Portable Field Antenna Kit
UPDATED 2/8/2025 “Executive Summary” The Question: What do you want your portable field antenna to DO? Validate a Model? Impress a Professor? Increase your experience? Make contacts? Have fun? The […]
AN/GRC-109 “Special Forces” Radio Set
UPDATED 9/1/2025: My favorite “Black Radio”. The AN/GRC-109, AKA the “GRC-109” and “ANGRY 109”. Probably the ultimate “SHTF Radio” for trained (or trainable) personnel.A Deep Dive, probably more than you […]
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 […]
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 8/1/2024: 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, […]
“Canteen” Shortwave Radio Receiver
UPDATED 11/15/17 One recent project was building a replica of the “canteen radio” that was used by US Army personnel in the Japanese POW camp at Cabanatuan in the Philippines […]