UPDATED 3/28/2024 (Aircraft installations, nomenclature clarifications) The A.R.C. Type 12 components and systems were developed and marketed in the post-war period largely for the growing civilian aviation industry. They were […]
Updated 8/1/2024: US Marines of a Tactical Air Control Party with the First Marine Division in combat at the Chosin Reservoir operating an AN/GRC-9 transmitter-receiver. Hand cranked generator, cold weather, […]
UPDATED 11/15/17 One recent project was building a replica of the “canteen radio” that was used by US Army personnel in the Japanese POW camp at Cabanatuan in the Philippines […]
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 […]
From the Chinese “Peoples” “Liberation” Army….Got it… They were used in pairs to send morse code signals over infantry field telephone wire. It required both a 45 volt and a […]
The AN/URC-64 radio was issued to USAF aircrews as a replacement for the AN/URC-10. It was apparently only issued within the USAF as the Navy and Army seemed to have […]
Navy Model MAB Radio Telephone Transmitting and Receiving Equipment UPDATE: 3/19/2025. The MAB was one of a series of relatively small portable HF Voice radio sets designed for tactical Naval […]
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 […]
The 18th Annual Muster of the West Coast Military Radio Collectors Group has just concluded on May 4th, 2013. The meeting was set up at the California National Guard base […]