40 Ignoring Competence
Aug 29, 2026 · 32 min · 11 segments
Talking failures in warfare over comms and encryption with Historian
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Aug 29, 2026 · 32 min · 11 segments
Talking failures in warfare over comms and encryption with Historian
And that's something key for everyone.
We've gone over this before, but I want to hammer this home.
Learning how to build your own antenna is probably one of the major steps.
Getting good communications.
Nobody understands that.
I didn't understand that.
I started my career in radios on running QRP rigs because, and my father had a huge setup, great system.
I think he did a moon bounce one time.
Lots of power.
But I couldn't travel with that.
So I worked with very limited stuff and I bought a lot of bad antennas before I got to a link dipole, which is one of my favorite ones.
There's a whole bunch of dipoles out there.
There's a whole bunch of antennas.
But in this class, you'll understand why you want this specific antenna that you build and you build one.
So you get to take it home.
It's for you.
And.
It will get you an understanding on how to communicate in that skip zone that most ham operators ignore, that local area, and how to do it safely and securely as best you can.
But there is a side to this that is brought up in the Guerrilla's Guide to the Bay of Fang Radio.
Historian talks about it in class to a pretty decent amount.
About the security of your communications.
And most of the class we do with just standard common ham radio law.
We don't break any rules.
We're talking on the radio, plain open text.
We talk about in class if there's a non-permissive environment.
And that's something key for everyone.
We've gone over this before, but I want to hammer this home.
Learning how to build your own antenna is probably one of the major steps.
Getting good communications.
Nobody understands that.
I didn't understand that.
I started my career in radios on running QRP rigs because, and my father had a huge setup, great system.
I think he did a moon bounce one time.
Lots of power.
But I couldn't travel with that.
So I worked with very limited stuff and I bought a lot of bad antennas before I got to a link dipole, which is one of my favorite ones.
There's a whole bunch of dipoles out there.
There's a whole bunch of antennas.
But in this class, you'll understand why you want this specific antenna that you build and you build one.
So you get to take it home.
It's for you.
And.
It will get you an understanding on how to communicate in that skip zone that most ham operators ignore, that local area, and how to do it safely and securely as best you can.
But there is a side to this that is brought up in the Guerrilla's Guide to the Bay of Fang Radio.
Historian talks about it in class to a pretty decent amount.
About the security of your communications.
And most of the class we do with just standard common ham radio law.
We don't break any rules.
We're talking on the radio, plain open text.
We talk about in class if there's a non-permissive environment.
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