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Vietnam War Military HF Radio History with LTC (Ret.) David Fiedler
LTC (Ret.) David Fiedler talks about the the US Army Signal Corps and HF Radio during the Vietnam War.
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Military HF Radio History with LTC(ret.) David Fiedler
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Retired US Army LTC David M. Fiedler takes us on a fascinating history of military HF radio starting with the Russo-Japanese War.
Military HF Radio - Episode 6 - 2G and 3G ALE
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Overview and primer of 2nd Generation and 3rd Generation Automatic Link Establishment. *Note: Mr. Steve Hajducek- N2CKH took over development of the PC-ALE software from Mr. Charles Brain - G4GUO, the original developer. Steve also maintains development of MARS-ALE software.
Military HF Radio - Episode 5 - HF Antennas
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Overview of select HF antennas for At-the-Halt and On-the-Move operation.
Military HF Radio - Episode 4 - VOACAP Analysis
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Tutorial on how to use the VOACAP analysis website to assist you in planning out the correct frequencies to use for successful contact with another HF station.
Military HF Radio - Episode 3 - HF NVIS
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A brief overview of HF Near Vertical Incidence Skywave communications. The link to the Army Communicator magazine archives mentioned in the video is here: signal.army.mil/index.php/resources/public-resources/army-communicator/267-archives
Military HF Radio - Episode 2 - Military HF History
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Brief overview of military HF radios from 1906 to today.
JS8Call using uBITX radio
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Going portable with the uBITX HF radio and JS8Call digital mode. Windcamp Gypsy Dipole, 21W Solar Panel, Hardened Power Systems BatPac with Solar Charger, 12V SLA Battery, RaspberryPi with 7" Touchscreen, and Signalink. 8 Watt operation completely off the grid.
JS8Call Demonstration From Truck
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My first time using FT8Call. Using a Raspberry Pi running FT8Call version .6, Signalink, and IC-706MKIIG radio with 30 Watts from my truck (mobile operation) thru a Tiny Tarheel II vertical whip antenna, I was able to communicate with Marvin KI4ODO in Louisburg, NC from Kansas on 14.078MHz (950 miles away). I was spotted all along the west and east coasts and even in Puerto Rico on the pskrepor...
Military HF Radio - Episode 1 - RF Theory
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A brief overview of RF Theory as it pertains to HF radio communications. Agenda: FCC Amateur Radio Licensure Army Doctrine and Training Overview Radio Communications Wave Propagation Propagation Paths Solar Activity Effects on Communications Hosted by: Matthew Sherburne, KF4WZB Assistance by: David Fiedler, WB2CDG
Military HF Radio - Series Intro
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This is the introduction to an exciting new nine-part series on Military HF Radio. The episodes are: Series Intro: ua-cam.com/video/dZSLM7iFVMg/v-deo.html Episode 1 - RF Theory: ua-cam.com/video/lzjYSoYuoXI/v-deo.html Episode 2- Military HF History: ua-cam.com/video/AoI1RHQuZWQ/v-deo.html Episode 3 - HF NVIS: ua-cam.com/video/PBQ0c1_3Ugw/v-deo.html Episode 4 - VOACAP Analysis: ua-cam.com/video/...
Wallbox to iPod with Drive-in Theater Speakers
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A Seeburg Wallbox 3W-1 connected to Data Sync Engineering's WIPOD3 device and iPod Nano gen 2. The speakers are drive-in movie theater speakers I purchased from Detroit Diecast. I spray painted PVC pipe metallic for the post. A 15 watt audio amp is driving the speakers. Everything is attached to a wooden board with a checker patterned fabric stapled to it. A great idea to raise money during a p...
Seeburg Wallbox to iPod with drive-in mov speakers
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Another spin on a Seeburg Wallbox linked to an iPod using Data Sync Engineering's WIPOD3 and playing through two drive-in movie speakers. A 15W audio amp is powering the speakers. The speakers were purchased from Detroit Diecast. Bring this to a party, tell folks to bring quarters, and get ready to rock 'n roll.
Philco 42-340 restore Part 1
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Overview of the start of a Philco 42-340 restore project. Largely in good condition, but I need to clean up the work on the electronics done by someone else.
Philco 46-1203 playing Naturally (1938)
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Naturally by Hal Kemp and His Orchestra
Philco 46-1203 test run
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Philco 46-1203 test run
1946 Philco 46-1203 AM radio
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1946 Philco 46-1203 AM radio
Western Electric 302 ringing
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Western Electric 302 ringing
Rotary and a VoIP Phone
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Rotary and a VoIP Phone
Signal Corps TP-6-A rotary phone
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Signal Corps TP-6-A rotary phone
Quadcopter Video of Comers Rock Lookout
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Quadcopter Video of Comers Rock Lookout
Project Blue Launch 24 Apr 2014
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Project Blue Launch 24 Apr 2014

