It seems like people forget that even special forces still use things like duct tape and zip ties. In a life threatening situation, nobody cares how Gucci your gear is so long as it works.
Truth: Zip ties, Hair Ties, O Rings, Duct Tape, the List goes on you'd be surprised how many trivial items can make a massive difference in streamlining your kit and keeping it well organized and professional
You got me at LARPing and projects in the garage. The reason I bought my Bao Feng UV-5R is because I’m just getting into the craft of radio operations and I don’t know a lot or even if I’m ever going to use it in a conflict situation (hopefully not) but once I get better with the radio and a much better understanding I will upgrade to something better. Until then I’m using the Bao Fang is a good beginners radio.
"You got me at LARPing and projects in the garage:... lmao. Right? I find myself in similar shoes, but have two UV-82HPs instead, and a manual I need to study for my HAM ticket. I know nothing.
Many people can afford a $50 CND radio, but not too many can afford a $1000 set up. We all have our budgets. I am not going to war, nor do I have a team, just want something better than a Walmart special for hikes in the woods. Thanks for this video.
"Everyone has budgets". Duh...of course they do. Do we really need to pretend like people dont know that? In anticipation of where this can go: many "preppers" have a safe full of useless or redundant weapons, 3 or 4 plate carriers etc. Theyre "collectors" in practice. And they complain about the price of night vision, or good comms.
NC Scout has published a book titled "The Guerrillas Guide to the Baofeng radio" . It is chock full of TTPs including digital burst on FT8, field expedient antennas and so much more. I highly recommend it for anyone that owns one of these lowly, unappreciated radios.
Bought that book a couple weeks ago after seeing someone else mention it on youtube. I bought a couple baofengs just to have in case of hurricanes, civil unrest, or some scenario where cell service limited my communications between me and my family. Didn't realize the rabbit hole I was about to go down lol
On point, I still hold that an analog radio is an analog radio. An XTS5000 in analog mode is just a really expensive complicated baofeng. Dudes were running bubble pack gmrs radios on convoys in Iraq, that way everyone could talk. The reality,, if you can have most of your dudes outfit with basic radios, and then have fancier radios for more important stuff, all of this becomes much more powerful.
Brotha....good to see content like this on RUclips. I served proudly as a 25U in the United States Army signal Corps and lemme tell ya, not day goes by that I don't miss that world! My last duty station was Fort Irwin... and it's going to sound strange but besides Germany, the National Training Center at Irwin was golden. 90% of my job, for 18 days out of the month consisted of pulling retrans (the other 10% was comsec custodian for my unit)on all of the mountaintops in those grids and nothing beats waking up at the crack ass of dawn at an elevation of 4, 5 and 6,000 ft and work my equipment. I still reside out here in the desert just outside of Twentynine Palms so I figure I'm pretty close, and while I have dozens of questions my main question: I was paying attention when you touched on obtaining the technician's license and was wondering if you provide any exam services where one can come to your location to test out for a technician, General or extra? Please keep this channel alive and please keep the content coming and most importantl....i am most definitely not trying to insulting your intelligence with knowledge you already know... I'm sure you know that RUclips can be accessed all over the world including the darkest corners of this planet where people are planning new ways to get to us (we seem to have an Administration that wants to help them realize it) and you definitely want to be vigilant when it comes to content concerning comsec.
The best thing about Baofengs is they're so cheap to get into and allow you to do a whole lot to gauge your interest level. Want to make a DIY repeater? Cheap and easy. Want to get radios for the whole family? Cheap and easy. Silly regulatory bodies changing the rules on you? Key combo. A barebones UV5-R is cheaper than lunch with a friend or a box of 9mm. No reason NOT to have one.
