I’ve been told all my life about old-timey Army/Navy surplus stores where you could buy buckets of FT-243 crystals, radio gear, gas masks, and even a Jeep boxed-up in a big wooden crate. Sadly this is ...

Last month, in part one of Radio Prepares for War we looked at the National HRO receiver, which set the bar for the standards required by military radio communications. The HRO was a superb receiver ...

It's easy to become bored spending time in airports. After all, you can do only so much work on a notebook computer with no reference material around. So, relax and have some fun at the airport–build ...

There is a certain charm to older electronics gear. Heavy metal chassis and obviously hand-wired harness can be a work of art even if they would be economically impractical for most modern gear.

Here is a neat project I found at Matjaž Vidmar’s Website. The purpose of this project was to design an accurate radio altimeter with a dual-channel (quadrature) homodyne receiver. This new design ...

The U.S. Navy is working with Northrop Grumman to enhance the airborne electronic attack system for the AN/ALQ-218(V) 2 receiver on the EA-18G aircraft so that forces can more quickly detect enemy ...

Honeywell has introduced the Bendix/King KDR 610, a data link weather receiver that offers real-time weather information to general aviation aircraft via XM satellite radio. Designed to interface with ...

I’ve recently started a contribution with FLIR, the Flight Line Internet Radio. I provide comments and articles dealing with the world of aviation that are aired by the first Internet-based radio ...

Marked: "Signal Corps, U.S. Army / Airplane Radio Receiving Set / Type SCR 59 / Serial No. [blank] / Order No. W4076 / Made by Western Electric Co., Inc." Plate on ...