Military radio question
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03/22/22 12:45 PM
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Does armed forces radio have its own band or is it in shortwave?? I bought a shortwave radio for emergency purposes but all I seem to find on it is church stuff and tons of people speaking Spanish.
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Re: Military radio question
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03/22/22 01:18 PM
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danny clifton
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AFN is just regular radio frequencies. 50 years ago it was AM. Its for military personal in foreign countries
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Re: Military radio question
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03/22/22 01:26 PM
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i can't speak to Military much , a friend was a military's radio operator he said even 30+ years ago they had stuff that could jump all over in FRQ and send bits and pieces of a message
that is different than their hand held and UHF stuff which was often just plan old motorola stuff back then for things like base security.
Police are moving or moved to Digital trunked radio in most cities. basically the radios are small computer driven data radios they communicate with the network and where ever they get on the network the communication depending on channel and codes used is rebrodcast to all the nodes
basically if you had a cell phone and called into a conference bridge with all the other people in the department on it and you un-mute to talk by pressing your push to talk mic all the actual stuff heard on the FRQ is actually data packets basically they are VoIP radios now.
rather than having a tall tower and trying to push big power to pernitrate buildings , there are lots of smaller node antennas that the radios (small computers) talk with
then when you get some kid who figures out the FRQ and how to program an unlocked radio to that FRQ he doesn't make a racket on it all the time disturbing offical comms
each radio has a unique electronic ID and those IDs can be blocked from the network very much like your computer can be filtered based on mac address
you not only need the FRQ but the log in and the encryption to broadcast
modern police radios have a lot more in common with the Nextel push to talk of the early 2000s than they do the FM and AM handheld radios like marine band
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Re: Military radio question
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03/22/22 01:36 PM
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AFN is just radio for entertainment. Music weather news, in English for military personnel overseas. I don't know about now but it even had a few old radio shows like the shadow time to time.
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Re: Military radio question
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Robin Williams was in a movie called good morning Vietnam where he was an AFN DJ in Saigon.
Those who would give up essential liberty, to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety. Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
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Re: Military radio question
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Thanks gang… I always thought it was always a specific band.
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Re: Military radio question
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Re: Military radio question
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I can't believe some of y'all are thinking he's talking about encrypted military comms. He's asking about armed forces radio and made that clear in his first post.
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Re: Military radio question
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I can't believe some of y'all are thinking he's talking about encrypted military comms. He's asking about armed forces radio and made that clear in his first post. and on re-reading I see than , I put a difficulty level 10 on that question from reading the tittle and it wasn't .
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