Advanced Comms For The CIVILIAN | Not A BAOFENG

Would you please stop changing the magnification of the video image constantly- it doesn’t help at all !

The only thing is the average person here in America are not going to be able to afford close to $3,000 for this, there's a good reason why most people have the baofeng radio.

In comparison: We have a Meshtastic mesh covering 100 sqmi (10x10) using 4 “solar repeater” nodes ($100 each) and 6+ mobile nodes ($50ea). Total cost: $500 Utilizing ATAK text & position only (no voice or video).

I like how he undersells what the MPU5 is lol

Very low power, directional antennas and terrain masking, horizontally polarized antennas, brevity codes with FLdigi for burst transmission and other techniques are all you need to avoid being DF'd. You do not need what is being sold here. Get the book, The Guerillas Guild to the Boafeng Radio.

Awesome. When I saw the mpu5 videos come out I think most people understood the cost was just too prohibitive. It’s really nice to see innovation here making these systems significantly more accessible to civilians. This is accessible for groups / teams / individuals with some savings and/or fundraising. Well done.

Looks like we going back to wild life calls, boys. Skweeee!

@3:50 I remember on a field-op, we had an Airforce officer come in and show us a Fieldfox device that could pickup all the frequencies in our site and show us general location of ours and a jump sites 142/148s, pretty cool at the time.

Saw them price though, I think I will go the meshtastic and atak plug-in route until I can afford these guys.

Jesus. Remember when there were only 10,000 followers? Awesome buddy. 🤙

This looks interesting... im gonna be doing some reading up on this... thanks man!

I have tested mesh. Here in Maine in the dense foliage it hasn’t been reliable. We would need many nodes to to connect. We are experimenting with nodes on drones though.

I wish instead of using atak plugins, they’d make devices that simply created a WiFi network or Bluetooth as the default gateway that the atak phone broadcasts the UDP COT packets out of. So no plug-in needs to be installed for those users that want to jump on to your atak usage and use this device without having them go install a plug-in first. So they act as a simple bridge or router into the same network.

Hop all you want, your adversary can just monitor a broad spectrum of freqs and see if there are transmissions where there shouldn’t be transmissions

Sounds great! Big problem that you need several people with this setup for it to make sense. You can't just buy one as an individual and have it work for you. With the cost, that's gonna be really hard. I can see it for individual family use. But equipping all your friends is going to be an issue. Also sounds like it'll take a long time to learn how to use it too.

Those direction finding devices will direction find beartooth just as easy as a baofeng. If they have an idea of your operating area they will find the radios by direction finding one by one and eliminate them. Short burst digital comms using directional antennas are the way to go. Remember lowest power to establish the communications and the rejection you get from a directional antenna will help to limit exposure to "the bad men". No one will know what digital mode you will be using and on which frequency. You set up communication windows that will change every so often. There are a lot more frequencies available to transmit from with a baofeng or any other handheld radio radio than in the ISM band. Sending coordinates and a paragraph of text takes seconds to transmit. Get ANDFLMSG (android program) and you will have digital comms for free if you already have a phone or tablet.

Have been working with ATAK 2 with another company, and in the community there was talk about Beartooth already, can confirm that this tech is the future of DECENTRALIZED OFFGRID COMMS for FIRST RESPONDERS, TACTICAL, OUTDOORS as WELL as SHTF scenarios!

Crazy this video got made. I was just looking at buying them

Great vid.... keep it up brother... great info/product

There was a saying in the Army for open comms - “break squelch and die.” As soon as you key the mic, they triangulate your position and artillery will follow. Also, try to look unimportant on the battlefield.