Outfitted our group with around 20 Baofengs 888 about five or six years ago. True we have been careful with them but none have had any problems in that time
The UV-5R is a great tool for someone to get into amateur radio on a budget, especially if they live close enough to a 2 meter and/or 70 cm repeater they can access it with a handheld. Even though the FCC has cracked down on them being able to transmit outside of the amateur radio bands they can still be unlocked to transmit on the entire range of frequencies they can receive. The UV-5R has become the go to radio for people who attend large scale paintball and airsoft games. It ran reach farther than blister pack FRS radios and at $30 it is at a price point that if one gets lost or damaged the replacement cost is easy to swallow. If you want to run license by rule frequencies so you don’t have to worry about needing a license from the FCC you can run FRS or MURS frequencies. Sure it might not be allowed by the FCC rules, but they don’t have the resources to enforce them. Plus if they do get enough complaints and reports to investigate people using the radios out of band the offending parties will be long gone by the time someone from the FCC shows up.
Thanks for the info drop. The uv-5r is an entry kit for me. Up til now, I've always been issued a radio. Two things helped with my choice 1, a plethora of positive reviews and 2, price point for complete kit (the dang molle pouch cost more than the entire kit). Press on.
I’m heavily invested in scanners and I don’t own many ham handhelds. In a SHTF situation if I have a choice between a baofeng and no radio then I’m going to pack a boafeng and probably chuck in one of my scanners. I’ll probably be more reliant on my scanners because thats how I know how to get information.
We used ICOM radios which are basically comparable to the Baofeng UV-5R in our Combat operations in the Armored Cavalry in Iraq. We liked them and they did the job, but many of us opted for the ear piece & some had throat mikes for whispering mode. They were excellent for person to person comms when we were dismounted.
Excellent video. Thanks for sharing this. If it wasn't for seeing these inexpensive little two way transceivers, while randomly browsing the internet, I would know absolutely nothing about two way transceivers, HAM's, propagation, range, interference, repeaters and tones/off-sets, etc - period. Instead, I bought a few of these and have been learning about radio communications ever since. I have enough UV5R's to build my own portable repeater, plus another pair...very inexpensively. They were about $35.00 Canadian apiece when I bought them. The other options, I guess, are several hundred dollars to achieve a very similar/identical task with a different brand/higher quality radio. I'll upgrade if I ever decide to go pro!! Until then, these little UHF/VHF radios are perfect for me.
The best place for the UV-5R is generally best for buying in bulk to pass out to your buddies who wouldn't listen to you about comms. I got 10 of them slightly used for $80 I'll probably never need a fancy good radio for my purposes. I'm no warrior.
I have 3 with signal stuff signal stick antennas and I left them with my parents in South America they are awesome and being able to unlock them for Marine frequencies is a plus . I also have the Yeasu ftd5r and pico APRS vs and sometimes I just find them to complicated and I find my self enjoy a UV5R for its simplicity and all band transmission a lot more
If you haven’t already done it, you probably would benefit from doing a video on electronic warfare, direction finding, communications windows, decreasing electronic signature, and other related topics.
Great video dude. You made a lot of great points in this video. And the baofeng is a decent radio. So yeah I say get one and you can always upgrade once you know what you are doing. I have a bunch of baofengs both the dual band versions and the tri band versions as well.
@@soundsnags2001 me personally I am still use a baofeng. But some options would be something from yeaus ft-60r or ft-70d. OR maybe an icom ic-v86, Ic-T8A, ID-52. Then there is the Kenwood TH-D7A if you are in APRS. or anytone makes some nice radios.
I bought a Discus so I could connect my phone to my AMPs while I cut the grass. It worked ok but then I got the new Air Pods and the noise cancelling on those is fantastic so now I just use those and I look like less of a dork.
If you're going up against someone that has good enough technology and tactics to find your frequencies and/or physical location from analog use, couldn't they also likely know how to decrypt your AES message? I've never gone on a "fox hunt" before, but isn't it still pretty difficult to find the source signal if it is being used infrequently?
Yes it’s quite difficult to locate the source of an intermittent transmitter. It is likely not feasible for any entity (including nation state actors) to decrypt AES-256 at this time. The algorithm is designed in such a way that it would take approximately 3*10^61 years to decrypt through brute force methodologies. That is trillions of years many times over. This is not an exaggeration.
