires . It's decently small but has a limited range of around 500m in suburban areas. Depending on location they use different frequencys and have different ranges accordingly. My plan is to make up some solar powered nodes that I plant on houses or in the bush maybe to increase the effective range . It's all open source and can be tweeked if one has the knowhow . I have a few videos on the lora one assably and setup and one testing some antennas .
@@firstnamelastname6216 I've heard that most meshatatsic devices work on the same frequency as traffic lights which can make it hard to df in urban environments, other than that I think it'd be relatively the same, haven't tested it out, but it's what I've heard.
@@firstnamelastname6216 depends but not really because it uses frequencies that are very common to many devices people already use. Therefore making it hard to differentiate from something like a wireless home phone or something else making noise.
I am a general class Ham. After watching this video, I really don't know what I don't know. This is the most informative video I have ever seen on HF Radio. I feel like I am in the first grade regarding this information.
You paint people interested in radio with a Broad Brush. But your Explanation of radio is the Easiest I have found.
Best Wishes! M.H.
This is THE video that made me get into radio. All I had was an un-programmed baofeng, now I'm almost weekly ghostnet check in.
would love to see more outdoor appropriate, manpack, non-chinese type radios on the ham market that are more affordable than some of the Codan/Harris/Barrett/Thales options
A radio must have two IF stages for double seperetherodyne conversion. Those Chinese VHF /UHF radios use a single wide band RF stage, and a SDR concoction which is an homodyne at all effects. A bit of noise kills the radio link when you use those baofeng and the like...
Dude it blows my mind how the market hasn't provided something like this. It feels intentional.
I’m not sure which is more impressive; the presentation composition, or that smooth ass outro. Thanks again to the entire team.
Tbh, I get the notifications here so I can go watch on lbry. Seems worth it to say that in a video about comms.
there's A LOT of ground to cover, with regard to even understanding the basics of Radio.
times like these make the dummies among us, wish we'd paid more attention, when it's was easier to comprehend.
I'm a Canadian HAM with a strong interest in off-grid comms. I appreciate your video because it touches on a range of important topics which are ear and dear to me. In a world of media censorship the so-called knock on the door scenario is less theoretical than I suspect most HAM's understand. The ability of the government to change the rule in a heartbeat was recently demonstrated when the government of Canada enacted the Emergency Act to quell the Canadian Truckers protest. This single demonstration of government power not only provided a clear illustration of how quickly the amateur radio operating environment can change but also how the population can become divided in their opinions on a single issue. Fear and propaganda are used in a variety of ways to turn friends against each other in a divide and conquer campaign. Today's amateur radio hobbyists may be tomorrow's enemy of the state virtually overnight. It is impossible to say who can you really trust without sounding paranoid but it is now the central question to ask when considering the kinds of operating you discuss. Adherents to the rule book will first to report anyone they deem to be an enemy operative after the hammer falls on legal comms. To borrow a well trodden phrase, keeps your friends close and your enemies closer when considering off-grid comms. After all comms gear is only the smallest part of a much larger equation. Thanks for bringing all this into shaper focus. It is a very important topic.
In the US, if you want to transmit on things like 20-40-80 just do the work to get the General. But you can do a lot at Technician level.
Yup, Marvin see my post.......
Seek psychiatric assistance immediately.
Your channel is amazing. Thanks for all your hard work. The info you put out is top notch
I've been a ham radio operator for 3 years I've mainly focused on uhf,vhf ptt and 40 meter tap tap tap all things I've tried in this vain has been very difficult with very little information or help to be found. The closest thing I have found close to what your talking about is packet radio not ideal but works well after you put the reps in to figure it out the concepts and hard ware you just mentioned are new to me I would definitely like to learn more about it I guess I'm going to have to rewatch this video so I can take notes to make research easier thank you for the information
In some situations the internet will be up and accessible.. by radio link .
Many modes can go from handheld or base station radio to internet and back out to radio .
Also some WiFi frequencies are in the ham bands and there are MESH networks using these .