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  • @mikeangelastro7648
    @mikeangelastro7648 27 днів тому

    Great videos, thank you!🇺🇸

  • @timbennett9214
    @timbennett9214 29 днів тому

    This is so cool. Love it.

  • @yanisgouzoumas2914
    @yanisgouzoumas2914 Місяць тому

    1.000.000 BRAVO.Greetings from GREECE SV1HCH

  • @RESlusher
    @RESlusher Місяць тому

    Great information! Thanks for getting this out there. I'm an ex-98G(German), so spinning the dial and listening to what's out there is my jam! 73 DE KF5RHI, SPCIC, MI, Commanding? 😎

  • @jcritch42
    @jcritch42 2 місяці тому

    Music is too lound and annoying!!!

  • @DanHORVATH-yi6cu
    @DanHORVATH-yi6cu 2 місяці тому

    I've built the NVIS AS2259. I made a 80 meter and 40 meter inverted V on one mast. I used communications wire instead of copper wire, which was useless after a few times going up and down. The stainless steel commo-wire is the only way to go. In Arizona I can cover up to Washington state to Texas and all states in between since I'm not in the mountains. And if a person has a directional antennas, then we can have a Qso From anywhere on the USA.

  • @LitzyHutchinson
    @LitzyHutchinson 2 місяці тому

    I just love you!! Classic music is life!I can work better, think better, to appreciate life

  • @TylerWilson-f9t
    @TylerWilson-f9t 2 місяці тому

    I just love you!! Classic music is life!I can work better, think better, to appreciate life

  • @TylerWilson-f9t
    @TylerWilson-f9t 2 місяці тому

    I was depressed for a long time, and I looked so useless and bad.

  • @MiaWilson-i5o
    @MiaWilson-i5o 2 місяці тому

    Everything will be all right, you will shine like a rising star, a huge success and wealth

  • @mcdonald1743
    @mcdonald1743 2 місяці тому

    I got 40 meter band set up nvis.

  • @CamilleCullen-ow6qj
    @CamilleCullen-ow6qj 3 місяці тому

    Great video, many thanks sir! Also, thank you for your service!! Robert K5TPC

  • @CamilleCullen-ow6qj
    @CamilleCullen-ow6qj 3 місяці тому

    Thank you sir for your service and your great video!! Robert K5TPC

  • @davidjohnston7996
    @davidjohnston7996 5 місяців тому

    this is amsome

  • @w7wv73
    @w7wv73 6 місяців тому

    I was a radio operator and instructor 05B4H in 1967-8 at Fort Huachuca, AZ We still had the GRC-19s on the bench to train on. Most were needless to say old and abused. In the Spring on 1968 we finally got several new GRC-106 sets and I was task with helping set up the new lab. Interesting radio.

  • @gordselectronicshobby3853
    @gordselectronicshobby3853 6 місяців тому

    GRC-19 "Angery 19"

  • @101soldier6
    @101soldier6 6 місяців тому

    Great video. An old Ratt Rig operator here...31C

  • @DoronTirkel
    @DoronTirkel 7 місяців тому

    Good presentation! 4X4XM, Doron

  • @HALEdigitalARTS
    @HALEdigitalARTS 7 місяців тому

    Did you ever get the other 2 videos created? EXCELLENT VIDEOS!!!