👀 Came here to watch a video of a UV5R getting dropped into a trash can. J/k, I know that they definitely have an important place as a beginner's radio. But it should be a stepping stone into a better radio-the radio you will actually use when you need it. When that time comes, you don't want to be dusting off the ol' baofeng because teotwatki days just went live🤣 Get the hang of things with your baofeng, but save a couple hundred bucks up for a radio you can actually rely on, then actually buy the fuckin thing instead of the latest kel-tec. Yeah, I know their shit is cool, but so is comms that works well and sounds good. Huh. I just realized that baofengs are like kel-tecs. They have their place, but they're more of a range toy than a piece of lifesaving equipment🤔
@@blackfam972 the GMRS frequencies overlap with the FRS frequencies anyway. The FCC also doesn’t have the manpower to monitor all frequencies all over the US all the time. You have a better chance being a single ticket winner in the mega millions or power ball lottery than getting a letter from the FCC asking you to stay off GMRS without a license.
I think an SDR is a great tool to build situational awareness about your environment. Every tool has its place. It’s best employed with personnel oriented towards the goal of collection to feed an information processing apparatus or team who can then appropriately task subordinates based on this information.
i used to wear baseball caps. after a few months i put one on and looked in the mirror and thought "OMFG what was i ever thinking" they look ridiculous
It's primarily a matter of playing by the rules and not playing by the rules. Most UV5R users are not playing by the rules. They are using them in the USA in a capacity that isn't "legal" and they ignore all the reasons why that's the case. It's radio entitlement syndrome and it ignores all the very valid reason why the radios pretty much suck beyond price point. It allows people to use a device on bands that the power and antenna was never meant to be used on in regulated bands that are "suppose" to ensure that EVERYONE has the ability to use their respective privileges without interfering with anyone else. It was never about "government control" or any other nonsense people want to pretend it's about. It was ALWAYS about ensuring clear communications between cooperating stations without interference from people that didn't know how ,or why their actions were the cause of said interference. It's regulated to keep ignorance from competing with intelligence, but as per usual, ignorance always want' to double down on ignorance,
@@MunitionsDudTester More like cooperation flavor. If it weren't for clowns abusing the band plan we wouldn't need to have the goverment involved. Besides that, looking at your profile pic you probably shouldn't be commenting on boot flavor as you appear to be served it daily.
I’ve come to the same conclusion another option would be xts2500 &efjohnson 5100 but you need keyloaders & software overall not worth it for the average guy IMHO
@@BobBob-il2ku I had a hardcore radio phase where I would pretty much come home from work and study radios for a couple months, and I still struggled to understand how to program xts models. Anytone was so easy it only took me about a day to do. Ive bricked one due to water exposure though, so I need to find a way to waterproof it lol
@@MojaveRepeater so tactical situations IE military operations in which the military already has radios you use? I’m confused about this video. What tactical situations occur where you’re outfitting yourself with a radio?
I specifically reference the ongoing conflict in Ukraine during the video. That is a real world scenario, where normal people were forced into a situation where they had to employ radios. Watch the video.
Better to use the AR-152 for tactical environment, it is a replica of the PRC-152 military radio, and is more rugged and water resistant, at least it won't fail if it gets wet or muddy. Also, as far as security, there are some analog radios that have voice inversion scrambling, with this enabled, if someone is listening in they will not be able to tell what anyone is saying and it will just sound garbled on their end, but it will sound normal for others in your group that have the scrambling also. Also, many of these radios have different scrambling modes sort of like having different encryption keys which will manipulate the audio in different ways so you can change the modes periodically in case it gets compromised.
The AR-152 is a low quality radio, which I would also be very skeptical of trusting anything important to. Voice inversion, tones, or other scrambling techniques are not equivalent to encryption. These methods can be demodulated instantly (in real time) with very low tech signal collection gear such as an SDR and the right software. Changing the tone or scrambling technique on an analog channel will not prevent a capable opponent from listening to you, it will only serve to slow you down
sorry brother but spending money on encrypted radios for civilians is a waste of money. the average baofeng radio transmits with more than double the power of our old prc 77 and squad radios and are plenty capable for civilian use. encrypted radios would just give civilians a false sense of security and get them killed faster lol
It seems like people forget that even special forces still use things like duct tape and zip ties. In a life threatening situation, nobody cares how Gucci your gear is so long as it works.
