[Milsurplus] Older USAF airborne receivers?

[Mike Morrow]

>>>A modern B-52 has comm capability from 2 or 3MHz up
>>>to about 520MHz with a variety of modes, plus receive capability for
>>>VLF.

Its natural that a large important combat craft like a B-52 would carry a wide range of radio gear.  What may be surprising is the radio gear carried on US Army UH-1D/H "Huey" helicopters of the Vietnam era, circa 1970.  A "command" UH-1 generally carried ALL of the following:

AN/ARC-102     HF-USB  2-30 MHz  28000 ch. 400W PEP USB/LSB/AMe/CW
AN/ARC-131     VHF-FM  30-76 MHz  920 ch. 10W FM
AN/ARC-134     VHF-AM  116-150 MHz  1320 ch. 40W AM
AN/ARC-51BX   UHF-AM  225-400 MHz  3500 ch. 20W AM

AN/ARN-82       VOR      108-127 MHz  AM
AN/ARN-83       ADF      .1-1.75 MHz ADF AM/CW

Of course there were several other radio sets on board, including the AN/APX-44 or -72 IFF.

A fellow could monitor a substantial portion of the RF spectrum with that gear.  

The standard non-command version had everything in the list above except for the AN/ARC-102 HF set.

Mike / KK5F