  • @SkruxLabs-vq4ho
    @SkruxLabs-vq4ho 7 місяців тому

    This is incredible. Please continue this series! You sir, are a gentleman and a scholar.

  • @romansmiles5364
    @romansmiles5364 7 місяців тому

    Is there a link to all of the power points for this series?

  • @goosecouple
    @goosecouple 7 місяців тому

    492

  • @salahalsaif4559
    @salahalsaif4559 8 місяців тому

    Great video 👍

  • @RichardChelson
    @RichardChelson 8 місяців тому

    Thank you for explaining this in very easy terms. I just learned more than I ever knew about this software. I also watched your video on NVIS and learned more there than the 15 years I've been a Ham. I am now regretting being a 63B when I served. I should have become a radio operator.

  • @nealfry2230
    @nealfry2230 9 місяців тому

    " Thank God I'm Alive."

  • @paulkeckley2894
    @paulkeckley2894 9 місяців тому

    where are episodes 7,8 and 9? i cant find them and i love this content!

  • @williamgrice4790
    @williamgrice4790 9 місяців тому

    Yeah...you always...and I mean ALWAYS inventory aka SL-3 list, your gear before you left for the field. ran into what you are saying numerous times. made more field expedient antennas more often than we liked to.

  • @Sky_Pony_1_mic_sierra
    @Sky_Pony_1_mic_sierra 10 місяців тому

    Great video. Neat to see what the Army had to use before cell phones. Signal Corps seems to have taken the position that we dont need HF anymore, since soldiers can just use MS Teams and WhatsApp now. It'll be neat to see how that plays out wherever our next major conflict is. It'll be fine, I'm sure my VPN will work great on that day

  • @mrtechie6810
    @mrtechie6810 10 місяців тому

    What full-size wire antenna would you recommend for fixed 5W QRP, multiband HF Ham?

  • @josephthomas8318
    @josephthomas8318 10 місяців тому

    Sucks this series was never finished.. I'd have really liked to see episodes 8 and 9

    • @jstrunck
      @jstrunck 9 місяців тому

      I concur.

  • @jackkelley890
    @jackkelley890 Рік тому

    Great video!!!! I have noticed that the terminated folded dipole antenna mention is on top every Army National Guard building in Oregon. Thanks for your hard work putting this information together. 73

  • @robertdalomba2629
    @robertdalomba2629 Рік тому

    Can i get the slides for this?

  • @nertervern
    @nertervern Рік тому

    oui oui baguette

  • @grinch45
    @grinch45 Рік тому

    Then articles in the 80s were non-existent with no internet to help find them so sort of useless. I suffered with no graps of concepts in this period. There is another Author greater than all from the USAF and his work comes from Vietnam outward and he ended up as the spectrum manager of the USAF and the patent holder for the tilt whip adapter. His name is A. S, Christensen and I have a compendium of his articles he wrote for the USAF as well as two volumes when he became a civilian consultant. It's the epitome of pre-ALE expertise for tactical radio and antennas.

  • @grinch45
    @grinch45 Рік тому

    I got assigned to a special project in the mid 90s where I was going to teach a US made HF radio to foreign forces for recon missions. I opened the box to get the manual but I kicked the box in anger as I knew this was going to be a painful exercise in futility as just another 20 watt manpack as for the last 10 years, HF sucked. I took the manual home as I had to start on my task and when I got to the chapter on ALE and read the concept after 17 years in HF radios, this was the answer I was looking for and it was and for the next three years, we had stellar performance and success. The radio was the 138 Falcon 1, we got trained by manufacturer and programmed all radios by computer and did away with the need to train programming. Two nets were used in NVIS profiles. The country was Korea and we had a network for the ROK SF and then my own unit used the radio to support our mission. We invented the idea of 150 watt vehicular systems that were jerk and setup base stations as we were not field tactical. We sent in a request for a dozen systems - denied. Seems the 90s, don't ever think you get what you want, this is the Army.