Truth: Zip ties, Hair Ties, O Rings, Duct Tape, the List goes on you'd be surprised how many trivial items can make a massive difference in streamlining your kit and keeping it well organized and professional
Flattened roll of 1" snipe, hairbands and reusable cableties are gold in many situations.
You got me at LARPing and projects in the garage. The reason I bought my Bao Feng UV-5R is because I’m just getting into the craft of radio operations and I don’t know a lot or even if I’m ever going to use it in a conflict situation (hopefully not) but once I get better with the radio and a much better understanding I will upgrade to something better. Until then I’m using the Bao Fang is a good beginners radio.
"You got me at LARPing and projects in the garage:... lmao. Right? I find myself in similar shoes, but have two UV-82HPs instead, and a manual I need to study for my HAM ticket. I know nothing.
Many people can afford a $50 CND radio, but not too many can afford a $1000 set up. We all have our budgets. I am not going to war, nor do I have a team, just want something better than a Walmart special for hikes in the woods. Thanks for this video.
"Everyone has budgets".
Duh...of course they do. Do we really need to pretend like people dont know that?
In anticipation of where this can go: many "preppers" have a safe full of useless or redundant weapons, 3 or 4 plate carriers etc. Theyre "collectors" in practice.
And they complain about the price of night vision, or good comms.
NC Scout has published a book titled "The Guerrillas Guide to the Baofeng radio" . It is chock full of TTPs including digital burst on FT8, field expedient antennas and so much more. I highly recommend it for anyone that owns one of these lowly, unappreciated radios.
Bought that book a couple weeks ago after seeing someone else mention it on youtube. I bought a couple baofengs just to have in case of hurricanes, civil unrest, or some scenario where cell service limited my communications between me and my family. Didn't realize the rabbit hole I was about to go down lol
I saw that book recently advertised and now I know it's worthwhile and I should get a copy!
On point, I still hold that an analog radio is an analog radio. An XTS5000 in analog mode is just a really expensive complicated baofeng. Dudes were running bubble pack gmrs radios on convoys in Iraq, that way everyone could talk.
The reality,, if you can have most of your dudes outfit with basic radios, and then have fancier radios for more important stuff, all of this becomes much more powerful.
When I was deployed to Iraq back in 2005 we used CB radios in our trucks so we could talk to each other while on convoy missions.
Brotha....good to see content like this on RUclips. I served proudly as a 25U in the United States Army signal Corps and lemme tell ya, not day goes by that I don't miss that world! My last duty station was Fort Irwin... and it's going to sound strange but besides Germany, the National Training Center at Irwin was golden. 90% of my job, for 18 days out of the month consisted of pulling retrans (the other 10% was comsec custodian for my unit)on all of the mountaintops in those grids and nothing beats waking up at the crack ass of dawn at an elevation of 4, 5 and 6,000 ft and work my equipment. I still reside out here in the desert just outside of Twentynine Palms so I figure I'm pretty close, and while I have dozens of questions my main question: I was paying attention when you touched on obtaining the technician's license and was wondering if you provide any exam services where one can come to your location to test out for a technician, General or extra?
Please keep this channel alive and please keep the content coming and most importantl....i am most definitely not trying to insulting your intelligence with knowledge you already know... I'm sure you know that RUclips can be accessed all over the world including the darkest corners of this planet where people are planning new ways to get to us (we seem to have an Administration that wants to help them realize it) and you definitely want to be vigilant when it comes to content concerning comsec.
The best thing about Baofengs is they're so cheap to get into and allow you to do a whole lot to gauge your interest level. Want to make a DIY repeater? Cheap and easy. Want to get radios for the whole family? Cheap and easy. Silly regulatory bodies changing the rules on you? Key combo. A barebones UV5-R is cheaper than lunch with a friend or a box of 9mm. No reason NOT to have one.
