TAC-TECHS: Choosing Your Radio for your Mission

Radio selection: Tactical radio selection by mission, environment, and operational needs. Learn how to choose a radio based on your specific mission criteria, from Rural family retreat coordination, to Tactical Training Day, to Mutual Assistance Group comms. 

Topics covered in this sessions will include:

• How radio fits into a PACE plan
• Frequencies and spectrum
• Legal use of radios
• Digital modes & encryption
• Gear standardization considerations
• Accessorizing your radio for tactical comms

Field Exercise will include:

• A radio selection exercise to match radio selection to your mission
• Try out various radios in the classroom and around the range

Following this session, participants will have a better understanding radio frequencies, digital radios and encryption, legal use scenarios, mission driven radio selection criteria.