  • @grinch45
    @grinch45 Рік тому

    I was not getting it yet in my HF work with prop prediction as I did not trust them until two things came. This was HF-ALE radios and then the link quality analysis function. Then engineered from Harris showed me the most simplest dos prediction program in 1994 called mini prop and when LQAs were performed, our channel choices proved to be working. If you do not get a prop study done for your area of operations, plan on failure as I have seen ALE systems where they did not work at all as all frequencies over the MUF and most of the time, unable to communicate at nighttime. We run a prop prediction and show the user how to make the correct choices.

  • @grinch45
    @grinch45 Рік тому

    MOS 32H was the HF specific MOS and later combined with 31E to become 29E. I operated the KWM2A with the 30S1 in Okinawa doing phone patches to California for about 4 hours each day with a three curtain rhombic antenna. Later on I got sent to Grenada to set up and operate a portable 50KW AM station as Rangers blew up the original radio Grenada. I was tasked to get the heliax cable buried so my team took turns digging when a SF guy came out and started playing with a dipole antenna and a small manpack. I commented 468 divided by the frequency to him and he asked how do you know that? I said, we do HF also but not with little radios. Latter on, I am SF and SATCOM is making HF not used, the PRC-138 was introduced to me in a special project, it was finally the holy grail and we achieved great success with two methodologies, ALE mode and then the managed net. This was the idea of programming the radios by computer and not spending any time training on how to hand jam radios as there are too many errors.

  • @grinch45
    @grinch45 Рік тому

    There was a TTP from ALSA that started in 2002 called HF-ALE. I think the material they produced got integrated into the tactical radios. Anyways I wrote to ALSA in 2001 when the main radio of the last 20 plus years was debuting. They took up the idea and invited me to their working group and then the corporation would not let me attend the working group. I was a newbee at work but I had 23 years HF experience in HF to include guarding the Fort Jackson MARS station in 1976 and included finding my first HF-ALE radios in 1994 as immediately knowing this was the holy grail. This series is the best I've seen.

  • @dougdowds
    @dougdowds Рік тому

    Suggest you study the use and theory behind coaxial cable.....

  • @timaustin577
    @timaustin577 Рік тому

    2023 Fantastic Series. Huge thanx 73

  • @timaustin577
    @timaustin577 Рік тому

    2023 Fantastic Series. Huge thanx 73

  • @justin6125
    @justin6125 Рік тому

    This is amazing! Id love to live next door to this guy! Id listen to his stories for days!

  • @channelview8854
    @channelview8854 Рік тому

    Great video. Thanks!

  • @msoctsi5594
    @msoctsi5594 Рік тому

    I only recently found this channel. The content is brilliant and you have inspired thoughts on NVIS usage for my mobile HF plans. I hope you find the opportunity to complete Episodes 7-9 and beyond. Thank you. VE1PS

  • @rexjolles
    @rexjolles Рік тому

    my model 302 has a signal corps dial for some reason

  • @keithaltavilla2505
    @keithaltavilla2505 Рік тому

    Nice job on the dials. Very smooth. What are you using for your household exchange? I'm putting together an intercom system with old dial phones and could use some guidance. Thanks !

    • @militaryhfradio244
      @militaryhfradio244 Рік тому

      As explained in video, RaspberryPi with IncrediblePBX (Asterix PBX) nerdvittles.com/category/incrediblepbx/

  • @paladinmaid2334
    @paladinmaid2334 Рік тому

    You know, I had been dreading trying to do some HF stuff since the noise floor around me is insanely high, but I figure if I put a beam up into the sky and TX FT8 in the blind I might surprise myself.

  • @oliverallen5324
    @oliverallen5324 Рік тому

    A favorite. Getting into HAM and radio preparations. Great interview.

  • @russg1999
    @russg1999 Рік тому

    Bro, I’m gonna teach this course to my 25Us. Thank you brotha

  • @3366larryandrews
    @3366larryandrews Рік тому

    Great video. I did note that the AN/GRC-26D, the PRC-25 and PRC-77 were missing from your video. They were great radios for the time.