[MilCom] Popular Communications "Military Related Articles" May 2006

[Ken]

Well finally sent a relatively into the big bad city to get me the May 2006 
edition "Popular Communications Magazine"

Military communications wise here's what Pop'Comm had covered

"One Giant Leap" -- 'Grab That Scanner & Stand At The Open Door With The 
Army's Golden Knights'  by Gary Palamara -- 6 pages, 11 pictures, 1 table 
(10 possible frequencies)..  This is the feature story about  the Army 
Golden Knights parachute teams, historic to present operations/mission & 
takes you on a word description journal of what it's like to jump.  The 
photos are very good.  See Gary's website for some additional airshow photos 
http://www.garypalamara.com/Gallery%2004.htm
I'm not sure how active Gary is in monitoring milcom activity... Generally, 
photo hobbyists use the radio scanner as a tool aid in their hobby versus 
the true milcom monitoring buff.

Rich Arland's "Homeland Security" monthly column looks at "Military Gear For 
Emergencies:  What's the Hottest"  -- 4 pages, 6 pictures...  Arland always 
deals with the facts, and looks at a variety of workable actual military 
comm gear from WW II thru the VietNam War era... Interestingly he mentions 
that the PRC-10 (1940's era) was actually used by some Army Naitonal Guard & 
Army Reserve Units until the mid 1980's...

Finally the milcom related Steve Douglass last "Utility Communications 
Digest" monthly column presents "Out of The Black -- Top Secret Projects 
They Want Us to Know About"   6 pages, 7 photos...  The article is 
interesting, unfortuantely there's no frequencies provided to assist us with 
monitoring these "Black Project" activities.

Ken