Recordings of radio comms from previous wars

[CSL126]

Does anyone know of a place where I can find recordings of radio comms from wars such as Vietnam? I'm mainly interested in listening to some of the ground-to-ground comms that took place. Also, what frequency range did they use back then (i'm guessing HF)?? I'm not expecting too many replies to this one, but thanks in advance to whoever may know something.

 

[DPD1]

I don't know about ground stuff, but the History Channel "Dog Fights" show page has some decent air battle clips.

Dave
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[RESCUE4NFD]

Vietnam Radios

I was a Medic in Vietnam with the "BIG RED 1" in 1966/67 and there were different radios used for various OPS.The only radios I ever used was a PRICK-10(PRC-10) later updated to a (PRC-25) They were VHF-Low Band.I think they were in the 30/80 mhz range.It has been along time so the Info is NOT 100%.

Hope this helps..........

PS. I don"t think you'll find many tapes of field radio recordings,and if you did most times the yelling,screaming,gunfire,etc. would make understanding what was being said almost impossible.

 

[Comint]

Does anyone know of a place where I can find recordings of radio comms from wars such as Vietnam? I'm mainly interested in listening to some of the ground-to-ground comms that took place. Also, what frequency range did they use back then (i'm guessing HF)?? I'm not expecting too many replies to this one, but thanks in advance to whoever may know something.

Don't know of any place for recordings.

WWII used HF AM for long distance comms, and 118 - 136 MHz AM for short range comms.

Vietnam used 30 - 70 MHz FM, 118 - 136 MHz AM, and 225 - 400 MHz AM, as well as HF SSB.

Comint

 

[mancow]

I found a few a few years ago. I will see if I can still find them out there somewhere. There were a few from helicopters, and F4 phantoms, and a guy being ordered to take his troops to a new location despite heavy fire nearby. I rember the fighter pilot's voice the most. It was creepy. He was screaming for the others to help as (I think) a MIG was turning on him.
What I always wondered is how well those guys on the ground could communicate. They PRC-10 and 25 only put out around 1-3 watts I think on a crappy untuned whip antenna using lowband freqs from 25-88 Mhz. In the movies they seem to be able to talk just fine but I would think they would have really had to rely on forward air controllers to relay traffic over any distance at all in that jungle.

 

[mancow]

Here's a few:
http://www.manchu.org/sounds/



In one they call for one illumination round a minute all night long to stave off charlie on the perimeter. Crazy stuff!

 

[scannerfreak]

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