DIYers, not just preppers, will love NC Scout's book. Within two weeks of receiving it I was cutting coax to make a field antenna, assembling a solar powered repeater box with a couple of boofwangs, and learning how to rope climb a tree to install the setup and increase my range. So much fun.
THANKS for this interview. Amazing. Learned a lot and love all the things that were said. Focusing on local commuinity has to be our primary goal. Cheers from Panama in Central America.
His Baofeng book is required reference material. Also wanted to say hi to you, I noticed we're about a day out from the 20th anniversary of the FDCC AWB94 Sunset Party! Has it really been 20 years already? That was a great time, and your hospitality is a treasured memory. Still have Kimber if you ever want to visit with her.
Guerrilla Guide to Baofeng is worth the read, for anyone even mildly interested in comms. The principles of commsec and how to set up a comms plan alone makes earns it a spot in the library.
Bought the book, (also his SIGINT book and Antenna books) took the classes. I’m a not-so-sad ham and learned way more than I thought I would and it’s a much more practical knowledge. Good interview with a good man.
Wow! A lot of truth right here . Especially after what just happened to us here in WNC. I hope him and his family are ok. Because our internet , power and cell service was out at least a week is what got me searching the tube for radios. Came across your channel and then this video! And once things clean up and we recover, definitely going to be signing up for some of his classes ! Thanks for all your videos !
I’m glad I stayed for the interview. Excellent interview, excellent topic and excellent Expert with quite a history. Thank you for you efforts and humor.
Excellent video guys! I love the part in regards to getting involved in your community! Jeeps and Comms - CJ 7, w/TJ suspension, 4.0L straight 6. Throttle body fuel injection with back up injectors and dual fuel pumps one being a back up. ! BOOM!! And guys the radio "HT" you want for SHTF is the AT-878. Digital 2meter phone, SMS too with no internet! And hands down the most linear keypad programming I've ever used! FJR...
Great to see a MAN say it as it is, Information and perspective of Matt was a pleasure to watch, thanks for the time taken by both of you to make this, cheers.
He is real on the issues that he discusses. Especially enjoyed the Earp the take which I agree with totally. This man is a thinker. Thank you for the interview.
I consider HAM Radio operators traders to the Constitution. You cannot LIcense free speech. If you have signed up for a license to Talk in a free speech Environment.Then you have given up your constitutional rights.
This is a great interview. Thanks for this information, perfect for a complete radio noob. (Me). Picked up a 152 thanks to you. Neat to hear NC Scout endorse it too
I thought the information in this video that "NC Scout AKA BrushBeater" should be required viewing for "some people". Very good information in my opinion. I enjoy all of the video's you produce. So Thank You for serving your community in so many ways. Keep on Keepen on. Mark
Love the new interview format! Long-form, informative and in-depth, relevant and interesting range of subjects covered, an overall enjoyable and timely presentation that leaves viewers wanting more. Well done! I encourage you to continue this format as a periodic addition to your current (very popular and original) productions. I'll wager you can find many other interesting & informative guests who would be more than happy to participate, probably more than you yourself believe. And some of them might surprise you. Lots of room for growth and expansion into a whole host of new and/or related subjects and interviewees. Brilliant move, my friend! Live-Streams are next, then who knows? Maybe even Podcasts, if you are so-inclined. And just to think, this whole thing started in one of the literally MOST barren and hostile places on earth, The Salton Sea! "It's a funny world we live in." You live a very interesting life, my friend. Bravo!
So I tried his books. Nice surprise. Yes they look like an old fashioned army manual but are much better. His descriptions of the communication do’s and dont’s, methods and procedures used real conflicts are excellent and make it a worthy read regardless of one’s experience with vhf/uhf.
Great video and thanks to both of you for posting great content! Keep it up Randy! I learn something new with every video, if Baby Xenu wants it to be so....
My first Jeep was a CJ-7 because I couldn’t find a Scrambler anywhere. I was lucky to own one that was the Levi’s edition with a 360 AMC engine. Instant unplanned chick magnet.
I've been using the meshtastic mesh for a couple of months now. Agreed on the points you make. I'm an amateur extra too, I'm enjoying the experimentation. There's a large network out here in SoCal, many people having fun and experimenting with the tech. It's been a fun way to see changes when testing antennas and antenna placement. Gives me great ideas for my ham radio antennas.
I had thought about buying this book. I had my list down to this one and the Baofeng Radio Bible 2024. I chose the latter. I will now buy this book as well.
