Gunner Quinn
We live in uncertain times where tens of millions of foreign invaders comprised largely of military-aged males have recently and in organized fashion crossed our borders. They were assisted by U.S. government-funded NGOs south of the border. We certainly should wonder about their intent. And there are many other significant threats that we should be concerned with particularly as the world is rapidly becoming unstable, both economically and geopolitically.
At some point in the near future, World War 3 will break out and the economy at home will suffer greatly, causing riots in the streets that would further destabilize this country and foment a communist-styled insurrection. With tens of millions of foreigners who have not assimilated, and who are mostly supported by our social welfare system, we are sitting on a ticking time bomb. And there are other plausible scenarios as well. Expect the unexpected, and we will not be disappointed.
As no one man is able, at some point, real Americans will have to save America. South American cartels are no longer gangs, but well-trained and well-equipped armies. Invading Chinese nationals are here in the millions, and are well organized and supported logistically within our borders by existing communities and allies on the ‘Left’-coast. And our military is now only a shadow of its former self and compromised to its core. I do not expect that we will be isolated from the rest of the world as we were during WW1 and WW2.
As my grandfather once wrote many letters to the editor of the local paper warning others prior to the U.S. involvement in WW2, he provided an outline of the unfavorable economic conditions and the future threats to the country. At the time he was working on military communications projects at the War Department in Washington D.C., on behalf of AT&T as an engineer.
He had built and sold some of the first crystal radio sets during the early 1920s and made some serious money doing so as a young man. He was also an early ‘John Bircher’. He only had a 6th Grade education. As a humble chip off that old block, I now do the same. I must have inherited his penchant for radio and telephone as well. It is in my blood and I can not help myself. As Popeye might have said: “I’yam what I’yam cause that’s wat I’yam… and I’yam an American as well.”
My Background and Experience
I do not have any experience in the military. My first experience with two-way radios occurred around 1964 and that left an enduring impression. It was a two-channel VHF Motorola. I began daily operation of radios as an Emergency Services Radio Dispatcher in the early 1980s. Hence, my perspective is different from that of a Ham radio operator. Rather than an Amateur Radio operator, I was trained to handle emergency communications traffic using many forms of communication that also included radio.
This vocation and beginning was one that is in some ways similar to that of an Air Traffic Controller who operates in a high-stress environment that requires much self-discipline and attention to detail. My perspective or approach to communications in general, was thus formed, yet evolved to include various forms of communication such as the early mobile data terminals (MDT), Alpha-Numeric pagers (the original form of text messaging), land line and radio telephones (early cellullar or bag phones), and the digital P25 800Mhz trunked systems as used by Law Enforcement. In more recent decades, as ‘Necessity is the Mother of Invention’, or in my case, re-invention as a Survivalist, my approach to communications became increasingly unconventional.
As early as 2010, I was using the Baofeng UV5R to send text messages via FLdigi over MURS frequencies. By my God-given and inherent nature, I have always been an early adopter and innovator, and somehow always seem to be near or at the cutting edge of things in general. I mention this not to boast, but to convey what is true and to support my recommendations about so-called ‘obsolete’ field phones. As better justification, I refer readers to my most recent SurvivalBlog article about drone armies coordinated by AI-enhanced computers in this article: Mitigating the Drone Threat.
The technique of using FLdigi over UHF/VHF has been greatly improved in recent years and has become well known within smaller patriot/survivalist circles. Coupled with the use of low-power radios connected to directional antennas such as a Yagi antenna, and using FLdigi with brevity codes, we have a low-cost, and somewhat secure point-to-point communications. Eventually, the enemy will “break” it, and then what? However, this level of communications is not what we should first strive to attain. It is not appropriate for a local security operation and it is too complex for the lowest common denominator to master. This sort of thing is best left to specialists and certain other settings.
Simplicity in all its forms increases reliability and sustainability. It has often been stated in SurvivalBlog over the decades that in effect: ‘the lowest tech is the most sustainable tech’. This is true, indeed. And as experiences has taught me, that while I might be able to operate sophisticated equipment, it requires years of experience for anyone to obtain competency. Under duress, most peope, even after extensive training, are only capable of the simplest tasks, myself included. The equipment used in a security operation should be so simple and easy to use that the least competent can quickly master it.
Why Simple Low Power Radios and Field Phones Are Best
Here is a short story to help explain. While I have mentioned aspects of this technique in previous articles, it is worthy of repetition. Repeat something 3 times if you wish the idea or information to ‘stick’, that is to be accepted by the long-term memory in our minds. Repeating critical information over a communications system could be necessary during stressful situations. Make sure that the information is clear and concise, and then verify that it was received and understood.
Years ago, I was using an RTL SDR dongle to visually look for or in other terms, ‘scan’ radio traffic. On the very infrequent occasion that I would be watching the 6 Meter Amateur band, I happened to see a very tiny signal spike. The signal was very weak and could not be heard, yet it could be seen by the ‘waterfall’ display created by the RTL SDR dongle on my computer screen.
Context defines. Because it was late at night, and because I knew that a particular person had mentioned months ago that they wanted to put up a 6-Meter Amateur radio repeater, I likely knew who or what was the source of the very weak signal. The 6-Meter band in my area typically has zero traffic. Out here, the airwaves are relatively RF-quiet. I deduced that the signal was the repeater he had mentioned and figured that it was not connected to an antenna, but only a ‘dummy load’ that is used to contain the signal. A ‘dummy load’ is used when testing RF equipment. It is a means to keep the transmission off the air.
The testing was being conducted approximately 15 miles away. I was easily able to discern the source, because his transmissions were numerous and long in duration.
An Aside: Keep the duration of your transmission times to less than 5 seconds, say ‘break’, wait a moment or two, and then continue to send the message in the most concise way. Say “over” when you have completed sending the message. Brevity codes are needed to obscure the message and to shorten transmission times. Learn about these techniques. This method of transmission greatly decreases the likelihood that a scanner or person monitoring will miss part or all of the message. A radio should not be used as one would use a cell phone. Absolutely no unnecessary chatter should be tolerated.
Given the long-in-duration transmission times of the 6-meter repeater being tested, the opportunity allowed me to get a rough bearing. Had the duration of transmissions been short, I probably would not have noticed the tiny spikes, or have discounted its significance and not considered it worthy of examination as these tiny blips on my screen could have been construed to be a very distance and low threat radio transmission not worthy of my time and effort to attempt to determine a rough bearing for the source. Given the bearing, the pieces of the puzzle were easily assembled, and my friend was “busted”.(To be continued tomorrow, in Part 2.)
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