# Radio Handbook

## Setup

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## Controls <a href="#h.u0ix2tl5mks0" id="h.u0ix2tl5mks0"></a>

Most of the time people will already have the right controls/keybinds. Sometimes this is not the case though. If this happens the first thing they will need to check is their settings, make sure you screen share so someone can watch what you are doing, make sure you are in the right setting and in configure addons, from there on you will see the settings PTT 1-2 and 3. That is where you can configure your keybinds, the default ones are CAPS + ALT + CTRL but some other keybinds can be very handy, for example, 4 or something like that.

## Basic short words

&#x20;                                               &#x20;

| <ul><li>Over</li></ul>               | <p>Permission to speak</p><p>(invitation to transmit)</p>            |
| ------------------------------------ | -------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| <ul><li>Copy (Roger)</li></ul>       | The message was received and understood                              |
| <ul><li>Say Again</li></ul>          | The message wasn’t received or understood.                           |
| <ul><li>Standby</li></ul>            | <p>Wait for a short period and I</p><p>will get back to you.</p>     |
| <ul><li>Affirmative</li></ul>        | Yes/Positive                                                         |
| <ul><li>Go ahead (Send it)</li></ul> | Say what you wanna say                                               |
| <ul><li>Negative</li></ul>           | No                                                                   |
| <ul><li>Out</li></ul>                | End of transmission                                                  |
| <ul><li>Break break break</li></ul>  | Stop with talking on the radio and let the person who said BBB talk. |
| <ul><li>Wait one</li></ul>           | Stop talking and wait until you can talk.                            |

#### When someone asks for your status you reply with:

\[name] \
Medical <mark style="color:green;">green</mark>, <mark style="color:orange;">orange</mark>, <mark style="color:red;">red</mark>, and **black**. Depending on health\
Ammo <mark style="color:green;">green</mark>, <mark style="color:orange;">orange</mark>, <mark style="color:red;">red</mark>, and **black**. Depending on Ammo

#### When someone asks for medical status reply with

\[name] Medical <mark style="color:green;">green</mark>, <mark style="color:orange;">orange</mark>, <mark style="color:red;">red</mark>, and **black**. Depending on health

#### When someone asks for ammo status reply with&#x20;

\[name] Ammo <mark style="color:green;">green</mark>, <mark style="color:orange;">orange</mark>, <mark style="color:red;">red</mark>, and **black**. Depending on Ammo

## Phonetic alphabet

| A | Alpha   | N | November |
| - | ------- | - | -------- |
| B | Bravo   | O | Oscar    |
| C | Charlie | P | Papa     |
| D | Delta   | Q | Quebec   |
| E | Echo    | R | Romeo    |
| F | Foxtrot | S | Sierra   |
| G | Golf    | T | Tango    |
| H | Hotel   | U | Uniform  |
| I | India   | V | Victor   |
| J | Juliet  | W | Whiskey  |
| K | Kilo    | X | X-ray    |
| L | Lima    | Y | Yankee   |
| M | Mike    | Z | Zulu     |

## Importance of rank

The chain of command is very important, for example, if someone asks for everyone's status, it goes down the chain of command first the squad-lead, then team-leads, then specialists, PFC, PVT, etc…

The main reason behind it is that people don't talk through each other if you speak at the end please address the next person in line, if we forgot anyone, they will be in the end when the last person finished with “last inline”

This will from now on also be communicated in the briefing, and we’ll work on it in server training. this will be of a bumpy start in the beginning but we’ll figure it out over time as we do with most things.

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