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Which frequency do you prefer,,,

montanajoe
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UHF
or
VHF

??????
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  • Rocky Raab
    Military is UHF, civvies are V.
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  • diver-rig
    In Saudi and Kuwait in ?90 and ?91, the only fresh news we received that wasn?t weeks old, was by listening to the BBC on our HF radios.

    Would only come in at night.

    There were no cell phones, and cell phones hadn?t been invented yet. No internet to be had, and really wasn?t up and running yet, anyway.
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  • diver-rig
    High Freq, Low Drag....
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  • Ricci Wright
    " No internet to be had, and really wasn?t up and running yet, anyway."
    Hey, Al Gore was working as fast as he could.
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  • jimdeere
    At my age, my frequency is about once or twice a month.
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  • select-fire
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PEtlBzcBDfE
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  • varian
    military uses VHF, UHF, HF, microwave using tropospheric scatter, and probably laser frequency and others by now.
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  • buschmaster
    whichever one has Weird Al Yankovic on it. I think that was UHF
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  • Smitty500mag
    Whatever frequency the Rubber Duck is on.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04T9-X3NCa0
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  • bustedknee
    AM or FM? :shock:

    or other?
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  • Rocky Raab
    GG, In our missions, we used UHF to talk to other aircraft and our ground bases, and VHF-FM to talk to US Army troops. We also had a directional ADF receiver and a crypto UHF unit, plus the TACAN/ILS nav set and IFF transponder. It was a VERY crowded panel in that small airplane and the black box rack took up the whole rear of the cabin.
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  • Sam06
    Rocky its still like that the AF is on different freqs than the Army. We used Harris Tac Sat in UHF mode to call in fighters and bombers.

    Radios in the military are so much better now than 20-30 years ago. Not only are they smaller and lighter the batteries are too and they are much more secure.
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  • Rocky Raab
    Man, I sure hope so. We carried two survival/rescue radios in our bailout vest because it upped the odds that one of them might actually work. And they were the size and weight of a brick.
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  • Aztngundoc22
    OK :

    Back in the day : I spent a lot of time (& $$$) on the VHF : mainly 2 meters : and the 'public service' range :::

    Thanks !!!!
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  • Aztngundoc22
    OK :

    The 'rubber duck' thing was almost a famous B.S. movie song bout dumba$$ truckers w-C.B. radios : they are 'low band' range : 40 mhz if I remember ?

    Thanks !!!
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  • bustedknee
    Aztngundoc22 wrote:
    OK :

    The 'rubber duck' thing was almost a famous B.S. movie song bout dumba$$ truckers w-C.B. radios : they are 'low band' range : 40 mhz if I remember ?
    Thanks !!!



    Actually, CB (Rubber Duck) is 27mhz +/- in what the FCC calls the HF (High Frequency) band.

    "Breaker breaker 19" -- The call channel 19 is 27.185 MHz

    Excellent chart
    https://www.ntia.doc.gov/files/ntia/publications/2003-allochrt.pdf
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  • Grunt2
    GreatGuns wrote:
    We were using VHF radios in Vietnam in '68, PRC's ("pricks") were in 50mHz I believe. Poor bastards carrying the NESTOR systems with the whip antenna were the first to be targeted in the field, the officer next to him was usually second. :cry:

    Today, I have a satellite phone for emergencies. It goes with me hunting, on our boat and every charter I've worked on. I think it is UHF though. :P

    Jim

    We had PRC-25's in the bush...Glad I never had to carry one the 25# pricks!!! Felt sorry for the RTO having to carry his prick and his normal load...
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  • Mr. Perfect
    I like the reach of VHF.
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