Why the PACE-driven, locked-down comms plan of a tactical team doesn’t hold up in a grid-down scenario, and what your radio setup actually needs instead.
How I wired my Retevis/Ailunce HD2 into a Peltor ComTac V headset for my tactical kit, and how to adapt the same four-piece chain to whatever radio you’re running.
Military communications planning faces the same physics hams do, just with different priorities. Here is a look at the bands, antennas, and radios that show up again and again in tactical use.