Course curriculum

    1. Read This First

    2. Intro to SAR radios

    3. Is a "cheap" radio ok?

    4. Care for the radio and battery

    5. Basic Operation: On/Off, Volume, Channel, Push To Talk, Replacing the Battery and Installing the Antenna

    1. Frequency

    2. Modulation

    3. Basic (Carrier) Squelch

    4. Tone Squelch

    5. Channel

    6. Licenses and Legalities

    1. Determining and improving communications range

    2. Teammate relay to improve range

    3. Repeaters and Simplex/Duplex Communications

    1. Carrying & protecting your radio

    2. Methods to improve radio range

    1. Privacy & Professionalism

    2. Prowords, codes & phonetics

    3. How to call & answer on the radio; closed loop read back for critical communications

    1. NIRSC Basic Wildland Fire Radio Training - Powerpoint

    2. US Fire Admin - Voice Radio Guide

    3. The ITU Phonetic Alphabet

    4. How to get a ham radio license

    5. NIFOG Ver 1.6.1 2016 (obsolete)

    6. NIFOG Ver 2.0 (8/21)

About this course

  • $12.00
  • 26 lessons
  • 1 hour of video content

Reviews: Understanding Radios for SAR

Donna Cramer

5 star rating

“Good. More indepth than SAR Radio classes I have taken in past. Nice format for online class With the video sections explaining concept and showing examples.”

“Good. More indepth than SAR Radio classes I have taken in past. Nice format for online class With the video sections explaining concept and showing examples.”

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Herberta Nicol-Blades

5 star rating

“I'm easily confused by the technical side of radio operation. I really appreciate how straightforward you made it with the visuals as well as the examples of speaking on the radio.”

“I'm easily confused by the technical side of radio operation. I really appreciate how straightforward you made it with the visuals as well as the examples of speaking on the radio.”

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Marcin Feldman

5 star rating

“Hi. This course is a really good way of explaining what is going on with radio communication. Strongly recommending. ”

“Hi. This course is a really good way of explaining what is going on with radio communication. Strongly recommending. ”

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