I know next to nothing about radio communication. I was getting a little interested in 'shortwave radios' to gather better faster information should SHTF but it seems support for shortwave is rapidly dying likely due to the internet. I've been watching Randy 'NotaRubicon' for a while and became convinced I needed to take a few steps. I knew about NC Scout as he is referenced quite often in the prepper/militia communities. So I bought a couple AR-152s and 'The Guerilla's Guide...'. The knowledge within the book will get you started and more if you apply the information. Like most things I've found out regular practice with the radio will help build your skills. I haven't finished the book yet or played with the radio much but I'm finding active channels and 'listening' to local chat. After a while It becomes obvious that antennas play a big part in collecting 'fars'. Randy - no doubt - will be reading every comment about this new venture so I want to let him know this was great and he couldn't have picked a better guest to start with! I can't usually listen to an hour plus podcast but this was truly interesting!
Meshtastic is OK as a companion to voice radio in a disaster as one can text lists, names, etc. to/from a central command cell rather than have to key up and say "I spell, Juliet, Oscar, Hotel, November, break." "Sierra, November, Uniform, Fox, Fox, Yankee." Someone at the Command Cell with a meshtastic radio hooked up to a PC can then just copy-pasta the text info coming in from the field into their reports or in a text file to print out and hand to others. That's pretty much how it's used out here in the Midwest outside of locals just chatting with each other. No one here is seriously thinking of using it in a tactical situation lest something fall on their head a few minutes later. I would *never* use it in any sort of tactical environment whatsoever. Ever. Way too "noisy". Those that know, know. Now that being said, there's a tech preview of the Meshtastic firmware - 2.5.x - that includes PKI encryption for all messaging and all but it's still transmitting on the bottom of the 900mhz ISM band as well as in the 2.4Ghz band. Encrypted is good when transmitting names and possible medical conditions in a disaster situation. But the Meshtastic signal itself does stick out on a panadapter looking at 900-915mhz spectrum because it's a series of slanted lines over and over. And by "stick out" I mean "holy shlt, that signal looks really weird."
I've heard a few relief volunteers on Broadcastify's Mt. Mitchell repeater the last couple of weeks desperately sharing their email or SMS due to poor signal, then complaining a couple days later about spammed inboxes. I initially thought Meshtastic might be a possible 'texting' alternative for when voice communication just isn't clear enough, but it sounds like it may not be up to the task without carpeting a disaster area with the things. I've seen suggestions of combining them with an RPi to function something like a "decentralized BBS" but that sounds like it could quickly get complicated and expensive vs a local community of folks who have radios and know how to use them.
Great video/ interview. Once again, you have created an entertaining and informative product. I wished that you would have asked him about using a Roger Beep.
Respect to the guest and of course you notarubicon , but this mofo was the hardest to follow character I have ever listened to. Enjoyed it though, made my high even better❤😂
You are too awesome to live in California. Move to East Tennessee. We got Windrock and an awesome ham community! Plus no emissions testing. Fellow jeep and ham person! Your special follower. 😂
Around the @20:00 min mark Scout mentioning a "jump off point" for the hobby/skillset.. lol, my "jump off point" is notarubicon's humor. Will tune back in looking for the humor and osmosis should take care of the rest 😂
I probably dropped a grand on Meshtastic. Nothing ever worked. I designed/built solar repeaters, and it failed most my range tests. Finally, unless I could see someone directly behind a repeater, then I could not communicate. Example, from my handset, to my repeater, to a distance repeater, I couldn't communicate to anyone behind that repeater. Forget anyone behind yet another repeater. I did get repeater to repeater range of 4 miles. But it's not useful as a emergency SMS message replacement. It just doesn't work. At the point of having a couple repeaters up, I realized I could have bought every person in my club a GMRS radio. HT costs about $30. On Meshtastic, you easily spend that much on every node. Sure, the boards are $18, but you need a case, battery, antenna, not to mention a $200 repeater on the roof. You can build a GMRS base station cheaper than a solar powered Meshtastic repeater. So if any potential Meshtastic peeps are out there, just go to GMRS. Save monies.
Get "The Guerrilla's Guide To The Baofeng" here: amzn.to/3zapB41
Get a BaofengAR-152 radio here: amzn.to/3TsBpFF
Where did you get that shirt? I love it
Is that radio unlocked, as referenced in the video? Just trying to make sure I'm not surprised when it arrives. Respectfully.