Makes comms look very common in a sea of WiFi .
Don't forget small directional antennas ( beam Yagi ) that extend range and are narrow in detectable area .
Since " someone " is always listening or capable of doing so the best advice given is to use words/phrases that are more meaningful to only those who know the meaning.
Of course those talking about Sigint are absolutely correct in that merely sending signals tells a lot about sender and especially about any particles communicating with each other .
Like S2 calling Audi Ence , come in .
This is Audi Ence to S2 ,
don't be obvious .
Large Male Sibling is ever auditory aware .
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This video is pure gold. The type of information I wanted since I started this hobbie 3 months ago. As an electronic engineer always wanted to learn more about those long range communications. Here in Colombia in the 90s always was curious how the communications of FARC guerrilla were so fluid all about this full of mountains country. Army still didn’t have any digital comms system and they were listening one to each other all the time.
This is an amazing video and I'm glad I found this channel
This escalated quickly! Too much to learn
You should do a video on logistics, like how to set up so that you will have food etc. If you are running around in the hills, you gotta have a way to feed yourself while hunted.
There are books on edible plants. There are videos on this very channel which will answer your question.
You eat bugs. Traps are obvious you’re there. Some game can injure you and need too much calories. You’re request is really too broad…
They have a playlists on logistics and a recommended reading list.
Pre-positioned cache sites.
You could do what every hunter, trapper, trader, sailor, and even Louis & Clark and Co. did. Learn to produce lots of 19th Century style Salt Pork, (not to be confused with the stuff sold under that name in the local grocery stores). The stuff keeps a really long time and you can bury it in caches and mark it on your map. If it weren't for salt pork, there probably wouldn't be a United States of America.
Familiar broll I saw in there 😜
Good video. I think there were some criticisms that didn’t account for the realities in say military comms. Most aren’t running high speed/low-drag hf and the sat comm systems requires massive crew to staff.
All the recommendations you gave on modes was great though. The 705 in particular with the image transmission is valuable once you tether to a phone for image transfer for sending.
I didn’t hear you mention encoded words and one time pads? The most simple and brute force encryption methods that done require special gear.
Nice, thanks for watching! Yeah, we get our B roll from news clips, so we end up recycling a lot 🤣 Current military comms is certainly a larger topic, especially when talking military HF stuff. Mesh networking, ALE, and other "modes" are definitely a huge piece of the puzzle that we didn't mention. And yeah we have an instructional video on One-Time Pads that shows the potential; one-time pads would work great with winlink emails in an emergency situation.
S2, what I've learned since the Covid Atrocity, is that knowing a lot yourself is only one part. The other part is the ability to teach others and bring them to a level of competence. Thank you for everything you and the S2 Underground are doing.
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Whats this "Covid Atrocity"?
Top notch content per usual! Ty so much. Send all of these updates to my peeps! 💚
@S2 Underground, MARS volunteers during the Vietnam War would connect US Soldiers in Vietnam with their families in the states for personal communication.
And the main reason MARS died was the fact that most service members now have ready access to the internet to communicate with loved ones.
After your ghost network video, I decided to buy an icom-705 and then found this video trying to learn about it. Super awesome info in this, thank you amigo.
Remember, FIGHT IN THE SHADE.
Thank you for bringing up the issues. Every time in the past I've asked a HF radio operator how much range he'd get if the repeat antennas went down. I'd get either a blank stare or a sputtering"that'll never happen" reply.🙄
Most of the HAMs I've met are 100% dependent upon hitting a nearby repeater, and have effectively no simplex capabilities. They're also now using internet apps to stream directly from the repeater, and any transmitter they have is just an SDR (software defined radio) connected to a PC.
Are y'all referring to HF, or VHF? Because vhf is good for local & use repeaters (same with uhf. HF can go around the world without repeaters, but due to wavelength isn't great for local communication.
HF users aren't using repeaters. That's more VHF/UHF.
