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The Wehrmacht had some of the most advanced radio equipment in the world at the outbreak of World War II. Initial successes in Russia was largely due to the German Panzers being equipped with radios while the Russian tanks had to rely on hand signals. We are largely concerned with the Infantry and vehicle radios to communicate with the Infantry, Artillery, and Panzer Grenadiers. The Luftwaffe had many different radios of their own and there were many other specialized units operating equipment like direction finding gear. We will leave that information to other collector sites. Infantry radios can be broken down into 2 main styles. Two part radios consisting of a radio and battery box and the single case units. These were all transceiver units combining a transmitter and a receiver in one radio. Both types are equipped with the necessary hooks and shoulder straps to allow them to be carried by individual soldaten. The two piece radio sets were more powerful and had longer ranges. They could be used to communicate with other units like the Artillery. The smaller single case units were very short range and designed for company level communications. Typical ranges for these radios were only 1 or 2 km depending on terrain. Vehicle radios were separate transmitters and receivers. This allowed a mix and match approach to suit the role the vehicle was serving at the time. This led to a somewhat confusing naming system identifying the various pairings. The abbreviations of the pairs often look very similar to the abbreviations of the individual radios themselves. We will split out the information on to various pages to help differentiate the individual radios. This radio frequency chart is courtesy of Funksammler from the Wehrmacht - Awards Communications forum. Click on the chart to download an Microsoft Excel spreadsheet version of the chart.
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