Hey seller survival dispatch so earlier This month I put out a ham radio video And It was a little complicated so I'm gonna Try really hard to hardcore Barney this All the way to the bottom okay this is Going to be a video for people who know Nothing about radios who have never Picked one up and never really even done Anything with it and uh easy refresher For those of you out there that are Experienced so stick with me [Music] Foreign So I'm going into this video with the Intent that it's going to be one video The reality is it's probably going to be Like three so I spent a bunch of time With the military teaching Special Operations and infantry soldiers how to Find other Soldiers with radios and do Some stuff so with that in mind forgive Me because I end up going down tangents And just really getting deep where I Don't need to so Let's first off talk about the two major Or three major radio types that you're Going to find what radio frequencies are How to make your radio work what you can Use with and without ham radio Certifications and kind of go from there When I was a kid we would have called This a walkie-talkie nowadays ham radio Operators will call this a handy talkie
So if you hear someone talking about a Handy talkie it's this little mobile That you put in your backpack your Pocket whatever and it's run off of Batteries the next level up is going to Be something like this Ham radio operators would call this a Mobile I've got two of them here I've got a ham wixon and a gmrs wooks And they're both attached to the same Power supply my negative is coming Undone over here Just because it's a mobile that's Designed to go in a vehicle doesn't mean That you have to use it in a vehicle Clearly this is attached to a base power Supply station I've got two of them Attached to it currently it's not made For two of them but you can do that Before I get into the third type there Is primarily Ultra high frequency very high frequency High frequency yes there is such thing As medium frequency low frequency x-ray A bunch of other stuff but for now what You need to know about is HF or high Frequency UHF ultra high frequency and VHF very high frequency and it goes HF UHF VHF HF is the megahertz from 1 to 30 From 30 to 300 is a very high frequency From 300 to 3000 is ultra high Having said that we usually only use About one to Thirty The 140s 150s
And the three to four hundreds for what We're gonna we're gonna talk about so That kind of narrows it down where in The Spectrum I'm talking having said That I'm going to come back to this Which is A lot of times people will take a mobile Radio that's designed to go in a vehicle And they'll stick in a backpack with Some sort of battery and portable Antenna I have a home brew j-pole for UHF and VHF which we'll get into later attached To this antenna which gives me the Ability to talk here in my house or Stick this on my roof or connect it to a Vehicle the reason I want to use this Big of an antenna is because it's going To resonate the most correct in the Frequency that I'm using Okay moving on the third type and I Don't have one right here is a huge base Station you're going to see those for HF Radios you're going to see those for Amplitude modulation type of radios you Will usually see multiple boxes one of Them is the base station one of them is The amplifier one of them is the antenna Tuner one of them's whatever that gets Into really complicated long distance Bounce It Off the ionosphere type of Communications so dial in it back today We're going to talk about handy Takis or Walkie-talkies and mobile radios so
Knowing now you know about the three Radio types in general so what do I Suggest a brand new person use Yeah honestly how much money do you have Right that's always the case uh one of My first handy talking radios is this Yasu uh vx8 R uh there's a Dr and There's newer models it was about 500 New they're probably like 250 now used The reason I wanted this is because one It's waterproof and I was using it for Elk hunting and two it has this remote Attachable mic with the GPS device on it So I can do packet data and I can Communicate with it in my backpack the Main purpose I have for this radio is Elk hunting and talking with the other People that are out there or listening To the other Hunters that are in the Area this is a little higher end I knew I was going to use it a lot and I spent A little more money up front and I've Had it for many years there's a couple Of my favorite high-end radio Manufacturers they are Yaesu and Icom There's tons of other quality radio Manufacturers those are the ones that I Like like the most if I have to buy a Radio my my personal preference is going To be Yaesu but that's also one of the More expensive radios and then it kind Of goes down from there if you want to Buy radios in bulk redovus or baofeng Make these radios they're about 35 bucks
