Welcome to the Brushbeater Store!
Its been one hell of ride getting here. Seven, nearly eight, years since the launch of the original Brushbeater blog and look…
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The Dispatch
Guides, gear reviews, and lessons from the field on comms, optics, and everything in between.
The Guerrilla’s Guide to the Baofeng Radio: Thoughts on the Reality of Unconventional Warfare and Communications
There’s been a raging debate about the little cheap Chinese radio literally since the things started showing up in the US a…
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Spectrum Management, Small Unit Tactics and the Next Generation
I was once asked, years ago, to define what the small unit actually was. The person asking was intensely well qualified, mind…
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Shortwave: The Warlord’s Radio
Need HF? The Xiegu G90 has you covered.
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Why HF Radio is a Critical Asset
High Frequency (HF) radio should be a top communications priority among Armed Americans. While line of sight (LOS), tactical-level communications usually get…
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Data In Motion: The Key to COMSEC
Communications Security, or COMSEC, is one of those deep topics. Its not a clean, neat answer in nearly any case, with the…
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Clandestine Communications: One Time Pads
Originally appears on American Partisan and in The Guerrilla Dispatch, Volume 1. One Time Pad is the most robust form of encryption used…
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The Alternative to Rolling Dice for OTP Pads – The ADL-1 OTP Generator, by GuerrillaLogistician
Originally appears on American Partisan and authored by my friend “Guerrilla Logistician”. Get your OTP Generator here. -NCS The many facets of encryption…
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The All-New Brushbeater Range-R Card
The Range-R card is one of those things that I never expected would have taken off the way it did – over 800 sold…
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TinySA Ultra – SIGINT SETUP, by GuerrillaLogistician
The TinySA Ultra is an interesting little device and the improvement over the TinySA. While this is a spectrum analyzer, we can use…
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