UPDATED: 2/3/18 Battalion Communications Center – Military Vehicle Collectors of California Rally’s: A periodic display of Military Communications Equipment at the MVCC events. Some interesting “Joint Operations” were held at […]
UPDATED 9/28/20 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 2/9/17 Both the GRC-9 and GRC-109 used the BA-48 battery to power their respective receivers as an option. When operated from the various dynamotor, vibrator or AC supplies, the […]
UPDATED 5/8/18 Most seasoned Hams grew up with these radios: transmitters, receivers or both. Designed for high frequency AM Voice (mostly) or CW aircraft-to-aircraft communications during WWII, they performed the […]
UPDATED 1/17/21 Some notes on the A.R.C. Type 12 VHF AM radio system used on both private and some US military aircraft in the 1950’s and into the 1960’s. These […]
UPDATED 2/2/20 The PRT-4 and PRR-9 worked together as an attempt at a simple, lightweight Squad radio, albeit one-way. First fielded in Vietnam by the U.S. Army in March 1967, […]
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 9/12/20 Like old wrist watches with “glow in the dark” hands and numerals, some meters of that era had radium paint on their needles and scales. As you know, […]
We have been involved as instructors with the Golden Gate Young Marines unit. They are from the San Francisco bay area and based on the USS Hornet museum ship. We […]
UPDATED 7/29/2020 The 2019 “Annual” Reunion pot-luck picnic for MIUW 103/104 was held on Saturday, 13 October 2019 at Coast Guard Island as in past years. Group photo at the […]