Outfitted our group with around 20 Baofengs 888 about five or six years ago. True we have been careful with them but none have had any problems in that time
The UV-5R is a great tool for someone to get into amateur radio on a budget, especially if they live close enough to a 2 meter and/or 70 cm repeater they can access it with a handheld.
Even though the FCC has cracked down on them being able to transmit outside of the amateur radio bands they can still be unlocked to transmit on the entire range of frequencies they can receive. The UV-5R has become the go to radio for people who attend large scale paintball and airsoft games. It ran reach farther than blister pack FRS radios and at $30 it is at a price point that if one gets lost or damaged the replacement cost is easy to swallow. If you want to run license by rule frequencies so you don’t have to worry about needing a license from the FCC you can run FRS or MURS frequencies. Sure it might not be allowed by the FCC rules, but they don’t have the resources to enforce them. Plus if they do get enough complaints and reports to investigate people using the radios out of band the offending parties will be long gone by the time someone from the FCC shows up.
Thanks for the info drop. The uv-5r is an entry kit for me. Up til now, I've always been issued a radio. Two things helped with my choice 1, a plethora of positive reviews and 2, price point for complete kit (the dang molle pouch cost more than the entire kit). Press on.
I’m heavily invested in scanners and I don’t own many ham handhelds. In a SHTF situation if I have a choice between a baofeng and no radio then I’m going to pack a boafeng and probably chuck in one of my scanners. I’ll probably be more reliant on my scanners because thats how I know how to get information.
Sound argument. Something to think about as I'm new to the comms side of things.
Sunday morning greetings from Reno, Nevada.
We used ICOM radios which are basically comparable to the Baofeng UV-5R in our Combat operations in the Armored Cavalry in Iraq. We liked them and they did the job, but many of us opted for the ear piece & some had throat mikes for whispering mode. They were excellent for person to person comms when we were dismounted.
Excellent video. Thanks for sharing this. If it wasn't for seeing these inexpensive little two way transceivers, while randomly browsing the internet, I would know absolutely nothing about two way transceivers, HAM's, propagation, range, interference, repeaters and tones/off-sets, etc - period. Instead, I bought a few of these and have been learning about radio communications ever since. I have enough UV5R's to build my own portable repeater, plus another pair...very inexpensively. They were about $35.00 Canadian apiece when I bought them. The other options, I guess, are several hundred dollars to achieve a very similar/identical task with a different brand/higher quality radio. I'll upgrade if I ever decide to go pro!! Until then, these little UHF/VHF radios are perfect for me.
The best place for the UV-5R is generally best for buying in bulk to pass out to your buddies who wouldn't listen to you about comms. I got 10 of them slightly used for $80
I'll probably never need a fancy good radio for my purposes. I'm no warrior.
No one does Garand Thumb better than Garand Thumb. You need your own opener and vibe. Other than that, good info.
Solid video! Looking forward to more!!
I have 3 with signal stuff signal stick antennas and I left them with my parents in South America they are awesome and being able to unlock them for Marine frequencies is a plus . I also have the Yeasu ftd5r and pico APRS vs and sometimes I just find them to complicated and I find my self enjoy a UV5R for its simplicity and all band transmission a lot more
Another great video my friend 👏
If you haven’t already done it, you probably would benefit from doing a video on electronic warfare, direction finding, communications windows, decreasing electronic signature, and other related topics.
Great video dude. You made a lot of great points in this video. And the baofeng is a decent radio. So yeah I say get one and you can always upgrade once you know what you are doing. I have a bunch of baofengs both the dual band versions and the tri band versions as well.
What did you upgrade to?
@@soundsnags2001 me personally I am still use a baofeng. But some options would be something from yeaus ft-60r or ft-70d. OR maybe an icom ic-v86, Ic-T8A, ID-52. Then there is the Kenwood TH-D7A if you are in APRS. or anytone makes some nice radios.
Just little bit of info, radio equipment just wont matter if youre blaring and spewing radio waves from same set of locations...
Great find on this channel
I love your approach.
I’m a happy new subscriber!
