[ARC5] Vietnam US Army Aircraft Radio Gear

[Mike Morrow]

John wrote:

> Couldn't much of the list be for communication with just about anything
> and anybody on the ground?

Yes indeed.  I wish my ham shack in 1968 could have covered as much of
the radio spectrum as the gear on those UH-1D/H models with AN/ARC-102.

The most essential comm sets carried in all Army aircraft are the
UHF-AM command set and the VHF-FM tactical set.

There were up to four generations of sets typically used in Army helicopters
during the Vietnam war:

            First Gen       Second Gen     Third Gen      Fourth Gen
UHF-AM      AN/ARC-45       AN/ARC-55      AN/ARC-51BX    AN/ARC-116
VHF-FM      AN/ARC-44       AN/ARC-54      AN/ARC-131     AN/ARC-114
VHF-AM      A.R.C. Type 12  AN/ARC-73      AN/ARC-134     AN/ARC-115
VHF-VOR     AN/ARN-30C      AN/ARN-30E     AN/ARN-82
LF/MF-ADF                   AN/ARN-59      AN/ARN-83
IFF                         AN/APX-44      AN/APX-72

Mike / KK5F