February Training 2/8 at 0830 in our usual training room #3 at the Sheriff’s Office Public Safety Training Center in Hillsboro. We will have sessions with a little bit of talk followed by a little bit of DO.
600 SW Walnut St, Hillsboro. Just south of DMV, Winco, Harbor Freight.
For our training sessions: always bring an HT, charged battery, antenna, spare battery if you have one, the radio directions, notepaper, pen or pencil, clipboard. Consider having ICS forms 309, 214, 214A, 213. Also, ICS 200-B or ICS200-L (simply blank or lined notepaper).
Course Outline + video list
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- Public Service Radios: Corey will give introduce county public service UHF radios (simplex) with directions for hands-on training. They have channels and volume control – EZ-peasy. We can use simplex inside. Later we can use a repeating system outside.
- Communications – by Tait Radio Academy
These are 2 1/2 minutes each.
1.1 Radio Operating Techniques | Best Practice for Radio Users
YouTube link /Ib6Aw-Jh-Wc?si=gZhaCuvoEokgX-t01.2 Regular Radio Checks | Best Practice For Radio Users
YouTube link: youtu.be/APjc9WyzwIA?si=7JnKPICTvjybbDzKQSL.net Radio Check Pro-Words by QSL.net
1.3 How to Connect | Best Practice for Radio Users
YouTube link: youtu.be/_JFZvpKRVHY?si=rkfHSzzzLGyWEchH2.1 How to use Radio your Microphone | Best Practice for Radio Users
YouTube link: youtu.be/u_Pu0bPM1Is?si=VOxT9UD8BXntmOdB2.2 Phonetic Alphabet | Best Practice for Radio Users
YouTube link: youtu.be/2774vY7p4-w?si=BOMtI5nq97e2gGlH2.3 Procedure Words In Radio Communications | Best Practice for Radio Users
YouTube link: youtu.be/Alro8SfO-tQ?si=3BLsVr0dXW98EdwL2.5 The Correlation Between Range and Power | Basic Radio Awareness Power and Range
YouTube link: youtu.be/eELO53z3soQ?si=z6hFP889__Duh7GUTactics Radio Communication and Operations Code Words, Call Signs and Radio Checks Numbers, Pro-words.
YouTube link: youtu.be/f38SzRDh8zQ?si=UEA68sOwYm0apUSU&t=702 - Comms Mini Exercise: We will give instructions and then a simple comms exercise. We will break up into small teams. Each team will head to a specific given location in the indoor simulation city. Each team will establish RF comms with the control and transmit specific realistic information by radio. Oh, and keep a proper record.
- Bio-Break
- Hotwash: An introduction (lecture and/or video) on how to participate in post incident briefings. This will be followed by a real hotwash based on our comms exercise today. A hotwash is a verbal after action review by the team. Some of the videos mix this up with a written after action report by the team leader. What is an After Action Report
Pentagon Tactics: After Action Reviews and Hotwashes
After Action Review – Company Level Hotwash – April 2014 - Topic TBD: lecture and/or video (time permitting). Suggestions may be offered.
- Open Session: bring questions or projects that would benefit from an in-person, hands-on approach. KD7ISA will bring a small cable tester for checking USB cable continuity. Bring your sketchy cables. Does that USB cable support just charging or charging + data?
- Winlink: time to ask questions about recent lessons.