If you're attempting to use repeaters on HF, then you have more issues with your brain than your hardware
If you're talking to HF operators, and you ask that question about "repeat antennas"...and you get those replies, you're not talking to HF operators. I don't know who you're talking to, but definitely not HF folks.
As a extra class operator, this was a great video. Thank you
Once again appreciate the work you guys do
Ham Radio Outlet will professionally MARS mod any new radio you buy for $30. You void the manufacturers warranty but who cares. You can participate in natl guard civillian radio checks too. They have back ups for their backups for their backups. Learn from their training be part of a solution yours, theirs, ours.
Awesome video as always, informative, interesting and educational. Thankyou, the comments section here is fantastic too. All the best for everyone
The National Traffic System operates almost all day passing radiograms. MARS is almost always represented.
a seriously underappreciated in-development thing is Reticulum, which can work over radio, or anything else
Been a ham for 30 years. Never thought about domestic wartime, on the run comms, and I should have before now. Thanks.
Things have been a bit too cushy and comfortable for close to 70 years to think otherwise.
Best video I’ve seen in a long time , explained perfect , I’m going to share with family and friends ! You rock !
Dave Canterberry has recently taken up the ham qrp ops. Good vids.
Your presentation skills are really good, the way that you structure and laid out the topic is very academic.
I’ve tried to get the wife and kid onboard with ham radios in case we get screwed by a hurricane as we live in west Florida. Both of them aren’t interested in learning it for right now. I actually tried GoTenna, and it was okay in the line of sight coms. I finally broke down and got myself a Garmin Inreach explorer plus and pay for a few satellite messages a month and free quick replies. I think if you are in public safety and need to stay in touch no matter what-just use the Garmin. Now I have to get wife and kid the Inreach minis. Clicks and clans can use cheap Beofangs. I wish we could hide somehow in Florida too. It’s hot and nowhere to escape.
Keep small boats even if you are inland. You never know.
Very valid points and criticism of ham radio operators. I fully concur with your ideas. Unfortunately very hard to make this work in a real world scenario.
Id love to have my own commo guy again, jeez its always been so overwhelming to get my head around the deep side of this fn magic. Thanks excellent overview again.
Amazingly well put together presentation. Shared heavily.
They can't knock at your door if you never transmit from your home.
They can because if you're a REGISTERED HAM operator... then they got your information and can find your home easily. Now if you are unregistered and never transmit from home, then you're correct.
Ohh but they can
@@SavageAirguns I'm probably not registered =)
@@aaron5632018 ...I know.... but people need a little hope.
@@theov3rmind lol some “ Hopium”,
I never smoked it …
Excellent video.
Being an amateur operator myself, it's nice to see a video highlighting issues and current strengths of shortwave communication and the amateur radio side.
In the Army I repair tactical ground radios (I.E. Manpacks, vehicle amplifiers, and other tactical radios), these radios have frequency ranges that are, for the RT-1523 series, between 30.000-87.975 MHz. MARS modification would allow amateurs or really anybody that would need to, the ability to communicate with military forces in an emergency or otherwise warfare situation. The RT-1523 radio transmitter only has a high power output of ~5W and that limits how far your signal can actually propagate and be heard from. Even with this, the ability to transmit on every frequency your transceiver is designed for is extremely helpful in an emergency I would say. The amateur radio portions of the bands allocated by the FCC are always filled and I think during an emergency they'd be lit up hotter than on Field Day. Having the extra space to transmit outside of the current bands would allow for easier communication, data transmission, and operational planning to be carried out more efficiently.
Remember in Doctor Strangelove when the military is told to confiscate all the HAM radios? I remember
I remember why I only drink distilled water and pure grain alcohol.
Pepperidge Farm remembers
Mentioned before, and it is 70 plus years old experience, but WWII Australian Coast Watchers we’re the gold standard of radio reconnaissance for many years. Including many of the concerns, and precautions mentioned here: radio detection,constant movement,equipment weight ect. Lonely Vigil by Walter Lord is an excellent book which goes into all aspects.⚓️
Lmao love the map of middle earth. Its not exactly lore friendly but still better than Amazon's new show.
