A Communications Forward Operating Base
Updated 4/29/2025: Members of the West Coast Military Radio Collectors Group deployed a Communications Forward Operating Base at MVCC Camp Plymouth for the April 2025 event. The intent was to […]
Fast Patrol Torpedo Boats / PTF-17
The PTF Boats of the Tonkin Gulf: PTF-17, PTF’s in general and later-on Coastal River Division 21 Ops: Updated 8/17/2025 – A Work in Progress. Maybe more than you ever […]
The PRC-47 HF SSB/CW/RATT Transceiver
Updated 6/12/2024: Some notes regarding the AN/PRC-47. This radio was designed by Collins and 1423 sets were produced by them (Contract NOm-72362, 15 December 1961). The Department of the Navy […]
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 […]
The RS-6 Radio Set
UPDATED 11/21/2025 Another favorite Black Radio is the RS-6 Radio set. (RS-6 = Radio Station number 6 per Central Intelligence Agency nomenclature.) “This radio set (below) and battery was hidden […]
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 […]
PRC-25 Radio Set
UPDATED 1/10/2024 The AN/PRC-25 (AKA “Prick-25”) had a relatively short but very successful history before it was soon replaced by the incrementally-improved but nearly identical AN/PRC-77. In 1967 General Creighton […]
A.R.C. Type 12 VHF AM Aircraft System
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 […]
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. […]
AN/GRC-9 Radio Set
Updated 11/2/2025: 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, […]