Comms Lead for Complex Situations

8 hours, $100

This course prepares leads to set up complex team radio protocols including repeaters, encryption, and cross-platform methods. You will learn to overcome amateur jamming, professional eavesdropping, and signal propagation limitations.

Goal: overcome complex obstacles that prevent challenge team radio setups

Topics covered: 

• • PTT apps, blending, relays, and repeaters (simplex, duplex, cross-band) (1 hour)

  • build repeaters (1 hour, 30 minutes)

    • duct tape repeater

    • two wired baofengs

    • repeater device with two radios

    • cross-platform

      • handheld and mobile (full repeater or only transmit my handheld)

      • radio and phone

  • overviews of other methods (1 hour)

    • HF

    • LoRa and Meshtastic

    • APRS

  • DTMF and ANI (30 mins)

  • DMR (2 hours)

    • overview

    • capabilities and benefits

    • setting up radios

  • contemporary radio use by state and non-state groups (1 hour)

    • protests and direct action

      • legal, rogue, and what?!

      • adversaries (state and non-state)

    • law enforcement

      • P25

      • protocols and rationales

      • direction finding

    • current events

      • freq hopping

      • jamming

      • satellites and aerial repeaters

      • direction finding and targeting

  • 2 games simultaneously with participants running two radios (1 hour)

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