Military Radio Field Day 2025 FTX
“Military Radio” Field Day 2025 was another Field Training Exercise that I did on Mt Diablo, CA. As usual, I operated only military radio equipment in this national emergency communications […]
Military Tactical Radios
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 […]
Military Radios @ ARRL Field Day 2024
ARRL Field Day 2024: In an effort to encourage more off-grid, portable field radio operation and exercises the following After Action Report is posted: I used some of my usual […]
PRC-174 HF Manpack Radio Set
UPDATE: 7/31/2025 I recently obtained a veteran RT-936/PRC-174 HF manpack radio from a fellow Ham (Thanks!). These were made by Tadiran from a design clearly originating from Hughes Aircraft, makers […]
Mil Radio Ops at FOB COVID 2020
July 2020: The following is a brief After Action Report on Military Radio training operations at Forward Operating Base COVID, July 2020. Scheduling difficulties required delaying from the June 2020 […]
TRC-77A HF CW Transceiver
UPDATED 11/2/2025 A friend recently gave me an RT-654A/TRC-77. Also known as the TRC-77A. The RT-654(*) is the basic component of the “AN/TRC-77 HF CW Transceiver” set. I am pretty […]
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 […]
AN/GRC-109 “Special Forces” Radio Set
UPDATED 11/16/2025: My favorite “Black Radio”. The AN/GRC-109 Special Forces Radio Set, AKA the “GRC-109” and “ANGRY 109”. Probably the ultimate “SHTF Radio” for trained (or trainable) personnel.A Deep Dive, […]
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 5/29/2025 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 […]