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 […]
Camping / In the Boonies
Winter Field Day 2025
UPDATE: 3/5/25. The following After Action Report for Winter Field Day 2025 is posted in an effort to encourage grid-down emergency communications exercises with rugged, reliable equipment.. Why? Communications infrastructure […]
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 […]
Back Country Fun & Food!
UPDATED 6/6/2022 Training and back country exploration are always fun. Here are some photo’s and tales of some recent trips…(Some call it “camping”.) “If it’s sun – it’s fun. If […]
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 […]
Alcohol Stove for camping
UPDATED 7/25/2025 Plus other Hot Topics – like Fire by Friction Seems that I am the last camper in North America to have heard of these clever contraptions. Backpackers […]
BigFoot Command Post discovered !
RADIOACTIVITY!: This primitive beast was recently seen and recorded on a home video and then tracked back to its apparent Command Post near an abandoned Uranium mine deep in the […]
Supporting the USMC “Young Marines” program
Updated 1/8/2023: We have been involved as instructors with the Golden Gate Young Marines unit. They are from the San Francisco bay area and were based on the USS Hornet […]