7th & 8th week: start of the technical recruitment

In the 7th week, we've started to get know our nice teacher and finally started to learn how some of the radio devices work, after all (in the 8th week) we've build the antenna stations. Because the 8th week was so short I decided to put the weeks 7 & 8 together. On the first few days we've learned all the materials, tools and devices we have to work with. We've learnt something about the cars (where we have to install the radio stations incl. antenna). Besides this, we needed to attend a lot of theory stuff about the military radio network and it's security (in sense of installing cables and not about cryptography). The last days we've played with following radio device (SE-235, found on google):


The first picture shows the radio device itself and the second shows the radio dev installed in a special "bag". On this pic you can see as well the micro telephone and a collapsible radio antenna. This is the portable version (radio soldiers wear it) where there do exist some portable version for cars, tanks, and other mobile military things, too. These devices can work digital and analog. The analog modus will be used only for testing purpose, because it's not encrypted. The other modus (digital) is for the real operation, for example at war. What kind of crypto-algo the military use is unknown, but a frequency hopping is used to provide another security layer.

Such a radio device installed on a military automobile looks like:

Others automobiles are (without installed antenna and not the full list of automobiles):

Above the "Puch" and below the "Duro":

The antennas are not only installed on cars. There are antenna-sets, where you can install them to whatever place you'd like to. The height of the antenna varies, too. In these weeks, we've also learnt how to install relay-stations.

About the military cadre, we have now 3 guys who are a bit higher-grade than we are and they let us feel this clearly. It's normal they do nothing but standing next to you and saying what to do or shouting at you and throwing around with swear words. The theory changed, the bastards are the same. Per default you're an asshole in this association but they need you. They love to pick a victim (more or less randomly) and just always shoot at it whenever they feel to do it. If you're a weak person then you will have a problem with it definately. But in the end, not the victims are the poor but the higher-grade guys with the character level of a kindergarten.

Have fun, see you later!