Stay happy healthy and fluid
My friend
I’ve been prepping my entire life and haven’t gotten any missions yet 😔
Solid info, thanks
Hmm, I like this message
Great video!
Dude, you need a comms podcast
I'm waiting on my Battlefang UV5RH to be delivered....
Risky sent me here. 👍
The only problem i have with baoefeng is finding a reliable place to buy them(safely).
Great video man!
Thanks dude!
I mean as they say! All the if's and's or buts are MET-TC dependent.....
I bought a Discus so I could connect my phone to my AMPs while I cut the grass. It worked ok but then I got the new Air Pods and the noise cancelling on those is fantastic so now I just use those and I look like less of a dork.
If you're going up against someone that has good enough technology and tactics to find your frequencies and/or physical location from analog use, couldn't they also likely know how to decrypt your AES message? I've never gone on a "fox hunt" before, but isn't it still pretty difficult to find the source signal if it is being used infrequently?
Yes it’s quite difficult to locate the source of an intermittent transmitter. It is likely not feasible for any entity (including nation state actors) to decrypt AES-256 at this time. The algorithm is designed in such a way that it would take approximately 3*10^61 years to decrypt through brute force methodologies. That is trillions of years many times over. This is not an exaggeration.
@@MojaveRepeater Which radio do you recommend for that type of encryption?
Hytera HP782
Thank you.
Solid video man !
👀 Came here to watch a video of a UV5R getting dropped into a trash can.
J/k, I know that they definitely have an important place as a beginner's radio. But it should be a stepping stone into a better radio-the radio you will actually use when you need it. When that time comes, you don't want to be dusting off the ol' baofeng because teotwatki days just went live🤣
Get the hang of things with your baofeng, but save a couple hundred bucks up for a radio you can actually rely on, then actually buy the fuckin thing instead of the latest kel-tec. Yeah, I know their shit is cool, but so is comms that works well and sounds good. Huh. I just realized that baofengs are like kel-tecs. They have their place, but they're more of a range toy than a piece of lifesaving equipment🤔
Well said.
Good info, Alex. Letting the hair grow out a tad too?
Well said!
* chuckles in MANET *
"The Guerrilla's Guide to the Baofeng Radio" by NC Scout. Beware of imitations.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 "Don't worry buddy, you're safe from the ATF"
Pearl clutchers & Dogma zealots, a tale as old as time.
Peltors in the garage is a regular occurrence
Old school basics. The only secure comms is F2F Messenger lol
there are many languages and you decided to speak with the truth
Thanks!
I have fun with my UV5R using it on GMRS. How does that make you feel?
I’m glad you have fun with your radios on GMRS! If that’s what you’re after I’m just glad you’re enjoying it
@@MojaveRepeater enjoying it without a license
@@blackfam972 the GMRS frequencies overlap with the FRS frequencies anyway. The FCC also doesn’t have the manpower to monitor all frequencies all over the US all the time. You have a better chance being a single ticket winner in the mega millions or power ball lottery than getting a letter from the FCC asking you to stay off GMRS without a license.
@@DarkShadowCustoms no shit but I'm trying to trigger ham nerds.
Hey, what do you think of running this with SIGINT specificities in mind, paired with an SDR per se?
I think an SDR is a great tool to build situational awareness about your environment. Every tool has its place. It’s best employed with personnel oriented towards the goal of collection to feed an information processing apparatus or team who can then appropriately task subordinates based on this information.
i used to wear baseball caps. after a few months i put one on and looked in the mirror and thought "OMFG what was i ever thinking" they look ridiculous
👏
But what other radio has a purple screen 😭
Leave it to a marine to be tactful and put the cranky perps arguing on the internet in their places. 🤙🏼kill✌🏼
Semper Fi dude 🤘
Does chirp have any way to encrypt these things? Anyway to achieve aes 256?
No
It's primarily a matter of playing by the rules and not playing by the rules. Most UV5R users are not playing by the rules. They are using them in the USA in a capacity that isn't "legal" and they ignore all the reasons why that's the case. It's radio entitlement syndrome and it ignores all the very valid reason why the radios pretty much suck beyond price point.