I can't remember the name of it, but there was a book about the history of the Vietnam Era comms and the challenges accordingly.. There were definitely high end (like microwave links) and specialty radio gear but what was striking was a lot of it was done with basic Collins sets like KWM2s. What was also striking was they used as many scraps of spectrum as they could and scheduled heavily, just because they had so much traffic.
You mentioned antennas. Likely a good follow up video there. Something I'll say as a thought is that good coax is worth the money over cheap stuff, you'll end up with a lot better
well,' heading for the hills.'..may be a thing of the past. You would be surprised how little space there is left to 'bug out ' to, maybe hiding in plain sight is an alternative?
Hide in the National Parks. You are taking your chances with whatever is out there, but no one will find you
My thoughts exactly. Every door you open or fence that you hop belongs to someone. Plus, I kinda feel like I need to stay and help people.
Yeah, this isn't Afghanistan.
@@tubeguy4066 Have you BEEN to the national parks? They're ALREADY full of people, and nothing has hit the fan yet.
@@tubeguy4066 Have you BEEN to the national parks? They're ALREADY full of people, and nothing has hit the fan yet.
"... in the 6 days it took us to make this video ..."
-> Thank you for your effort!
Shortwave is the only feasible technology for the long distance communication for thousands of kms or tens of thousands of Km without any relay stations, which is available to human beings.Internet heavily relies on relay station, such as cables or satelites.
Last time I heard a TTY signal (FSK modulation) was 1990. It were news agencies broadcasting flash news.
And it required a radio with SSB, a TTY decoder that I built, and a computer to display the text. And it was at the incredible speed of 75 baud!
When I begun, I used a single 12AX7 in superreactive circuit that receive and transmit at the same time. HF Comms properly made require lot of experience and knowledge of antenna theory. In the wild, an antenna tuner and a miniature wind power generator are worth their weight in gold...
There is a difference between encryption and encoding.
The FCC regulates against encryption for civilian communications, and frowns on encoding for civilian communications.
Encoding is using a codebook to translate certain phrases between clear form and code form.
The codes could be ordinary phrases that mean something very different as specified in the shared codebook. Such as "Ham and eggs" actually means "The attack begins at dusk".
And granted, thell have to prove youre actually encrypting something and not just sending random letters.
@@DavidPrObooMBer No. Your transmission is required to be readable by reasonable, publicly available means. That's the law.
@@mikemandell132 True, but you can put your protocol up on some obscure website that you don't allow the search engines to crawl and that counts as publicly available means if you're ever challenged. In theory it's public, but the chances of someone both finding it and associating it with your communications is pretty small.
@@costakeith9048 Nope. Still illegal. You should really read the regulation. It's not difficult. You can't encrypt on ham bands. Encoding by obscure means is effective encryption. Already ruled on. If you want to encrypt and be legal, don't do it on ham bands. If you are that paranoid about a signal being intercepted, don't use a radio.
@@mikemandell132 It's not encryption, it's simply a new data mode and Hams are allowed to invent and use new data modes, so long as they are publicly available. Putting something on a website that anyone in the world can access is publicly posting something.
Which court case are you referring to?
Inspiring stuff brother! Ive been learning alot about radio, its somewhat confusing but you make it much easier and its quite a fun hobby. Hopefully we won't need it in an apocalypse scenario but it will be useful either way and of course we should be prepared to weather any storms. Ill be setup for Ghostnet this week.
Hey S2, I'd like to join the HF community, but it's so full of... old fudds that share not a single goal with me. what do you recommend for younger people like us to get started? I'm interested in unconventional radio experimentations.
Hey I'm an older guy. 64, and I agree. Too many old fudds are in the ham radio clubs to make it much fun. Sitting around drinking sodas and scanning radio bands aren't interesting to me, let's get outside and play with the radios in real life.
