HF NVIS Operations Course

Course Overview

Content

    • Start time 9 AM

    • HF radio theory

    • NVIS propagation theory

    • End time 4-5 PM

    • Start time 9 AM

    • Antenna theory

    • Antenna Construction from improvised materials

    • End time 4-5 PM

    • Start time 9 AM

    • Digital operations on HF 

    • Communications security principles on HF

    • End time 4-5 PM

Locations and Dates

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Cost: $500

Course Length: 3 days, classroom, outdoors

Description

The HF NVIS Course is designed to teach students the fundamentals of operating high-frequency (HF) radio for regional and even global communication, with an emphasis on near-vertical Incidence Skywave (NVIS) propagation. 

Students will get hands-on with the following:

  • HF radio theory

  • NVIS propagation theory

  • Antenna theory

  • Antenna Construction from improvised materials

  • Digital operations on HF 

  • Communications security principles on HF

The course will include large-scale practical exercises to cement each concept. It will be taught by a Historian, a multi-domain engineer with several decades of experience on the topic.

Gear Packing Checklist

Course Checklist

  1. While there are no prerequisites, it is strongly encouraged that students have had at least the RTO course or possess a General-Class amateur radio license. .

Course Book

Recommended Gear

Chest Rig

  • Should hold all your personal tactical gear for a 24-48 hour patrol period

  • I don’t recommend plate carriers for training as the added weight and heat detracts from the experience

Optics

  • We will be running OP’s, optics are a force multiplier

  • Day/night/thermal

  • We will cover some thermal mitigation and detection.

Radio

  • VHF/UHF handheld like the Baofeng

  • I can provide some if you don’t have one.

  • Earpieces and speaker mics help for security ops.

Meet the Instructor

NC SCOUT

NC Scout is the pseudonym of a former member of one of the US Army's premier special reconnaissance units with two combat deployments to Iraq and one to Afghanistan.

He runs Brushbeater Training and Consulting, which teaches courses on small unit tactics, communications, and survival based on skills he learned while serving to prepare people for uncertain times ahead.

He is the owner and senior editor of American Partisan and can be found on his podcast, Radio Contra.