Military Radio “Field Day” 2018
AFTER ACTION REPORT – Updated 6/3/19 Dateline: 23 June 2018, Forward Operating Base BIGFOOT The West Coast Military Radio Collectors Group, Detachment ALPHA (FWD) conducted field ops in conjunction with […]
AFTER ACTION REPORT – Updated 6/3/19 Dateline: 23 June 2018, Forward Operating Base BIGFOOT The West Coast Military Radio Collectors Group, Detachment ALPHA (FWD) conducted field ops in conjunction with […]
Updated 8/10/17 The American Radio Relay League sponsors “Field Day” as an operating event to exercise Ham Radio communications under austere, grid-down conditions. Such as in an emergency when mass […]
Military Radio Field Day 2019 After Action Report UPDATED 9 NOV 2019 Another field exercise was conducted by the West Coast Military Radio Collectors Group (Detachment Alpha, FWD). The overall […]
HAARP: High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program HAARP had been shut down at least temporarily since May 2013 due to budget cuts. But the primary reason is the inability of […]
Some photos of recent military radio displays set up for Veterans Day events. These are from November 11-13, 2016 at the Veterans Memorial Building in Danville CA. The theme for […]
UPDATED 11/8/21 What’s happening at N6CC, both at the home QTH as well as off-grid Ops out in the boonies. Type 12 / MAW Hearability Tests: In October 2010 we […]
UPDATED 21NOV14 Of course my favorite military Black Radio. The GRC-109 and its immediate predecessor the CIA’s RS-1. I was sitting here thinking about the cost of adding additional FT-243 […]
UPDATED 12/27/21 We are members of the local Sheriff’s Auxiliary Emergency Communications service (AEC) organization. AEC is a new team in our County/State Office of Emergency Services and is structurally a […]
UPDATED: 9/8/20 One of many morphs of my station. Mostly WWII equipment with some from the 1950’s and 1960’s. Definitely “EMP Proof”. Patch panels allow me to select any of […]
Early Short Wave Listening, Numbers Stations, The Woodpecker etc As with many Hams I started out young as a Short Wave Listener “SWL”. Even today, long after I earned my […]