Just do it.
The old fudds will leave this rock one day, dont let them stop you learning something new that will benefit in the long run. And all they talk about is their prostate, the weather, antennas and how bad us newcomers are.
Meh- im new, and care not for the old fudds- they may be a wealth of information- but only if they stop talking about themsleves for 5 minutes
Don't let a bunch of cranky old men hold you back from doing something that you want to do. They have ZERO control over whether you operate or not. If you don't want to, you don't have to interface with them on any level. Do your own thing, make your own space, blaze your own trail.
I promise there’s more of us non-fuddie duddies on HF than you may think. Be loud. Be the change we need in the radio community. Do all the digital modes. No chat about your prostate. Join uuuussss!
FCC regulations are no different from gun registry. They want to know who is talking and control who is allowed too. Assigned call signs are done to make is easy to identify you for the gouvernment.
Poor baby. Whine harder!
@@cmerton That's not a good response. I can insult you too, but why would I do that?
Encryption of text can be done using software like GPG, then sent on most data modes. Illegal under normal circumstances but technically possible.
One thing that came to mind is **using EME / moon bounce** as part of our normal PACE comms plan. Someone I know made voice contacts Alaska - Wyoming on one watt with a Baofeng
Clarification: EXTREMELY ERRATIC MOBILITY is a defense. Mobility alone just means you moving to an ambush.
Man, you are a wealth of information. I am gearing up to get into HAM, but I find it a little daunting on what equipment to buy and where to start. I'll figure it out...
I'm thinking IR protection would be a serious consideration if one wants to avoid detection, along with sigsec, opsec, camo, etc.
He did a video about that 2 months ago. Good stuff!
Been discussed in previous videos.
You really did a good job on this video. Warlord must P.T. hump radio and gear, must PT. boy that made me flinch because I'm the fat guy in the rear with the gear. I did a scanner for awhile then our county changed to digital, so buy more stuff. Thanks for the video.
I think you make a good point - make the comms fit the need, not just have comms and think it will be appropriate to what needs to get done.
S2 UNDERGROUND - this is great material. Perhaps a join option to keep you funded doing your work?
I feel like s2 underground is nutnfancy in disguise
Nah, S2 is way more refined and straight to the point. Nutn will post a 4 hour video on something that can be covered in 20 min. 😂
Best of the best. Thank you!
One question that is on all levels of the ham radio license tests is "In an emergency. What forms of communication are legal to use". Paraphrased. The answer is any form of radio communication.
"if no other means are available and human life is in danger"- some guy recently paid $34,000 for violating the rules.
Another amazing video. Got a sdr scanner and am looking at hf radios now.
Hyoithetically RTTY with one time pads would work great; however, dont do it because encryption is illegal on the ham bands
I agree 100%. But when SHTF then all bets are off. And it's why I've been practing OTP and trying to wrap my brain around RTTY and my 7300. I'm relatively new to ham. Got my tech and general this spring but I've been full tilt with HT's, DMR and HF.
Good luck out there Amigo.
Edit: I find DMR kinda boring, almost cheating lol.
How would RTTY work with a OTP? If one character is missed, the key would start to fail unless I'm missing something.
Too bad they wouldnt know what is being transmitted or where to look... within reason ofcourse
@@robertstephens1599 repeat message 3x for confirmation, we need to pioneer ways forward on this stuff rather than waiting for someone to do it for us like lazy shits
@@elconquistador932 im required to say "encryption illegal" on the internet, and digital like DMR is great because those often have encryption built in, like the anytone 878 with AES256 and it only costs $220 making it affordable to have muiltiple people in your team buy. i also have considered, if a feng u-vr5 can be used with ATAK, then why not an 878 on digital mode which has the possibility for encryption already loaded into it?
WOW I need to get a radio. I didn't know about all this stuff, and the things it lets you do seem pretty amazing. Especially the picture transmitting and just the thought of being able to send things out
I love this stuff!
Thanks for these very helpful updates.