So I had my first Airsoft milsim and it was crap because of radio communication and channels being so close.

[Looplow]

So having a massive milsim and radio communcations are important. However when you have a channel not designated for not any platoon unit person and just have it for the platoon leaders was a crap show.



Channel One-Not Availble



Channel 2 not available



Channel 3-N/A



Channel 4- Admin staff



Channel 5 Command Staff



Channel6-8 platoon units.



So getting on the field being on platoon 2 on Chan 7 no one would respond. Channel 6 and 8 were the only one who were on the net. 7 of my friends got together and made our own radio communication without orders.



Channel One-Would be a dispatch channel

Channel 2 and 3 would be a command post and a staging area channel.

GMRS Repeater 17 which was turned on in my car was a field-com freq.

Murs Channel one would be established for a small squad.



We also established a field communications radio so they would relay to me and I would relay back while monitoring the team leader channel and going on the dispatch channel.





The radio my friend had was a dual watch radio, I would have a base station monitoring 4 Freqs at once and another base station that would be only for a dispatch station, and a portable radio that would monitor on the squad I was on.



Anyone who was respawning in, I would tell them where their platoons were at based on their last transmission location. Phase 2 was the same thing.

 

[alcahuete]

Is there a question here?

No idea what radios or frequencies you are all using, but CCRs (Cheap Chinese Radios) will definitely get overloaded very easily when the channels and/or other radios are close. The front ends are overloaded very easily. The best way to avoid this is to avoid cheap Amazon crap radios, but again, you didn't say what radios you're trying to use.

 

[Looplow]

Is there a question here?

No idea what radios or frequencies you are all using, but CCRs (Cheap Chinese Radios) will definitely get overloaded very easily when the channels and/or other radios are close. The front ends are overloaded very easily. The best way to avoid this is to avoid cheap Amazon crap radios, but again, you didn't say what radios you're trying to use.

Everyone were using baofengs

Most of my friends used, Motorola Sabers, Astro Sabers and MT2000’s. I used they system saber, a GMRS Intercom Base Station, and a

QYT KT-7900D 25W Mini Quad Band Base​

Everyone were using baofengs

Most of my friends used, Motorola Sabers, Astro Sabers and MT2000’s. I used they system saber, a GMRS Intercom Base Station, and a

QYT KT-7900D 25W Mini Quad Band Base​

We were also using GMRS freq and FRS mainly

 

[alcahuete]

And were you experiencing interference on the Moto gear, or just the Baofengs and QYT? If just on those, that is not surprising. They are very easily overloaded by close signals.

 

[Looplow]

And were you experiencing interference on the Moto gear, or just the Baofengs and QYT? If just on those, that is not surprising. They are very easily overloaded by close signals.

Gaurenteed 200 folks would be on one channel at one time accidentally then yes it was overloaded.

 

[alcahuete]

Gaurenteed 200 folks would be on one channel at one time accidentally then yes it was overloaded.

There are two different things at play here, and you're still not saying what exactly is happening. If you have 200 people trying to use the same channel simultaneously, yes, there are going to be issues regardless. That's a mess. There's no way to fix that, aside from not having 200 people use one channel.

If the issue is hearing people on one channel when they are actually on another, that's called being Baofeng'ed. Those cheap radios are very easily overloaded by other close radios, even when they are on adjacent channels.

 

[mmckenna]

that's called being Baofeng'ed.

Love it.

This is what happens when you let inexperienced/untrained people program crappy radios. It's the "UToobs Skewl of Raydeoh Teknishun and Injunering". I've run into this at work, and it keeps me well employed. Not everyone should be programming radios.

 

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[Colin9690]

Reading that turned my brain into scrambled eggs. Cool story.

 

[GlobalNorth]

It is no different in the armed services. Damn little works, the OPLAN stopped working 1 minute before it was supposed to kick off, every 2nd Lieutenant did it their way, and the enemy gets a vote on everything.

Read 'On War' by von Clausewitz.