A pop depending on whether you're Talking about FRS gmrs mirrors ham Whatever which I'm going to cover here In a minute so radio selection Get what you can afford either get some 35 dollar ones in bulk for everybody Save up a little bit of money you get a Ham radio one when you get the more Expensive ones You have more control over the options On the inside more data banks for radio Frequencies that you can program in it More Capabilities like packet radio and a Bunch of other more complicated stuff And it's waterproof and more robust and You can change the antennas out so those Are the main reasons you would spend More money and then cheap bulk if you Break it you're out 35 bucks you're not Going to cry yourself to sleep those are The reasons that you would buy the Cheaper ones they both talk in the same Frequencies the higher end radios are Going to be a little clearer and talk Bigger difference distances the lower End radio is going to have problems like Sometimes you can't trade the antenna Out you just have to use what you've got The chipset's not as sensitive but you Get what you pay for so we've talked About radio types let's go into Frequencies okay everyone's listening to The radio in their car
102.7 99.5 whatever you're listening at That's 99.5 megahertz which is 99.500 megahertz in kilohertz the Decimal point is there because it's Metric not Tech technically but roll With me on this okay the FCC has a Website that you can look up the bands And the bands are where we've all Decided to operate our specific types of Modes and communication devices so if You want to Deep dive that look up a r r L band plan it'll tell you what Frequencies are used for what Communication types and where I'm not Going to get into that let's talk just Basically about what the frequencies are And how they Work with the real world so if I've got A radio frequency on the AM FM radio of 99.5 this is really 099 megahertz 0.500 Kilohertz okay so let's not overthink This too much but if I made my frequency 199.5 it's still 199 and a half Megahertz which is 199 megahertz 500 Kilohertz I can go down to my step size Which is 25 or 50. And it's still just in megahertz Wazoo Bandanas they're also good for wiping Off dry erase boards so once I have a Base place to start the majority of Those handy talkies are going to be in The 2 meter range at about one four five Ish to one five five ish
Frequencies okay in megahertz So Understanding that that's where the Majority of Ham radio communication is going to be That's where the majority of emergency Communications work is going to be That's where the communication from like A fire crew talking to a BLM airplane is Going to be and if you have a radio That's capable of listening to these Frequencies you can do the absolute Majority of anything that a beginner Person wants to do now that is in the Two meter range Uh why well because the wavelength is The size of two meters so I'm not going To show you how to calculate that for You Advanced people just take your Frequency and divide by 300 and there's Your answer so the other band that we Use is a 75 centimeter This is UHF Okay ultra high frequencies you might Have 4 85.250 again this is just megahertz you Might have 495 350. none of this really matters what Matters is that you understand that if If this radio wants to talk to this Radio the number's got to match okay so Make the frequencies match Frequencies and channels let's talk
About that Gmrs and fmrs are a group of frequencies That we have put Channel numbers on and Decided that this frequency is for this Channel Without dipping into them I'm going to Do this for memory most of them are 4 25 40 80 something doesn't really matter But if I've got one radio on 485.250 I've got the other radio on 485.250 And I call this channel number one as Long as the frequencies match or the Channels match they can communicate Let's say 485.550 is channel two 485.550 channel two four oops 8 4 85.650 485.650 channel three okay channels are Just a name for a frequency once you got That in your head a lot of this will Make a lot more sense the frequencies Have to match or they can't communicate All right it's like languages if the Languages if you're speaking French and Listening to Portuguese doesn't work the The big difference between a ham radio And say a gmrs radio is the gmrs is Pre-programmed With a bunch of channels so this is Channel one which is 462.562-5625 Channel 5 is 462.6625 So the gmrs is programmed with Channel
Names on the frequencies the ham radios And this isn't a ham radio but I'm going To use it as an example you just need to Know write it down or program program it In your bank that the frequency for gmrs Channel 1 is 462.56250 this is something you can Google the frequency for channel two is Whatever right so the only real big Difference between a gmrs or an FRS Radio and a ham radio is the fact that The ham radio you have to manually put In every little frequency and then you Can label it whatever you want like Gmr's channel one and the gmrs radio can Only speak on the 15 or 20 or whatever Channels there are for gmrs what this Tells me is I want to buy a ham radio la Learn what the frequencies are and have Multiple banks with different names so That my ham radio can talk to gmrs and FRS and CBS possibly and cop radios and All this other stuff But from a legality perspective I have To get a ham license to do that So if I want to get the entry level Stuff I buy the FRS the family radio Services I buy the gmrs government if I Remember remembering this correctly and I'm probably going to screw it up Government Mobile Radio Service and the Gmrs requires a 35 fee and I you get Like 10 of your family members so There's no test you just have to pay for
