MIL COMMO FTX: Field Day 2023
UPDATE 7/9/2024 In an effort to encourage more field operations by Hams, especially with military field radio gear, the following After Action Report is posted. This was my Military Communications […]
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The Russian Woodpecker Revisited
UPDATED 14 April 2024 A signal I couldn’t avoid hearing with my trusty BC-348, S-120 or HA-350 receivers was the Russian дуга Over The Horizon Radar (OTHR) that they had […]
Lafayette HE-90 CB: Fun in the 1960’s
UPDATE May 4, 2025 Certainly not a “military radio” but a radio nonetheless. Close enough for my purposes at the time. I bought this Lafayette HE-90 CB transceiver in 1964. […]
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 […]
Military Field Day Ops, 2016
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
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 […]
MRCG – MRHS Operating Event 2013
May 2013: 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 […]
MRGC-MVCC Battalion Communications Center
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 […]
Veterans Day Displays
Some photos of recent military radio displays set up for Veterans Day events. These were set up at the Veterans Memorial Building in Danville CA. The central themes varied over […]
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UPDATED 2/23/2025 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 […]