Survival Communications Crash Course

Course Overview

Content

    • Start time 9 AM

    • Understand where CB, FRS/GMRS/MURS, and Amateur Radio fit the survival equation.

    • Have hands-on with equipment setting up a station, literally from unboxing to getting it on the air.

    • Each constructs an antenna that is theirs to keep from improvised materials.

    • End time 4-5 PM

Locations and Dates

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Cost: $100

Course Length: 1 day, classroom, outdoors

Description

I've put together a one-day crash course on communications focused on setting up off-grid communications for novices and seasoned radio amateurs alike. Topics include: 

  • Understanding Off-Grid Radio Principles

  • License-free radio options & equipment: Where does it all fit?

  • Sourcing off-grid power

  • Antennas for dummies

This is a very different course from the RTO Courses, designed to create a baseline of skill when conventional communications are disrupted. No equipment aside from a solid attitude, a notebook, and a pen is required. This is NOT a ham radio hobbyist course; this is a one-day course on communications.

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.