It allows people to use a device on bands that the power and antenna was never meant to be used on in regulated bands that are "suppose" to ensure that EVERYONE has the ability to use their respective privileges without interfering with anyone else. It was never about "government control" or any other nonsense people want to pretend it's about.
It was ALWAYS about ensuring clear communications between cooperating stations without interference from people that didn't know how ,or why their actions were the cause of said interference. It's regulated to keep ignorance from competing with intelligence, but as per usual, ignorance always want' to double down on ignorance,
Mmmm, boot flavor. My favorite.
@@MunitionsDudTester More like cooperation flavor. If it weren't for clowns abusing the band plan we wouldn't need to have the goverment involved. Besides that, looking at your profile pic you probably shouldn't be commenting on boot flavor as you appear to be served it daily.
@@MunitionsDudTester He had a valid point. Fuck you.
Digital or analog???
UV5R or UV82
buy a UV5R, get familiar, then buy a anytone 878. Just as easy to program, but a much better radio with AES encryption.
I’ve come to the same conclusion another option would be xts2500 &efjohnson 5100 but you need keyloaders & software overall not worth it for the average guy IMHO
@@BobBob-il2ku I had a hardcore radio phase where I would pretty much come home from work and study radios for a couple months, and I still struggled to understand how to program xts models. Anytone was so easy it only took me about a day to do. Ive bricked one due to water exposure though, so I need to find a way to waterproof it lol
Not a bad next step, but don't let that be where your training and education about radios ends! There is more out there
I would like to know what tactical environment you all are talking about? Thanks.
Well I specifically referenced this radios employment during the ongoing conflict in Ukraine if you watched the video you wouldn’t have had to ask
What exactly is a “tactical” situation in real life though?
Referring to my military experience my friend.
@@MojaveRepeater so tactical situations IE military operations in which the military already has radios you use? I’m confused about this video. What tactical situations occur where you’re outfitting yourself with a radio?
I specifically reference the ongoing conflict in Ukraine during the video. That is a real world scenario, where normal people were forced into a situation where they had to employ radios. Watch the video.
@@MojaveRepeaterIts not like the past 30 years dont have a new shitshow popping off every year or so in some part of the world.
Better to use the AR-152 for tactical environment, it is a replica of the PRC-152 military radio, and is more rugged and water resistant, at least it won't fail if it gets wet or muddy. Also, as far as security, there are some analog radios that have voice inversion scrambling, with this enabled, if someone is listening in they will not be able to tell what anyone is saying and it will just sound garbled on their end, but it will sound normal for others in your group that have the scrambling also. Also, many of these radios have different scrambling modes sort of like having different encryption keys which will manipulate the audio in different ways so you can change the modes periodically in case it gets compromised.
The AR-152 is a low quality radio, which I would also be very skeptical of trusting anything important to. Voice inversion, tones, or other scrambling techniques are not equivalent to encryption. These methods can be demodulated instantly (in real time) with very low tech signal collection gear such as an SDR and the right software. Changing the tone or scrambling technique on an analog channel will not prevent a capable opponent from listening to you, it will only serve to slow you down
@@MojaveRepeater was about to say the same thing
Baofeng makes good stuff. For what you pay for it's great stuff. Anyone saying bad stuff about it are morons.
Fair but baofeng really really really cheap, aes256 encryption or similar really really really expensive
Use more about the house and town than pew pewing
Somebody watches garand thumb….
Yeah that intro…
Blows my mind how people in this "community" will justify spending $$$$$$$ on guns & gear but cheap out on something as critical as commo.
The tuner absolutely sucks
The Ukrainians are no longer using Baofeng's.
10 years later...
sorry brother but spending money on encrypted radios for civilians is a waste of money. the average baofeng radio transmits with more than double the power of our old prc 77 and squad radios and are plenty capable for civilian use. encrypted radios would just give civilians a false sense of security and get them killed faster lol
If the world ever went to shit I’m happy to know people like this wont like 30 seconds lol