How to Set Up Maps and Encrypted Comms in ATAK 

Meshtastic and Meshtastic integration with ATAK needs to be on the hit list.

You know when you're trying to figure out how to disassemble an obscure firearm or set up something that isn't super mainstream so you find a video from a guy in like 2006 filmed in 440p that is exactly what you need? This channel will be that for future generations.

Beartooth COMMS with ATAK is incredible.

I would love to see the ATAK implimentation using a LoRa meshtastic network. Great video!

This (new) channel and the podcast are rapidly becoming some of my very favorite content to consume. Well done Isaac and team.

You should get together with Ham Radio Crash Course to show how ATAK can be used off line with Meshtastic to communicate in emergencies. And more on how to de google your devices running these applications.

This is the type of content we absolutely need

South African here. Our community policing is coming together. ATAK has been mentioned as a possible co-ordination tool. Our last operation involved a raid with local police on a location that was fairly large. We did used google maps to identify possible escape routes and we split to cover but our control of assets was very loose. While we did make 18 successful arrests we also lost some of the fast movers due to limited communication with the drone operators and the very basic nature of our strategy. Due to our cell networks being very unreliable and cover limited, if we use this tool we will need mesh networking. We may also need tiers of op data where mission command has an uncluttered overview of our groups while each group has more detailed information of their sectors. Finally, radio comms integration, possibly tiered again where group leaders have better comms with command and the drones and their groups are able to communicate amongst themselves without interference. The groups being able to see every member as well as other groups leaders location or better yet able to toggle the amount of friendly units one is looking at might be helpful if that is an option. Thanks.

I would love to learn how to integrate my Meshtastic network into ATAK. I specifically use Wisblock and have several nodes. Thanks! Keep up the great work guys!!

An episode on meshtastic information would be great

I spent 5 years in the Corps, all of which was in UAV squadrons. Been rolling around the idea of making my OWN UAV for years now and I now think integrating this is an absolute must. ATAK + a bird with ArduPilot + Meshtastic...could be REALLY awesome. Video series, anyone? 😁

I’m an old school comms guy who’s developed a real interest in meshtastic/atak implementation. Please consider more in depth “how to” install and utilize this all together. Thanks

A video (or 2) showing how to completely decentralize ATAK. No outside communication, only intra mesh network encripted comms/map sharing. This is top priority to me.

Didnt even know the labs channel existed. I have been looking at ATAK stuff over last few days, S2 underground is a great resource too. I have played with ATAK thinking about usecases: my family is going to a festival, how can we keep tabs on where the kids are, where the tent is pitched, the car parked etc. Next, its a field how can we communicate if no mobile data? (Meshtastic for example). Another use case was for replacing life360, to keep an eye on family and when they arrive at school, worl, home etc. I think having a use case and then walk through and/or homework would be great to help us learn how to use. Next I want to learn how to add camera feeds from static and drone cameras, like US forest fire service somewhere - that way I can set up a nice command portal to keep tabs on HQ(home), my CO(wife) and SpecOps(Kids). Keep up the great work Trex arms, labs and everything else

Meshtastic has implemented atak capability so you can use an encrypted mesh network in the field with your team.

For me I would love to see offline communications through mesh radio networks. At distances or situations where you can't have network access but only able to send data through radios, more secure the better, and if possible able to connect with cheaper radios like the UV-5R for the friend who didn't prepare with more expensive radio setups, and allows for mass additions to new members if needed.

An episode detailing how to setup and use meshtastic and hammer alongside ATAK in an offline/offgrid environment would be absolutely amazing.

The effort and professionalism put into these videos is so encouraging. Great job, guys.

Love how you hint at the complexity of adding TAK servers into the equation. Good stuff.

Super helpful. Downloaded it after your first video and used it last week to help develop my pace count. Marked off 100 meters and confirmed with trip. Thanks

Providing the community with emergency response resources through Atak has value. As in a hurricane, tornado, flood. How to build a network on a budget, creating a community to communicate with, utilizing a drone to extend reach if needed, etc… appreciate the dedication here

Would love to see more about integrating ATAK into small unit tactics. Using it to move in a specific formation without direct line of sight. Also using it to navigate complicated terrain, designating zones of fire. Oh and integration with Meshtastic as someone already mentioned. Can’t wait to learn more. Great video.

Thank you Isaac for this great tutorial, helps a lot to get a better understanding on ATAK. Please go on with this and dig deeper in ATAK and the ecosystem around it.

