good info on FRS and GMRS - variety of sources
FRS and GMRS information (from a variety of sources) --- GMRS and FRS are UHF (fm) GMRS = general mobile radio service; FRS = family radio service Any individual in the United States who is at least...
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ComSec is a tricky #%@!% and they have stuff now that makes it pretty damn hard to make comms without bringing down the rain so whatever you do you'd better have it all worked out, pop up, make your...
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Last thing. Don't make comms more than once every 24 hours and never from the same spot. Stay five to ten klicks away from your patrol base when making your shot. Have everything ready to go so that...
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Hibernianson wrote: Don't do it. Or you'll walk into an ambush they've set up for you. And for your listening pleasure here's what a modern ambush sounds like:...
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Oh hell... Here's this one too.... http://www.soundsofswc.co...5_What_Ya_Gonna_Do_PL.mp3 WHAT YA GONNA DO PL...? http://www.soundsofswc.com/Sos.html Cheers- Irish
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For us grunts out here, it's do-able? Right? So would you take the directional wire antenna and hook it up in some fashion to the antenna jack in a Motorola? If so, would the receiving unit only need...
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I don't think any terrorist unit is going to have anything weighing 2000 pounds to drop on you, or a way to deliver it, but I'll say again that I don't any big trick for them to smuggle in mortors. I...
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Here's what I am going to do: I'm going to go to this URL http://en.wikipedia.org/w...ernational_Morse_Code.svg and I am going to print out the Morse code cheat sheet. Then, I'm gonna laminate it and...
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Ok, I will weigh in here. Yes, you can make a very directional antenna. It is much easier at the higher frequencies since the elements are much smaller. We use these types of antennas for moon bounce...
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klick and others - there are antenna radiation pattern diagrams available for (most) common antenna types and designs. Beam width is how wide the radiation is --- more narrow would be more directional...
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Would there be some way of using a disk as an antenna?
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Klick wrote: I don't think any terrorist unit is going to have anything weighing 2000 pounds to drop on you, or a way to deliver it, but I'll say again that I don't any big trick for them to smuggle...
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Radio Shack used to make the PRO34 which was a scanner that was about the size of a small walkie talkie and would cover Tactical FM on up to cell phone and cordless phone ranges. They don't sell them...
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This is good. Even though the hordes aren't here and directional communications aren't nessessary, knowing this can be done in the civilian world is important. This puts another tool in the toolbox. I...
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Oh I agree, over training, and training outside the box is the way to go. I know where yer coming from Irish, I just wanted to clear it for others that you don't (or one does not) want to forsake...
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It might not be that hard Klick. You want a radio that will transmit at a high frequency, partly to make the antenna as small as possible. If you use a can type antenna you can make it really...
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Klick wrote: .Panther I know you are joking about the 2000 pounder, but just for the record we want to keep it clear that we don't fear our own armed forces, nor do we plan to, or would we engage in...
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Great topic, I'm writing up a comm study for my group and I've gotten stuck on the radio comm part since I'm a noob in that area. At this point, I'm just trying to provide some fairly low cost options...
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Nice article. You can encrypt chat by using Pidgin as your chat client (works with any provider. I use Pidgin with Yahoo, AOL, and Google chat- all at once), and adding an asymmetrical, public/private...
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Cool, thx for the info...I'll add that to my next revision...once I get the radio comm part figured out and complete
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Also free, open-source public/private key encryption software is available at http://www.gnupg.org/. If you're not a computer whiz, you can download an already compiled version at...
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