Today in WW II: 4 Jul 1942 German bombers and submarines sink 24 ships of Convoy PQ 17 to the Soviet Union after the convoy spread out in the Arctic Ocean to evade the German battleship Tirpitz.  More ↓
4 Jul 1942 US Eighth Air Force flies its first mission in Europe using six borrowed British planes; only three aircraft returned.
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AN/GRC-206(V)5 Radio Set, a multiband radio set that includes equipment for HF/SSB, VHF/FM, VHF/AM and UHF/AM. It was designed to be installed on M-151 Jeeps, M-113 Armored Personnel Carriers and High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicles (HMMWV)
AN/GRC-206(V)5 Radio Set, a multiband radio set that includes equipment for HF/SSB, VHF/FM, VHF/AM and UHF/AM. It was designed to be installed on M-151 Jeeps, M-113 Armored Personnel Carriers and High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicles (HMMWV).

Military Radio, Communications and Electronics Resources

This listings on this page provide links to some of the many websites and forums devoted to the very popular topics of owning and maintaining military electornic equipment such as radios, telephones, test gear, and much more. Refer to the Military Communications and Electronics page for much more information and photos.

Military radio and electronics dealers are found on the Olive-Drab.com Military Suppliers database. For example, Fair Radio Sales Company is one of the largest dealers in surplus electronics. For example, to find Fair Radio, use the menu bar on the bottom on any page of Olive-Drab.com to search for Electronics suppliers, "F" Names. You can also go to the Search Page where you can search for more specific terms in the supplier's listing description. The menus at the top and bottom of every page of Olive-Drab.com can get you to the Search Page. Another large military electronics dealer is Murphy's Surplus Warehouse.

The Army Radios Internet mailing list is specifically for those who enjoy restoring, installing and operating army radios in military vehicles. If you are interested, click here.

Military Communications and Electronics
For over 35 years, American Trans-Coil Corp, located in New York City, has been a prime contractor for various Defense Department agencies for high quality 'Mil-Spec' and commercial communication equipment, assemblies and components.
Associated Industries is recognized as one of the largest and most reliable suppliers of defense communications systems, equipment, and components to the Armed Forces throughout the world.
BC-611 has reprints of a November 1943 Motorola publication describing the famous "Handi-Talkie" of World War II.
The Boat Anchor Manual Archive (BAMA) is a free, cooperative service that provides downloads of manuals and documentation for obsolete radio gear (transmitters, receivers, test and supporting equipment), including many military models. A BAMA mirror site is at the linked page.
Columbia Electronics International, Inc. are the experts on U. S. Military and commercial radio communications for ground, sea and airborne applications. Columbia's professionals can help supply you with factory new or U. S. Government surplus radio communications equipment. sales@columbiaelectronics.com
Designations Of U.S. Military Electronic And Communications Equipment is an exhaustive description of the history and current state of the names and numbers assigned to U.S. milspec electronics.
Mark's Green Radio Page has great coverage of his hobby of collecting and restoring military radio communications gear. Lots of pictures of equipment and how it is mounted, operated and so on.
Bill's Ham Radio WWW Server home page has the index to the MilList and online tube manuals. This huge resource has been compiled from databases with added material from FMs, TMs and other military pubs. Also has an archive of manuals, equipment histories and much more.
Inventory Locator Service was founded in 1979 and pioneered the electronic marketplace concept in the aviation industry, later extended for the marine industry as well. Today, ILS customers number more than 6,000 and can be found in 78 countries throughout the world. ILS databases contain over 36 million line items of parts information and are accessed more than 25,000 times each business day.
Military and Aerospace Electronics magazine, the technology news publication of Mil-Spec, High-Rel, rugged, and COTS Design.
Richard Lacroix's Military Communications Home Page offers a wealth of info on equipment, codes and nomenclature, and operational details. This site has serious depth for all aspects of military communication including, for example, digital audio samples of various modem modulation types. Tons of links to related sites.
Network 54 Electronics & Communications Classifieds is for trading and sale of military radio and communications items.
PRC68.com has battery adaptors and other products for military radio users as well as many links to mil electronics resources including Brooke's Military Information.
The Surplus Radio Society is a Dutch organization of collectors of old ex-military radio equipment and other nostalgic receivers and transmitters.
U.S. Military Portable Radios. Discussion of mainstream portable voice communications radios, with a concentration on the later, more convenient-to-use units.
The Wireless Set No. 19 web site is for collectors, users or just plain lovers of the Wireless Set 19, or other really old radios of the military ilk. The 19 was the Canadian Army's workhorse wireless set during WWII and after, from 1942 to about 1963.

Find More Information on the Internet

There are many fine websites that have additional information on this topic, too many to list here and too many to keep up with as they come and go. Use this Google web search form to get an up to date report of what's out there.

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