One of the things I have considered using ATAK for was replacing the use of Garmin Rino’s for things such as ATV’ing and Bear Hunting. We use Garmin Rino’s to make sure we can keep locations of other people in our party (especially for bear hunting in PA) as we try to drive through brush to make sure we are driving the bear in the right direction while also knowing where the other part of the party that’s posted is (for obvious safety reasons). We’ve found the Rino’s too to be helpful for locating other people in our group while ATV’ing as well to ensure we can stay connected and know where other ATV’s are in the group. The issue we have with the Rino’s is that they are pretty clunky to use, go out of sync all the time, And they are often fairly expensive to buy while also having limited capabilities as GPS’s and Radios outside of the “connected location monitoring use”.Where we’ve considered using ATAK as a replacement. Our big concern though is that we often don’t have cell service, so we’d like to figure out ways to plug in ATAK with radios (DMR’s, GMrS, or HAM) or mesh networks to be able to communicate off grid.

Not that this comment will go anywhere however i do want to say thank you for all of these tech videos. It’s opened my eyes to another side of being “tactical” my whole life I’ve been training martial arts and competing/shooting matches and running drills. I have a safe full of all the high end firearms and accessories……yet upon starting these tech series videos, firearms feel archaic somehow to me now. I never realized how important communication, drones, radios and subduing Chinese spy shenanigans is. All of this information can be extremely overwhelming so I’m trying to start small and bought myself a radio and just learning channels and the capabilities of that. As well as I need to purchase an android to start atak learning 😅. But this channel and information provided is priceless. I would’ve never known the opposite side of being tactical if it wasn’t for you guys providing it. Keep on rocking!!!

This channel has now become one of my favorites👌 thanks for the info and I definitely want to hear more.

Topic suggestion: How to get data out of ATAK data onto a computer for analysis. And how to set up Data packs on a computer and get them into ATAK. Awesome video!

You have peaked my interest with atak. I have been just prepping with paper maps and coms . But now im very interested in this

Thanks for the update! I'm glad to see a recent video

Extremely helpful!!! I’m always excited to get your insight on tools!!!

I'd love to see if it's a possibility to run meshtastoc and Atak in a useful manner. Definitely loving this channel

Glad you got to reviewing this again!

Make a guide on how to use it for casual stuff. Like concerts, marathons, conferences, airshows etc where you go with group of friends. Maybe even with a side of situation tracking. That way we can train and familiarize others with this stuff.

This is amazing. I've loved the original ATAK video but never felt like I was getting the pull potential of the app. This new channel has really got me back into the world of ethical hacking.

I've been waiting for this video for years! Thank you T.Rex!

Been toying with the ATAK idea for a couple of years now. I finally have a spare rugged phone to experiment with. Thanks and subbed.

Love the content. Anything on ATAK is welcome

Great information! Thanks and hi from the town next door from Centerville, Tennessee 👋🏻

i didnt even know this channel existed, but will definitely check it out now.

I love this, you just popped up for me. You are a very smart man and thank you for what you are helping us do.

I love this. Please make more of this content.

Since you asked: for me the primary use of atak would be hunting. I would get a bunch of dedicated phones and hand them out to the whole hunting party and ideally everyone could stay connected in the field and nobody gets lost. Most of the time while hunting there is no internet so offline maps and some kind of p2p connection or connection to a central base camp would be necessary. Thanks for doing videos like this keep up the good work

Yes for setting up a mesh network using mesh tactic and integrating ATAK with it 👌🏼 the more knowledge and how to about it the better!

Love both Chanel’s. Very interested in this topic. Things I would like to see when using ATAK. Drone control, team tracking and communication (if that makes sense?) basically knowing where your team is and sending data packages I.e. drone feeds , photos messages etc. thanks so much for this content.

I really appreciate this content. I prefer the "nerdy" stuff. Glad Lucas started the company but even gladdier (😂) Isaac is doing the nerdy stuff for folks like me 😁

Great video, I have been very happy with OSMand+ but I am going to try ATAK now too!

Thanks for all the Infos about ATAK. Did some good learnings.

The ATAK TAKWatch plugin with the Garmin TAKWatch app would be a good video.

Would love to see Meshtastic plug in

This is definitely something I want to get into, your video was posted on a facebook page I’m on and yt did not recommend even though I’m subscribed to all pages

I would love a video where you summarize all the useful things like add-ons to install. A list of things to do that are somewhat intuitive. And then in depth videos about more complicated subjects. Like Mesh/Lora integration.

For me, meshtastic + offline maps are number 1 priority. Stellar information my friend!

This was very helpful! I would like to see more content about meshtastic integration with ATAK.

This is helpful. Please keep making these.

Would love to see more on APRS, Drone, and accessing video cams with ATAK. Thank you!

great stuff, keep 'em coming

I was really waiting for this! ATAK info is so scarce and so dispersed that it becomes a pain to access. Hope you keep making these videos! As a nerd, I prefer your way of creating content, other than Lucas. Don't get me wrong, your brother makes awesome content too, but guns and nylon are everywhere, what you bring to the table is way more "obscure".

