Mr. Sharp Commo Book 18E Course Book #2 As of 8 February 2017 18E SWC Mr. Sharp Communication Book Page 1 Contents BASIC COMMUNICATION RULES ..................................................................... 5 BASIC RADIO THEORY ........................................................................................ 7 ANTENNA THEORY ............................................................................................ 20 RADIO TELEPHONE OPERATOR (RTO) PROCEDURES .............................. 38 RADIO PROCEDURES ....................................................................................................... 40 COMSEC ............................................................................................................... 51 SECURE SYSTEMS ........................................................................................................... 53 SKL ............................................................................................................................. 53 KYK-13 ....................................................................................................................... 63 RASKL (REALLY SIMPLE KEY LOADER) (KIK-30) ................................................................. 65 VHF RADIO .......................................................................................................... 82 AN/PRC-119F (RT-1523F) .......................................................................................... 82 SINGLE CHANNEL ....................................................................................................... 83 Scan Operation .......................................................................................................... 84 OTAR (Over the Air Rekey) ......................................................................................... 85 Frequency Hop ........................................................................................................... 88 Retransmission operations ........................................................................................ 90 URBAN VERSION AN/PRC-148(V) 4(C) OR (V) 6(C) JEM ................................................. 92 Loading a key into the radio. ..................................................................................... 99 Loading a Load set into the radio .............................................................................. 99 BASIC Channel .......................................................................................................... 105 SINCGARS SC Channel .............................................................................................. 107 SINCGARS FH Channel .............................................................................................. 108 ANDVT (Advanced Narrowband Digital Voice Terminal .......................................... 110 (BASIC) WIDEBAND SATCOM Channel ..................................................................... 112 SATCOM NB Channel ............................................................................................... 112 SATCOM WB Channel .............................................................................................. 112 GROUP ..................................................................................................................... 114 SCAN ........................................................................................................................ 114 Cloning ..................................................................................................................... 116 A-320 AMPLIFIER & A-320DPA ................................................................................... 119 DATA ........................................................................................................................ 122 PDA 184 ................................................................................................................... 123 PDA-184 CHEAT SHEET ............................................................................................ 123 Retransmission ......................................................................................................... 125 (MA6943) 20W VEHICLE ADAPTER ......................................................................... 126 FREQUENCY CODE ........................................................................................................ 128 SELECTED ANTENNA ...................................................................................... 135 18E SWC Mr. Sharp Communication Book Page 2 GROUND WAVE ANTENNAS .......................................................................................... 141 Whip Antenna or ¼ λ (image) Antenna .................................................................... 141 Antenna Group OE-254: ........................................................................................... 141 ¼ λ Vertical Whip/"Jungle" Antenna ........................................................................ 141 100' Vertical half-Rhombic Antenna ........................................................................ 143 ¼ Wave Slant Wire Antennas ................................................................................... 143 VHF "J"- Pole Antenna .............................................................................................. 144 Reverse Scissors Antenna ......................................................................................... 144 SKY WAVE ANTENNAS .................................................................................................. 145 Half-wave Dipole Antenna ....................................................................................... 145 Mulit-band Dipole Two Frequency's ........................................................................ 146 Sloping Dipole .......................................................................................................... 146 ½ λ Inverted Vee Antenna ........................................................................................ 146 ¼ Wave Slant Wire ................................................................................................... 147 14 % off - center-fed ................................................................................................ 148 Full wave closed loop ............................................................................................... 150 Long wire ................................................................................................................. 151 100' Vertical half-Rhombic Antenna (HF / VHF) ....................................................... 153 Sloping Vee Antenna ................................................................................................ 154 Sloping wire ............................................................................................................. 155 Kailua Offset Antenna .............................................................................................. 155 AS-2259/GR.............................................................................................................. 156 Types of Transmission Line ...................................................................................... 156 Antenna Troubleshooting ........................................................................................ 161 CLANDESTINE ANTENNA CONSIDERATIONS ....................................................................... 163 HF RADIO ........................................................................................................... 167 AN/PRC-137F SMRS ................................................................................................ 167 Startup procedure for HF ALE .................................................................................. 170 Startup procedure for HF/ FM Voice ........................................................................ 171 UHF Initialization Procedures ................................................................................... 172 AN/PRC-137H SMRS ................................................................................................ 179 Install and Operate the RT-2018 (P)(C)/U (outstation) ............................................ 182 Perform Net-Entry .................................................................................................... 183 SETUP HF CLEAR VOICE ............................................................................................ 186 SETUP FM CLEAR/SECURE VOICE ............................................................................. 187 UHF (SATCOM) ALE Procedures ............................................................................... 188 AN/PRC-150 ............................................................................................................ 190 SOF SYSTEM SATCOM/EQUIPMENT/WAVEFORMS .................................. 207 AN/PRC-117G(V)1(C) RT-1949(P)(C) & AN/PRC-152A(V)1(C) RT-19166(P)(C) ....... 216 COMSEC FILL (TEK or KEK for VULOS) ...................................................................... 235 VULOS Line of Site (LOS) Comsec Fill Cheat Sheet .................................................... 236 VULOS Satcom Wide Band (WB) Comsec Fill Cheat Sheet ....................................... 237 18E SWC Mr. Sharp Communication Book Page 3 VULOS Satcom Narrow Band (Comsec Fill) Cheat Sheet .......................................... 238 SINCGARS Frequency