Chapter 21- "Mark of the Beast" - Part 3

[Leedo2502]

The Prius was probably the only thing in the motor pool that would have been able to make the trip. IF, it was feasible.
Would you send a troop out on point without communication?

Idealy no but that might be the only option. But you gotta think too what could the tower do to help the scouting party even if they were able to get word back.

An aside, you could send a party back to the Reserve center and pick up all the SINGARS there and set up a re-trans site along the way... put it up in a nice tall building with an OE-254 antena....

[HaveCrowBarWillTravel]

Idealy no but that might be the only option. But you gotta think too what could the tower do to help the scouting party even if they were able to get word back.

An aside, you could send a party back to the Reserve center and pick up all the SINGARS there and set up a re-trans site along the way... put it up in a nice tall building with an OE-254 antena....

Ok.. SINGARS.. wait! do you mean SINCGARS? I'm going to assume Durai and Co cleaned those out as well, plus Sir Rapes a Lot said they have better comm equipment.
A retrans/OP/LP would be the best thing to do, BUT, they'd have to find a secure location because they'd be on their own for a really long time. Victor is the only one with that experience.

[Leedo2502]

Ok.. SINGARS.. wait! do you mean SINCGARS? I'm going to assume Durai and Co cleaned those out as well, plus Sir Rapes a Lot said they have better comm equipment.
A retrans/OP/LP would be the best thing to do, BUT, they'd have to find a secure location because they'd be on their own for a really long time. Victor is the only one with that experience.

Yeah I forgot the 'C' LOL!
You could set those up without having someone man them... there is an auto retrans mode that you use with two radio's plugged together with some J cable (atleast I think it's J cable). I was thinking that you could set that up in some office building and have the antena running up on the roof hidden and whatnot.

[Leedo2502]

Ok.. SINGARS.. wait! do you mean SINCGARS? I'm going to assume Durai and Co cleaned those out as well, plus Sir Rapes a Lot said they have better comm equipment.
A retrans/OP/LP would be the best thing to do, BUT, they'd have to find a secure location because they'd be on their own for a really long time. Victor is the only one with that experience.

And I'm betting the radios that the Mallers have are the police radios since Military radios are a bit more complex and the radios that cops have are a bit simpler... we used the Motorolla XTS while on post and as Squad commo in Kosovo and that's the same radio that Cops have

[Kc]

SINCGARS?

Devils advocate. I'm wondering if we set up one and turned it on if anyone without training could operate one.

[Leedo2502]

Devils advocate. I'm wondering if we set up one and turned it on if anyone without training could operate one.

Well at the danger of incuring the wrath of Ra1th I'd say that Angel might not but Saul and Michael would have no problem... maybe Burt could pick it up and Victor could as well. But with no training and noone there to give the training I'd say that it would be nearly impossible for someone to operate on (like the Mallers)

[Blood & Ice Cream]

one thing i don't understand is why Michael suggested Burt/Saul checkout LAX for large helicopters?

there is probably loads of the smaller commercial ones around, but coming from an army intelligence unit, wouldn't an army air base be the first place to look?

get burt/saul down to Los Alamitos Army Airfield and pick up that Chinook thats ready on the airfield now!

[HaveCrowBarWillTravel]

Yeah I forgot the 'C' LOL!
You could set those up without having someone man them... there is an auto retrans mode that you use with two radio's plugged together with some J cable (atleast I think it's J cable). I was thinking that you could set that up in some office building and have the antena running up on the roof hidden and whatnot.

ahh.. gotcha. gotcha.. That's way out of my lane so i'll leave defer to your exp on that. It sounds like a solid plan

[HaveCrowBarWillTravel]

one thing i don't understand is why Michael suggested Burt/Saul checkout LAX for large helicopters?

there is probably loads of the smaller commercial ones around, but coming from an army intelligence unit, wouldn't an army air base be the first place to look?

get burt/saul down to Los Alamitos Army Airfield and pick up that Chinook thats ready on the airfield now!

The better bet would have been to get to Los Angeles Air Force Base and hope on a C130 (if they had a pilot).

[HaveCrowBarWillTravel]

Well at the danger of incuring the wrath of Ra1th I'd say that Angel might not but Saul and Michael would have no problem... maybe Burt could pick it up and Victor could as well. But with no training and noone there to give the training I'd say that it would be nearly impossible for someone to operate on (like the Mallers)

Leedo,

I'm under the impression that a good number of the mallers have prior military exp. Mr. I Got Puked On knew about a double fed M16, he's a bomb expert and mans their communications.
Scratch on the other hand couldn't tell they were being led into a prime ambush spot despite knowing what "Kill Zone" is.
Durai is obviously running a really tight ship with military precision.. oh crap, i'm using logic again aren't I?

ahem.. moving right along, LOL@ trying to stay off Ra1th's radar! Boy could I have used you in some earlier threads. ROFL!