Great video, this is what I teach. Love to discuss dted 0 vs 2, mesh radios, mission package best practices and mission planning and distribution of data. Isr and uas integration is also a great force multiplier

What I would love to see is an overview of examples of how to use ATAK in a squad. For example: -If you're using it to gather intel of an enemy emplacement, what does that look like? Can it involve the integration of other devices actively gathering data for you, like live-video feed from a drone of a specific area (like a CoD UAV or a Ghost Recon spotting drone, kind of)? Can it be used with other devices to triangulate locations of radio transmissions or the like? -How to use ATAK to set traps for unsuspecting patrols. Can you connect motion-sensors and trigger devices remotely from ATAK itself? -Is it possible to feed radio or other comms through ATAK to consolidate squad comms through a single source? These are just a few things that I would love to see because I haven't found them anywhere else. Everyone talks about the basics of it and navigating the UI, but nobody does a great job of expanding on the cool possibilities or giving alternative selling points to just the squad communication and navigation aspects of it. Thanks in advance! Loved this video for how simply it showed what the rest of the internet makes overly complicated in just what ATAK could be and how to get it useable, lol.

Meshtastic! Probably what you were already alluding to. I can see using this for two other use case, hunting and incident command for a disaster or something. Also running big outdoor events like a tough mudder or tactical games.

Effective. Thank you!

+1 for the meshtastic integration video.

I'm using ATAK thanks to your 1st video Sir. Great video...again Sir. I'd love to see videos about OFF GRID comms USING ATAK. I use ATAK & WINTAK with my hiking team.The problem is ,as everybody else, The Internet. I'm not a tech person.I'd love to learn how to run my own server. NO cheap solution so far.

Super awesome, thank you for your effort!

In your future video, it would be nice to learn about offline communication and coordination amongst a group, most of which is likely not tech savvy (family). Integration with APRS over radio (HAM, GMRS, and eventually business band?). Good sources for offline maps and elevation data would be great. Love it! Keep them coming!

Helpful. Thanks for the video!

I want to use this with my family, not training around specific scenarios, but just managing a group of a bunch of adults and kids when we're all traveling together. It's a bit off-label, but I actually think this is a better tool than, say, location sharing on Google maps with a separate chat.

This is super sick. It'll make planning hikes much more enjoyable. Espeacially the bloodhound function. Drop a pin at the start point to orient my position around home base??? So cool 😁

This is what i've been looking for.

This JUST popped up in my recommended idk why I didn’t see it earlier I’ll be playing catch up this weekend

Thank you Isaac, Very cool!

Love this! More ATAK

thanks for the generous gift.

Agreed, please cover Meshtastic integration. Great video and thanks for the content!

Bread crumbs for others to follow. Search and rescue aids, like showing where each member of the search party has been. Thanks a lot.

For those without Part 90 licenses, and across short ranges, MURS might be ideal for experimenting with over the air connection of devices running ATAK. Multiple digital data types are allowed including F2D telemetry(GPS) and F2B teletype(messaging). Encryption and F2C(images) aren't allowed but it could still open the door to some aspiring plugin developer. There are plenty of inexpensive MURS radios with the common Kenwood K1 plugs that will readily accept a cheap Bluetooth TNC.

Thank you for the content!

Excellent, keep em coming

excellent content, thank you.

Love the content lately, but especially look forward to Isaac’s stuff (I am a slight nerd)

Amazing. Dude. This matters

Isaac, would love to see a video on ATAK + Beartooth Mk 2, and how well they work with each other for a complete off-grid encrypted set up.

Offline maps and rubber sheet plugin is a good start. Lots of videos showing how to deploy TAK servers.

Thanks for the informative video on a cool app.

To accomplish: Atak to a main command screen in a off-x location like an HQ type location, to a larger monitor/tablet

keep up this great content

This is great! I think a good future video would be how DMR Radio can collaborate with ATAK

Big fan of these vids

great channel just found you, thanks for the content

Great video! Next stop - integration of Lora/meshtastic comms 📶📡

Keep up the good work.

Thanks for continuing to put out info on this … my essential needs from atak and what I’ve “mostly” figured out but would really appreciate is essentially grid down communications with basic data shared and viewable over atak via radio (analog/ and LoRa ) I want to be able to give my family members an android and radio and be able to get their location and communicate with them in grid down scenarios ( and what system would facilitate that best using something like atak )

You got my vote

YES! THANK YOU! MORE LIKE THIS!!!!!!! 🤝

Muchas Gracias por tu trabajo

I would love for you to show me how to use ATAK with a group of friends, how we can do specific missions for fun. For hiking, mountain climbing, whatever so me and my friends can implement guns into it.

Your video came up after I did research on the hacker Rf one device.

Excellent video Isaac. Let's see some implementation out in the field moving and communicating please, all while off line integrating Meshtastic, or any better alternative.

The biggest area of interest for me and my friends was the pairing of drones with our ATAK maps.

I have shared this video with my real life, organic friends.