[MilCom] Iraqi Tactical Radios

[Dave Emery]

On Sat, Apr 12, 2003 at 05:11:13PM -0700, refmon wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Most of those antennas are 30-88MHz frequency hop (wide band in antenna
> terms).  For info on the spidery-looking antenna, search OE-254 and OE 254
> (no hyphen).  I have one of these on my roof and it works great.  Also two
> others as part of travel kit.
> 
> The other antennas are fairly general purpose.  There were a few
> vehicle-mounted satcom pods.  I saw one classic Watkins Johnson-style
> direction finder antenna and a boatload of UHF satcom stuff...mostly the
> little foldup ones same/similar as Dorne & Morgolin stuff.

	Was this a pile of IRAQI radios ?   It would be news to me
that IRAQ had a UHF satellite available to them.   Of course maybe
they pirated on US and NATO birds, but that would not seem a reliable
comms method...

	I saw lots of shots of US UHF satcom.  All over the videos.
Probably LST-5s...



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