DIYers, not just preppers, will love NC Scout's book. Within two weeks of receiving it I was cutting coax to make a field antenna, assembling a solar powered repeater box with a couple of boofwangs, and learning how to rope climb a tree to install the setup and increase my range. So much fun.
THANKS for this interview. Amazing. Learned a lot and love all the things that were said. Focusing on local commuinity has to be our primary goal. Cheers from Panama in Central America.
Proud to say that Brushbeater is a long time friend. He knows his stuff. Highly recommend his store.
His Baofeng book is required reference material.
Also wanted to say hi to you, I noticed we're about a day out from the 20th anniversary of the FDCC AWB94 Sunset Party! Has it really been 20 years already? That was a great time, and your hospitality is a treasured memory. Still have Kimber if you ever want to visit with her.
Look forward to seeing more videos on your swamp sniper rifle.
He's got a store
Guerrilla Guide to Baofeng is worth the read, for anyone even mildly interested in comms. The principles of commsec and how to set up a comms plan alone makes earns it a spot in the library.
Bought the book, (also his SIGINT book and Antenna books) took the classes. I’m a not-so-sad ham and learned way more than I thought I would and it’s a much more practical knowledge. Good interview with a good man.
Wow! A lot of truth right here . Especially after what just happened to us here in WNC. I hope him and his family are ok. Because our internet , power and cell service was out at least a week is what got me searching the tube for radios. Came across your channel and then this video! And once things clean up and we recover, definitely going to be signing up for some of his classes ! Thanks for all your videos !
NC Scout's training courses are very well put together and highly reccomended.
Good stuff gents
I’m glad I stayed for the interview. Excellent interview, excellent topic and excellent Expert with quite a history. Thank you for you efforts and humor.
Yes it is.
I hope I always remain teachable. Thanks for introducing me to Bushbeater, Randy.
Same feeling here.
This was one of the best conversations I've ever heard on TH-cam. Thank you both so much.
Most real discussion I have heard in a long time. Thank you sincerely for doing this and sharing it with everyone.
Absolutely fantastic program. Excellent comments from Brushbeater.
Excellent video guys! I love the part in regards to getting involved in your community!
Jeeps and Comms - CJ 7, w/TJ suspension, 4.0L straight 6. Throttle body fuel injection with back up injectors and dual fuel pumps one being a back up. ! BOOM!! And guys the radio "HT" you want for SHTF is the AT-878. Digital 2meter phone, SMS too with no internet! And hands down the most linear keypad programming I've ever used! FJR...
Great to see a MAN say it as it is, Information and perspective of Matt was a pleasure to watch, thanks for the time taken by both of you to make this, cheers.
Scout is the Bomb Digitty
My two favorite smart Smart Asses on the internet!
He is real on the issues that he discusses. Especially enjoyed the Earp the take which I agree with totally. This man is a thinker. Thank you for the interview.
Great video Randy and Brushbeater 👍🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸👍
I apreciate how Mr. B considers amateur radio to be a skillset, rather than a faith.
I consider HAM Radio operators traders to the Constitution. You cannot LIcense free speech. If you have signed up for a license to Talk in a free speech Environment.Then you have given up your constitutional rights.
Great guest! Brushbeater is a wealth of knowledge.
Just ordered the book. These are the people we need in the HAM world. No sad Hams
This is a great interview. Thanks for this information, perfect for a complete radio noob. (Me). Picked up a 152 thanks to you. Neat to hear NC Scout endorse it too
Freaking awesome interview! Thanks for doing it. And always remember, when seconds matter, the cops are only minutes away
Randy: Today's guest needs no introduction
Also Randy: Introduces guest
Me: 🤔
This was absolutely 💯 a great video. Well worth a watch. Great job Randy.
I thought the information in this video that "NC Scout AKA BrushBeater" should be required viewing for "some people". Very good information in my opinion. I enjoy all of the video's you produce. So Thank You for serving your community in so many ways. Keep on Keepen on. Mark
An interview I never expected to see, but am appreciative you did it.
great interview, i stayed engaged the whole time. Thanks for that last part, a lil bit about you. Very Nice! cheers! NotaHater :D
Thanks for this. When I got my boofwang radios, I also picked up the NC Scout book as well.
OMG finally someone with a real perspective on Meshtastic.
Thank you Sir! GREAT 1st interview… loved it!
