SAR Fundamentals/Communications

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SAR Fundamentals Manual: Ch.14 "Communications"
Basic SAR Skills Manual: F-4 "Communications"
Exercise

This training should include:


  • Why communications is important
  • Why professionalism, why standards?
  • communications methods used in SAR
  • Basic radio theory
    • Radio waves / light waves
    • Frequency
      • Bands
        • VHF: 30 - 300 MHz: 10 m to 1 m
        • UHF: 300MHz - 3 GHz: 1 m to 10 cm
    • CTCSS - continuous tone squelch system
      • interference
      • FRS sub channels
    • Propagation (sara std field)
    • Anatomy of radios (sara std field)
    • Types of radios
      • Base (sara std field)
      • Hand Held (sara std field)
      • Mobile (sara std field)
      • Repeater (sara std field)
      • Simplex vs Duplex (Repeater)
    • Connectors & Mobile Antennas (sara std field)
  • Use of radios
    • Battery Replacement (sara std field)
    • Using the controls (sara std field)
    • Posture of the user (sara std field)
    • Base Radio setup and use (sara std control)
    • Equipment and channels we have access to
  • Communication Protocols
    • Do not cut into a message being sent. Listen before you send.
    • choosing your words
      • Sound professional. Absolutely everyone is listening.
      • Make sure your information is clear, concise and short. Think before you speak, not during.
      • Speak slow and clear.
      • Use simple words.
      • Standard Words and Phrases
        • ITU Alphabet (sara std field)
        • numbers
          • 3-Tree 4-Fower 9-Niner
        • Calling procedures (sara std field)
          • Over - I have finished talking and I am listening for your reply. Short for "Over to you."
          • Out or Clear - I have finished talking to you and do not expect a reply.
          • Roger - Information received.
          • Copy - I understand what you just said (after receiving information).
          • Acknowledge - confirm you've received
          • This Is ...
          • Go Ahead
          • Stand By
          • Correction / I Say Again / Say Again
          • Read Back / That Is Correct
        • Wilco - Will Comply (after receiving new directions).
        • Affirmative / Negative / Wilco
        • Use the 24 hr clock to tell time.
        • Radio check
          • How Do You Read?
          • Strength / Clarity
            • 1 - (unreadable)
            • 2 - (breaking up)
            • 3 - (readable with difficulty)
            • 4 - (readable)
            • 5 - (perfectly readable)
      • MAYDAY / PAN PAN / SECURITY
      • Use of plain language (sara std field)
        • One exception 10-62 means turn radio off or move away from group. (sara std field)
        • PCSAR's codes
        • Death or injury relayed in code or special word by mgmt., instructions.
    • Call Signs
      • All Stations
    • Communications Traffic Logging (sara std control)
  • Laws
    • must identify yourself
    • profane language
    • false distress
      • e.g. tests that seem real
    • privacy
  • Hands On use of radios
    • Calling other stations (sara std field)
    • Passing traffic (sara std field)
    • Multiple Radio use simulation (sara std control)

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  1. will be able to ...

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Total Time: 60 minutes


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  • FRS Radios
  • PCSAR's portable radios
  • Brett's portable ham radio
  • Example of PCSAR's mobile radio
  • video project
  • laptop
  • computer presentation slides
  • for each student:
    • phonetic alphabet (handout or in text book)

hand-out:

http://pcsar.dyndns.org:8080/mem_docs/doc-051-communication-log.pdf
see sar/pc/training/subject/sar-fundamentals/components/subject/11-communications

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Exercise


19:45 to (Return to base by) 21:00


  ALL STATIONS, THIS IS SAR BASE, PINCHER CREEK SAR WILL BE CONDUCTING
  RADIO TRAINING ON THIS CHANNEL UNTIL 2200 HOURS. OUT


5 teams + base

  Base Team
    - person likely to be at base
    - any that may need to leave early

Practice Objective: Create as big a circle as possible around Pincher
Creek.  Each team is in contact either directly or indirectly with
base.

   Vehicles
    - Driver (more experienced radio person)
    - Radio (less experienced radio person)


   - If no communications for 5 minutes head back towards base

   - Base is in control

Underlying Objective: To practice proper use of radios.

   Use the techniques we've described.

   If you hear a communication that doesn't follow the protocol that
   we've learned, respond as if it was 'garbled'.


Sometime between 20:30 and 21:00 everyone at base.

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