Communications for 3 years now
 
ButlerCountyOUM 
Platoon Commander 
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Member # 26 

posted 11-27-2002 06:44      

for 3 years now, or more, there have been MANY MANY people 
working together to educate, equip, train, and coordinate 
'patriot commo'.....

we're out of time folks.

if you don't have it now, you better get REALLY BUSY....

i am ASSUMING (and we know what that means) that 'small group' 
commo is a done deal.
if your part of a group, and you can't talk to each other yet, 
you are WAY BEHIND the power curve.

if you and your friends, can't talk to other friends in your 
area, YOU BETTER GET BUSY.

if you don't at least have a shortwave receiver, capable of 
receiving SSB and CW, well, guess what, it's getting close to 
Tammuz day, and there are lots of them available at your local 
radio shack, for less than what you might pay for a case of 
ammo.

if you think that the internet, or ANYTHING associated with a 
computer is a good PRIMARY or SECONDARY means of 
communications, you are WOEFULLY MISINFORMED.

ASSUME the following:

everything on the internet is being captured, using something 
similar to TCPDUMP, being reconstructed into 'threads' and 
getting fed through a 'filter'. when you get enough 'key 
words' put together, the 'filter' spits out your 'captured 
packets' and an analyst decides if today is your lucky day or 
not.

lets see, will it be Child Protective services this week? or 
will it be a Zoneing issue?
or maybe, just a little 'call' that you were seen driving over 
the little yellow line, and you may be signal 11. (er, dui), 
or will it be a BATF raid.
does it really matter?

oh, yeah, the phone. yeah, the one that suddenly doesn't work 
when you need it most. including the cellphone. yep, if you 
are gonna get raided, most likely, your landline phone, and 
your cellphone will not be operational.

COMPUTER SECURITY IS A MYTH.

YOUR PHONE IS BEING MONITORED.

I wish you all a Happy Thanksgiving, please spend time with 
your loved ones. and please help someone in need.

and for those that celebrate Tammuz day, I'm sorry, but at 
least try to spend some time in prayer.

/rick out.




Okay,
Im uninformed. What can i get ASAP from a local store like 
radio shack as you mentioned? I have no knowledge in commo. 
What can i get that doesn't require a lisance?


 

Radio's are the only form of long distance communication that 
does not rely on a "middleman". Think about it, your cell 
phones probably go through 4 or 5 (if not more) differant 
redirectors and till it gets to the other person on the line, 
the internet probably goes through hundreds.

Heres a site that has alot of choices 
http://www.universal-radio.com/catalog/index2.html

rick can you break down what frequency ranges we should be 
shopping for in Hz and Mhz, so we know what to ask for?




look here, you will find most of the info you need:
http://www.awrm.org/ubb/ultimatebb.php?ubb=get_topic;f=19;t=000026




 NATIONAL NETWORK 
 F-1__3.860-LSB-Nightime Monitor / Eastern Regional Patriot 
 Net_Meets Nightly @ 01:00 hour 
 F-2__7.238-LSB-Net-Alternate
 F-3_10.145-NPS Digital/Packett Net
 F-4_14.340-USB-Daytime Monitor 
 F-5_18.140-USB-Daytime Monitor 
 F-6_27.555-Daytime Monitor/DX Initial Contact
 F-7_28.333-USB-ConSigCor

 LOCAL/REGIONAL INITIAL CONTACT FREQS:
 _26.160-LSB Low Call Initial Contact
 -27.385-LSB Initial Contact
 _27.500-LSB Monitor Freq.
 _53.085-LSB
 146.485-Simplex
 146.520-Sideband/Simplex 
 147.555-Simplex-Initial Contact






Dang Good Post ButlerCountyOUM  Unfortunately many will STILL 
NOT head you advice. For some (not I) it is easy to see the 
Net as viable form of communications. It works great when 
nothing is happening, however WTSHTF nothing works. As they 
say when you go shopping for some of the best deals, "cut out 
the middleman!" Same goes for comms. The more links that there 
are the weaker the chain is  73! 


   

OK, you've convinced me.

I'll go shopping to see what I can afford.
Very limited funds available, but will save.

If I could only get one piece at a time, what would you 
recommend as the FIRST thing to get?
Second, third, etc in order of usefulness. What about to pick 
up the 80m discussed on another thread?

Magnum  

First thing is get a simple shortwave receiver and if you can 
afford it a wide band receiver that can serve as a polce 
scanner as well. 



http://www.universal-radio.com/catalog/widerxvr/2488.html

The Icom R2 WIDEBAND receiver. It has a frequency range of 495 
kHz to 1309.9 MHz and has 400 channels of memory. Its a 
shortwave radio, AM/FM radio and police scanner all in one and 
its on sale for $150!  

The only thing I wonder it how it would stand up (shortwave 
receiving quality wise) to the Sangean or Grundig $100-$130 
shortwave receivers, when using the option antenna adapter and 
a telescoping antenna...not the rubber ducky.

Anyone got any input?

  

To answer some of the above questions.

First...Buy a handheld scanner with at least 100 channels to 
monitor local conditions.

2nd...Get a shortwave receiver with Sideband for long range 
receive.

3rd...GMRS for all team members.

4th...Mobile sideband cb for local commo.

Everyone take a minute and read the Tactical Comm: Team and 
Squad Bulletin in this forum.



 quote:

 The Yaesu VR-500 is like having a miniature monitoring 
 station in the palm of your hand. The VR-500 is the first to 
 provide wideband coverage plus single sideband capability in 
 such a small and capable package. Coverage is from 100 kHz 
 to 1300 MHz (1.3 GHz) less cellular, in AM, FM-N, FM-W, LSB, 
 USB and CW. You get 1000 regular memories (10x100) plus 10 
 search band memories, 19 starting point memories, 10 weather 
 memories, 10 dual watch memories and 1 priority memory! You 
 get tuning steps from 50 Hz to 100 kHz.


it says its only $220 after you sue a coupon....although Im 
not sure where you get this coupon I'll have to check out the 
site better.