Love the new interview format! Long-form, informative and in-depth, relevant and interesting range of subjects covered, an overall enjoyable and timely presentation that leaves viewers wanting more. Well done! I encourage you to continue this format as a periodic addition to your current (very popular and original) productions. I'll wager you can find many other interesting & informative guests who would be more than happy to participate, probably more than you yourself believe. And some of them might surprise you. Lots of room for growth and expansion into a whole host of new and/or related subjects and interviewees. Brilliant move, my friend! Live-Streams are next, then who knows? Maybe even Podcasts, if you are so-inclined. And just to think, this whole thing started in one of the literally MOST barren and hostile places on earth, The Salton Sea! "It's a funny world we live in."
You live a very interesting life, my friend. Bravo!
RANDY IS DOING INTERVIEWS!!! BRILLIANT!!!
So I tried his books. Nice surprise. Yes they look like an old fashioned army manual but are much better. His descriptions of the communication do’s and dont’s, methods and procedures used real conflicts are excellent and make it a worthy read regardless of one’s experience with vhf/uhf.
Great video! Thank you so much for doing this.
Randy another fantastic video thank you
I think Randy is ready for a new thing, and it won't be the first time he's reinvented himself to get better at building his brand.
Bought the book… It’s a great addition to my “analogue library” of how to books, from gardening to carpentry. For when the electricities are gone 😮
I should’ve bought this book a year ago. Going to get it now Randy you’re the best.
Informative and interesting conversation gents...thank you both👏👏👏
Great video and thanks to both of you for posting great content! Keep it up Randy! I learn something new with every video, if Baby Xenu wants it to be so....
Excellent video!!!!
Keep up the amazing content Sir!
I SINCERELY APPRECIATE your channel.
Thank You again.
From Sunny SWFL
Loved the interview, I've read his blogs for years and agree with the points he brought up during the video.....
Great interview brother. Thank you. 🖖
As a former Signals Tech, well done.
Thank you! Great interview.
i bought this book on Nota's recommendation. glad i did. great resource.
excellent interview. thank you.
Definitely looking forward to this!
Thanks , always wanted to hear Matts story. Warched NC Scout YTs for awhile.
This mans lives in WNC and specializes in coms. I hope he's ok, and invite him back for an update! He probably saved a few lives.
NC Scout literally wrote the book on SHTF Boofwhang!
a book
Throughly enjoyed listening in !
Long overdue video! Stay safe from the fires! I hope my mountain cabin makes it!
Great interview Randy! You are covering new ground and fast! 🤝
I had an old ham buddy (RIP) that made a yagi antenna out of a tape measure. Can’t wait to check out this book.
My first Jeep was a CJ-7 because I couldn’t find a Scrambler anywhere. I was lucky to own one that was the Levi’s edition with a 360 AMC engine. Instant unplanned chick magnet.
Great show. Really enjoyed it. Thanks!
I definitely have to get me this book. Thanks guys.
NAR / NC Scout crossover?? The dynamic duo!
Gotta say that was a great vlog/discussion. Do more like that pleeeeeease?
This was a great interview and I really enjoyed it! Keep them coming NotaRubicon Productions!
Awesome interview. Ty
I've been using the meshtastic mesh for a couple of months now. Agreed on the points you make. I'm an amateur extra too, I'm enjoying the experimentation. There's a large network out here in SoCal, many people having fun and experimenting with the tech.
It's been a fun way to see changes when testing antennas and antenna placement. Gives me great ideas for my ham radio antennas.
I had thought about buying this book. I had my list down to this one and the Baofeng Radio Bible 2024. I chose the latter. I will now buy this book as well.
Super cool guest. Some very salient points made
Great job. Good to see you Matt. Maybe I should bring my 99 TJ next time I see you.
AWESOME INTERVIEW! THANKS
50:26 - _The emperor has no clothes!_ It’s rather refreshing to hear somebody pointing out the obvious!
Awesome! Matt is the the man!
Great interview!!! As a ham, there's a lot of truth bombs. I own both the books mentioned and they are fantastic.
The most common sense that I've heard concentrated, in one conversation " all year.
NotaRubicon is hilarious with his delivery of questions 😂
So funny. You know what a rolodex is & think others do. We're old, dude!
Best show ever.
Have the book!....AWESOME BOOK!
Badass, thanks dude
I know next to nothing about radio communication. I was getting a little interested in 'shortwave radios' to gather better faster information should SHTF but it seems support for shortwave is rapidly dying likely due to the internet. I've been watching Randy 'NotaRubicon' for a while and became convinced I needed to take a few steps. I knew about NC Scout as he is referenced quite often in the prepper/militia communities. So I bought a couple AR-152s and 'The Guerilla's Guide...'. The knowledge within the book will get you started and more if you apply the information. Like most things I've found out regular practice with the radio will help build your skills. I haven't finished the book yet or played with the radio much but I'm finding active channels and 'listening' to local chat. After a while It becomes obvious that antennas play a big part in collecting 'fars'. Randy - no doubt - will be reading every comment about this new venture so I want to let him know this was great and he couldn't have picked a better guest to start with! I can't usually listen to an hour plus podcast but this was truly interesting!