It and then you can legally use gmrs the Ham radio you have a 300 plus pool of Questions and you have to get I want to Say 35 of them correct and then you've Got your ham radio license but that Opens up all of the bands that you can Use So we've covered Some of the basics let's just talk about How the radio works right if you have a Gnrs or an FRS radio which is what most Likely everyone's going to buy you Bought it from the store it has the Frequencies pre-programmed with the Channels it will only talk to other gmrs FRS radios so You turn it on This is the PTT or push to talk button That's how it makes a signal some of Them are going to have extra buttons These extra buttons you got to play with Them until you figure out what they do This one turns the light on Oh this is the Weather Channel on this One specifically Um you're going to have primary and Secondary functions VM V is variable free variable frequency Oscillation that means you're going to Manually input the frequency so if I Push Well mine's locked So if I push vfo And I type in my channels with this read
Of this radio because it's gmrs I can Listen to channels but I can't actually Transmit on them because it's locked so Then I switch back to memory mode Or Channel mode is what it's calling it Then I have to actually dial through the Channels So there's Channel One And they're only about a third of a Megahertz indifference because these are All gmrs frequencies with preset Channels so that's gmrs Channel 4. three Two one now the menu button is going to Allow you to do a bunch of stuff that You probably don't need to mess with if You're brand new Um before I do that the a a b button is Going to be the a band and the b band So are we talking on on 462.56250 channel one or 462.6625 channel five well we can enlist It on both but we can only talk on one So that's what A and B is for menu The best thing you can do for the menu On your radio because they're all Different is Google your make and model For your radio then type in PDF okay so You'll you will download the PDF that Tells you all the settings for your Radio it's going to have menu channel One does this channel two does this Channel three does this look in that on The user manual first then go play with This or it's just going to confuse the
Crap out of you so if we have squelch K Squelch lowers the background radiation Noise that's in the environment Naturally Um this is Menu level one is squelch two is the Step how far up do we want to go when I Turn the the frequency Whoops let's go back to this Transmit power power save voice Activation level back light some of this Should be kind of uh self-explanatory Some of it doesn't really matter All of the radios are going to have a Secondary function right like number two Is the primary function a B and C are The secondary function the asterisk is a Primary function scan as a secondary Function Either you're going to push a shift Button to get to the secondary function Or you're just going to hold it down so If I want to get to the secondary Function on this button which is scan Hold it Now it's going to scan through all of The frequencies one two Let's see how far this goes up 60 so there's 60 gmrs frequencies I bump To the push to talk so it stops getting So that's how you would make it scan if I want to lock it I'm going to put it Down on channel one again That's it fun
Three two one and I'm gonna hold the Lock button I would do something like this Because I want two radios to talk to Each other and I'm going to give it to My kid right So I check that they are both high power Channel one is Bank a channel five is Bank B and they're locked now my kid Unless they hold down the lock button Isn't going to jack it up all they got To do is push the push to talk button Check Turn the volume up Oh hello And it's hard for them to screw that up The biggest problem when you have a Failure in communication is the person That you gave your radio to Jack Something up they didn't turn the volume Up or they unlocked it they changed the Channel okay these are pretty dummy Proof all you need to know is get the Channels the same on all of them Push the push to talk button this is the Power and the volume and this is the Lock if you can get through that basic Level stuff you can communicate Okay this video has been pretty long so I'm going to go into More advanced videos in the future if You can get the same radio type With the same frequency Turn the thing on
Use the push to talk button and lock it Your radio is going to work That's the most base level that I can Make it going for from here okay In video number two I'm going to explain To you what RF radiation is and antennas And how they work because everyone wants To know how far can my radio talk man That depends stick with me hopefully we Will release video number two tomorrow And we'll cover that stuff thank you for Watching Thank you [Music]
