PRC-25 Radio Set
UPDATED 8/24/2023 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 […]
AN/GRC-9 Radio Set
Updated 7/1/2023: 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 […]
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 raining – it’s training. 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 […]
ChiCom Type 63 Wire Telegraph Set
From the Chinese “Peoples” “Liberation” Army….Got it… They were used in pairs to send morse code signals over infantry field telephone wire. It required both a 45 volt and a […]
URC-64 and URC-4 Aircrew Rescue Radios
The AN/URC-64 radio was issued to USAF aircrews as a replacement for the AN/URC-10. It was apparently only issued within the USAF as the Navy and Army seemed to have […]
Navy Model MAB Radio Set
Navy Model MAB Radio Telephone Transmitting and Receiving Equipment The MAB was one of a series of relatively small portable HF Voice radio sets designed for tactical Naval communications early […]
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 […]