Well look who it is 😂🎉 NC is on the tube
00:17 ... And yet we sit thru an introduction... Oh the humanity !!!
Excellent! Men speaking American!
Meshtastic is OK as a companion to voice radio in a disaster as one can text lists, names, etc. to/from a central command cell rather than have to key up and say "I spell, Juliet, Oscar, Hotel, November, break." "Sierra, November, Uniform, Fox, Fox, Yankee."
Someone at the Command Cell with a meshtastic radio hooked up to a PC can then just copy-pasta the text info coming in from the field into their reports or in a text file to print out and hand to others.
That's pretty much how it's used out here in the Midwest outside of locals just chatting with each other.
No one here is seriously thinking of using it in a tactical situation lest something fall on their head a few minutes later.
I would *never* use it in any sort of tactical environment whatsoever. Ever. Way too "noisy". Those that know, know.
Now that being said, there's a tech preview of the Meshtastic firmware - 2.5.x - that includes PKI encryption for all messaging and all but it's still transmitting on the bottom of the 900mhz ISM band as well as in the 2.4Ghz band. Encrypted is good when transmitting names and possible medical conditions in a disaster situation.
But the Meshtastic signal itself does stick out on a panadapter looking at 900-915mhz spectrum because it's a series of slanted lines over and over.
And by "stick out" I mean "holy shlt, that signal looks really weird."
I've heard a few relief volunteers on Broadcastify's Mt. Mitchell repeater the last couple of weeks desperately sharing their email or SMS due to poor signal, then complaining a couple days later about spammed inboxes. I initially thought Meshtastic might be a possible 'texting' alternative for when voice communication just isn't clear enough, but it sounds like it may not be up to the task without carpeting a disaster area with the things. I've seen suggestions of combining them with an RPi to function something like a "decentralized BBS" but that sounds like it could quickly get complicated and expensive vs a local community of folks who have radios and know how to use them.
Great video/ interview.
Once again, you have created an entertaining and informative product.
I wished that you would have asked him about using a Roger Beep.
Fantastic interview!
Lmao I ended up looking up Colorado Campfire. Thanks for the laugh!
Me too. If you say don't look it up, of course I'm just gonna look it up!
Thanks very much for this 👍👍
It's an awesome book !!
I don't have any radios yet. I would like to buy the AR 152. How do I know if it's unlocked?
Best nap I have had in weeks.
Respect to the guest and of course you notarubicon , but this mofo was the hardest to follow character I have ever listened to. Enjoyed it though, made my high even better❤😂
Very epic. Am soup scriber now. WOW!
Awesome interview!
You are too awesome to live in California. Move to East Tennessee. We got Windrock and an awesome ham community! Plus no emissions testing. Fellow jeep and ham person!
Your special follower. 😂
thanks for the video
just ordered his book and ordered the boofwang ar152
Around the @20:00 min mark Scout mentioning a "jump off point" for the hobby/skillset.. lol, my "jump off point" is notarubicon's humor. Will tune back in looking for the humor and osmosis should take care of the rest 😂
I watched all the way to the good part. Now I want a LJ long jeep. Thanks.
I probably dropped a grand on Meshtastic. Nothing ever worked. I designed/built solar repeaters, and it failed most my range tests. Finally, unless I could see someone directly behind a repeater, then I could not communicate. Example, from my handset, to my repeater, to a distance repeater, I couldn't communicate to anyone behind that repeater. Forget anyone behind yet another repeater. I did get repeater to repeater range of 4 miles. But it's not useful as a emergency SMS message replacement. It just doesn't work.
At the point of having a couple repeaters up, I realized I could have bought every person in my club a GMRS radio. HT costs about $30. On Meshtastic, you easily spend that much on every node. Sure, the boards are $18, but you need a case, battery, antenna, not to mention a $200 repeater on the roof. You can build a GMRS base station cheaper than a solar powered Meshtastic repeater.
So if any potential Meshtastic peeps are out there, just go to GMRS. Save monies.
Nice art Randy, remember the women and children….and who took them out
That is a based image to have up as a reality check.
Great interview.