Winter Field Day 2026
In an effort to encourage more ham radio field operations the following After Action Report for Winter Field Day 2026 is posted. We operated “off grid” on Mt. Diablo (CA) […]
Camping / In the Boonies
Heathkit HW-8 CW Transceiver
Here is a quick post regarding my Heathkit HW-8 CW Transceiver at N6CC. They were first sold in 1976 for around $140. I built this kit about 50 years ago […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]